We know of at least one challenger who plans to take on Kevin Hill in this fall's Wake County school board elections.

Heather Losurdo announced Thursday that she would run against Hill for the District 3 seat that, pending redistricting, currently consists of much of Northeast Raleigh and the Wakefield area. Losurdo will step down as chairwoman of the Northern Wake Republican Club to run against Hill, a Democrat.

Losurdo's announcement of her candidacy on Thursday coincided with that night's Northern Wake Republican Club meeting that was attended by GOP school board members Chris Malone, Ron Margiotta, Deborah Prickett and John Tedesco.

Will it be it harder to change the direction of the school board without incumbents to run against?

As noted in today's article, that's a concern of school board member Ron Margiotta. He's concerned that the lack of incumbents seven months from now could take some of the energy out of the campaign.

“If the election was in March, we could run four warm bodies and win,” Margiotta said in the article. “The challenge is keeping the interest alive until October.”