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May 28, 2024 · To help journalists cover school board elections, we’ve gathered and summarized six academic studies that look at how school board members are chosen and the impact they can have on school funding and student achievement.
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Kansas State Board of Education election
1. 1.1. See also: Kansas State Board of Education election, 2020 Kansas held an election for five of 10 seats on the state board of education on November 3, 2020. Two races were contested. In District 2, Melanie Haas (D) defeated Benjamin Hodge (R), and in District 8 Betty Arnold (D) defeated incumbent Kathy Busch (R). District 2 incumbent Steve Roberts (R) did not run for re-election, instead running in the Republican primary for U.S. Senatein Kansas. In July, the Board received attention fo...
Ballotpedia provides in-depth coverage of school board elections in America's largest school districts by enrollment. Our coverage includes school board member and candidate profiles, noteworthy election issues, district data, and more. We publish election results following each election. Ballotpedia also publishes The Tap, a weekly newsletter cove...
Methodology note:This report does not include write-in candidates unless an incumbent ran as a write-in. From 2018 to 2023, Ballotpedia covered elections for 5,002 school board seats in 1,703 districts. Ballotpedia normally covers school board elections in the 200 largest school districts by student enrollment and the school districts that overlap ...
In 2020, Ballotpedia covered elections for mayor, city council, and all other city officials in the 100 largest cities by population in the United States, as well as elections for county officials whose jurisdictions overlapped with those cities.
Jan 11, 2023 · A school board, also known as a board of education or school committee, is composed of anywhere from three to 15 elected members, although some boards, like New York City's, are appointed...
Oct 27, 2022 · Drawing on a variety of evidence, this paper shows that: Teachers’ unions dominate local school board elections: they win seven out of 10 races. Union support makes the difference for incumbents as well as challengers and is often more powerful than the incumbency advantage.
Mar 15, 2023 · 9,000 school districts across 35 states (69% of the nation’s 13,500 public school districts, governed by 83,000 school board members) are holding regular school board elections in 2023. In the districts with 2023 elections, approximately 24,100 school board seats are up for regular election in 2023.
Members of a school board are most often elected by residents of the school district. However, they may also be appointed by mayors or other government officials such as governors or state superintendents.
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Locally elected school board members compose the largest group of elected officials in the country and yet the National School Board Association (NSBA) estimates that voter turnout is often just 5 or 10 percent for these elections.
