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Chuck Dallas and Michael Sleeper recall, Shawano School District, Wisconsin (2022)
| Shawano School District recall |
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Michael Sleeper |
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| Recall overview Political recall efforts, 2022 Recalls in Wisconsin Wisconsin recall laws School board recalls Recall reports |
An effort to recall two of the nine members of the Shawano School District school board in Wisconsin resulted in their resignations from the board. Chuck Dallas and Michael Sleeper were named in the recall petitions. Dallas resigned from the board on August 22, 2022, and Sleeper resigned from the board on August 23, 2022.[1][2][3]
The recall effort began in May 2022.[4] To get the recall on the ballot, supporters had to submit 1,829 signatures by July 25, 2022.[5] Supporters said they filed 1,958 signatures against Sleeper and 1,923 signatures against Dallas. The school district had 31 days to verify the signatures, but the board members resigned before that deadline.[2][6]
Dallas' term on the board was scheduled to expire in 2024, and Sleeper's term was scheduled to expire in 2023.[3]
Recall supporters
The petition against Dallas included the following reasons for recall, according to THCDailyNews.com: "not performing due diligence in the hiring of the district superintendent, not holding the superintendent accountable for misrepresenting herself to the community and school board during her interview process and claiming to have a balanced budget two years prior to the current year even though expenses were growing."[4]
The petition against Sleeper included the following reasons for recall, according to THCDailyNews.com: "not performing due diligence in the hiring of the superintendent, refusing to discuss professional criticism of any employee, preventing and discouraging communication between other board members, community and staff, not providing a completed evaluation of the superintendent to board members prior to contract renewal and violating his own board policies while acting as board president."[4]
Recall opponents
In their resignation letters, both Dallas and Sleeper said that the cost of a potential recall election was one of the reasons they were leaving the board.[1][2]
Path to the ballot
- See also: Laws governing recall in Wisconsin
To get the recall on the ballot, supporters had to submit 1,829 signatures by July 25, 2022.[5] The school district had 31 days to verify the signatures.[6]
2022 recall efforts
- See also: School board recalls
Ballotpedia tracked 54 school board recall efforts against 123 board members in 2022. Recall elections against school board members were held on January 11, 2022, January 18, 2022, January 24, 2022, February 15, 2022, March 29, 2022, April 4, 2022, and November 8, 2022. The school board recall success rate was 7.3%.
The chart below details the status of 2022 recall efforts by individual school board member.
See also
- Shawano School District, Wisconsin
- Recall campaigns in Wisconsin
- Political recall efforts, 2022
- School board recalls
- States that allow school board recalls
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 TCH Daily News, "Dallas Resigns From Shawano School Board," August 22, 2022
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 TCH Daily News, "Sleeper and Gull Submit School Board Resignations," August 23, 2022
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Shawano School District, "School Board Members," accessed July 22, 2022
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 TCH Daily News, "Community Looks To Recall Two School Board Members," June 3, 2022
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 New Media Inc., "Recall efforts in final days," July 20, 2022
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 TCH Daily News, "Recall Signature Goal Reached: Verification Process Starts," July 26, 2022
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