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Leigh Chavez
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Arcadia Unified School District Board of Education At-large
Tenure
2017 - Present
Years in position
9

Elections and appointments
Last election
April 18, 2017

Leigh Chavez is an at-large representative on the Arcadia Unified School District school board in California. Chavez won a first term in the at-large general election on April 18, 2017.

Elections

2017

See also: Arcadia Unified School District elections (2017)

Two of the five seats on the Arcadia Unified School District Board of Education were up for at-large general election on April 18, 2017. In his bid for re-election to the board, incumbent Fenton Eng ran against challengers Leigh Chavez, Paul Ricchiazzi, and Kathy Yamane.[1] Eng won re-election, and Chavez won the open seat.[2]

Results

Arcadia Unified School District,
At-large General Election, 4-year terms, 2017
Candidate Vote % Votes
Green check mark transparent.png Fenton Eng Incumbent 34.33% 1,831
Green check mark transparent.png Leigh Chavez 29.98% 1,599
Kathy Yamane 26.03% 1,388
Paul Ricchiazzi 9.66% 515
Total Votes 5,333
Source: Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, "Arcadia USD Board of Education Election," accessed May 12, 2017

Funding

See also: Campaign finance in the Arcadia Unified School District election

At the time of this election, the Los Angeles Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk did not publish school board candidate campaign finance reports online. Ballotpedia staffers requested this information, but the only free method of viewing the files was at their office.

The Los Angeles Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk targeted the end of 2018 to make school board candidate campaign finance reports available online for free. From that point forward, Ballotpedia began including campaign finance data for Los Angeles County school board candidates.[3][4][5]

Campaign themes

2017

Chavez provided the following top three priorities to Voter's Edge California.

  • Ensure that education is focused on the whole child/student fostering growth and long term achievement.
  • Maintain the critical oversight and involvement in fiscal matters and operate with a balanced budget.
  • Sustain excellence through innovation and technology in an evolving educational climate.[6]
—Leigh Chavez (2017)[7]

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