TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — This November, Florida voters will decide on Amendment 1, which calls for party labels next to school board candidates.
Laura Kissak is the Vice-Chair of Moms for Liberty Hillsborough. She supports passing the amendment.
“There’s nothing more personal to parents than their children’s education,” Kissak said.
If the amendment passes, that means partisan school board races will start in 2026.
“You can’t separate it out anymore,” Kissak said. “This is a political culture. It would be lovely if we could be all neutral and non-partisan about this stuff but that’s not the reality.”
Kissak believes that could attract more voters to fill out their ballot completely, instead of skipping these races.
“So many people don’t come out to vote already because they get overwhelmed with where each person stands,” she said. “There’s no real easy way to decipher what somebody believes or stands for.”
Currently all voters, regardless of party, decide those non-partisan races. Runoffs move on to the general election ballot.
Jennifer Jenkins is the Founder and Chair of Educated. It’s a group she created to push back on the conservative takeover of some school boards.