Warren County Public Schools elections (2014)

2014 Warren County Public Schools Elections
General Election date:
November 4, 2014
Table of Contents
About the district Method of election Elections What was at stake? Key deadlines Additional elections External links
See also
Kentucky Warren County Public Schools Warren County, Kentucky ballot measures Local ballot measures, Kentucky

Two seats on the Warren County Public Schools Board of Education were up for general election on November 4, 2014.

District 3 incumbent Mike Wilson did not file for re-election. The open seat race was between challengers Andrew McMichael and Amy Duvall, who won the race. District 5 incumbent Kerry Young defeated challenger Thomas Manco.

About the district

See also: Warren County Public Schools, Kentucky

Warren County Public Schools is located in Warren County, Kentucky.

Warren County Public Schools is located in Warren County, Kentucky. The county seat is Bowling Green. Warren County is home to 118,370 residents, according to the United States Census Bureau. In the 2011-2012 school year, Warren County Public Schools was the sixth-largest school district in Kentucky and served 14,037 students.

Demographics

Warren County overperformed compared to the rest of Kentucky in terms of higher education achievement in 2012. The United States Census Bureau found that 27.5 percent of Warren County residents aged 25 years and older had attained a bachelor's degree compared to 21.0 percent for Kentucky as a whole. The median household income for Warren County was $43,509 compared to $42,610 for the state of Kentucky. The percentage of people below poverty level for Warren County was 18.9 percent while it was 18.6 percent for the state of Kentucky.

Racial Demographics, 2013
Race	Warren County (%)	Kentucky (%)
White	85.2	88.5
Black or African American	9.2	8.2
American Indian and Alaska Native	0.3	0.3
Asian	3.1	1.3
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	0.2	0.1
Two or more races	2.0	1.7
Hispanic or Latino	5.0	3.3

Party registration, Warren County, 2014
Party	Number of registered voters
Democratic	38,776
Republican	28,349
Independent	1,654
Libertarian	132
Green	31
Constitution	9
Other	4,228
Total	73,179

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.

Voter and candidate information

The Warren County Board of Education consists of five members elected to four-year terms. Each member is elected to a specific geographic district. There was no primary election, and the general election was held on November 4, 2014. Two seats were up for election in 2014.

School board candidates had to file with their county elections department during the candidate filing period, which ended on August 12, 2014. The deadline to withdraw was on August 25, 2014. Write-in candidates had to file by October 24, 2014. To vote in the 2014 general election, voters had to register by October 6, 2014.

District 3

• Amy Duvall
  • Graduate, Western Kentucky University
  • Business manager, Precision Eye Care
• Andrew McMichael
  • Graduate, George Mason University and Vanderbilt University
  • Associate professor/assistant dean, Western Kentucky University

District 5

• Kerry Young
  • Incumbent Board Chair
• Thomas Manco
  • Graduate, Centre College and Murray State University
  • Commercial loan officer, Hancock Bank and Trust

Election results

District 3

Warren County Public Schools, District 3 General Election, 4-year term, 2014

Party		Candidate	Vote %	Votes
	Nonpartisan	Amy Duvall	79.8%	5,382
	Nonpartisan	Andrew McMichael	20.2%	1,359
Total Votes				6,741
Source: Margaret Koenig, "Fax from Warren County Clerk," December 31, 2014]

District 5

Warren County Public Schools, District 5 General Election, 4-year term, 2014

Party		Candidate	Vote %	Votes
	Nonpartisan	Kerry Young Incumbent	69.8%	2,030
	Nonpartisan	Thomas Manco	30.2%	877
Total Votes				2,907
Source: Margaret Koenig, "Fax from Warren County Clerk," December 31, 2014]

Endorsements

None of the candidates received any official endorsements.

Campaign finance

Candidates who raised or spent over $3,000 during the election cycle had to file all pre-election and post-election campaign finance reports. Those raised or spent less than $3,000 were only required to file a 30-day post-election report, while those who raised or spent less than $1,000 did not have to file any reports.

Past elections

Information about earlier elections can be found by clicking [show] at the right.

