Dixie Youngers
Dixie Youngers was an at-large member of the North Kansas City Public Schools Board of Education. Youngers assumed office in 2014. Youngers left office on June 9, 2020.
Youngers ran for re-election for an at-large seat of the North Kansas City Public Schools Board of Education. Youngers lost in the general election on June 2, 2020.
Youngers won a new term in the at-large general election on April 4, 2017. Youngers previously served on the board from 2011 to 2013, when she lost a bid for re-election. In 2014, she successfully ran for re-election to the board.
Biography
Youngers is a stay-at-home mom. She has also worked as a manufacturing engineer at Hallmark Cards. She has served on numerous committees and councils throughout the community. She earned her master’s degree in business administration from the University of Kansas and her bachelor's degree in industrial engineering from Iowa State University. She and her husband, Loren, have two daughters.[1]
Elections
2020
See also: North Kansas City Schools, Missouri, elections (2020)
General election
General election for North Kansas City Public Schools Board of Education (2 seats)
Karee Gleason-Miller and incumbent Terry Stone defeated incumbent Dixie Youngers and Anessa DeLong in the general election for North Kansas City Public Schools Board of Education on June 2, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Karee Gleason-Miller (Nonpartisan)  | 29.5 | 5,318 |
| ✔ | Terry Stone (Nonpartisan) | 27.5 | 4,945 | |
 | Dixie Youngers (Nonpartisan) | 23.6 | 4,250 | |
 | Anessa DeLong (Nonpartisan) | 18.5 | 3,329 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.9 | 164 | ||
| Total votes: 18,006 | |||
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2017
Two seats on the North Kansas City Schools school board were up for at-large general election on April 4, 2017. In her bid for re-election, board incumbent Dixie Youngers faced newcomer Joseph Bastarache and former board member Terry Stone.[2] Youngers and Stone won the election.[3] Stone filed for re-election in the general election on April 5, 2016, but lost the election.[4]
Results
| North Kansas City Schools, At-Large General Election, 3-year terms, 2017 |
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|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
 Terry Stone |
41.22% | 6,960 |
| Dixie Youngers Incumbent |
40.98% | 6,920 |
| Joseph Bastarache | 15.76% | 2,661 |
| Write-in votes | 2.04% | 344 |
| Total Votes | 16,885 | |
| Source: Clay County Board of Election Commissioners, "Election Summary Report - General Municipal Election - Clay County, Missouri," accessed May 25, 2017 | ||
2014
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nonpartisan | Joe Jacobs Incumbent |
37.4% | 4,597 | |
| Nonpartisan | Dixie Youngers |
36.1% | 4,440 | |
| Nonpartisan | Brian Mercer | 25.9% | 3,181 | |
| Nonpartisan | Write-in votes | 0.7% | 85 | |
| Total Votes | 12,303 | |||
| Source: Clay County Board of Elections, "Summary Report," April 10, 2014 | ||||
Funding
Youngers received $1,512.45 in campaign contributions and spent $1,408.62, leaving her with $103.83 on hand as of April 9, 2014. She was the only candidate in this election to file a finance report with the Missouri Ethics Commission as of April 9, 2014.[5]
Endorsements
Youngers was endorsed by the Missouri National Education Association.[6]
2013
| North Kansas City Schools, At-Large, 1-year term, 2013 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Nonpartisan | Kevin Corlew |
38.5% | 2,690 | |
| Nonpartisan | Dixie Youngers | 34.4% | 2,404 | |
| Nonpartisan | Paula Pattillo | 19.7% | 1,377 | |
| Nonpartisan | Mary Lee Morris | 6.5% | 454 | |
| Nonpartisan | Write-in votes | 0.9% | 65 | |
| Total Votes | 6,990 | |||
| Source: Clay County, Missouri, "April 2013 General Election Official Results," accessed February 10, 2014 | ||||
Campaign themes
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
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See also
2020 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ KC Education Enterprise, "North Kansas City School Board Candidate: Dixie Youngers," accessed February 13, 2014
- ↑ Elisabeth Moore, "Email conversation with Peggy Cole, Secretary to the North Kansas City School District school board," January 24, 2017
- ↑ Clay County Board of Election Commissioners, "Election Summary Report - General Municipal Election - Clay County, Missouri," accessed April 5, 2017
- ↑ Elisabeth Moore, "Email conversation with Peggy Cole, Secretary to the North Kansas City School District school board," January 24, 2017
- ↑ Missouri Ethics Commission, "Campaign Finance Reports," accessed April 9, 2014
- ↑ Missouri NEA, "Recommendations," accessed April 8, 2014
