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Anchorage School District elections (2017)
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Two of seven seats on the Anchorage School District school board in Alaska were up for at-large general election on April 4, 2017. The Seat C and Seat D incumbents did not file to run for re-election. Dave Donley defeated four candidates to win the race for Seat C: Tasha Hotch, Alsiha Hilde, James Smallwood Jr., and Christopher Jamison. In the race for Seat D, Andy Holleman defeated Kay Schuster and Albert Berke. Holleman and Schuster were separated by fifty-five votes.[1]
Elections
Voter and candidate information
The Anchorage school board consists of seven members who run for specific seats but are elected at large. Members serve three-year terms. There was no primary election, and Seats C and D were up for general election on April 4, 2017. The board members elect a president, vice president, clerk and treasurer during an organizational meeting held in April.[2]
Candidates began to file affidavits of candidacy on January 27, 2017. The filing deadline for school board candidates to get on the ballot in the general election was February 10, 2017. Candidates must be registered to vote in the municipality of Anchorage. Any school board member who has served three consecutive terms on the board may not file for re-election, but they may be re-elected after a one-term break.[3]
Seat C
Results
| Anchorage School District, Seat C General Election, 3-year terms, 2017 |
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| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
 Dave Donley |
42.52% | 17,550 |
| James Smallwood Jr. | 21.69% | 8,953 |
| Alisha Hilde | 17.44% | 7,196 |
| Tasha Hotch | 11.99% | 4,949 |
| Christopher Jamison | 5.07% | 2,091 |
| Write-in votes | 1.29% | 534 |
| Total Votes | 41,273 | |
| Source: Municipality of Anchorage, "Election Summary Report - Official Results," accessed October 3, 2017 | ||
Candidates
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Seat D
Results
| Anchorage School District, Seat D General Election, 3-year terms, 2017 |
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| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
| Andy Holleman |
44.79% | 18,748 |
| Kay Schuster | 44.66% | 18,693 |
| Albert Berke | 9.36% | 3,918 |
| Write-in votes | 1.18% | 495 |
| Total Votes | 41,854 | |
| Source: Municipality of Anchorage, "Election Summary Report - Official Results," accessed October 3, 2017 | ||
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Additional elections on the ballot
- See also: Alaska elections, 2017
The Anchorage School District school board election shared the ballot with races for the city assembly and other municipal elections.[4]
Key deadlines
The following dates were key deadlines for the Anchorage School District school board election in 2017:[5]
| Deadline | Event |
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| February 10, 2017 | Candidate filing deadline |
| March 5, 2017 | Last day to register to vote in the election |
| March 6, 2017 | Initial campaign finance deadline |
| March 28, 2017 | Second campaign finance deadline |
| April 4, 2017 | Election Day |
| July 18, 2017 | Final election campaign finance deadline |
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Campaign finance
The first campaign finance deadline for this election was March 6, 2017.
What was at stake?
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About the district
- See also: Anchorage School District, Alaska
The Anchorage School District is located in southern Alaska in the borough of Anchorage. Anchorage was home to 298,695 residents in 2015, according to the United States Census Bureau.[6] The district was the largest school district in the state in the 2014-2015 school year and served 48,089 students.[7]
Demographics
Anchorage outperformed Alaska as a whole in terms of education achievement from 2011 to 2015. The United States Census Bureau found that 33.2 percent of borough residents aged 25 years and older had attained a bachelor's degree, compared to 28 percent of all state residents. The median household income for the Anchorage was $78,326, compared to $72,515 for Alaska as a whole. The percentage of people below poverty level for the borough was 8.7 percent, while it was 10.3 percent for the entire state.[6]
| Racial Demographics, 2015[6] | |||
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| Race | Anchorage (%) | Alaska (%) | |
| White | 65.5% | 66.5% | |
| Black or African American | 6.2% | 3.9% | |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 8.3% | 14.8% | |
| Asian | 9.6% | 6.3% | |
| Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander | 2.4% | 1.3% | |
| Two or more races | 7.9% | 7.2% | |
| Hispanic or Latino | 9.1% | 7.0% | |
Note: Percentages for race and ethnicity may add up to more than 100 percent because respondents may report more than one race and the Hispanic/Latino ethnicity may be selected in conjunction with any race. Read more about race and ethnicity in the census here.
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See also
| Anchorage School District | Alaska | School Boards |
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External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Alaska Dispatch News, "Final election results: Holleman wins Anchorage School Board race," April 14, 2017
- ↑ Anchorage School District, "Active Policies," accessed February 15, 2017
- ↑ Anchorage, Alaska, "Filing for School Board Election 2016," accessed February 15, 2017
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedcandidates - ↑ Anchorage, Alaska, "Elections," accessed February 15, 2017
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 United States Census Bureau, "Quickfacts:Anchorage, Alaska," accessed February 15, 2017
- ↑ U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, "Common Core of Data, file ccd_lea_052_1414_w_0216161a, 2014-2015," accessed November 16, 2016
| Anchorage School District elections in 2017 | |
| Anchorage Borough, Alaska | |
| Election date: | April 4, 2017 |
| Candidates: | Seat C: Dave Donley • Alsiha Hilde • Tasha Hotch • Christopher Jamison • James Smallwood Jr. Seat D: Albert Berke • Andy Holleman • Kay Schuster |
| Important information: | What was at stake? • Key deadlines • Additional measures on the ballot |
