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Kay Schuster
Kay Schuster ran for election to the Anchorage School District School Board to represent Seat E in Alaska. Schuster lost in the general election on April 2, 2024.
Biography
Schuster has worked for the Anchorage School District since 1998. She has worked as a special education teacher, supervising teacher and department chair. She obtained her bachelor's degree from the University of Alaska Anchorage. Schuster also owns and operates Air Taxi Service & Remote Camp Services.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: Anchorage School District, Alaska, elections (2024)
General election
General election for Anchorage School District Board of Education Seat E
Incumbent Pat Higgins defeated Kay Schuster in the general election for Anchorage School District Board of Education Seat E on April 2, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Pat Higgins (Nonpartisan) | 54.3 | 35,272 |
 | Kay Schuster (Nonpartisan) | 44.6 | 28,960 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 1.1 | 688 | ||
| Total votes: 64,920 | |||
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Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Schuster in this election.
2017
Two of seven seats on the Anchorage School District school board in Alaska were up for at-large general election on April 4, 2017. The Seat C and Seat D incumbents did not file to run for re-election. Dave Donley defeated four candidates to win the race for Seat C: Tasha Hotch, Alsiha Hilde, James Smallwood Jr., and Christopher Jamison. In the race for Seat D, Andy Holleman defeated Kay Schuster and Albert Berke. Holleman and Schuster were separated by fifty-five votes.[2]
Results
| Anchorage School District, Seat D General Election, 3-year terms, 2017 |
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|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
 Andy Holleman |
44.79% | 18,748 |
| Kay Schuster | 44.66% | 18,693 |
| Albert Berke | 9.36% | 3,918 |
| Write-in votes | 1.18% | 495 |
| Total Votes | 41,854 | |
| Source: Municipality of Anchorage, "Election Summary Report - Official Results," accessed October 3, 2017 | ||
Funding
The first campaign finance deadline for this election was March 6, 2017.
Endorsements
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2016
Two of the seven seats on the Anchorage School District school board were up for general election on April 5, 2016. While members of the board are elected at large, they run for specified seats. Incumbent Bettye Davis faced challenger Brent Hughes for Seat A. Seat B incumbent Eric Croft did not file to run for re-election. Challengers David Nees, Starr Marsett, and Kay Schuster competed for Croft's seat. Davis defeated Hughes for Seat A, and Marsett won out for Seat B.[3][4]
Results
| Anchorage School District, Seat B General Election, 3-Year Term, 2016 |
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|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
| Starr Marsett |
34.74% | 14,839 |
| Kay Schuster | 34.58% | 14,772 |
| David Nees | 29.47% | 12,587 |
| Write-in votes | 1.21% | 516 |
| Total Votes | 42,714 | |
| Source: Anchorage, Alaska, "Election Summary Report," accessed May 18, 2016 | ||
Funding
Schuster reported $14,661.50 in contributions and $8,025.28 in expenditures to the Alaska Public Offices Commission, which left her campaign with $6,636.22 on hand during the election.[5]
Endorsements
Schuster received no official endorsements for her campaign during the election.
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Kay Schuster did not complete Ballotpedia's 2024 Candidate Connection survey.
2016
Candidate website
Schuster provided the following statement regarding her campaign themes on her website:
| “ | We must maintain our high expectations of principals, teachers, related service providers, and students, while exercising fiscal responsibility in a challenging economic climate.
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| —Kay Schuster's campaign website (2016)[7] | ||
See also
2024 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Facebook, "Kay Schuster for School Board," accessed February 17, 2016
- ↑ Alaska Dispatch News, "Final election results: Holleman wins Anchorage School Board race," April 14, 2017
- ↑ Anchorage, Alaska, "Election Summary Report," accessed April 19, 2016
- ↑ Anchorage, Alaska, "2016 Regular Municipal Candidates," accessed February 15, 2016
- ↑ Alaska Public Offices Commission, "Campaign Disclosure Forms," accessed May 31, 2016
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Kay Schuster for School Board, "Home," accessed February 17, 2016
