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Tracy Boyd Jr.
Tracy Boyd Jr. was a candidate for District 6, Position 1 representative on the Jackson-Madison County Board of Education in Tennessee. The general election was held on August 4, 2016.[1] He lost the election.[2]
Biography
Boyd is a graduate of the Jackson-Madison County School System. He works as a judicial intern at the Davidson County Criminal Court. He is pursuing a master's degree in legal studies from National Paralegal College.[3]
Elections
2016
Four of the nine seats on the Jackson-Madison County School System Board of Education were up for by-district general election on August 4, 2016.[4] Kevin Alexander and Bryan Barry ran to fill the District 2 seat that was left open by incumbent Jeffery Head. Alexander won the seat. The District 3 seat was also left open when incumbent Truman Murray did not file to run for re-election. Wayne Arnold and Sam Turner Jr. ran for that seat, and Arnold won the election. The District 5, Position 1 race featured incumbent James Campbell III. He ran unopposed and won after challengers Stephanie Phillips, Jana Soriano, and Jeff Wall withdrew from the race. Incumbent Janice Hampton defeated challenger Tracy Boyd Jr. for the District 6, Position 1 seat.[1][5][2]
Results
| Jackson-Madison County School System, District 6, Position 1 General Election, 4-Year Term, 2016 |
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|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
 Janice Hampton Incumbent |
99.94% | 1,709 |
| Tracy Boyd Jr. | 0.06% | 1 |
| Total Votes | 1,710 | |
| Source: Madison County Election Commission, "2016 August State Primary and County General Results," accessed September 1, 2016 | ||
Funding
The Madison County Election Commission did not publish school board campaign finance reports online for this election. Ballotpedia staff directly requested this information, but the county did not provide it.
Endorsements
Boyd received no official endorsements in the election.
Campaign themes
2016
Boyd highlighted the following issues on his campaign website:
| “ | As a former student of the Jackson Madison County School System, I understand that this school system needs improvement. I want to help improve it!
I'm not interested in running for the board so I can impose all of my idiosyncratic preferences on the district regardless of whether anyone wants them. Our best hope is a system that reflects the ambitions and values of this community. I believe in the great potential of community-based, democratically accountable public schools. As I begin my campaign for the Jackson Madison County School System Board of Education, District 6, Position 1, I have one goal in mind, and that is to SERVE OUR STUDENTS. In order to do that, I must get elected. This requires petitions, mailings, signs, t-shirts, and much more. I wish that this was a job for which I could just sit down and interview but unfortunately it's not. I look forward to the challenge! I'm running for School Board, District 6, Position 1 for several reasons: Our district needs to be more responsive to what the community wants. Too often district policies- for example, the new school day schedule, or the dismayingly short elementary school lunch periods, or the continual talk of school closures- seem to descend from on high, without any regard to community input. I want to keep ALL of our schools OPEN. Closing schools when enrollment is expanding makes no sense and is needlessly divisive and expensive. ( On 3/8/2016, I took a visit to some of the schools in the JMCSS, and I spoke with some of the teacher's about concerns they may have about more than 3or 4 schools closing by the next school year, and concerns were definitley raised. 1. Overcrowding in the school 2. Additional Behavoral Problems 3. Ratio of Students to Teachers, 4. The extra amount of work that will be placed on educators, etc... It's like we're trying to eliminate one thing, but we're adding another thing to it) Thirdly, we should pay special attention to the needs of disadvantaged students and their familes. In my view, those familes are the bestjudges of what those needs are. We should seek out their advice and bring it to bear on district policy. Teachers and school staff have invaluable knowledge about what is happening in our schools and what might need to change. They should not feel inhibited for any reason from speaking publicly about the district's policies and practices. I'd like to develop an employee free speech policy to ensure that school staff will feel free- and encouraged-to contribute publicy to the discussions about our schools. We need sound, capable managment from our administrators, but on policy issues the board should lead, not follow, the administration. The board is the only democratically accountable element in what would otherwise be an insulated and self-reinforcing system. It needs to speak up for the community and push back against proposals that don't have the support of the public.[6] |
” |
| —Tracy Boyd Jr. (2016)[7] | ||
Recent news
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See also
- Jackson-Madison County School System, Tennessee
- Jackson-Madison County School System elections (2016)
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Madison County Election Commission, "August 4, 2016: State Primary and County General Election," accessed April 8, 2016
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Madison County Election Commission, "Cumulative Report - Unofficial August 4, 2016," accessed August 4, 2016
- ↑ The Jackson Sun, "Race for school board begins to form," March 27, 2016
- ↑ Tennessee Secretary of State, "Election Calendar 2016," accessed March 30, 2016
- ↑ Jackson-Madison County School System, "Schools in Board Members Zone," accessed April 8, 2016
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Go Fund Me: We Want Tracy, "Tracy Boyd, for JMCSS School Board," accessed May 18, 2016
| 2016 Jackson-Madison County School System Elections | |
| Madison County, Tennessee | |
| Election date: | August 4, 2016 |
| Candidates: | District 2: • Kevin Alexander • Bryan Barry District 3: • Wayne Arnold • Sam Turner Jr. District 5, Position 1: • Incumbent, James Campbell III District 6, Position 1: • Incumbent, Janice Hampton • Tracy Boyd Jr. |
| Important information: | What was at stake? • Additional elections on the ballot • Key deadlines |
