{"id":21185,"date":"2022-03-25T20:40:59","date_gmt":"2022-03-26T00:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=21185"},"modified":"2022-03-25T20:41:02","modified_gmt":"2022-03-26T00:41:02","slug":"lynn-wilson-announces-he-is-not-running-for-re-election-from-the-polk-county-school-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2022\/03\/25\/lynn-wilson-announces-he-is-not-running-for-re-election-from-the-polk-county-school-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Lynn Wilson announces he is not running for re-election from the Polk County School Board"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">School Board member&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/polkschoolsfl.com\/boardmembers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lynn Wilson<\/a>&nbsp;announced this week that he is not running for re-election in August, a move he has talked about privately in recent months, but one many said they hoped he would reconsider.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/6-lynnwilson.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21186\" width=\"191\" height=\"248\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMany of my friends and constituents have reached out to me regarding my intentions to run for a third term on the School Board;&nbsp;I am not seeking a third term,\u201d Wilson, 65, said in a statement on his Facebook page. \u201cThe Polk County Public School System is one of the largest districts in the country with over 100,000 students, 14,000 employees, and a budget in excess of $2 billion dollars; the challenges are, at times, daunting.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition to that, he hopes to travel with his wife, Jeanne. The couple recently celebrated their 40th anniversary and have two children, Tyler and Alexandria.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI look forward to traveling and enjoying some of the many places in our world that we have not yet visited,\u201d he said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His last day in office will be in November.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>School Board member&nbsp;Lynn Wilson&nbsp;announced this week that he is not running for re-election in August, a move he has talked about privately in recent months, but one many said they&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[2595],"class_list":["post-21185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-lynn-wilson"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}