The Knoxville School District will host a Meet the Candidates Night at the Knoxville Performing Arts Center on Wednesday, August 30th at 6:30 p.m.

Martin Duffy, Cheri Gerdes, Dawn Rankin, Larry Scott, Darbie Utterback, Vicky Reed and Andrew Schmidt will all be taking part in the Meet the Candidates event. All seven candidates will receive questions prior to the event which will allow the candidates to formulate their best response. The Iowa Association of School Board’s Harry Heigilenthal will be moderating the event which will be broadcast on KNIA. Heigilenthal tells KNIA/KRLS News by giving the candidates the questions before the event it will allow for them to model the thinking process they will use if they were to be elected as school board members. The candidates will have to study and form their opinion to the questions in an informed manner. School Board elections will be held on Tuesday, September 12th.