Students at Akron Public Schools will no longer be in class during May’s primary election, following a vote by school board members to make Election Day a professional development day. The move comes after Rene Molenaur, a member of Akron’s Board of Education, expressed concern this spring about the fact that in order to cast ballots at Resnik Community Learning Center, voters had to go through areas where they might cross paths with students. Molenaur called it a safety concern.
