School board elections; what to know before going to the polls

Many people in the area are a product of the free K-12 public school education. But there has been a significant shift in the role that school boards play as of late. So many claim that public schools today are seeing the education piece becoming less talked about than other topics like school improvement teams, strategic planning steering committees, or other special interests groups like school foundations or athletic boosters, to develop district direction and purpose at the school board meetings.