Tag: school board

  • Hall Pass: Your Ticket to Understanding School Board Politics, Edition #3

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    On the issues In this section, we curate reporting, analysis, and commentary on the issues school board members deliberate when they set out to offer the best education possible in their district. The debate over partisan and nonpartisan school board elections Below, Aaron Churchill, a research director for the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, writes that…

  • Hall Pass: Your Ticket to Understanding School Board Politics, Edition #2

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    On the issues In this section, we curate reporting, analysis, and commentary on the issues school board members deliberate when they set out to offer the best education possible in their district. The debate over masking in classrooms CNN opinion columnist Jill Filipovic writes that the CDC needs to stop promoting the generalized recommendation for…

  • Hall Pass: Your Ticket to Understanding School Board Politics, Edition #1

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    Welcome to Hall Pass. This newsletter keeps you plugged into the conversations driving school board politics and governance. Each week, we bring you sharp commentary and research from across the political spectrum on the issues confronting school boards in the country’s 14,000 school districts. We’ll also bring you the latest on school board elections and…

  • School districts in California and Nebraska to hold recall elections on Feb. 15

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    The San Francisco Unified School District in California and the Giltner school district in Nebraska are holding recall elections against a total of four school board members on Feb. 15. Voters in both school districts will be able to cast yes votes in favor of the recalls or no votes against the recalls. In San…

  • Oregon school district to hold recall elections against two school board members Jan. 18

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    Recall elections against Dave Brown and Brian Shannon, the Zone 6 and 7 representatives on the Newberg School District school board in Oregon, respectively, are being held on Jan. 18. To get the recalls on the ballot, supporters had 90 days to collect signatures equal to 15% of the votes cast in the last gubernatorial…

  • Voters defeat Wisconsin school board recall, keep member on board

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    A recall election against Gary Mertig, one of the five members of the Butternut School District school board in Wisconsin, was on the ballot on December 14, 2021. Nate Pritzl filed to run against Mertig in the election. Mertig received 53.7% of the votes in the election, defeating Pritzl and retaining his seat. Recall supporters…

  • Signatures submitted to Loudoun County Circuit Court against school board member Atoosa Reaser

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    Supporters of a recall against six of the nine members of the Loudoun County Public Schools school board in Virginia submitted signatures against Vice Chairwoman and Algonkian District representative Atoosa Reaser on Nov. 18. Supporters said they filed 1,859 signatures. A total of 1,213 signatures are required to move the recall forward. The signatures were…

  • Signatures submitted to Loudoun County Circuit Court against school board member Brenda Sheridan

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    Supporters of a recall against six of the nine members of the Loudoun County Public Schools school board in Virginia submitted signatures against Chairwoman Brenda Sheridan on Nov. 9. Supporters said they filed 1,859 signatures. A total of 803 signatures are required to move the recall forward. The signatures were submitted to the Loudoun County…

  • Signatures submitted to Loudoun County Circuit Court against school board member Brenda Sheridan

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    Supporters of a recall against six of the nine members of the Loudoun County Public Schools school board in Virginia submitted signatures against Chairwoman Brenda Sheridan on Nov. 9. Supporters said they filed 1,859 signatures. A total of 803 signatures are required to move the recall forward. The signatures were submitted to the Loudoun County…

  • Paula Jones, Younass Mohamed Barkouch, and Natalia Ioffe elected to the Jersey City Public Schools school board

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    Paula Jones, Younass Mohamed Barkouch, and Natalia Ioffe won election to the three at-large open seats on the Jersey City Public Schools school board. As of 1:00 a.m. EST, Jones had received 23.6% of the vote, Barkouch had received 19.8%, and Ioffe had received 19.6%. None of the other six candidates had received more than…