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For Houston ISD School board

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races will be decided in a

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runoff one week from tomorrow.

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That's after no candidate got enough

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votes in the general election.

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Divisive issues like critical

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race theory and mass mandates.

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Front and Center for many voters,

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this time HKU 11 is your education

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station and we want to make sure you

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know what's going on in your classroom.

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Here's our education reporter Jason Miles

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live at the West Gray Polling site.

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Always busy for early voting there.

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Hey Jason.

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Hey there Lynn. Yeah, even in a

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runoff involving school board races,

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early voting runs through Tuesday.

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Election Day follows on the 11th

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and these 4H ISD board races and

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really two of the four primarily

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are driving a lot of the interest.

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Signs from various Houston ISD School

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Board candidates greet voters at

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the West Gray Multiservice Center.

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Four incumbents are locked in

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runoff battles in what are supposed

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to be nonpartisan

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races. There's no question the tone

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of these races is not only extreme.

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I would even go so far as

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to say probably what I will

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call hostile mirroring,

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contentious rhetoric.

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We've seen it recent school

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board meetings.

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It's my body, it's my choice.

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It's my children. Where does

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it stop? KHOU political analyst Bob Stein

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says issues driving election interest

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include face coverings and vaccinations.

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There's a national trend, and

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that's clearly built around COVID

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non COVID, yet equally divisive issues

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like critical race theory and library book.

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Content are also having an impact.

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Yes, library books. Yes, yes. Masks.

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Even it's all tide in

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it's all tide in together.

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We just need to do the right thing and.

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Do what's right for our

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children. Others voting today

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believe the less political

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school board races are the better

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for children. I think it's become

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very acrimonious and I'm interested

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in finding a way that we can teach

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kids and maybe keep politics.

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How little less volatile there is.

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No question. Controversy has at least

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up participation in notoriously low

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turn out elections for school board

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races and for runoff elections.

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These turnouts are looking

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like from early voting.

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May be the highest we've

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seen in several years.

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And you can see some of the signs

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here behind me to get a better

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look at who's running against who,

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the incumbents versus the

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challengers go to khou.com.

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We have access to sample ballots

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there and I'll have another

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update from here coming up at 5

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reporting in the Montrose area.

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Jason Miles KHOU 11 news alright.

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Jason, thanks for the update.