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Contest for Bartlett School Board Position 1
Shelby County School Board
Bartlett
general - Partisan - Bartlett School Board Position 1
About this office
Term length: 3 years.
This role calls for
- Policy judgment on a small suburban district within Shelby County — Arlington, Bartlett, Collierville, Germantown, Lakeland, or Millington — typically several thousand students across a single elementary/middle/high feeder pattern.
- Budget literacy for both operating and capital budgets, in coordination with the suburban municipality (which provides matching local funds in some configurations).
- Ability to hire, evaluate, and when necessary replace the superintendent.
- Constituent relations with parents, teachers, and community members across an actively engaged small district.
- Willingness to complete the state-required seven hours of annual training through the Tennessee School Boards Association School Board Academy.
Derived from the office's statutory duties and operational reality. Candidate summaries below map each candidate's documented experience to these requirements.
