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Three school board races are on the ballot in Knox County, Tenn., on Aug.
3and all of them are partisan races, the Knoxville News Sentinel reports.
It's only the second election since Tennessee changed its law last year to force partisan races for school boards, according to WATE.
Voters can narrow their choices in the March primary to one Republican, one Democrat, and one independent.
Travis Wright won the GOP primary for District 8 after the death of Mike McMillan in January, and was sworn in the next day.
Jennifer Owen, an incumbent running for District 2, tells WATE that since the introduction of partisan school board races, they've become more difficult to navigate.
"We used to be better than that before we had partisan elections," she says.
"We knew where people stood on different things, but when it came to education issues, all of that was put aside and we looked at what was best for students."
She says the district's biggest weaknesses right now are transparency, poor treatment of staff, and a lack of support for student behavior and mental health issues.
Wright says students have lost their critical thinking because they're using "a lot more scripted thinking instead of being encouraged to find creative ways to problem-solve."
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