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San Diego Unified School District, California, elections (2022)

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San Diego Unified School District elections
Primary date
June 7, 2022
General election date
November 8, 2022
Enrollment ('21-'22)
95,233 students

Two seats on the San Diego Unified School District school board in California were up for general election on November 8, 2022. A primary was scheduled for June 7, 2022. The filing deadline for this election was March 11, 2022.

2022 school board battleground election

This election was previewed in the October 26, 2022, edition of Hall Pass, a weekly newsletter focused on school board politics. Click here to learn more about the newsletter or to read archived editions.

Two of five seats were up for election this year. In the race for the District C seat, Cody Petterson and Becca Williams advanced from the June 7 primary. Williams, a Republican, and Petterson, a Democrat, completed Ballotpedia’s Candidate Connection survey.

Here’s how Petterson, a senior policy advisor for the county, answered the question, “What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?”:

“My two areas of most active public policy engagement have been public education and the environment. For the last half decade, I’ve worked with Educate for the Future to organize and moderate trainings, workshops, and summits on public education policy, including science-based closure and re-opening, social and emotional learning, district budgeting, special education policy and funding, achieving full and fair funding, best-practices to close the achievement gap, post-COVID learning recovery, and countering anti-CRT, anti-mask, anti-vaxx, and anti-mandate discourse.”

Here’s how Williams, who works for a curriculum company and founded three charter schools answered the question, “What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?”

“Education, Education Funding, Charters, Vouchers and School Choice.”

Williams said she was motivated to run by how the current board’s progressive policies, including the response to the pandemic: “I do think I have a ton to offer this district in terms of refining thinking on a lot of things, because they’re used to doing things the same way and they have not had anyone who’s seen how things are done in different parts of the country.”[1]

In an interview, Petterson said: “Schools happen not only to be one of the last real, powerful institutions standing that has those sort of New Deal values. But they also happen to be the institution in which the generation that is going to be left to pick up the pieces is in right now.”[2]

As of the 2019-2020 school year, San Diego Unified School Board had 102,270 students and 176 schools. The district was the second largest by enrollment in the state at the time of the election.

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Candidates and results

District B

General election

General election for San Diego Unified School District Board of Education District B

Shana Hazan defeated Godwin Higa in the general election for San Diego Unified School District Board of Education District B on November 8, 2022.

Candidate
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Shana Hazan (Nonpartisan)
 
60.3
 
33,444
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Godwin Higa (Nonpartisan)
 
39.7
 
22,027

There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 55,471
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Nonpartisan primary election

Nonpartisan primary for San Diego Unified School District Board of Education District B

Shana Hazan and Godwin Higa defeated Jose Velazquez in the primary for San Diego Unified School District Board of Education District B on June 7, 2022.

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Shana Hazan (Nonpartisan)
 
52.5
 
21,811
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Godwin Higa (Nonpartisan)
 
25.0
 
10,379
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Jose Velazquez (Nonpartisan)
 
22.5
 
9,326

There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 41,516
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District C

General election

General election for San Diego Unified School District Board of Education District C

Cody Petterson defeated Becca Williams in the general election for San Diego Unified School District Board of Education District C on November 8, 2022.

Candidate
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Votes
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56.2
 
34,990
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Becca Williams (Nonpartisan) Candidate Connection
 
43.8
 
27,295

There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 62,285
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Nonpartisan primary election

Nonpartisan primary for San Diego Unified School District Board of Education District C

Cody Petterson and Becca Williams defeated Lily Higman in the primary for San Diego Unified School District Board of Education District C on June 7, 2022.

Candidate
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Votes
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Cody Petterson (Nonpartisan) Candidate Connection
 
44.9
 
19,057
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31.6
 
13,439
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Lily Higman (Nonpartisan)
 
23.5
 
9,993

There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 42,489
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About the district

See also: San Diego Unified School District, California

The San Diego Unified School District is located in San Diego County, California. The district served 95,233 students during the 2021-2022 school year.[3]

See also

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Voice of San Diego, "Becca Williams Seeks to Bring a Lone Conservative Voice to SDUSD’s District C Board Seat," August 18, 2022
  2. ↑ Voice of San Diego, "Cody Petterson’s Quixotic Crusade for Change Animates His Run for SDUSD’s District C Board Seat," August 17, 2022
  3. ↑ National Center for Education Statistics, "Local Education Agency (School District) Universe Survey Data," accessed March 24, 2023
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