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Portsmouth Public Schools elections (2016)
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Five of the nine seats on the Portsmouth Public Schools school board were up for general election on November 8, 2016. Incumbents Ted Lamb, Costella Williams, Sarah Duncan Hinds won re-election to their seats. Angelia Allen and LaKeesha Atkinson won the remaining two seats up for election. Incumbent Keith Nance, De'Andre Barnes, and JoAnn Clarke finished sixth, seventh, and eighth in the race.[1]
One candidate participated in Ballotpedia's 2016 survey of school board candidates. Click here to read JoAnn Clarke's responses.
Elections
Voter and candidate information
The Portsmouth school board consists of nine at-large members that serve staggered four-year terms. There was no primary election, and the general election was held on November 8, 2016. Five seats were up for election in 2016.[1]
The filing deadline for school board candidates to get on the ballot in this election was June 14, 2016.
Candidates and results
At-large
Results
| Portsmouth Public Schools, At-Large General Election, 4-year terms, 2016 |
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| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
 Sarah Duncan Hinds Incumbent |
16.65% | 21,605 |
| Costella Williams Incumbent |
14.44% | 18,734 |
| Ted Lamb Incumbent |
13.49% | 17,513 |
| Angelia Allen |
12.00% | 15,577 |
| LaKeesha Atkinson |
11.67% | 15,143 |
| Keith Nance Incumbent | 10.96% | 14,223 |
| JoAnn Clarke | 10.95% | 14,205 |
| De'Andre Barnes | 9.51% | 12,344 |
| Write-in votes | 0.34% | 436 |
| Total Votes | 129,780 | |
| Source: Virginia Department of Elections, "2016 November General Official Results," accessed November 30, 2016 | ||
Candidates
Angelia Allen 
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LaKeesha Atkinson
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Ted Lamb
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Additional elections
- See also: Virginia elections, 2016
The Portsmouth school board election shared the ballot with federal elections for the United States President and the United States House of Representatives. Other elections on the ballot included municipal elections for mayor and city council.[2]
Key deadlines
The following dates are key deadlines for the Portsmouth school board elections in 2016:[3][4]
| Deadline | Event |
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| June 14, 2016 | Candidate filing deadline |
| October 17, 2016 | Last day to register to vote in the general election |
| October 17, 2016 | First campaign finance deadline |
| October 31, 2016 | Second compaign finance deadline |
| November 8, 2016 | Election Day |
| January 17, 2017 | Final campaign finance deadline |
Endorsements
Allen received an official endorsement from the Martin Luther King Leadership Committee.[5]
Campaign finance
Candidates received a total of $26,665.91 and spent a total of $23,796.25 as of October 17, 2016, according to the Virginia Department of Elections.[6]
| Candidate | Contributions | Expenditures | Cash on hand |
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| Angelia Allen | $3,532.32 | $3,361.45 | $170.87 |
| LaKeesha Atkinson | $3,038.69 | $2,472.32 | $566.37 |
| De'Andre Barnes | $1,520.28 | $938.65 | $581.63 |
| JoAnn Clarke | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 |
| Sarah Duncan Hinds | $14,229.07 | $14,125.60 | $103.47 |
| Ted Lamb | $4,345.55 | $2,898.23 | $1,447.32 |
| Keith Nance | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 |
| Costella Williams | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 |
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What was at stake?
Candidate survey
Survey responses
One candidate in this race participated in Ballotpedia's 2016 survey of school board candidates. The following sections display the responses to the survey questions from JoAnn Clarke.
Hope to achieve
When asked what she hoped to achieve if elected to the school board, Clarke stated:
| “ | Portsmouth schools have 58% of a student body living below national poverty standards. We need to understand the stresses these students are under and train our teachers "sensitivity training"; we need to request SOL grading standards to be adjusted based on the level of poverty per each district.[7] | ” |
| —JoAnn Clarke (October 10, 2016)[8] | ||
Ranking the issues
The candidate was asked to rank the following issues by importance in the school district, with 1 being the most important and 7 being the least important. This table displays her rankings:
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| Expanding arts education | ||||
| Improving relations with teachers | ||||
| Balancing or maintaining the district's budget | ||||
| Improving post-secondary readiness | ||||
| Closing the achievement gap | ||||
| Improving education for special needs students | ||||
| Expanding school choice options | ||||
Positions on the issues
The candidate was asked to answer nine multiple choice and short answer questions from Ballotpedia regarding significant issues in education and the school district. A link to her responses can be found below.
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Candidate survey
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About the district
- See also: Portsmouth Public Schools, Virginia
Portsmouth Public Schools is located in southeastern Virginia in Portsmouth. Portsmouth is an independent city and therefore does not belong to a county. This city was home to 96,201 residents in 2015, according to the United States Census Bureau.[9] The district was the 16th-largest school district in the state in the 2013–2014 school year and served 14,970 students.[10]
Demographics
Portsmouth underperformed compared to Virginia as a whole in terms of higher education achievement in the years 2010 to 2014. The United States Census Bureau found that 19.5 percent of city residents aged 25 years and older had attained a bachelor's degree, compared to 35.8 percent of state residents. The median household income in Portsmouth was $46,239, compared to $64,792 for the state. The poverty rate was 18.2 percent in the county, compared to 11.8 percent for the entire state.[9]
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Note: Percentages for race and ethnicity may add up to more than 100 percent because respondents may report more than one race and the Hispanic/Latino ethnicity may be selected in conjunction with any race. Read more about race and ethnicity in the census here.
Recent news
The link below is to the most recent stories in a Google news search for the terms 'Portsmouth Public Schools' 'Virginia'. These results are automatically generated from Google. Ballotpedia does not curate or endorse these articles.
See also
| Portsmouth Public Schools | Virginia | School Boards |
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External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Portsmouth, Virginia, "Office of the Registrar General," accessed July 14, 2016
- ↑ Portsmouth, Virginia, "Local Candidates," July 5, 2016
- ↑ Virginia Department of Elections, "2016 Candidate Reporting Deadlines," accessed July 4, 2016
- ↑ Virginia Department of Elections, "Registration," accessed July 4, 2016
- ↑ Facebook, "Angelia Allen for Portsmouth," October 5, 2016
- ↑ Virginia Department of Elections, "Campaign Finance Reports," accessed October 18, 2016
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Ballotpedia's school board candidate survey, "JoAnn Clarke's responses," October 10, 2016
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 United States Census Bureau, "Quickfacts: Portsmouth (city), Virginia," accessed July 5, 2016
- ↑ National Center for Education Statistics, "ELSI Table Generator," accessed November 16, 2015
- ↑ Virginia Department of Elections, "Election Results," accessed September 9, 2015
| 2016 Portsmouth Public Schools Elections | |
| Portsmouth, Virginia | |
| Election date: | November 8, 2016 |
| Candidates: | At-large: Incumbent, Ted Lamb • Incumbent, Costella Williams • Incumbent, Sarah Duncan Hinds • Incumbent, Keith Nance • Incumbent, Joann Clarke • Angelia Allen • LaKeesha Atkinson • De'Andre Barnes |
| Important information: | What was at stake? • Key deadlines • Additional measures on the ballot |
