Tag: school board election
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Seven candidates are running in the nonpartisan general elections for the Conway School Board in Arkansas
Seven candidates are running in the nonpartisan general elections for Conway School Board in Arkansas on May 13. Three of the board’s seven seats are up for election. The Conway School District consists of seven members serving five-year terms. During the 2023 school year, 10,251 students attended one of the district’s 16 schools. This is…
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Incumbent Brandi Lautigar and Pollyann Sorcan running in the nonpartisan special election for Minnesota’s Rock Ridge Public School Board
Incumbent Brandi Lautigar and Pollyann Sorcan are running in the nonpartisan special election for an at-large seat on the Rock Ridge Public School Board on April 8, 2025. Sorcan is running for the seat that she previously held before the board voted to expel her and appoint Lautigar to her seat. Sorcan was re-elected in…
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Jonathan Curtis and Melinda Lemke won two Wrightstown School Board seats in Wisconsin
Jonathan Curtis and Melinda Lemke defeated Amber Cox and Jeff Nelson for two seats on the seven-member Wrightstown Community School District Board of Education in Wisconsin on April 1, 2025. Lemke received 28.7% of the vote, Curtis received 25.4%, Cox received 23.3%, and Nelson received 22.7%. Curtis and Lemke, an incumbent, ran a joint campaign…
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Idaho school board recall election on November 5 ballot
A recall election against Kathy Egan, Zone 1 representative on the Marsh Valley Joint School District board of trustees in Idaho, is being held on November 5, 2024. The official reasons for recall listed on the ballot are “poor performance of the school district, declining enrollment, poor financial oversight.” Voters will be able to vote…
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Maine school board recall scheduled for December 17
A recall election against Kirstin Shapiro, member of the Regional School Unit 21 Board of School Directors in Maine, has been scheduled for December 17, 2024. The recall effort started in October 2024 during stalled contract negotiations between the school board and the Kennebunk Arundel Kennebunkport Educators’ Association. Teachers started the 2024-2025 school year without…
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Seven candidates are running for three seats in the Grant Public Schools District, Michigan
Elections for three Grant Public School District seats will be held on Nov. 5, 2024. Grant Public School District is a school district in Michigan (Muskegon and Newaygo counties). During the 2023 school year, 1,638 students attended one of the district’s five schools. The elections are happening after an effort to recall two board members…
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Incumbent Tift County School Board Member Marilyn Burks and Ambrose King Jr. running in the special election for Tift County School Board District 1
Incumbent Tift County School Board Member Marilyn Burks (D) and Ambrose King Jr. (D) are running in the special election for Tift County School Board District 1 in Georgia on Nov. 5. This is a re-do election of the May 21 Democratic primary, in which Burks received 156 votes to King’s 154. Three seats on…
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Katie Blaxberg and Stacy Geier are running in the nonpartisan election for District 5 on the Pinellas County School Board
One seat on the seven-member Pinellas County School Board in Florida is up for general election on November 5, 2024. Pinellas County Schools is located in Pinellas County, Florida. The district served 93,702 students during the 2022-2023 school year. The district Elections for two other seats on the board were decided in the August 20,…
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Chicago to hold first ever elections for Chicago Public Schools school board on Nov. 5, 2024
Thirty-five candidates are running in the Nov. 5, 2024, general election for 10 seats on the Chicago Public Schools school board (CPS) in Illinois. This is the first year Chicago residents will vote for board members to oversee CPS. Since 1995, Chicago’s mayor has appointed all seven board members. In 2021, Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D)…
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Six candidates are running for three districts in the Nov. 5 general elections for Los Angeles Unified School district board
Six candidates are running in the Nov. 5, 2024, general elections to represent Districts 1, 3, and 5 on the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) school board. The candidates advanced from the March 5 primaries because no candidate in their respective races won a majority of the vote. Incumbent Tanya Ortiz Franklin won her…