{"id":186871,"date":"2026-02-21T00:53:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T00:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/186871\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T00:53:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T00:53:06","slug":"fresno-co-superintendent-candidates-make-their-pitch-to-kmj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/186871\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno Co. Superintendent Candidates Make Their Pitch to KMJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(KMJ)\u00a0 The race for Fresno County Superintendent of Schools is heating up.\u00a0 KMJ\u2019s Philip Teresi has been covering the campaigns of the top candidates, incumbent Dr. Michele Cantwell-Copher and challenger Dr. Eimear O\u2019Brien, the former Superintendent of Clovis Unified schools.\u00a0 Both of them joined Philip in studio recently to outline their priorities:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Johnny Alvarado is also running for the office that oversees more than 30 school districts and 200,000+ students.\u00a0 He has not responded to our offer for an interview.<\/p>\n<p>The election will be held as part of the June 2 2026 consolidated statewide primary election.<\/p>\n<p>Mail-in ballots will arrive in early May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(KMJ)\u00a0 The race for Fresno County Superintendent of Schools is heating up.\u00a0 KMJ\u2019s Philip Teresi has been covering&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":{"0":"post-186871","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-fresno","9":"tag-fresno-headlines","10":"tag-fresno-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}