TN Chalkbeat:

School board races across Tennessee can become partisan contests under a measure approved Friday by the GOP-controlled legislature.

The bill, co-sponsored by the legislature’s top leaders, passed 52-39 in the House and 20-10 in the Senate. It is expected to be signed into law by Republican Gov. Bill Lee.

The measure lets local political parties decide whether to put forth school board candidates with Republican or Democratic labels beginning next year, when half of school board races will be held across Tennessee.

Apparently, how it works is that the county parties can notify the election commission that they want to hold a primary for school board elections.

This will not end well.

The local GOP is already injecting themselves into "nonpartisan" school board and city council elections. This makes it official for school board elections. It would require changing the city charter for this to happen in city elections, which seems highly unlikely.