Eau Claire Area School District elections (2017)
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Two of the seven seats on the Eau Claire Area School District school board were up for at-large general election on April 4, 2017. A third seat was up for special election on the same date. Board incumbents Aaron Harder, Charles Vue, and Jennifer Fager were all unopposed in their bids for re-election and won additional terms on the board.[1]
Fager was elected in 2016 to a one-year term after former board member Trish Cummins resigned. Harder was appointed to the board to fill a vacancy left when former board president Rich Spindler resigned in 2016. The top two vote-getters in the election were elected to three-year terms, and the incumbent who received the next-highest amount of votes was elected to a two-year term to finish that of Spindler's.
Elections
Voter and candidate information
The Eau Claire school board consists of seven members elected at large to three-year terms. Members receive a salary of $2,000 with a $2,500 salary for the board president. Four seats were up for election in 2016, including one seat up for special election, and two seats were on the ballot in 2015.
School board candidates had to be at least 18 years old, U.S. citizens, and residents of the school district for a minimum of 28 consecutive days before filing as a candidate. They also could not be disqualified from voting under Wisconsin law.[2]
To get on the ballot, school board candidates had to file nomination papers with the school district clerk by January 3, 2017. If incumbents whose terms were up for re-election did not file to run in the race and did not file written notification that they would not be running, the candidate filing deadline could have been extended until January 6, 2017. The terms of candidates elected in the race started on April 24, 2017.[2]
Candidates and results
At-large
Results
| Eau Claire Area School District, At-Large General Election, 3- and 2-year terms, 2017 |
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| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
 Charles Vue Incumbent |
36.27% | 6,361 |
| Jennifer Fager Incumbent |
31.64% | 5,549 |
| Aaron Harder Incumbent |
31.61% | 5,544 |
| Write-in votes | 0.47% | 82 |
| Total Votes | 17,536 | |
| Source: Elisabeth Moore, "Email correspondence with Abigail Johnson," May 24, 2017 | ||
Candidates
Aaron Harder
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Charles Vue
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Jennifer Fager
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Additional elections on the ballot
- See also: Wisconsin elections, 2017
The Eau Claire Area School District school board election shared the ballot with elections for the office of Wisconsin Superintendent of Public Instruction and one seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court.[3]
Key deadlines
The following dates were key deadlines for Wisconsin school board elections in 2017:[4][5]
| Deadline | Event |
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| January 3, 2017 | Candidate filing deadline |
| January 16, 2017 | Campaign finance deadline for candidates registered before January 1 |
| February 13, 2017 | Campaign finance deadline for districts holding primary elections |
| March 27, 2017 | Campaign finance deadline for general election |
| April 4, 2017 | Election Day |
| April 24, 2017 | Board members take office |
| July 15, 2017 | Post-election campaign finance deadline |
Endorsements
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Campaign finance
All candidates in this race filed exemptions from campaign finance reporting, according to the Eau Claire Area School District.[6]
All school board candidates in Wisconsin were required to file a campaign registration statement with the Wisconsin Ethics Commission after qualifying as candidates. This statement declares their candidacy to the county clerk's office and allows them to claim exemption from reporting campaign contributions and expenditures. Candidates were only required to report campaign contributions and expenditures if they did one or both of the following:[7]
- Accepted contributions, made disbursements, or incurred debt in excess of $2,000 during the calendar year
- Accepted more than $100 from a single source during the calendar year, barring contributions made by candidates to their own campaigns
There were three campaign finance report deadlines in 2017:
- The pre-primary report was due February 13, 2017,
- The pre-election report was due March 27, 2017, and
- The post-election report was due July 15, 2017.[8]
Candidates who filed before January 1, 2017, also had to file a continuing campaign finance report on January 16, 2017.[5]
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Election trends
- See also: School board elections, 2017
With the exception of the 2016 election, the Eau Claire Area School District saw unopposed elections between 2014 and 2017. In 2015, the district's rate of unopposed seats was 100.00 percent, the Wisconsin state average was 32.00 percent, and the U.S. average was 35.95 percent. During the same year, 35.29 percent of the seats up for election in Wisconsin were filled by newcomers, while newcomers won 40.81 percent of school board seats in the largest school districts across the United States. The state saw a lower rate of seats won by newcomers in 2014 when that rate was 23.33 percent, while it was 38.24 percent in the U.S.
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| Year | Candidates per seat | Unopposed seats | Incumbent success rate | Seats won by newcomers | |
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| 2017 | 1.00 | 100.00% | TBD | TBD | |
| 2016 | 1.25 | 00.00% | 100.00% | 50.00% | |
| 2015 | 1.00 | 100.00% | 100.00% | 50.00% | |
| 2014 | 1.00 | 100.00% | 100.00% | 50.00% | |
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| 2015 | 1.38 | 32.00% | 84.00% | 35.29% | |
| 2014 | 1.40 | 46.67% | 88.46% | 23.33% | |
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| 2015 | 1.72 | 35.95% | 82.66% | 40.81% | |
| 2014 | 1.89 | 32.59% | 81.31% | 38.24% | |
About the district
The Eau Claire Area School District is located in Eau Claire County in western Wisconsin. The county seat is Eau Claire. Eau Claire County was home to 102,105 residents between 2010 and 2015, according to the United States Census Bureau. The district was the eighth-largest school district in the state in the 2014-2015 school year and served 11,151 students.[9][10]
Demographics
Higher education achievement
Eau Claire County outperformed Wisconsin as a whole in terms of higher education achievement between 2011 and 2015. The United States Census Bureau found that 31.1 percent of Eau Claire County residents aged 25 years and older had attained a bachelor's degree or higher, compared to 27.8 percent for the state as a whole.[10]
Median household income
The median household income in Eau Claire County was $49,513 between 2011 and 2015. During that same time period, the median household income for Wisconsin as a whole was $53,357, and it was $53,889 for the entire United States.[10]
Poverty rate
From 2011 to 2015, the poverty rate in Eau Claire County was 13.6 percent, compared to 12.1 percent statewide. During that same time period, the poverty rate for the country as a whole was 13.5 percent.[10]
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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.
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See also
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External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Leader-Telegram, "Most local officials running unopposed," January 4, 2017
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Wisconsin Association of School Boards, "Guide for Candidates: 2017 Spring Election Edition," accessed December 16, 2016
- ↑ Wisconsin Election Commission, "Candidate Tracking by Office: 2017 Spring Election - 4/4/2017," accessed December 16, 2016
- ↑ Wisconsin Government Accountability Board, "Guided for Candidates," accessed December 16, 2016
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Wisconsin Ethics Commission, "Campaign Finance Checklist," accessed December 16, 2016
- ↑ Elisabeth Moore, "Email conversation with Abigail Johnson," April 3, 2017
- ↑ Wisconsin State Legislature, "11.0104 Reporting exemptions: limited activity," accessed December 15, 2016
- ↑ Wisconsin Ethics Commission, "Filing Deadlines and Reporting Periods," accessed December 15, 2016
- ↑ U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, "Common Core of Data, file ccd_lea_052_1414_w_0216161a, 2014-2015," accessed November 16, 2016
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 United States Census Bureau, "Eau Claire County, Wisconsin," accessed December 15, 2016
| Eau Claire Area School District elections in 2017 | |
| Eau Claire County, Wisconsin | |
| Election date: | April 4, 2017 |
| Candidates: | Incumbent, Aaron Harder • Incumbent, Charles Vue • Incumbent, Jennifer Fager |
| Important information: | What was at stake? |
