Lisa Stuckey, who has served on the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools' board for eight years, will not seek re-election for a third term.
Stuckey shared the news with The News & Observer today, a week before the Orange County Board of Elections begins accepting candidate applications. The seven-member school board will see three vacancies this year, including Stuckey's.
Board members Jean Hamilton and Greg McElveen, whose terms also expire this year, have not yet announced their plans.
Stuckey has been the chairwoman of the board for five years, overseeing the construction and opening of three-year-old Carrboro High. All three of her children have attended Chapel Hill-Carrboro schools.
Stuckey's term ends in December.
UPDATE: McElveen, who has only been on the board for a year serving out county commissioner Pam Hemminger's term, told us this morning he plans to run for re-election. Hamilton confirmed to WCHL last night that she will not be running again.
Sadia Latifi has been a reporter for The News & Observer since June 2009. She currently covers the town of Cary. 
Comments
Unsustainable
Tue, 06/30/2009 - 22:57 — ActLocalHopefully, a new school board will be more forceful in advocating a more conservative approach to the unsustainable growth and the increased demands for higher local taxes required to sustain that growth.
It presently costs the school district nearly $60,000 per new desk in construction costs. That doesn't count the $120,000 per pupil to educate one child from K through 12th grade.
Tax revenues from new homes do not even begin to cover the costs associated with providing the required services. We are building ourselves into the poorhouse. Taxes increase, but not enough to keep per pupil expenditures from decreasing.
The School Board should sound the alarm, rather than go along like complacent sheep.