MCCSC school board winners have been determined.
Erin Wyatt has won the seat for MCCSC District 1. Wyatt beat Tabetha Crouch and Byron Turner with 50.1% of the votes. Wyatt is a Ph.D. candidate for the IU School of Nursing, clinical assistant professor of nursing, and a mother of three students in the MCCSC school system who ran for the school board with a focus on health and safety of students, as she hopes to get more nurses in schools and any other resources they may need.
Ashley Pirani has won the seat for MCCSC District 3. Pirani beat Jon Hays and Daniel O’Neill with 45.7% of the votes. Pirani is an operations manager at Shine Insurance, serves on the boards for Beacon Inc. and The Persisterhood Workshop, and is the mother of two MCCSC students. She ran for the school board with a focus on teacher and staff retention, student health and safety, educational equity, and Individualized Educational Programs.
Brandon Shurr was unopposed in his bid to retain the MCCSC District 7 school board seat. Shurr is IU senior assistant director of community engagement and has been a member of the board since 2018. Shurr is currently the school board president. He has dealt with many different issues with his time on the board, including the COVID-19 pandemic that caused schooling to resort to remote learning for about a year and a half.
Looming issues such as faculty shortages, COVID-19 concerns, student success, and student and faculty safety are just some of the challenges that Shurr, Wyatt, and Pirani will face. Furthermore, the referendum passed with 66.7% of the votes.
You can find up-to-date results for all the Indiana midterm election results at https://indianapublicmedia.org/election/
