Reply #14: Yes, they are elected

[14thColony]

Here they are:

http://www.duvalschools.org/static/aboutdcps/schoolboard/overview.asp

Tommy Hazouri, the only male on the school board, is a name I remember well growing up in Jacksonville (which is Duval County, the two governments were combined in the late '60s). He is a leading state-level Democrat, former state Representative, former Jacksonville mayor, and of fairly recent Lebanese descent (it was his father who emmigrated from Lebanon before WWII, I believe).

Don't hold your breath that anyone elected to replace them will vote any differently.