Meet the candidates running for CCSD school board in District B

Eileen Eady and Lydia Dominguez face off for School Board district representing Northwest Las Vegas Valley, Mt. Charleston, Indian Springs, Mesquite, and Moapa Valley.

Clark County School Board’s District B has been in the news a lot lately — it’s one of the four elected trustees seats up for grabs in November, but it was also held by former Trustee Katie Williams, who was forced to resign last month. 

Although Williams was not running for reelection, Clark County District Attorney Steven Wolfson found through an investigation that she was not living in her district and has been living in Nebraska since roughly April. This prompted Wolfson to call for Williams’ resignation, which she ultimately submitted in September. 

The board will appoint an interim trustee for the District B seat on Oct. 30, just six days before the election, and this temporary trustee will sit on the board until the newly elected trustee is sworn-in in January. 

Voters can only vote for the candidates running to represent the district they live in. District B includes Northwest Las Vegas Valley, Mt. Charleston, Indian Springs, Mesquite, and Moapa Valley, meaning voters who reside within the district vote for who they want to represent them in the school board. Check out the district boundaries map to find your trustee district.

District B candidates Lydia Dominguez and Eileen Eady emerged victorious from June’s primary election and will face each other in the nonpartisan race in November.

School board seats are elected to four-year terms on a staggered basis. The board oversees the district’s nearly 300,000 students and roughly 31,000 employees, and hires and manages the district’s superintendent. The School Board is also in charge of approving the district’s budget — which was recently found to have a potential $20 million shortfall. 

Dominguez was previously endorsed and backed by Moms for Liberty, a far-right group which has risen to prominence in recent years by pushing for book bans in school libraries and classrooms and advocating against school curricula that mention LGBTQ rights or race and ethnicity. 

Dominguez’s website states she will ensure “the fair protection of girls’ and boys’ sports,” if elected, echoing right-wing efforts to prevent transgender youth from playing on sports teams that match their gender identity. She has served in the US Air Force for the past 10 years and also currently serves in CCSD’s Attendance Zone Advisory Committee, which is tasked with reviewing school attendance boundaries and recommending changes to the Board of School Trustees for new schools or to relieve overcrowded conditions at an existing school. 

Eady is a former teacher of 15 years who now does campaign consulting. In 2018, she ran for CCSD Trustee District F, but did not receive enough votes in the primary to move forward to the general election. 

Eady’s campaign website says she is “committed to ensuring all staff are valued and ALL families have access to the resources they need.” The district has a unique mix of urban and rural schools, which she says understands well because she has been a teacher in both urban and rural schools.

In an interview with 8 News Now, she said communication and transparency in the district are a concern for her, too. Eady also said in a Nevada Current interview that if elected, she’d like to see the district partner with nonprofits to get more parents and community members involved. 

She is endorsed by several advocacy groups and unions, including Make the Road Nevada Action, as well as one of the two largest teachers’ unions in the state, the Nevada State Education Association, and the Vegas Chamber.