DEARBORN — Six candidates, including five Arab Americans, are competing for three vacant seats on the Dearborn Board of Education.

Four are running for two full-term spots and two are looking to fill the vacancy left by former trustee Aimee Schoelles, who resigned from the board and moved to Ohio last year.

The terms of trustees Joseph Guido and Roxanne McDonald will expire next year. They are not seeking reelection. 

The candidates for the six-year-term are:

– Adel Mozip, a software developer. 

– Fadwa Hammoud, a current trustee who was appointed after Schoelles resigned. 

– Hussein Berry, a former school board president. 

– Khodr Farhat, a community activist who advocates for the visually impaired.

For the partial term:

– Faize El-Khali.

– Jim Thorpe.

The school board approves the district’s budgets and legislates its policies. It also appoints the superintendent and the president of Henry Ford College.