The Durham Public Schools Board of Education is under new leadership … sort of.
At their July 8 meeting, board members elected Bettina Umstead as chair for the 2025-26 school year. Millicent Rogers served as chair for the past year but only received two votes, including her own, to continue in that role. The other four members present opposed her nomination, and then all six members, including Rogers, voted for Umstead.
The (figurative) gavel will feel familiar to Umstead, who served as vice chair for 2019-20, and then chair from 2020-24…