Staff reports
Bluffton’s David Carr has won the special election held Tuesday, Sept. 17, for the vacant District 7 seat on the Beaufort County Board of Education. Carr was running unopposed.
The seat was previously held by Rachel Wisnefski, who announced in May 2024 that she would be vacating her seat on the Board in early June because she was moving out of the district.
Carr received 112 of the 113 votes cast, with one write-in vote going to Randy Bealer, in the unofficial vote count released by the Beaufort County Office of Voter Registration and Elections on Tuesday evening. The votes were to be certified by the Beaufort County Board of Voter Registration and Elections at a 10 a.m., Thursday, Sept. 19 meeting.
In an interview he gave to The Island News, Carr said he has been in education for 50 years and is still teaching courses with Georgia Southern University online.
“I have great interest in the public schools,” Carr said. “I have great interest in the educational process – curriculum, instruction, programming, services for kids across all levels of education – I’ve had those interests for years.”
Carr received his doctorate in Education from Virginia Tech and spent 10 years teaching public school before transitioning to teaching teachers and coaches at the undergraduate, graduate and doctoral levels. His focus was teaching health and physical education.
Toward the end of his career, he transitioned more toward online education, which proved helpful when COVID-19 hit.
Carr and his wife purchased a house in Bluffton in 2010 and moved to Beaufort County in 2016. He retired from the College of Education at Ohio University in 2021.
