Opinion
Challenges and opportunities ahead for new state superintendent Truitt
The results are in, and voters selected Republican Catherine Truitt, chancellor of Western Governors University N.C., to be North Carolina’s new superintendent of public instruction. She defeated her Democratic opponent, UNC-Greensboro education professor Jen Mangrum, by around 148,000 votes. Truitt will replace Republican Mark Johnson, a one-term superintendent who failed to win the Republican nomination...