
{"id":21848,"date":"2011-11-10T11:10:33","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T16:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=21848"},"modified":"2011-11-10T11:26:07","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T16:26:07","slug":"barrett-incumbents-win-school-board-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2011\/11\/10\/barrett-incumbents-win-school-board-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Barrett, incumbents win school board race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Rose Laudicina<br \/>\n<em>Staff Writer<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nChallenger James Barrett joined four incumbents in being elected to the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board of Education on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Barrett, a product of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools system who is active with Orange County Justice United, earned 7,205 votes, or 17.18 percent. As the fifth-place winner, Barrett will serve the two-year unexpired-term seat left by former board member Joe Green.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_21849\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21849\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2011\/11\/10\/barrett-incumbents-win-school-board-race\/schoolboardrace\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21849\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/SchoolBoardRace.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"SchoolBoardRace\" width=\"300\" height=\"306\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21849\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/SchoolBoardRace.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/SchoolBoardRace-113x115.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/SchoolBoardRace-110x113.jpg 110w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/SchoolBoardRace-98x100.jpg 98w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21849\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Barrett campaigning on Tuesday.  Photo by Alicia Stemper<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It is incredibly humbling to think that there were around 7,000 people that were willing to put their faith in me to be a school board member and to set the direction for all of our children,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Barrett said. <\/p>\n<p>All four incumbents running were reelected for four-year terms. <\/p>\n<p>Mia Burroughs earned 7,709 votes, or 18.85 percent of the votes; Jamezetta Bedford, 7,199 (17.60); Annetta Streater, 7,092 (17.34); and Mike Kelley, 7,053 (17.25). <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I appreciate the voters\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 confidence and I hope that I continue to serve the community well,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Kelley said. <\/p>\n<p>Streater said that campaigning in this race differed from previous school board races because of social media, like Facebook and Twitter. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The social media piece made for a significant change in the campaign,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Streater said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I took the approach of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcI am running for the very first time,\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to take anything for granted.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n<p>While election night went smoothly, the race had some bumps along the way due to an error by the Orange County Board of Elections office. <\/p>\n<p>Originally, the school board race was split into two races, with Bedford running unopposed for a two-year-term seat and the remaining candidates competing for four four-year seats.  <\/p>\n<p>When the error was identified, the two races merged, and Bedford was up against six other candidates. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I had a little shocker a few weeks back,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Bedford said of the switch. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It feels wonderful [to be reelected], but we have a lot of work to do, and I think that parents and voters know that this board is cohesive and dedicated to improving education.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Challenger James Barrett joined four incumbents in being elected to the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board of Education on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":21849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[230,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elections","category-news","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21848"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21851,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21848\/revisions\/21851"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}