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Clarke County School District elections (2016)

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Clarke County School District Elections

General election date:
May 24, 2016
Enrollment (13–14):
12,826 students

Four of the nine seats on the Clarke County Board of Education were up for general election on May 24, 2016. There was no primary. District 2 incumbent Vernon Payne, District 4 newcomer Jared Bybee, and District 6 incumbent Charles Worthy ran unopposed. John Knox defeated A. Kamau Hull in the District 8 race.[1]

Click here to find out how Clarke County's school board elections compare to other nonpartisan school districts in Georgia.

Elections

Voter and candidate information

The Clarke County Board of Education consists of nine members elected by district to four-year terms. The candidate filing period for Georgia school board candidates lasted from March 7, 2016, to March 11, 2016. Prospective candidates for nonpartisan offices submitted declarations of candidacy with their county election offices. The voter registration deadline for the general election was April 26, 2016.[2]

The following dates were key deadlines for Georgia's nonpartisan school board elections in 2016:[3]

Deadline Event
March 7, 2016 First day of candidate filing period
March 11, 2016 Candidate filing deadline
April 26, 2016 Voter registration deadline
May 24, 2016 General election
July 26, 2016 General runoff election (if necessary)

Candidates and results

District 2

Clarke County School District,
District 2 General Election, 4-Year Term, 2016
Candidate Vote % Votes
Green check mark transparent.png Vernon Payne Incumbent (unopposed) 100.00% 244
Total Votes 244
Source: Georgia Secretary of State, "General Primary and Nonpartisan General Election May 24, 2016," accessed December 14, 2016


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  • Incumbent

District 4

Clarke County School District,
District 4 General Election, 4-Year Term, 2016
Candidate Vote % Votes
Green check mark transparent.png Jared Bybee  (unopposed) 100.00% 227
Total Votes 227
Source: Georgia Secretary of State, "General Primary and Nonpartisan General Election May 24, 2016," accessed December 14, 2016


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District 6

Clarke County School District,
District 6 General Election, 4-Year Term, 2016
Candidate Vote % Votes
Green check mark transparent.png Charles Worthy Incumbent (unopposed) 100.00% 674
Total Votes 674
Source: Georgia Secretary of State, "General Primary and Nonpartisan General Election May 24, 2016," accessed December 14, 2016


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  • Incumbent

District 8

Clarke County School District,
District 8 General Election, 4-Year Term, 2016
Candidate Vote % Votes
Green check mark transparent.png John Knox 52.18% 431
A. Kamau Hull 47.82% 395
Total Votes 826
Source: Georgia Secretary of State, "General Primary and Nonpartisan General Election May 24, 2016," accessed December 14, 2016


John Knox Green check mark transparent.png A. Kamau Hull

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  • Bachelor's degree, University of Alabama-Birmingham
  • Ph.D., University of Wisconsin
  • Associate professor, University of Georgia

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  • Bachelor's degree, Virginia Military Institute
  • J.D., John Marshall Law School
  • Attorney

Additional elections on the ballot

See also: Georgia elections, 2016

The May 24 school board election shared the ballot with Georgia's statewide primary. This primary included races for Georgia State Senate, Georgia House of Representatives, and local court seats. Primaries for U.S. House and U.S. Senate seats were on the ballot.

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Issues in the election

Election trends

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See also: School board elections, 2014

Georgia's spring nonpartisan school board elections in 2016 featured more districts with unopposed board seats than in 2014. Three of the state's 20 largest nonpartisan districts by enrollment (15 percent) had no contested seats in 2014. This rate doubled to six districts (30 percent) with entirely unopposed board seats in 2016. Ten districts saw fewer candidates per seat in 2016 than 2014, while nine districts had more candidates per seat and one district remained at the same number from year to year.

The following table compares candidates per seat rates and unopposed seat percentages for Georgia's largest nonpartisan school districts for 2014 and 2016:

Year-to-Year School Board Election Comparison, 2014 and 2016
District Candidates per seat, 2014 Candidates per seat, 2016 Year-to-year change (%) % of seats unopposed, 2014 % of seats unopposed, 2016
Bibb County School District 2.0 1.83 -8.5 0.0 50.0
Bulloch County Schools 1.5 1.75 16.7 50.0 50.0
Carroll County Schools 1.0 2.0 100.0 100.0 25.0
Catoosa County Public Schools 1.0 1.0 0.0 100.0 100.0
Clarke County School District 1.0 1.5 50.0 100.0 75.0
Colquitt County Schools 2.0 1.0 -100.0 50.0 100.0
Columbia County School System 1.5 1.3 -13.3 50.0 66.7
Coweta County School System 1.75 2.3 31.4 25.0 33.3
DeKalb County School District 3.14 1.0 -68.2 14.3 100.0
Effingham County Schools 2.5 1.3 -48.0 50.0 66.7
Fulton County Schools 1.75 1.0 -42.9 50.0 100.0
Griffin-Spalding County School System 1.67 1.0 -40.1 33.3 100.0
Henry County Schools 2.0 2.3 15.0 0.0 0.0
Houston County Board of Education 2.2 1.5 -31.8 60.0 50.0
Liberty County School System 1.25 1.0 -20.0 75.0 100.0
Lowndes County Schools 2.0 1.5 -25.0 33.3 50.0
Muscogee County School District 2.2 3.0 36.4 40.0 0.0
Rockdale County Public Schools 1.5 2.2 46.7 50.0 40.0
Savannah-Chatham County Public School System 1.8 1.5 -16.7 80.0 50.0
Troup County School System 1.3 2.0 53.8 66.7 50.0

About the district

See also: Clarke County School District, Georgia
Clarke County School District is located in Clarke County, Georgia

Clarke County School District is located in Clarke County, Georgia. The county seat of Clarke County is Athens. Clarke County was home to 116,714 residents in 2013, according to the United States Census Bureau.[4] The district was the 30th-largest school district in the state in the 2013–2014 school year and served 12,826 students.[5]

Demographics

Clarke County outperformed the state of Georgia in terms of higher education achievement and underperformed in terms of median household income in 2012. The United States Census Bureau found that 40.8 percent of Clarke County residents aged 25 years and older had attained a bachelor's degree, compared to 27.8 percent for Georgia as a whole. The median household income in Clarke County was $33,846, compared to $49,604 for the state of Georgia. The poverty rate in Clarke County was 34.9 percent, compared to 17.4 percent for the entire state.[4]

Racial Demographics, 2013[4]
Race Clarke County (%) Georgia (%)
White 66.3 62.8
Black or African American 27.0 31.2
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4 0.5
Asian 4.4 3.5
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander 0.1 0.1
Two or More Races 1.9 1.8
Hispanic or Latino 10.7 9.2

Presidential Voting Pattern, Clarke County[6]
Year Democratic Vote (%) Republican Vote (%) Other Vote (%)
2012 63.3 34.8 2.4
2008 65.0 33.7 1.3
2004 58.3 40.4 1.3
2000 54.8 42.8 2.4

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.

Recent news

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See also

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