Legislators voted to allow school board elections to be partisan. Currently in Tennessee, school board elections are nonpartisan. That means that candidates in school board elections only run in the August general county election and they do not run as republican or democrat. School board members are the only local, county elected officials who do not run by party.

Under the new legislation, local republican and democrat parties can chose to add school board elections to their primary elections. Thus, those candidates would then be added to the May primary election and would have to chose party affiliation.

The change in the legislations comes as many school boards across the country are being populated by left winged liberals, many times unbeknownst to voters since most school board elections are nonpartisan. The most notable is the school board in Loudoun County Virginia.

The decision on whether Loudon County will have partisan school board elections is up to the political parties. The Loudon County Republican party will be meeting later this week to discuss the matter.