CHARLOTTESVILLE (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) — In this year’s Charlottesville City School elections, four candidates are running for three open seats on the Board, with incumbents Emily Dooley and Lisa Larson-Torres running against newcomers Zyahna Bryant and Dashad Cooper.
Dooley, the board’s current chair, is running for her second term, and brings the perspective of a former teacher and administrator to the board, having taught at Monticello High School in Albemarle County for six years before serving as a middle school assistant principal and elementary school principal.
“It’s interesting to run for the job while you’re doing the job,” Dooley told WINA about rerunning. “That’s definitely a difference, and just all the things I didn’t know I didn’t know when I ran four years ago. So bringing not only my experience as an educator but my experience on the board, trying to bring that forward into another term.”…