Hamilton County School Board, District 4
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 ↗Kizzy Burch
Kizzy Burch drives a school bus for the Hamilton County School District and founded All Our Kidz, a local youth organization that runs free summer camps, literacy programs and meal initiatives. She has about 24 years of local civic involvement. Retiring incumbent Johnny Bullard endorsed her after withdrawing from the …
Larry Ogburn Sr.
Larry D. Ogburn Sr. is a returning candidate for the Hamilton County School Board's District 4 seat, having also run in 2022. He serves as head Sunday school teacher and temporary pastor at his church. He reported about $200 in total campaign contributions and reused signs from his earlier campaign, saying the low spe…
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 | Kizzy Burch Nonpartisan | Larry Ogburn Sr. Nonpartisan |
|---|---|---|
| Taxes & spendingCutting taxes should be a top priority, even if it means less government spending on services. | No public position found | Leans agree· stated position Ogburn campaigns on fiscal conservatism and says his role would be to make sure district money is spent properly; he has not proposed a specific change to the school tax rate. |
| 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. | Leans disagree· stated position In a written questionnaire, Burch said parents have the right to raise concerns about library and instructional materials, but that challenges should go through Florida law and the district's review process, which she said must weigh all families. She said she trusts certified media specialists' recommendations and supports publicly listing challenged titles and decisions. | 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 | No public position found |
| School safety approachCampus safety depends more on police officers and firm discipline than on counselors and mental-health staff. | Leans disagree· stated position Burch identifies bullying and student isolation as drivers of enrollment loss and describes her approach as noticing and listening to students rather than tightening discipline or adding police. | Strongly agrees· stated position Ogburn calls for a zero-tolerance approach to student vaping and cell phone disruptions and would bring K-9 units onto campus to deter illicit substances, alongside better communication with parents. |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kizzy Burch | not enough data | not enough data |
| Larry Ogburn Sr. | 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.
Kizzy Burch
- Budget approach — Burch says decades of running a small nonprofit taught her grassroots fiscal efficiency and calls for aggressive grant writing to protect classroom budgets, plus staying visible and accessible to families.
Larry Ogburn Sr.
No additional issues found in public statements as of the last data review.