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Sheryl Turner
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Sheryl Turner was a candidate for the District 4 seat on the Pasadena Unified School District Board of Education in California. She was defeated by fellow challenger Patrick Cahalan in the primary election on March 10, 2015.[1][2][3]
Biography
Turner is the founder and president of Piercy Charitable Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to educational issues in Southern California. Additionally, she works as the director of Pasadena YouthBuild, which helps youths between the ages of 15 and 25 who have dropped out of high school earn a diploma and job training. Turner is a member of the Pasadena Unified School District Measure TT Bond Citizens Oversight Committee and the Hahamongna Watershed Advisory Committee. She is also the District 2 Commissioner of the Northwest Commission for the City of Pasadena.[4][5]
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 4 Primary Election, 4-year term, 2015 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Nonpartisan |  Patrick Cahalan |
56% | 968 | |
| Nonpartisan | Sheryl Turner | 44% | 760 | |
| Total Votes | 1,728 | |||
| Source: Pasadena City Clerk, "Election Results: PUSD," accessed March 20, 2015 | ||||
Funding
Turner reported $1,980.00 in contributions but no expenditures to the Pasadena City Clerk’s Office, which left her campaign with $1,980.00 on hand as of March 6, 2015.[6]
Endorsements
Turner was endorsed by the National Women’s Political Caucus.[7]
Recent news
This section links to a Google news search for the term "Sheryl + Turner + 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
- ↑ Sheryl Turner for PUSD Seat 4 Facebook, "About," accessed February 10, 2015
- ↑ LinkedIn, "Sheryl Turner," accessed February 10, 2015
- ↑ Pasadena City Clerk's Office, "Viewing filings made by Sheryl Turner for Pasadena School Board 2015," accessed March 9, 2015
- ↑ NWPC of Greater Pasadena Facebook, "Timeline post from January 24, 2015," accessed February 10, 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 |
