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The race
This school board election is on the November 3, 2026 general-election ballot in Virginia Beach City Public Schools (Virginia Beach (independent city) County). 6 seat(s) are at stake in School Board Districts 2, 4, 6, 8, 9 and 10 - Nov 3 2026.
Six district seats — Districts 2, 4, 6, 8, 9, and 10 — are up on November 3, confirmed by the City of Virginia Beach's official sample-ballot guide, the strongest roster source in this tier. Each district race is head-to-head on the names below. One honest gap, printed rather than smoothed over: the news candidate listing our inventory draws on reports 13 candidates including three incumbents, while the fetched text names 12 — one district pairing may carry an additional name, and the listing does not say which three are the incumbents. We print the 12 verified names and flag the discrepancy.
The verified roster is: James Lewis; Zachery Taylor (D2); Alveta Green; Melisa Herum (D4); Antoinette Kahan; Brigid Kahng (D6); Andy Baan; Natelie Bray (D8); Suzanne Berman; Carolyn Weems (D9); Kathleen Brown; Betty Spencer (D10).
The candidates
James Lewis — District 2 candidate, per the official sample-ballot guide's roster as compiled in our inventory. No platform or endorsement was verified in this pass.
Zachery Taylor — District 2 candidate, per the same roster. No platform or endorsement was verified in this pass.
Alveta Green — District 4 candidate, per the same roster. No platform or endorsement was verified in this pass.
Melisa Herum — District 4 candidate, per the same roster. No platform or endorsement was verified in this pass.
Antoinette Kahan — District 6 candidate, per the same roster. No platform or endorsement was verified in this pass.
Brigid Kahng — District 6 candidate, per the same roster. No platform or endorsement was verified in this pass.
Andy Baan — District 8 candidate, per the same roster. No platform or endorsement was verified in this pass.
Natelie Bray — District 8 candidate, per the same roster (spelling as in the source). No platform or endorsement was verified in this pass.
Suzanne Berman — District 9 candidate, per the same roster. No platform or endorsement was verified in this pass.
Carolyn Weems — District 9 candidate, per the same roster. No platform or endorsement was verified in this pass.
Kathleen Brown — District 10 candidate, per the same roster. No platform or endorsement was verified in this pass.
Betty Spencer — District 10 candidate, per the same roster. No platform or endorsement was verified in this pass.
Pros / Cons
- Pro, for the field as a whole: every name printed above is on a sourced roster for this race — a voter can verify each candidacy from the source named below. Con, for the field as a whole: beyond the roster, no sourced record — no platform, no board votes, no named-organization endorsement aligned with parental rights, curriculum transparency, fiscal restraint, or school choice — was verified for these candidates in this pass. A ballot line is a candidacy, not a record, and we grade it as exactly that.
OUR CALL
Our call: insufficient record — no endorsement. What would earn one here: a published platform or a sourced record on parental rights, curriculum transparency, fiscal restraint, or school choice — or an endorsement from a named organization aligned with those values — verified claim by claim. On a roster alone, LiberalMind does not guess at what a candidate believes. Per-seat: Districts 2, 4, 6, 8, 9, and 10 — no endorsement in any of them. The roster here is official-grade; the records behind the names are what is missing.
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Sources
- City of Virginia Beach - Sample Ballot Guide, Nov 3 2026 (official city) + New Journal and Guide candidate listing — the verified roster for this race (accessed October 25, 2026) — https://voter.virginiabeach.gov/elections/sample-ballot-guide
- Roster grade: official. Record gaps: candidate records, campaign materials, and fiscal analysis beyond the roster summary above were not verified at this pass's sourcing depth, except where a fact is stated and attributed in the text.
Result pending. No verified call (Associated Press or official) as of November 4, 2026. This page will be updated when the race is called or certified. The original article above is unchanged.
AI-assisted article — but the sources are human, and the facts are very real.