Ellie Householder recall, Antioch Unified School District, California (2021-2022)

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Antioch Unified School District recall
Officeholders
Ellie Householder
Recall status
Did not go to a vote
Signature requirement
9,913 signatures by April 5, 2022
See also
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An effort to recall Ellie Householder from her position on the Antioch Unified School District Board of Education in California began in October 2021. To get the recall on the ballot, supporters had to collect 9,913 signatures by April 5, 2022. Recall supporters failed to submit the requisite number of signatures to get the recall on the ballot by the deadline.

The recall effort started after the school district's three employee unions passed a Vote of No Confidence in Householder on September 22, 2021. Out of 717 votes cast, 699 were in favor (97.5%).

Householder was first elected to a four-year term on the five-member board on November 6, 2018.

Recall supporters

David Amezcua, a resident of the school district, served Householder the notice of intent on October 8, 2021. The notice of intent to recall included the following grounds:

“

You are disrespectful to Board Members, Staff and Public who disagree with you during AUSD Board meetings. You have committed Brown Act violations by blocking/deleting comments on Social Media (eliminating equal access). You assert the president must not only collaborate on, but approve, the board agenda. (Ed.Code/Board Policy does not require board president’s approval); You abuse your authority by calling and/or adding agenda items at special meetings that were neither urgent or necessary. You violated the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), by publicly posting an unauthorized video of students without permission. You have committed numerous Roberts Rules of Order Violations during meetings presided over by you; Allowed a substitution motion on a non-debatable “motion to table”; Ongoing efforts to limit or eliminate public comment by removing agenda items without consensus of the board; Stopping public comments midstream when you felt it wasn’t appropriate or directly related to the agenda item; Requesting staff to use personal judgement on which public comments should be entered into the public record and which should not; and Abused presidential authority by not recognizing staff/board members’ requests to speak/provide input during a public meeting.

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Recall opponents

Householder said recall supporters were going after the wrong person. “The folks who are behind this recall effort represent old Antioch,” Householder said.

Householder also said the recall effort was a waste of money since her term is up in 2022. “It would look like I’m the most hated person in America,” Householder said. “Those are just the people with the loudest microphones.”

Householder did not submit a defense statement to the Contra Costa County Elections Office.

Path to the ballot

See also: Laws governing recall in California

Recall supporters served Householder with a notice of intent to recall on October 8, 2021. The Contra Costa County Elections Office approved the petitions for circulation on October 27, 2021. Recall supporters had 160 days to collect signatures from 15% of registered voters in the school district. A total of 9,913 signatures had to be collected, and the filing deadline was April 5, 2022.

2022 recall efforts

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Ballotpedia tracked 54 school board recall efforts against 123 board members in 2022. Recall elections against school board members were held on January 11, 2022, January 18, 2022, January 24, 2022, February 15, 2022, March 29, 2022, April 4, 2022, and November 8, 2022. The school board recall success rate was 7.3%.

The chart below details the status of 2022 recall efforts by individual school board member.

2021 recall efforts

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Ballotpedia tracked 92 school board recall efforts against 237 board members in 2021. Recall elections against 17 board members were held in 2021. The school board recall success rate was 0.42%.

The chart below details the status of 2021 recall efforts by individual school board member.

See also

• Antioch Unified School District, California
• Recall campaigns in California
• Political recall efforts, 2022
• Political recall efforts, 2021
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