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Muskegon Heights School District recall, Michigan (2023)
| Muskegon Heights School District recall |
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| Officeholders |
Estelita Rankin Peggy Selmon |
| Recall status |
| Signature requirement |
| See also |
| Recall overview Political recall efforts, 2023 Recalls in Michigan Michigan recall laws School board recalls Recall reports |
An effort to recall three of the seven members of the Muskegon Heights School District Board of Directors in Michigan did not go to a vote in 2023. The recall petitions were rejected in a clarity hearing by the Muskegon County Election Commission on February 3, 2023. Safornia Johnson-Pierce, Estelita Rankin, and Peggy Selmon were named in the recall petitions.[1]
Two recall petitions were filed against each board member. Muskegon Heights residents Corey Brown and Joe Moore Jr. each filed a set of petitions. The reasons listed in the petitions included "failure to reduce the district's debt, misrepresentation of money spent and endangering the health and safety of students and staff," according to WZZM 13.[1]
Path to the ballot
- See also: Laws governing recall in Michigan
To get a recall on the ballot in Michigan, the petitions must be approved in a clarity hearing. If the petitions are approved, recall supporters must collect signatures equal in number to 25% of voters in the jurisdiction in the last gubernatorial election. They have 60 days between the collection of the first signature and the collection of the last signature on the petition. Recall petitions are eligible to collect signatures for 180 days.[2]
2023 recall efforts
- See also: School board recalls
Ballotpedia tracked 48 school board recall efforts against 97 board members in 2023. Sixteen of those board members faced recall elections. The recall elections were held on January 10, 2023, August 1, 2023, August 8, 2023, August 29, 2023, November 7, 2023, and December 12, 2023. The school board recall success rate was 13.4%.
The chart below details the status of 2023 recall efforts by individual school board member.
See also
- Muskegon Heights School District, Michigan
- Recall campaigns in Michigan
- Political recall efforts, 2023
- School board recalls
- States that allow school board recalls
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