The Chron has another HISD Trustee race profile, this one for the open District V seat.
A retired school administrator and an energy company executive are vying to fill the school board seat held by Dianne Johnson, who is stepping down after eight years as a Houston Independent School District trustee.
Both challengers — Ray Reiner, 67, and Michael Lunceford, 52 — pledged to continue Johnson’s efforts to lure more District V families back into the public school system. Too many families in the area — which stretches west from Rice University to Bellaire — are opting to pay private school tuition, they said.
You can listen to my interview with Lunceford here and my interview with Reiner here. The School Zone blog also has a Q&A with each of these candidates here; it also has Q&As with the District I candidates here and the District IX candidates here. It’s great to see all this information about the school board races, which are usually shrouded in obscurity, but I’m now wondering when we’ll see the profiles of the various Council races. There’s a reason I started doing candidate interviews way back in July – there’s a lot of races to cover, and the time gets away from you a lot faster than you think it will.