Voter Turnout Likely To Dwindle In Southeast Fort Worth ISD School Board Runoff

Arlington TX

03 June, 2022

7:49 PM

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By Chongyang Zhang, Fort Worth Report June 2, 2022 Fewer than 1,000 voters could elect the next trustee to represent southeast Fort Worth ISD. This position will influence the school district for years beyond the three years that candidates Wallace Bridges or Brian Dixon will serve. The winner could influence who will be Fort Worth ISD's next superintendent. Bridges, a community organizer, and Dixon, a child psychiatrist, are in a June 18 runoff to represent the District 4 seat on the school board. They are competing for the few remaining engaged residents likely to show up at the polls. Both candidates worked to convince voters to win this seat. Their campaigns have focused, in part, on wooing residents who backed Trischelle Strong, a former candidate who placed third in the May 7 election. To read the full article, click here. Fort Worth Report is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization that produces factual, in-depth journalism about city and county government, schools, healthcare, business, and arts and culture in Tarrant County. Always free to read; subscribe to newsletters, read coverage or support our newsroom at fortworthreport.org.