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Joyce Ellis-McNeal and Laura MacIntyre recall, Flint City School District, Michigan (2022)
| Flint City School District recall |
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Laura MacIntyre |
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| Recall overview Political recall efforts, 2022 Recalls in Michigan Michigan recall laws School board recalls Recall reports |
An effort to recall two of the seven members of the Flint City School District Board of Education in Michigan did not go to a vote in 2022. Board President Joyce Ellis-McNeal and Treasurer Laura MacIntyre were named in the recall petitions. The Genesee County Election Commission rejected the petitions on August 12, 2022, due to unclear language.[1][2]
Ellis-McNeal was also named in a recall petition in May 2022. That petition was also rejected by the county election commission for unclear language.[3]
Both recall petitions had the same language: "on Sept. 8, 2021, Anita Steward filed a complaint in the circuit court for the County of Genesee against (each board member)." The language referenced a lawsuit Steward filed against the district on September 8, 2021. The lawsuit alleged racial discrimination and board policy violations, according to MLive.com.[1]
Path to the ballot
- See also: Laws governing recall in Michigan
To get the recalls on the ballot, supporters would have had to collect signatures equal in number to 25% of voters in the office's jurisdiction in the last gubernatorial election. The signatures would have had to have been collected within 60 days of each other.[4] The petitions would have had to have been submitted no later than 180 days after they were approved for circulation.[5]
2022 recall efforts
- See also: School board recalls
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.
See also
- Flint City School District, Michigan
- Recall campaigns in Michigan
- Political recall efforts, 2022
- School board recalls
- States that allow school board recalls
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 MLive.com, "Recall petitions against two Flint school board members rejected, to be appealed," August 12, 2022
- ↑ Flint City School District, "Flint Board of Education Members 2022," accessed August 16, 2022
- ↑ MLive.com, "Petition to recall Flint school board president rejected for unclear language," May 16, 2022
- ↑ National Conference of State Legislatures, "Recall of Local Officials," accessed July 27, 2021
- ↑ 'Michigan Legislature, "Michigan Compiled Laws Section 168.961, accessed March 15, 2016
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