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§ 22.1-57.3. Election of school board members; election of tie breaker. A. If a majority of the qualified voters voting in such referendum vote in favor of changing the method of selecting school board members to direct election by the voters, then the members of the school board shall be elected by popular vote.
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School board candidates must file declarations of candidacy by 7:00 pm on the third Tuesday in June. See law: Virginia Statutes Section 24.1. Elections School board candidates cannot circulate nominating petitions until after the first day of January of the year of the election. See law: Virginia Statutes Section 24.1. Elections Newly elected schoo...
Types of elections
School board members in Virginia are elected through nonpartisan general elections without primaries. See law: Virginia Statutes Section 22.1. Education and Section 24.1. Elections
What it takes to win an election
School board candidates that receive the largest number of votes in the nonpartisan general election are elected to office. See law: Virginia Statutes Section 22.1. Education and Section 24.1. Elections
Number of board members
The number of members of school boards for each district in Virginia depends on the composition of the school board prior to the referendum changing the board from appointed to elected and on the structure of and the number of members of the governing body of the relevant county or city. As of 2022, there were a total of 809 school board member seats across the 132 school districts in Virginia. On average each board had six members ranging from a low of three to a high of 12. Out of the 809 t...
Board member term lengths
The length of school board member terms depends on the terms of the members of the relevant county, city, or town governing body. As of 2022, most school districts (121 or 91.7%) had 4-year school board terms. Ten school districts had 3-year board member terms. See law: Virginia Statutes Section 22.1. Education and Section 24.1. Elections
School board member election staggering
School board seat elections are either not staggered or staggered in a way that depends on the organization of the district and the relevant county, city, or town prior to the referendum establishing elected board members; special act; or local charter. State law has special provisions concerning the staggering of school board elections in Bath, Loudoun, Pittsylvania, Pulaski, and Rockbridge Counties. See law: Virginia Statutes Section 22.1. Education and Section 24.1. Elections
As of 2023, the school board members of 119 out of the state's 132 districts were elected, and the members of the remaining 13 boards were appointed. The appointed school boards as of 2023 were Alleghany Highlands Public Schools, Franklin City Public Schools, Galax City Public Schools, Hanover County Public Schools, Hopewell City Public Schools, Ly...
Across the country, there are 13,187 public school districts governed by a total of 83,183 school board members. They are elected directly by voters except for a small handful of exceptions who are appointed. The analysis below is based on state laws governing school board elections and some researched common practices. In some states, the state la...
The chairman, if present, or, if not, some other member of the school board shall preside at such meetings. Each school board is authorized to appoint a committee of not less than three nor more than seven members for each public school in the school division.
§ 22.1-57.3. Election of school board members; election of tie breaker. A. If a majority of the qualified voters voting in such referendum vote in favor of changing the method of selecting school board members to direct election by the voters, then the members of the school board shall be elected by popular vote.
Appointment of school board members and tie breaker by county governing body; terms; vacancies § 22.1-45. Referendum to revert to appointment by school board selection commission
Nov 6, 2023 · In Virginia's Tuesday elections, the far right is fighting to gain control of more local offices — often school boards — while the left claws back with cries of “fascism.” Though the nearly 600 school board seats open in the state are officially nonpartisan, political parties and aligned groups have been aggressively involved. Each ...
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Oct 15, 2009 · In 1987, the ACLU of Virginia filed a lawsuit challenging Virginia’s ban on elected school boards as a violation of the Voting Rights Act. The ACLU demonstrated that African-Americans were significantly underrepresented in many of the jurisdictions with large African-American populations.
