Watch Montclair School Board Candidate Forum: 2022 Election

MONTCLAIR, NJ — The candidates for a landmark school board election in Montclair recently met for a virtual forum, hosted by the League of Women Voters and the Montclair chapter of the NAACP.

Montclair voters passed a history-making school referendum in the 2021 general election. The town was one of the last few in New Jersey where mayors appoint members of the local board of education, as opposed to voters electing them. But as a result of last November's referendum, Montclair will now make the switch to an elected school board.

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Montclair will hold a special election on March 8 to choose two new members of the board. According to the League of Women Voters of the Montclair Area, the candidates include:

• Yvonne Bouknight
• Melanie Deysher
• Phaedra Dunn
• Jerold Frier
• Noah Gale
• Lauren Q. Griffin
• Holly Shaw
• George C. Simpson
• Jennette L. Williams

Watch the Feb. 17 candidate forum below, via MontclairTV34.

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