Yesterday, MNPS school board members Amy Frogge and Jill Speering announced they would not seek re-election. In 2019, Will Pinkston left the board, replaced by Freda Player-Peters. Now, there’s an election for some school board seats coming up in August. Here are the candidates:

District 1

Barry Barlow

Tiffany Degrafinreid

Sharon Gentry

Robert Taylor

District 3

Brian Hubert

Emily Masters

District 5

Christiane Buggs

District 7

Freda Player-Peters

District 9

Russelle Ann Bradbury

Abigail Tylor

Here are a couple of candidate tweets:

I am excited to announce my campaign for the Nashville School Board District 9 seat being vacated by @AmyFrogge. https://t.co/05pYbQrNEl

— Abigail Tylor (@AbigailTylor) April 2, 2020

https://twitter.com/emily4nashville/status/1245879667179040775?s=20

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