The race for a school board seat in Georgia's Dougherty County is shaping up to be a close one.
The Albany Herald reports that in the May 21 primary, incumbent school board member James Bush is being challenged by retired educator Wanda Mallard.
Bush has been on the school board for 20 years.
He tells the Herald that when he first joined, the school system was in financial trouble.
"When I got on the board, we had to borrow $25 million every December, and I was wondering why this was happening," he says.
"We finally got our house in order.
We have a $41 million reserve at this particular time."
Bush says he's never supported a tax increase and that the school board has been able to roll back taxes six times in the past seven years.
Mallard says she's been active in education since she moved to the county 40 years ago.
She served as principal at an elementary school before becoming an adjunct professor of early childhood education at Albany Technical College.
A customized collection of grant news from foundations and the federal government from around the Web.
Caroline Diehl is a serial social entrepreneur in the impact media space. She is Executive Chair and Founder of the UK’s only charitable and co-operatively owned national broadcast television channel Together TV, the leading broadcaster for social change runs a national TV channel in the UK and digital platform which helps people find inspiration to do good in their lives and communities.