Who won in the CCSD School Board races

Four of the seven elected Clark County School Board of Trustees seats were up for grabs this election. The nonpartisan seats are elected to four-year terms on a staggered basis.

Four new Clark County School Board trustees will be sworn in in January, including two former Moms for Liberty members.

The board, made up of seven elected seats and four appointed seats, oversees the district’s 300,000 students and roughly 40,000 employees, hires and manages the district’s superintendent, and approves the district’s budget. 

District A – Henderson, Boulder City, Searchlight, and Laughlin

Emily Stevens beat opponent Karl Catarata with 58% of the vote, as of Thursday. 

Stevens is a mom of two teenagers who currently attend schools in CCSD. She campaigned on promising to address school safety, the teacher shortage, student attendance, and community collaboration.

Stevens was endorsed by both teachers unions, the Nevada State Education Association and the Clark County Education Association.

Catarata, who received 41% of the vote in this election, previously ran for the Nevada System of Higher Education in 2022, when he did not make it past the primary election.

District B – Northwest Las Vegas Valley, Mt. Charleston, Indian Springs, Mesquite, and Moapa Valley

Lydia Dominguez, who is a former member of the far-right group, Moms for Liberty, won the election for CCSD school board district B with 56% of the vote. 

While Dominguez withdrew her membership with Moms for Liberty in September, the group is known for pushing for book bans in school libraries and classrooms and advocating against school curricula that mention LGBTQ rights or race and ethnicity. Dominguez vowed on her campaign website “the fair protection of girls’ and boys’ sports,” if elected. 

Dominguez defeated former teacher Eileen Eady, who earned 43% of the vote. In 2018, Eady had run for CCSD Trustee District F, but did not receive enough votes in the primary to move forward to the general election. 

District C – North Las Vegas, Historic West Las Vegas, and central Las Vegas Valley

Trustee Evelyn Garcia Morales, who was first elected in 2020 and named Board President in 2023, did not receive enough votes to win reelection this time around — Tameka Henry defeated her in District C with 52% of the vote.

Henry, a community and education advocate, said while campaigning that her priorities for CCSD include improving teacher retention, increasing access to high quality education, and enhancing family and community engagement.

Garcia Morales faced backlash over the summer — even being called to resign by the Clark County Education Association (CCEA) teachers’ union for gross negligence — after it was found that former Trustee Katie Williams no longer lived in the state. The union claimed Garcia Morales “ignored community and stakeholder concerns about Williams’ lack of residency.”

District E – Summerlin and west Las Vegas Valley

With 58% of the vote, Lorena Biassotti, former vice chair of the Clark County Moms for Liberty chapter, won the CCSD District E seat. 

Biassotti is a proponent of “parental rights” and wants education to be “devoid of progressive ideas and radical ideologies that serve as further distractions.” 

While she withdrew her membership with Moms for Liberty in September, she is also the founder of the conservative nonprofit My Children’s Advocate, which has previously supported claims and accusations that trans rights supporters are pedophiles and groomers, and aims to “eradicate” social justice, LGBTQ+ topics, and critical race theory from public schools, according to the nonprofit’s website. Biassotti also previously posted a photo expressing her opposition to gay marriage.

Former special education teacher, community advocate, and president of the Las Vegas Alliance of Black School Educators, Kamilah Bywaters, received 41% of the vote.