{"id":165717,"date":"2026-02-15T14:48:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T14:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/165717\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T14:48:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T14:48:17","slug":"see-candidates-for-2-richardson-isd-board-elections-in-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/165717\/","title":{"rendered":"See candidates for 2 Richardson ISD board elections in May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCheck out the candidates running for <a href=\"https:\/\/web.risd.org\/board\/members\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Richardson ISD board of trustees<\/a> seats in the upcoming May election.<\/p>\n<p>What you need to know<\/p>\n<p>A pair of seats on RISD&#8217;s board will be up for grabs in May. The deadline to file for a place on the ballot was Feb. 13 at 5 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The single-member District 3 race will feature two candidates: Euan Blackman and Luis Fernando Rojas, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/web.risd.org\/board\/2026-election-filings\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RISD&#8217;s website<\/a>. Incumbent Debbie Renter\u00eda is not seeking re-election.<\/p>\n<p>At-large Place 6 incumbent Eric Eager will face challenger Blake Sawyer.<\/p>\n<p>RISD&#8217;s board of trustees features five single-member district seats, in which candidates must reside in a specified geographic section of RISD, and two at-large seats. A map of single-member districts can be found on <a href=\"https:\/\/web.risd.org\/board\/wp-content\/uploads\/SingleMemberMap-2022.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RISD&#8217;s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Looking ahead<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sos.state.tx.us\/elections\/voter\/important-election-dates.shtml#2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Election day<\/a> is May 2. April 2 is the last day to register to vote in the election, and early voting will run from April 20-28.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Check out the candidates running for Richardson ISD board of trustees seats in the upcoming May election. What&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161,67406,5810,20405],"class_list":["post-165717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news","tag-richardson-elections","tag-richardson-isd","tag-school-board-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}