Meet the candidates for District E Trustee on the Clark County School Board
Both candidates running to represent District E on the Clark County School Board agree that the current board needs a change. But what that change would look like — and how they would go about achieving it — are different.
Teacher Kamilah Bywaters and Lorena Biassotti, an outspoken parent and former vice chair of Moms for Liberty, will compete to represent Summerlin and parts of northwest Las Vegas. The two placed first and second in the June primary, with Bywaters getting 480 more votes than Biassotti.
Bywaters serves as the president of the Las Vegas Alliance for Black School Educators and said that her work as an educator — she’s a licensed teacher who currently substitutes in the district while receiving her PhD in special education — makes her the best fit for the job. Her 6- and 8-year-old children attend CCSD’s Abston Elementary School.
Biassotti describes herself as a “common sense” candidate. She homeschooled her children during COVID-19 due to frustration with mask mandates, and currently has two children in CCSD and two in private school. She is running on a platform of “parental rights” — a term typically invoked by opponents of what they call a cultural ideology such as books with transgender themes and critical race theory.
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