The images quickly cut from color footage of smiling students and teachers to black-and-white still photos of people standing up among assembled crowds and looking angry.
If he gets the most votes in November, a rising senior at West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South will become the youngest Board of Education member in New Jersey.
More than 350 local school board members in New Jersey face losing their jobs or even going to jail for not completing a criminal background check required under a new law.