Donna Coppola

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Donna Coppola
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Board member, Lynn School Committee, at-large
Incumbent
Party	Democratic
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Elections and appointments
Last election	November 3, 2015
Term limits	N/A
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Donna Coppola is an at-large representative on the Lynn School Committee. Coppola sought another term in the general election on November 3, 2015.

Elections

2015

See also: Lynn Public Schools elections (2015)

The Lynn School Committee consists of seven members, six of whom are elected to two-year terms. The seventh member and chair of the board is the Mayor of Lynn. The other six members of the board are elected at large by the district as a whole. The general election was held on November 3, 2015. Incumbents Donna Coppola (D), John Ford Jr. (D), Patricia M. Capano (D), and Maria O. Carrasco (D) won re-election, while Lorraine Gately (D) and Jared Nicholson (D) joined the board. They defeated Dolores Jean DiFillipo (D), Natasha Megie-Maddrey (D), June Natola (R), and Michael Ouk (I).

While the school committee is a nonpartisan office, candidate filings for this election included the party enrollment of each candidate. Eight Democrats, one Republican, and one unenrolled candidate filed for the at-large race. A primary election was not necessary because all 10 candidates appeared on a joint ballot in the general election.

About the district

See also: Lynn Public Schools, Massachusetts

Lynn Public Schools is located in Essex County, Mass.

Lynn Public Schools is located in north-east Massachusetts in Essex County. The county seats are Lynn and Salem. This county is home to 762,550 residents, according to the United States Census Bureau. In the 2011-2012 school year, Lynn Public Schools was the fifth-largest school district in Massachusetts and served 13,731 students.

Demographics

Essex County underperformed compared to the rest of Massachusetts in terms of higher education achievement in 2013. The United States Census Bureau found that 36.6 percent of county residents aged 25 years and older had attained a bachelor's degree compared to 39.4 percent for Massachusetts as a whole. The median household income in Essex County was $67,311 compared to $66,866 for the state of Massachusetts. The poverty rate was 11.2 percent compared to 11.4 percent for the entire state.

Racial Demographics, 2013
Race	Essex County (%)	Massachusetts (%)
White	87.2	83.2
Black or African American	6.0	8.1
American Indian and Alaska Native	0.8	0.5
Asian	3.6	6.0
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander	0.1	0.1
Two or More Races	2.2	2.1
Hispanic or Latino	18.0	10.5

Essex County Party Affiliation, 2012
Party	Registered Voters	% of Total
Democratic	154,655	32.45
Republican	57,470	12.06
Green-Rainbow	439	0.09
Other	2,266	0.48
Unaffiliated	261,832	54.93

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.

Recent news

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See also

• Lynn Public Schools, Massachusetts
• Lynn Public Schools elections (2015)
• Incumbency no guarantee of success in Nov. 3 school board elections (November 6, 2015)
• What happened in Nov.'s top board elections? (November 4, 2015)

External links

Suggest a link

• Lynn Public Schools
• Office website