MT. VERNON — WMIX/WDML brings you part 6 of a two-week series on the contested races for the school boards of Mt. Vernon City Schools District 80, Mt. Vernon Township High School District 201, and the Mt. Vernon City Council.

Today we have one of the candidates running for the District 80 School Board at Mt. Vernon’s City Schools, David Edwards.

Edwards believes his 25-year education experience will help him best serve the school board, faculty, staff, and students.

The other candidates running for Mt. Vernon City Schools District 80 School Board are Merle Hollman, Kent Jackson, and Danny Young.

You can listen to the full, archived, forum and hear from all the candidates with these three contested races via the link to this story here:

https://soundcloud.com/wmixradio/2019-03-07-candidates-forum

See the Candidate Bio’s courtesy of the Greater Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce below: