MUSD board candidates to take voter questions in Town Hall

The four candidates running for three seats on the Maricopa Unified School District Governing Board will participate in a Facebook Live Town Hall via Zoom hosted next week by InMaricopa.

The candidates – incumbent Torri Anderson, challenger Tracie Armstead-Payton, incumbent Jim Jordan and incumbent AnnaMarie Knorr – will take questions from voters from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Tuesday ahead of the Nov. 3 general election.

In recent weeks and months, the board has been sharply divided over decisions to return students to classrooms and quarreled about an attempted land purchase for a second high school.

A fourth seat on the board will be filled by appointment by the Pinal County School Superintendent’s Office after Patti Coutré, an MUSD board member for nearly a decade, resigned late last month to take a district job.