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Sandusky Community School District recall, Michigan (2022)
| Sandusky Community School District recall |
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| Officeholders |
Daniel Gerstenberger Jane Jacobson |
| Recall status |
| Signature requirement |
| See also |
| Recall overview Political recall efforts, 2022 Recalls in Michigan Michigan recall laws School board recalls Recall reports |
An effort to recall three of the seven members of the Sandusky Community School District school board in Michigan did not go to a vote in 2022. Jason Trepkowski, Daniel Gerstenberger, and Jane Jacobson were named in the recall petitions. The Sanilac County Election Commission rejected the recall petitions in a clarity hearing on December 29, 2022.[1]
Recall supporters
All three recall petitions included the same reasons for recall. The petitions said:[1]
| “ | On November 28, 2022 at the Sandusky Community School Board meeting, (board member’s name) failed to represent the majority of the public after the community survey results showed that 88% of the registered voters in the Sandusky Community School District wanted Redskins as the school mascot/ logo. (Board member) voted yes to name the mascot/logo the Wolves at the school board meeting.[2] | ” |
Recall opponents
Trepkowski and Gerstenberger spoke at the recall petition clarity hearing that was held on December 29, 2022. Trepkowski said the petition was not factual because the 88% mentioned in the petition was not a percentage of registered voters.[1]
Gerstenberger said that the petition was not factual or clear because 88% should have referred to the number of surveys that were returned rather than the number of registered voters in the school district.[1]
Path to the ballot
- See also: Laws governing recall in Michigan
To get a recall on the ballot in Michigan, 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.[3]
Before signatures can be collected, they must be approved in a clarity hearing. The clarity hearing looks at whether the recall petition is clear and factual.[1]
2022 recall efforts
- See also: School board recalls
Ballotpedia tracked 54 school board recall efforts against 123 board members in 2022. Recall elections against school board members were held on January 11, 2022, January 18, 2022, January 24, 2022, February 15, 2022, March 29, 2022, April 4, 2022, and November 8, 2022. The school board recall success rate was 7.3%.
The chart below details the status of 2022 recall efforts by individual school board member.
See also
- Sandusky Community School District, Michigan
- Recall campaigns in Michigan
- Political recall efforts, 2022
- School board recalls
- States that allow school board recalls
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Sanilac County News, "Sandusky recall wording rejected," January 4, 2023
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ National Conference of State Legislatures, "Recall of Local Officials," accessed July 27, 2021
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