An unexpected late entrant who filed candidacy papers for the Madison School Board will force a primary in one of the two contested races this spring.
The three-way race for the seat being vacated by retiring board member Bill Keys includes Arlene Silveira, Maya Cole and now Michael Kelly, a University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate student in medieval studies who filed his papers near the deadline Tuesday afternoon.
….In the other districtwide school board race, Lucy Mathiak, a UW communications director and the founder of a community support organization for East High School, is trying to unseat Juan Jose Lopez, one of the board’s longest serving members.