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City of Baker School System recall, Louisiana (2015)
| City of Baker School System Board recall |
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| Officeholders |
Dana Carpenter Shona Boxie-Williams |
| Recall status |
| See also |
| Recall overview Political recall efforts, 2015 Recalls in Louisiana Louisiana recall laws School board recalls Recall reports |
An effort to recall Elaine Davis, Dana Carpenter and Shona Boxie-Williams from their respective District 1, 2 and 4 seats on the City of Baker School System in Louisiana was launched on February 6, 2015. There were no reports of signatures being submitted for the recall. The recall proponents, who included Reverend William King, began the recall effort to hold the board accountable for the district's academic performance ratings.[1]
All three recall targets faced and defeated challengers in their re-election bids in the general election on November 4, 2014.[2]
Recall supporters
| A-F Letter Grade Results[3] | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Performance score 150-pt. system |
Performance score 200-pt. system |
Letter grade |
| 2014 | 63.4 | - | D |
| 2013 | 62.7 | 77.4 | D |
| 2012 | - | 77 | D |
| 2011 | - | 67.3 | D |
| 2010 | - | 62.8 | - |
| 2009 | - | 66.8 | - |
| 2008 | - | 65.9 | - |
| 2007 | - | 58.4 | - |
| 2006 | - | 60.3 | - |
| 2005 | - | 66.3 | - |
King and other community members cited the school district's performance in state academic performance rankings and "corruption" in their motivations for pursuing a recall against Carpenter, Davis and Boxie-Williams. Specifically, the recall supporters pointed to the district's performance score of "D" in the 2014 state evaluation. King commented on the ranking saying, "They are saying it's a D. A D is an F."[1]
Louisiana uses a letter grade system of A through F to describe school performance scores. The table on the right outlines the district's letter score by year. The scoring system changed from a 200-point system to a 150-point system in the 2013 evaluations. The letter grading system was added in 2011.
In 2007, the district had been labeled "Academically Unacceptable" after falling below 60.0 points on the scale. The district's scores had not fallen below that threshold since and had risen every year between 2010 and 2014.
The 150-point system scores are based on the following measurements:
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| —Louisiana Department of Education website (2014)[5] | ||
Path to the ballot
- See also: Laws governing recall in Louisiana
Supporters had 60 days to gather 100 valid petition signatures for each of the three recall targets.[1]
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See also
- City of Baker School System, Louisiana
- Recall campaigns in Louisiana
- Political recall efforts, 2015
- School board recalls
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 WAFB, "Baker citizens look to oust school board members," February 6, 2015
- ↑ The Advocate, "Baker School Board members facing challengers this election," October 22, 2014
- ↑ Louisiana Department of Education, "Performance Scores," accessed November 24, 2014
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Louisiana Department of Education, "School Letter Grades," accessed November 24, 2014
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