Nation's Longest-Serving Superintendent, June Atkinson, Loses Office in N.C. - State EdWatch - Education Week

The incumbent Democrat, who was first elected in 2005, was defeated by Republican Mark Johnson, a member of the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools Board of Education.

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