Scott jones for polk county school board
Scott jones for polk county school board
Scott jones for polk county school board agenda!
Sarah Fortney, an incoming Polk County School Board member, will become Florida’s first openly lesbian member of a Florida school district.
Joe Saunders of Equality Florida Action PACcelebrated Fortney’s win in a statement.
“Sarah has made history as the first out lesbian elected to a School Board in the State of Florida,” said Saunders, one of the first two openly gay state House members.
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“Equality Florida Action PAC is committed to electing pro-equality champions like Sarah who will fight for all Polk County students.”
Fortney, a 34-year teaching veteran, won her election last night in a landslide, taking almost 61 percent of the vote in Polk County over Scott Jones, a Publix manager.
That was a much larger margin than the evening’s other Polk County School Board race, in which incumbent Kay Fields held onto a 52-47 lead on challenger Jennifer Sabin.
Fortney, a Stambaugh Middle School science teacher, in an intervie