Book bans and 'wiser' spending topics in runoff election for Orange County School Board
Two candidates remain in the run-off election for Orange County’s District 4 school board seat, each hoping to represent a fast-growing section of west Orange.
The November race pits Anne Douglas (D), a veteran Orange County Public Schools teacher, against Kyle Goudy, a manager at NBCUniversal GolfNow in the campaign to replace Pam Gould, who is not running for reelection. Douglas and Goudy were the top vote getters in the three-person primary in August, with Douglas receiving 32.85% of the vote and Goudy receiving 37.24%.
The two are vying to represent District 4, which includes Horizon West and Windermere.
Both candidates said they were uniquely qualified to serve on Orange County’s school board — one for their decades of teaching experience and the other for their work managing million-dollar budgets and student athletes.
Douglas, 59, who teaches reading and English for non-native speakers at Olympia High School, has been an OCPS teacher for more than 25 years. She’s been endorsed by the local teachers union, Orlando Democrat U.S. Rep. Maxwell Frost, Equality Florida, which is an LGBTQ+ rights group, and Moms Demand Action, a gun violence prevention group.
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