The state House has added the Wake County school board election bill to the calendar Tuesday.

The House is scheduled to hold second and third readings of Senate Bill 325, which would change the election boundaries, election dates and composition of Wake school board seats. Expect some heated debate from Democrats before the bill is ultimately passed by Republicans.

The bill could become law by the end of the day if the state Senate were to add the legislation to its agenda. The Senate approved the bill before but would need another vote because the House amended the bill to put the elections in November of even-numbered years and allows election by plurality.

The vote comes the same day as the school board will vote on hiring the new superintendent.

Does it matter whether Wake County school board members are elected by a plurality or a majority of the votes?

As noted in today's article, the revised version of Senate Bill 325 approved by the state House Elections Committee on Wednesday does away with the requirement that Wake school board candidates need a majority to win.

Instead, you'd only need a plurality to join the school board.

More to come later, but a revised Wake County school board election bill was approved by the state House Elections Committee today in a 23-12 partisan vote.

The new version of Senate Bill 325 still keeps the boundaries approved by the Senate and has them go into effect in 2016. But unlike the Senate, the House version would hold the elections in November of even-numbered years instead of the spring primaries.

The new version of the bill also drops the runoff requirement. Now a candidates would only need a plurality to win.

Democrats unsuccessfully tried to postpone the vote until June 6 and to get an amendment calling for a November 2014 referendum by Wake County voters before the change should go into effect. Democrats argued it was unfair to vote when the school board members were unable to come because of the superintendent interviews while Republicans said they need to act now before their time is tied up on the state budget.

A just released schedule shows that the state House Elections Committee has added the Wake County school board election bill to Wednesday's meeting agenda.

The committee will discuss Senate Bill 325, which would change when Wake school board members are elected along with the boundary lines for the board seats. One thing to see is whether the committee backs the version passed by the Senate or makes changes.

For instance, the Senate pushed the start date for the new lines to 2016. Would the House go back to the original version in the bill that had them in effect in 2014?

The committee meeting is at 1 p.m. in Room 643 of the Legislative Office Building. During that same time, the school board will be meeting in closed session to discuss the superintendent finalists.

As the Wake County school board meets today and tomorrow with the four semi-finalists for the superintendent's position, how much job security can be provided?

Since 2010, Wake has had two permanent and two interim superintendents leading the district. That's a lot of turnover even for a district as large as Wake County.

Depending on what happens to Senate Bill 325, the new superintendent would have at least a few years to make his or her mark.

Another round of "Moral Monday" protests are on tap today as the state NAACP continues its weekly protests at the General Assembly.

In a pair of articles Friday, the Rev. William Barber, president of the state NAACP, and Yvonne Brannon, head of the Great Schools in Wake Coalition, cite the 2010 Wake County school board protests as being successful forerunners of the current protests.

In Friday's Associated Press article, Barber says doubters of the effectiveness of the current protests should look to what happened when they fought the student assignment efforts of the former Republican school board majority in Wake.

John Hood is disputing that the Wake County school board redistricting bill is an attack by the Republican majority in the General Assembly against local representation.

In this column today in the Carolina Journal, Hood, president of the conservative John Locke Foundation, notes the bills that would transfer control of Charlotte-Douglas International Airport and Asheville's water systems to regional authorities.

Instead of being an attack on localities, Hood writes that both bills are the legislature's attempt to "intervene in disputes among several different, duly elected localities." He then ties that back into Senate Bill 325, which is supported by the the county commissioners but is opposed by the school board.

Former Wake County Republican Party Chairman Claude Pope isn't pinning most of the blame for the 2011 loss of the GOP majority on the Wake County school board on Democrats.

Instead, as noted in today's article in the Wilmington Star-News, "Pope says the Republicans lost the majority mainly because of intraparty discord among members of the board." Pope, now running for state Republican Party chairman, says he's hoping this kind of discord won't repeat itself at the statewide level.

The article doesn't go into detail on what the discord might be. But things you could point to include the fighting between Debra Goldman and her fellow Republican school board members.

The Great Schools in Wake Coalition is telling its members they need to continue to fight against the Wake County school board redistricting bill because "we must stop this interference in local representation."

In action alert dated Monday, GSIW asks people to contact Wake County House members to let them know they oppose Senate Bill 325. The bill, which passed the state Senate, is awaiting discussion in the state House elections committee.

GSIW offers talking points to use, including how "redrawing lines that racially polarize the community does harm to our county." They suggest mirroring locally a bill proposed in the General Assembly that would create a nonpartisan redistricting process for state legislative seats.

As expected, the Wake County school board voted 7-2 tonight to pass a resolution supporting keeping the current election districts.

The vote comes a day after the state Senate passed Senate Bill 325. Democrats in the state House will likely point to the school board's resolution as they try to block the bill's final passage.

During the debate, board member Deborah Prickett referenced this 2011 Wake Ed blog post in which Susan Evans and Jim Martin both criticized the current election lines before they were elected to the board.