There's a major power play happening in the Jefferson County school-board race that could mean big changes in the near future, including a possible move, some say, to add vouchers to the slate of choices in the district.

At least that is what some in the state's largest school district fear about Republican candidates Jim Powers and Preston Branaugh, who are backed by conservative Republican and school-board member Laura Boggs. If Powers and Branaugh are elected, the trio would make up a majority on the five-member school board.

"(Boggs) said to the superintendent that she was going to destroy this district," Jefferson County school-board member Paula Noonan said. "Clearly she wants to fire the superintendent and have very aggressive negotiations with the teachers. It wouldn't surprise me if she wants a voucher system."

Boggs said she wants major reforms in Jefferson County, as does Powers, but neither said they support