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Cassie Williams
Cassie Williams (Democratic Party) ran in a special election to the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education to represent District 4. Williams lost in the special general election on April 24, 2021.
Biography
Cassie Williams lives in Bossier City, Louisiana. She earned a B.S. in communication disorders and an M.A.E. in special education from Truman State University. Williams also earned a Ph.D. in special education from the University of Kansas.
Her professional experience includes working as an Assistant Professor at Louisiana State University in Shreveport. Previously, she worked as a special education teacher in several districts in Kansas and Missouri.[1]
Elections
2021
See also: Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education election, 2021
Louisiana elections use the majority-vote system. All candidates compete in the same primary, and a candidate can win the election outright by receiving more than 50 percent of the vote. If no candidate does, the top two vote recipients from the primary advance to the general election, regardless of their partisan affiliation.
General election
Special general election for Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education District 4
Michael Melerine defeated Cassie Williams in the special general election for Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education District 4 on April 24, 2021.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Michael Melerine (R) | 61.8 | 23,541 |
 | Cassie Williams (D) | 38.2 | 14,546 | |
| Total votes: 38,087 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Special nonpartisan primary for Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education District 4
Cassie Williams and Michael Melerine defeated Shelly McFarland, John Milkovich, and Cody Whitaker in the special primary for Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education District 4 on March 20, 2021.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Cassie Williams (D) | 29.3 | 10,768 |
| ✔ | | Michael Melerine (R) | 28.2 | 10,361 |
 | Shelly McFarland (R) | 22.4 | 8,251 | |
 | John Milkovich (Independent) | 15.9 | 5,844 | |
 | Cody Whitaker (Independent) | 4.2 | 1,555 | |
| Total votes: 36,779 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Emma Shepard (D)
Campaign themes
2021
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Cassie Williams did not complete Ballotpedia's 2021 Candidate Connection survey.
Campaign website
Williams’s campaign website stated the following:
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Platform Priorities Providing an equitable education for every student, especially when it comes to the allocation of funding and resources for our schools. Getting teachers and families the resources they need to ensure all of our students are fed and provided a quality education, even during a pandemic. Developing and implementing plans to combat the ongoing special education teacher shortage, to ensure that the needs of our most vulnerable students are being met. Being a teacher for the teachers and representing District 4’s teacher needs. A lot of the districts have experienced educators representing their needs, it’s time that we had one too. |
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| —Cassie Williams’s campaign website (2021)[3] | ||
See also
2021 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Dr. Cassie Williams, “Meet the Candidate,” accessed March 17, 2021
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Dr. Cassie Williams, “Campaign Issues,” accessed March 17, 2021
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