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Board of Education, Wake County Schools · District 09
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Tyler SwansonWake County Public School System

Tyler Swanson

Candidate for Board of Education, Wake County Schools, District 09

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Background

Campaign website
swansonforwake.com

Chair of the Wake County Board of Education, first elected for District 9 in 2022. A former special education teacher at Enloe Magnet High School, he was communications and policy director of the North Carolina NAACP.

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Documented positions

Public safety

  • Opposes arming teachers; supports more nurses, counselors and SROs

    Issues

    Campaign website · Swanson for Wake · swansonforwake.com

    “Safe schools do not involve guns or arming teachers.”
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Education

  • Supports full state funding of the Leandro school plan

    Issues

    Campaign website · Swanson for Wake · swansonforwake.com

    “It is time for the NCGA to fulfill its constitutional duty to fund our schools.”
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  • Pledges to prioritize pandemic learning recovery and staffing shortages

    Issues

    Campaign website · Swanson for Wake · swansonforwake.com

    “Rebuilding from COVID and dealing with the interrupted learning created during the pandemic is one of my top priorities.”
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  • Supports protections for LGBTQ+ students, families and staff

    Issues

    Campaign website · Swanson for Wake · swansonforwake.com

    “I am committed to creating safer spaces throughout our district so that all LGBTQ+ students, families, and staff have equal access”
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