Tag: school board
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Signatures submitted to Loudoun County Circuit Court against school board member Atoosa Reaser
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…
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Signatures submitted to Loudoun County Circuit Court against school board member Brenda Sheridan
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…
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Signatures submitted to Loudoun County Circuit Court against school board member Brenda Sheridan
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…
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Paula Jones, Younass Mohamed Barkouch, and Natalia Ioffe elected to the Jersey City Public Schools school board
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…
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Majority of voters decide to keep incumbents in Wisconsin school board recall
Recall elections seeking to remove four of the seven members of the Mequon-Thiensville School District Board of Education in Wisconsin were held on Nov. 2. A majority of voters cast ballots in favor of keeping board members Wendy Francour, Erik Hollander, Akram Khan, and Chris Schultz in office, defeating all four recalls. Cheryle Rebholtz ran…
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San Francisco school board recall elections scheduled for Feb. 15
Recall elections against three of the seven members of the San Francisco Unified School District Board of Education in California have been scheduled for Feb. 15, 2022. Petitions to recall board members Gabriela López, Alison Collins, and Faauuga Moliga were certified in October 2021. Recall supporters said they were frustrated that schools in the district…
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Beth Barts, subject of Loudoun County school board recall effort, resigns from office
Beth Barts, the Leesburg District representative on the Loudoun County Public Schools school board in Virginia, announced her resignation from office on Oct. 15. Her resignation will be effective Nov. 2. Barts was the subject of a recall effort that included five other members of the board. Her petition was the first one filed with…
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Hearing on Loudoun County school board recall effort scheduled for Sept. 13
Supporters of an effort to recall Beth Barts from her position as the Leesburg District representative on the Loudoun County Public Schools school board in Virginia submitted petition signatures on Aug. 25. The hearing on those petitions has been scheduled for Sept. 13. In Virginia, recall efforts are determined in circuit court rather than at…
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Two Arizona school board recall efforts fail to qualify for the ballot
Efforts to recall school board members in the Vail Unified School District and the Litchfield Elementary School District in Arizona did not submit the required signatures to get on the ballot. In the Vail recall effort, two of the five school board members were named in the recall petitions, Board President Jon Aitken and Clerk…
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Washington school board candidate who suspended campaign gets most primary votes, re-enters race
Kristi Schmeck, who suspended her campaign for a seat on the five-member Sequim School District Board of Directors in the late spring, rejoined the race after receiving the most votes in the Aug. 2 primary. Schmeck received 28.85% of the vote for the Director at Large, Position No. 4 seat, while Virginia R. Sheppard, the…