Anywhere from two to five new people will join the Broward School Board this year.

Two north county School Board members, Lori Alhadeff of District 4 and Nora Rupert of District 7, are not seeking reelection, and two candidates have qualified for each seat to try to replace them.

At-large member Allen Zeman and District 1 member Maura McCarthy Bulman each face one opponent, while District 6 incumbent Adam Cervera is competing with four opponents.

School Board elections will be held Aug. 18, with a runoff, if needed, planned for Nov. 3 in the District 6 race. The School Board has nine members, with five up in 2026 and four up in 2028.

Here’s a closer look at each race.

District 1

Maura Bulman, 48, of Hollywood, was first elected in 2024 for a two-year term.

Rod Velez won a four-year term in 2022 but was determined to be ineligible to serve, so Gov. Ron DeSantis temporarily filled the seat until a candidate could be elected. Bulman, a lawyer and a registered Democrat, defeated two other candidates.

This year, Bulman faces one challenger, Carmen Jackie Gimenez, 64, of Hallandale Beach. Gimenez is a Venezuelan immigrant who founded a nonprofit group, USA Refugees & Immigrants Corp.

Gimenez has no party affiliation and ran as an independent for governor in 2022, coming in third of four candidates with 31,577 votes. She also ran in the nonpartisan race for Hallandale Beach mayor in 2024, where she received about a third of the vote, losing to longtime mayor Joy Cooper.

Bulman’s campaign account has about $21,500, including a $5,000 loan to herself. Gimenez, who filed to run June 2, has not reported any campaign money yet.

The district includes Hollywood, Hallandale Beach, Dania Beach, West Park and part of Miramar.

District 4

Alhadeff was elected in 2018, months after her daughter, Alyssa, was killed during the school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. She was easily reelected in 2022 but chose not to seek reelection this year. She endorsed Sharry Kimmel, 61, a professor and teacher educator at Broward College who also lives in Parkland, to replace her.

“Dr. Kimmel’s unmatched experience is exactly what Broward schools need,” Alhadeff said in a statement. “As a teacher of teachers, she understands what it takes to recruit and retain excellent educators, while continuing our critical work to improve student safety and prioritize individual student achievement. I’m proud to support her candidacy.”

But Kimmel’s opponent, Nicole Morst, 45, a stay-at-home mom from Coral Springs who chairs a parent group called the North Area Advisory Committee, has secured the endorsements of three other School Board members: Sarah Leonardi, Jeff Holness and Debbi Hixon, who lost her husband, Chris, during the Stoneman Douglas shooting.

“Over the years, I have had the opportunity to work closely with Nicole on a variety of district concerns, and I have seen firsthand her dedication, thoughtfulness, and unwavering commitment to our schools,” Hixon said in a statement. “She doesn’t just speak about issues — she shows up, does the work, and stays engaged until solutions are found. That level of consistency and follow-through is exactly what our School Board needs.”

The race is highlighting tensions between leaders in Coral Springs and Parkland.

Coral Springs officials and many parents vehemently opposed School Board-approved boundaries in 2023 that moved many Coral Springs students away from Stoneman Douglas, the highest-performing high school in the region.

Morst opposed the change. Alhadeff supported it, but Kimmel said she opposed it too and, had she been in office, would have advocated for a compromise.

Still, Kimmel has received endorsements from all five members of the Parkland City Commission. Morst has received endorsements from Coral Springs Commissioners Joshua Simmons and Joe McHugh, as well as an early endorsement from the late Vice Mayor Nancy Metayer prior to her death.

“I think some people have wanted to make it a Coral Springs/Parkland race, but I’m interested in making sure that all of the schools in District 4 and all of the communities are equally represented,” Morst told the South Florida Sun Sentinel. “Not just Coral Springs, not just Parkland, but North Lauderdale, Tamarac and Margate as well.”

Kimmel said she has experience working throughout the county in her role as a teacher educator.

“I’m accustomed to serving all of our county, including all the cities of District 4,” she said. “I think I have support that’s pretty well-rounded. I have not received any endorsements in Coral Springs, but I have a lot of friendships and a lot of relationships from leaders there.”

Kimmel has secured about $63,000 in campaign funds, $30,000 of which is a loan to herself. Morst has raised about $22,000, mostly from outside donors. Both candidates are registered Democrats.

District 6

Brenda Fam, a lawyer who was elected in 2022 to serve District 6, resigned from the board in early 2025 and moved to Tennessee, prompting Gov. Ron DeSantis to appoint another lawyer, Adam Cervera.

Appointees are not required to live in the district where they serve, and Cervera may not be able to vote for himself. He moved to Broward from Miami-Dade last year, and his legal address is his mother’s condominium in Tamarac, in District 4.

“When I win my race, I will 100% be living in the district full time,” Cervera said. “But right now, my legal residence is what my legal residence is.”

School Board candidates may live outside their district when they run, but under state law, they must move there if they win. The district includes Weston, Cooper City, Davie and parts of Sunrise and Plantation.

Four challengers want to unseat Cervera. They are: Jessie Bastos, 47, a technology sales executive from Davie; Roberto Fernandez III, 46, an instructional facilitator who lives in Sunrise; Makai Aline Henry, 20, of Davie, a Nova High graduate and son of a district teacher; and Lester Wilks Jr., 38, of Sunrise, who owns after-care centers.

Cervera is by far the leader in campaign cash in any School Board race, with about $338,000, which includes $300,000 in loans to himself. Bastos has about $56,000, which includes $40,100 in loans to herself. Fernandez has $28,500 in donations and loans; Wilks has $8,500 in loans and donations; and Henry has $489 in donations and loans.

Cervera is a registered Republican, while all his opponents are Democrats.

District 7

For weeks, it looked like incumbent Rupert would sail to reelection without opposition, but in the end she decided not to run at all.

Rupert made a decision Friday, the last day of qualifying, to withdraw from the race, citing health challenges.

Two candidates qualified that same day: Cynthia Dominique, 41, a nurse practitioner and district volunteer from Margate; and Rochelle “Shelly” Soffer, 48, a speech language pathologist from Coconut Creek.

Both candidates are Democrats, and due to their late filings, neither has reported any campaign money yet.

At-large Seat 8

Business executive Allen Zeman, 62, of Fort Lauderdale, defeated longtime School Board member Donna Korn and two other challengers in 2024 for a countywide seat. This year, he faces one challenger, Sonja Azim, 54, of Plantation, a safety and security trainer with the school district.

Both candidates are Democrats.

Zeman’s campaign account has about $20,200, while his political action committee, Keep Students First Florida, has raised about $102,000.

Azim has about $17,000 in donations and loans in her account.