3 incumbents run in school board race

Three people are running for election Tuesday to three seats on the Jacksonville/ North Pulaski School Board.

Each is running unopposed for the seats they already hold.

Daniel Gray, the school board’s president, is running for re-election to the at-large Position 1 seat.

Ava Coleman is running for the Zone 2 seat, a position she was appointed to fill last year by her fellow board members after the resignation of Carol Miles.

Dena Toney is running for re-election to the Zone 5 seat on the board for the 4,000-student district.

Each of the terms is for four years and is unpaid.

The Jacksonville district is the only one in Pulaski County that is holding a school board election in conjunction with the May primary. The Pulaski County Special and North Little Rock school boards will hold their elections in conjunction with the November general election. The Little Rock School District is operating under state control without an elected school board.

Act 910 of 2017 gave school boards the choice of holding board elections in either May or November, eliminating the previous stand-alone school board elections in September.

The Arkansas School Boards Association has reported that 202 districts of the state’s 235 districts chose to hold May elections.