Campaigns and elections
Overall, 3.47% of Newark voters participated in the April 15 election, slightly below the turnout among the city’s youth voters.
Multiple parents reported problems with the election site Friday morning, including parents appearing on ballots for seats for which they are not running.
At just 23, Arts High School alum David Daughety is among the youngest candidates elected to the Newark Board of Education after the district returned to local control in 2018.
The bill allows school board candidates to choose a party affiliation or remain independent or nonpartisan in general elections. Indiana lawmakers had previously tried but failed to pass such legislation.
Four seats on the seven-member Denver school board are up for election in November.
As of 9:17 p.m. on Tuesday, incumbent Kanileah Anderson and her running mates Louis Maisonave Jr. and David Daughety appeared headed to victory.
Four of the seven board seats are up for election in November.
Essex County officials said 1,772 teens have registered to vote in the historic April 15 school board election but that number leaves out thousands of teens who were eligible.
There are 11 candidates running for three seats, as teen voters gear up to vote for the first time in the local school board election.
Gov. Phil Murphy, Lt. Gov. Tahesha Way, and others attended Newark’s School of Data Science and Information Technology to fire up young voters for the April 15 school board election.
During a forum hosted by the Newark NAACP, candidates answered questions about district policies, the board’s role in holding the superintendent accountable, and district funds.
City residents will elect three representatives to sit on the nine-member Newark Board of Education during this year’s election, in which 16- and 17-year-olds will vote for the first time.
The Newark Board of Education election will be on April 15. What questions do you have for the candidates?
Newark students collaborated to put together this guide on how to vote in the April school board election, which also includes information about the Newark Board of Education.
Election season for New York City’s Community Education Councils kicked off in January, as applications opened to serve out two-year terms on the parent-led boards.
There’s an “urgent need for improved clarity, better and consistent complaint handling processes, and transparency” for Community Education Council elections, Brad Lander wrote.
The $975 million bond ask was the largest in the district’s history.
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The district asked voters to approve two school funding measures.
Many of the measures that were successful did not require a tax increase, according to unofficial election results.