Plans to increase community support for teachers.

Wants to recruit and retain high quality teachers.

- Plans to increase community support for teachers.
- Wants to recruit and retain high quality teachers.

Teacher Recruitment

Plans to focus on "real issues" rather than issues driven by politics.

Supports reading programs and safety nets for students who need extra attention.

- Plans to focus on "real issues" rather than issues driven by politics.
- Supports reading programs and safety nets for students who need extra attention.

School Curriculum

Plans to ensure Forsyth's health and wellness program is current and aligned with modern issues.

- Plans to ensure Forsyth's health and wellness program is current and aligned with modern issues.

COVID

As of March 22, 2022, Erin Knight’s website did not contain information on this issue.

College & Career Readiness

Erin Knight

As of March 22, 2022, Mike Valdes’s website did not contain information on this issue.

Said, "teachers and parents should set the agenda for what happens in our classrooms, not an educational system run by a woke mob."

Plans to ban critical race theory (CRT) from the school curriculum.

- Said, "teachers and parents should set the agenda for what happens in our classrooms, not an educational system run by a woke mob."
- Plans to ban critical race theory (CRT) from the school curriculum.

Mike Valdes

- The Board of Education runs the public school system. The Board of Education is entirely independent from the rest of the county government.
- Board of Education members work together to make school policy, set the budget, and appoint the superintendent to run the schools day to day.
- Board of Education members are elected to four-year terms in nonpartisan elections.