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Maine School Administrative District 51 recall, Maine (2021)
| Maine School Administrative District 51 recall |
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| Officeholders |
Tyler McGinley Jennifer Stewart Mike Williams |
| Recall status |
| See also |
| Recall overview Political recall efforts, 2021 Recalls in Maine Maine recall laws School board recalls Recall reports |
An effort to recall four of the nine members of the Maine School Administrative District 51 Board of Directors in Maine did not go to a vote in 2021. Recall supporters did not collect enough signatures by the deadline on May 6, 2021.[1]
The recall effort began in April 2021. Peter Bingham, Tyler McGinley, Jennifer Stewart, and Mike Williams were named in the recall petitions.[2]
Recall supporters said they wanted the district to return students to full-time in-person instruction. The school district offered full-time remote instruction or a hybrid of remote and in-person instruction during the 2020-2021 school year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The board voted 9-0 on April 6, 2021, to continue with a hybrid instruction model for the remainder of the 2020-2021 school year.[3][4]
To read about other recall efforts related to the coronavirus and government responses to the pandemic, click here.
Path to the ballot
- See also: Laws governing recall in Maine
The recall effort was started by Cumberland residents Nick Begin and Ron Greco. To get the recall on the ballot, recall supporters had to file petitions with 1,505 signatures from registered voters with the Cumberland Town Clerk by May 6, 2021. The number of signatures was equal to 20% of registered voters in the school district. If the signatures had been submitted by the deadline, the town clerk would have had 10 days to verify them. If enough signatures had been verified, the Cumberland Town Council would have scheduled a recall election for June 8, 2021.[2][1]
Ballotpedia covered 35 coronavirus-related recall efforts against 94 officials in 2022, accounting for 13% of recalls that year. This is a decrease from both 2020 and 2021. COVID-related recalls accounted for 37% of all recall efforts in both 2020 and 2021. In 2020, there were 87 COVID-related recalls against 89 officials, and in 2021, there were 131 against 214 officials.
The chart below compares coronavirus-related recalls to recalls for all other reasons in 2020, 2021, and 2022.
2021 recall efforts
- See also: School board recalls
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
- Maine School Administrative District 51, Maine
- Recall campaigns in Maine
- Political recall efforts, 2021
- School board recalls
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Abbey Smith, “Email communication with Tammy O'Donnell, Town of Cumberland," May 7, 2021
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 City of Cumberland, Maine, "Petitions to Recall MSAD #51 School Board Members," April 15, 2021
- ↑ Press Herald, "School board recall effort exposes discord in Cumberland and North Yarmouth," April 15, 2021
- ↑ Maine School Administrative District 51, "Board of Directors Minutes April 6, 2021," accessed April 27, 2021
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