Gadsden County School Board, District 2
School board members set the district budget and school-tax rate, hire the superintendent (where appointed), approve school boundaries, curriculum policy and construction, and set district policies. Nonpartisan. Term: 4 years.
Partly verified. Either the November opponent could not be confirmed from available sources, or only a few positions are documented. Confirm the full candidate list on your county sample ballot; unknown positions are shown as such.
How we verified who is on the ballot
Candidate list taken from the Florida Division of Elections, 2026 general election candidate list on 2026-09-18 ; both candidates are marked Qualified, which for a nonpartisan seat means the August vote did not produce a majority winner (or the seat is decided only in November). Check the county Supervisor of Elections sample ballot.
Candidates
Report an error ↗Rodney Moore
Rodney Moore is a Gadsden County native with a 27-year law enforcement career that included the Florida Highway Patrol, the Gadsden County Sheriff's Office and service as police chief for the City of Quincy. He holds an associate degree in criminal justice from Tallahassee State College and works as a substitute teach…
Tracey Stallworth
Tracey Stallworth is a Quincy pastor who was born in Germany and grew up as a military child. He holds degrees in business administration and religion and a doctorate from Jacksonville Theological Seminary, and his family operates a farm that distributes food to about 350 people a week. His campaign's largest reported…
Side-by-side on the major issues
Each row is a statement. The chips show how each candidate's stated positions or record relate to that statement. Expand a row to read the evidence and sources. "No public position found" means we could not find a statement or record on the topic, not that the candidate has none.
| Issue | Rodney Moore Nonpartisan | Tracey Stallworth Nonpartisan |
|---|---|---|
| Taxes & spendingCutting taxes should be a top priority, even if it means less government spending on services. | No public position found | No public position found |
| Property taxesFlorida should eliminate or sharply reduce homestead property taxes, even if local governments must cut services or find other revenue. | No public position found | No public position found |
| Education & school choicePublic money should follow students to private, charter or home schools (universal school vouchers). | No public position found | No public position found |
| Gender identity lawsFlorida's laws restricting gender-affirming care for minors and classroom instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity should remain in place. | No public position found | No public position found |
| Library and classroom materialsParents' objections should be enough to pull a book or lesson from a school, even when other families want it kept. | No public position found | No public position found |
| Teacher and staff payRaising teacher and staff pay should be the district's top budget priority, even if other spending has to be cut. | No public position found | Leans agree· stated position Stallworth says he would seek partnerships with businesses and large corporations willing to help raise teacher salaries and fund stipends for classroom resources, and would work with colleges to build a pipeline of new educators. |
| School safety approachCampus safety depends more on police officers and firm discipline than on counselors and mental-health staff. | No public position found | No public position found |
Where they sit on the map
Each candidate is placed by the average of their documented stances. It is a summary of the table above, not an extra judgment.
How the axes are computed
Each axis is the average of a candidate's coded stances (+2 to −2) on a fixed set of statements, so it comes straight from the documented positions and nothing else. A candidate needs at least three documented statements on an axis to be placed.
Economic issues (toward "Smaller government (lower taxes, less spending)"): Taxes & spending (agree), Property taxes (agree), Health care (disagree), Housing affordability (disagree), Property insurance (disagree), Energy & utilities (disagree), Social Security & Medicare (disagree), Teacher and staff pay (disagree).
Social & legal issues (toward "Conservative side of the statements"): Immigration (agree), Abortion (disagree), Guns (disagree), Education & school choice (agree), Elections & voting (disagree), Crime & policing (agree), Gender identity laws (agree), Marijuana (disagree), Environment & water (disagree), Trump administration (agree), Library and classroom materials (agree), School safety approach (agree).
| Candidate | Economic issues | Social & legal issues |
|---|---|---|
| Rodney Moore | not enough data | not enough data |
| Tracey Stallworth | not enough data | not enough data |
Other issues the candidates have raised
Priorities each candidate has brought up on their own, beyond the major-issue list above.
Rodney Moore
- Response to sexual assault reports at Gadsden County High School — Moore was unavailable for WFSU's candidate interview; the station reported that his public social media posts have centered on advocacy for students who were victims of sexual assault at Gadsden County High School.
Tracey Stallworth
- Transparency and enrollment — Stallworth says the district must 'be transparent and communicate with people to build trust' in order to reverse enrollment losses, and describes his approach as community-wide: 'We have to be a tribe to raise our community.'