2012 Warren County Public Schools, District 1 General Election, 4-year term, 2012 Party Candidate Vote % Votes      Nonpartisan Becky Evans 100% 3,681 Total Votes 3,681 Source: Warren County Clerk, "2012 General Election Results," accessed September 10, 2014 Warren County Public Schools, District 2 General Election, 4-year term, 2012 Party Candidate Vote % Votes      Nonpartisan Don Basham 100% 4,587 Total Votes 4,587 Source: Warren County Clerk, "2012 General Election Results," accessed September 10, 2014 Warren County Schools, District 4 General Election, 4-year term, 2012 Party Candidate Vote % Votes      Nonpartisan Garry Dale Chaffin, Jr. 100% 3,872 Total Votes 3,872 Source: Warren County Clerk, "2012 General Election Results," accessed September 10, 2014 2010 Warren County Public Schools, District 3 General Election, 4-year term, 2010 Party Candidate Vote % Votes      Nonpartisan Michael A. Wilson 100% 4,671 Total Votes 4,671 Source: Warren County Clerk, "2012 General Election Results," accessed September 10, 2014 Warren County Public Schools, District 4 General Election, 2-year term, 2010 Party Candidate Vote % Votes      Nonpartisan Garry Dale Chaffin, Jr. 100% 2,324 Total Votes 2,324 Source: Warren County Clerk, "2012 General Election Results," accessed September 10, 2014 Warren County Public Schools, District 5 General Election, 4-year term, 2010 Party Candidate Vote % Votes      Nonpartisan Kerry Young 100% 2,086 Total Votes 2,086 Source: Warren County Clerk, "2012 General Election Results," accessed September 10, 2014

What was at stake?

There were two seats on the school board up for election on November 4, 2014. District 3 incumbent Mike Wilson did not file for re-election. The open seat race was between challengers Amy Duvall and Andrew McMichael. District 5 incumbent Kerry Young ran against challenger Thomas Manco. As Young serves as board chairman, if he would have lost it would have necessitated a change in leadership.

Issues in the district

Nonresident dispute with Bowling Green

Under Kentucky state law, students must attend school in the district where they live unless two school districts come to an agreement on how many nonresidents may attend the smaller district. In the past, Warren County had permitted 750 students to attend city schools, but the school board reduced that number to 664 on April 19, 2013. Since then the city and county school boards have come into conflict. At stake is funding--under the Support Educational Excellence in Kentucky (SEEK) agreement the state provides $3,911 per student that travels with them to the district they attend.

Kentucky Commissioner of Education Terry Holliday weighed in on the situation, issuing a final order on July 2, 2014, keeping the number at 750. On August 22, 2014, Warren County Public Schools filed a brief with the Kentucky Board of Education formally appealing Holliday's order and the state board heard arguments in the case on October 7, 2014. They voted to uphold Holliday's ruling and ordered further mediation to determine how many students will be allowed to attend city schools for the 2015-2016 school year.

Since the dispute began it has cost the school districts over $400,000 in legal bills.

Key deadlines

The following dates were key deadlines for the Warren County Public Schools election in 2014:

Deadline	Event
August 12, 2014	Last day for candidates to file nomination documents
August 25, 2014	Deadline for candidates to withdraw
October 3, 2014	32-day pre-general campaign finance report due
October 6, 2014	Last day to register to vote in the general election
October 20, 2014	15-day pre-general campaign finance report due
October 24, 2014	Last day for write-in candidates to file nomination documents
November 4, 2014	General election day
November 7, 2014	Deadline for county boards of election to certify total number of votes
December 4, 2014	30-day post-general campaign finance report due
January 3, 2015	60-day post-general campaign finance report due

Additional elections on the ballot

See also: Kentucky elections, 2014

This election shared the ballot with general elections for a U.S. House seat, U.S. Senate seat, Kentucky House of Representatives seats and Kentucky State Senate seats. It also shared the ballot with county, municipal, and judicial elections.

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See also

• Kentucky
• Warren County Public Schools, Kentucky
• Kentucky school board elections, 2014
• List of school board elections in 2014
• School board elections, 2014
• Warren County, Kentucky ballot measures
• Local ballot measures, Kentucky

External links

Suggest a link

• Warren County Public Schools
• Warren County Clerk