This week's question was, How many states allow voters to recall school board members?

You answered: 18
The correct answer is 23.

Twenty-three states allow for voters to recall school board members. Thirty-nine states allow for the recall of officials at some level of government.

Between 2009 and 2023, Ballotpedia tracked an average of 35 recall efforts against an average of 81 school board members each year.

The chart below details how many recall efforts were tracked each year. The 2024 numbers were current as of February 29, 2024.

Note: If a recall effort spanned multiple years, it was counted each year.

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