Marcela Rojas
Marcela Rojas was a candidate for the District 2 seat on the Pasadena Unified School District Board of Education in California. She ran against two fellow challengers in the primary election on March 10, 2015. She was defeated by fellow challenger Roy Boulghourjian.[1][2][3]
Biography
Rojas works as an associate professor in the department of modern languages at Azusa Pacific University. She earned her bachelor's degree at the Fine Arts School of Puerto Rico at San Juan, her two master's degrees from California State University at Los Angeles and her doctoral degree from the University of California at Irvine.[4]
Elections
2015
Three of the seven board seats on the Pasadena Unified School District Board of Education were up for primary election on March 10, 2015. A general election would have been held on April 21, 2015, if no candidate had received a majority of the vote.
The incumbents from Districts 2, 4 and 6 were up for re-election, but none of them filed to run. Three candidates, Roy Boulghourjian, Evan Dagger and Marcela Rojas, filed to run for the District 2 seat. The District 4 election featured candidates Patrick Cahalan and Sheryl Turner. Candidates Sandra J. Siraganian and Lawrence Torres ran for the District 6 seat. Boulghourjian, Cahalan and Torres won election to their seats in the primary election. Each received more than 50 percent of the votes cast in their districts.
This election was the first time the seats from Districts 2, 4 and 6 were elected by district. Prior to 2012, board members represented a specific seat but were elected at-large. The seats from Districts 1, 3, 5 and 7 switched to by-district elections in 2013.
Results
| Pasadena Unified School District, District 2 Primary Election, 4-year term, 2015 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Nonpartisan |  Roy Boulghourjian |
68.7% | 1,814 | |
| Nonpartisan | Evan Dagger | 15.7% | 414 | |
| Nonpartisan | Marcela Rojas | 15.6% | 413 | |
| Total Votes | 2,641 | |||
| Source: Pasadena City Clerk, "Election Results: PUSD," accessed March 20, 2015 | ||||
Funding
Rojas filed Form 470 with the Pasadena City Clerk's Office, indicating she did not intend to raise or spend more than $1,000 for her 2015 campaign. Because of this, Rojas did not have to file any additional campaign finance reports.[5]
Endorsements
Rojas did not receive any official endorsements for this election.
Recent news
This section links to a Google news search for the term "Marcela + Rojas + Pasadena + Unified + School + District"
See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ City of Pasadena Election Department, "Election Information: Board of Education," accessed December 16, 2014
- ↑ City of Pasadena Department of Elections, "Election Information: Nominations Papers Issued," accessed December 19, 2014
- ↑ Pasadena City Clerk, "CITY OF PASADENA AND PASADENA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT MARCH 10, 2015 PRIMARY NOMINATING ELECTION," accessed March 11, 2015
- ↑ Azusa Pacific University, "College of Liberal Arts and Sciences: Meet the Faculty," accessed February 10, 2015
- ↑ Pasadena City Clerk's Office, "Viewing filing activity for Rojas, Marcela," accessed March 9, 2015
| 2015 Pasadena Unified School District Elections | |
| Los Angeles County, California | |
| Election date: | Primary election: March 10, 2015 General election: April 21, 2015 |
| Candidates: | District 2: • Roy Boulghourjian • Evan Dagger • Marcela Rojas District 4: • Patrick Cahalan • Sheryl Turner District 6: • Sandra J. Siraganian • Lawrence Torres |
| Important information: | What was at stake? • Key deadlines • Additional elections on the ballot |
