Don Macleay
Don Macleay was a candidate for the District 1 seat on the Oakland Unified School District school board in California. Macleay was defeated in the by-district general election on November 8, 2016.
Biography
Macleay owns a computer networking business. Prior to starting his business, he worked as a machinist for 19 years. He worked as a teacher in Nicaragua and China. Macleay graduated from Laney College and San Francisco State University. He has two children.[1]
Elections
2016
Four of the seven seats on the Oakland Unified School District Board of Education were up for by-district general election on November 8, 2016. In her bid for re-election to District 1, incumbent Jody London defeated challenger Don Macleay. District 3 incumbent Jumoke Hinton Hodge also won re-election, defeating challengers Benjamin Lang, Lucky Narain, and Kharyshi Wiginton. The District 5 race featured incumbent Roseann Torres and challengers Mike Hassid, Mike Hutchinson, and Huber Trenado, and Torres won re-election to the seat. In District 7, incumbent James Harris defeated challenger Chris Jackson to win another term on the board.[2][3]
Ranked-choice voting was used to determine the final election results for the District 3 and 5 races. To learn more about this process, click here.[4][5]
Results
| Oakland Unified School District, District 1 General Election, 4-year term, 2016 |
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|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
 Jody London Incumbent |
75.13% | 21,399 |
| Don Macleay | 24.33% | 6,930 |
| Write-in votes | 0.54% | 155 |
| Total Votes | 28,484 | |
| Source: Alameda County Registrar of Voters, "General Election (Certified Results) - November 08, 2016," accessed November 30, 2016 | ||
Funding
Macleay reported $6,144.00 in contributions and $6,837.67 in expenditures to the Oakland City Clerk, which left his campaign with $693.67 in debt in the election.[6]
Endorsements
Macleay was endorsed by the following organizations and elected officials:[7][8][9]
- Green Party of California
- Alameda County Green Party
- Oakland Greens
- Oakland Justice Coalition
- Oakland Education Association
- Parents United for Public Schools
- Alameda Labor Council, AFL-CIO
- Block By Block Organizing Network
- Oakland City Council member Rebecca Kaplan
Macleay was also endorsed by members of the community. Click here to see a full list of his endorsements.
Campaign themes
2016
Macleay highlighted the following statement on his campaign website:
| “ | I believe that public education has always been, is currently, and will remain essential to American democracy. Our campaign is committed to create a public education system that will fashion a citizenry held together by a core of civic values and a collective identity regardless of creed, national origin, religion, or political preference.
Our public school system is under attack. A handful of multi-millionaires with their private foundations are pouring unprecedented amounts of money into efforts to privatize the public schools by promoting “charter schools” that are really voucher schools. This campaign for these pseu- do charter schools is neglecting our commitment to real public schools by replacing them with schools that are run like businesses. In Oakland the privatization campaign is led by GO Public Schools. Their beneficial actions notwithstanding, they are a millionaire's PAC spending an obscene amount of money to dominate our school board elections, having supported 6 of the 7 current board members. This is a school board that never rejects a charter school authorization and does not hold public oversight hearings. The current school board has closed neighborhood schools and shutdown adult education calling it fiscal “stability.” Stable in the boardroom and accounting office maybe, but the schools find their support precarious and insecure. On average, charter schools do not perform better. Oakland’s experience with charter schools, which currently enrolls one of the highest per- centages of students of any city in the country, reveals that the charter schools are failing to serve our students with the greatest needs and in- creasing racial segregation in our schools, by introducing a system of choosing a school at the expense of choices at our neighborhood schools. On the OUSD board, I will promote regularly scheduled school board reviews of the district management of all the departments and schools, including the charter schools, in accordance with the recent recommendations of the Alameda County Grand Jury report which found oversight seriously lacking. I will not use standardized test results as the main oversight tool to evaluate schools and teachers. I will promote elective choices at ALL of our neighborhood schools, instead of the current lottery system to choose a school outside of one’s community. Electives at local schools are essential to letting parents get the classes they need for their children. Classes such as shop, civics, Spanish, ESL, special ed, nutrition, gardening, economic literacy, sports, music and art all need to be made available at all schools instead of only at certain special schools or charter schools. Charters with a serious special mission that have shown themselves effective and desired by communities should be invited to come back into the system and be regular OUSD schools. Our schools should not only focus on college prep, but also should prepare students for adulthood as full citizens in the community and as participants in the economy. Join me to help restore “Whole Schools” that are “Healthy Schools” and “Neighborhood Schools” in Oakland. [10] |
” |
| —Don Macleay (2016)[11] | ||
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See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Don Macleay for Oakland Unified School District 1 2016, "About Don," accessed October 5, 2016
- ↑ East Bay Citizen, "2016 East Bay Candidates List (Official for November)," August 19, 2016
- ↑ Alameda County Registrar of Voters, "General Election (Certified Results) - November 08, 2016," accessed November 30, 2016
- ↑ Alameda County Registrar of Voters, "Ranked-Choice Voting Accumulated Results - School Director, District 5 - Oakland," accessed January 11, 2017
- ↑ Alameda County Registrar of Voters, "Ranked-Choice Voting Accumulated Results - School Director, District 3 - Oakland," accessed January 11, 2017
- ↑ Oakland City Clerk, "City of Oakland Public Portal for Campaign Finance Disclosure," accessed March 7, 2017
- ↑ Green Party of California, "Greens in fall 2016 elections," accessed September 29, 2016
- ↑ Parents United for Public Schools, "Parents United Endorses Donald Macleay in District 1," September 27, 2016
- ↑ Don Macleay for Oakland Unified School District 1 2016, "Endorsements," accessed September 29, 2016
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ http://www.don4ousd.org/ Don Macleay for Oakland Unified School District 1 2016, "About," accessed October 4, 2016]
| 2016 Oakland Unified School District Elections | |
| Alameda County, California | |
| Election date: | November 8, 2016 |
| Candidates: | District 1: • Incumbent, Jody London • Don Macleay District 3: • Incumbent, Jumoke Hinton Hodge • Benjamin Lang • Lucky Narain • Kharyshi Wiginton District 5: • Incumbent, Roseann Torres • Mike Hassid • Mike Hutchinson • Huber Trenado District 7: • Incumbent, James Harris • Chris Jackson |
| Important information: | What was at stake? • Additional elections on the ballot • Key deadlines |
