Hannah Edelen and Kareem Simpson, both members of the Covington Independent Board of Education, have been nominated as school board members of the year, an award given by national education nonprofit School Board Partners.
“At School Board Partners, we oftentimes talk about the fact that the best school board members understand that they’re not simply elected officials,” said School Board Partners CEO and Co-Founder Ethan Ashley, who presented the nominations to the board members on Thursday. “They are trustees of their communities, of their community’s values, their hopes but most importantly, their community’s children.”
Based out of New Orleans, School Board Partners is dedicated to “training, supporting, connecting and re-electing diverse school board members across the United States,” according to the organization’s most recent tax filings. The organization offers conferences, fellowships, training and consulting on school district governance policies. The organization served 189 individual school board members across 152 cities in 39 states in 2024…