Margaret Evans (California)
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Margaret Evans represents Seat 4 on the Inglewood Unified School District Board of Education in California. She was first elected to the board in the runoff election on June 16, 2015.[1]
The Inglewood Unified School District was taken over by the state of California and bailed out of near bankruptcy in September 2012.[2] During the takeover, the district's board of education was stripped of its powers, leaving members in an advisory capacity only.[3]
Biography
Evans earned her bachelor's degree in business education from Lane College. She worked for CBS Radio and TV until she started teaching in the Los Angeles Unified School District. She worked for 34 years as a teacher, as a career advisor and as an assistant principal before retiring in June 2008. She is a member of the True Vine Baptist Church and a life member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. She and her husband have two children and six grandchildren.[4]
Elections
2015
Four of the five seats on the Inglewood Unified School District Board of Education were up for general election on April 7, 2015. Seats 1, 3, 4 and 5 were on the ballot.
Incumbents Rene Talbott, Henry Brown, Graciela Patino and Johnny J. Young representing Seats 1, 3, 4 and 5, respectively, were up for re-election. Talbott, Brown and Patino were appointed to their seats by Inglewood Unified State Trustee Dr. Don Brann on January 15, 2015, to serve until the election determined the next members.
Margaret Richards-Bowers defeated fellow candidate Dionne Young Faulk for Seat 1, and candidate Melody O. Ngaue-Tuuholoaki ran unopposed and won Seat 3.
Incumbents Rene Talbott and Graciela Patino faced challengers Margaret Evans and Darius Leevy for Seat 4. The Seat 5 race featured incumbent Henry C. Brown and challenger D’Artagnan Scorza. All three incumbents were ousted from their seats. Scorza won Seat 5, and Evans won Seat 4 after she defeated Patino in a runoff election on June 16, 2015.
Results
| Inglewood Unified School District, Seat 4 Runoff Election, 4-year term, 2015 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Nonpartisan |  Margaret Evans |
68.3% | 1,945 | |
| Nonpartisan | Graciela Patino Incumbent | 31.7% | 902 | |
| Total Votes | 2,847 | |||
| Source: Smart Voter, "Board Member; Inglewood Unified School District; District 4 Voter Information: June 16, 2015 Election," accessed January 9, 2017 | ||||
| Inglewood Unified School District, Seat 4 General Election, 4-year term, 2015 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Nonpartisan | Margaret Evans |
46.3% | 2,562 | |
| Nonpartisan | Graciela Patino Incumbent | 23.8% | 1,316 | |
| Nonpartisan | Darius Leevy | 19.5% | 1,079 | |
| Nonpartisan | Rene Talbott Incumbent | 10.3% | 572 | |
| Total Votes | 5,529 | |||
| Source: City of Inglewood, "General Municipal Election Tuesday, April 07, 2015: Official Results," accessed April 28, 2015 | ||||
Funding
At the time of this election, the Los Angeles Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk did not publish school board candidate campaign finance reports online. Ballotpedia staffers requested this information, but the only free method of viewing the files was at their office.
The Los Angeles Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk targeted the end of 2018 to make school board candidate campaign finance reports available online for free. From that point forward, Ballotpedia began including campaign finance data for Los Angeles County school board candidates.[5][6][7]
Endorsements
Evans received endorsements from the following elected officials:[8][9]
- Former Congresswoman Diane Watson
- Inglewood Unified Board of Education President Dr. Carliss Richardson McGhee
- Inglewood Unified Board of Education member Carol Raines-Brown
- West Basin Municipal Water District Board President Gloria Gray
Recent news
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See also
- Inglewood Unified School District, California
- Inglewood Unified School District elections (2015)
- Hot tub Gatorade, turnout in Peoria and the Wisconsin state budget... (April 8, 2015)
External links
- Inglewood Unified School District
- Office website
- Campaign website
- Campaign Facebook page
- Twitter page
Footnotes
- ↑ City of Inglewood, "General Municipal Election Tuesday, April 07, 2015: Unofficial Results," accessed April 8, 2015
- ↑ Los Angeles Times, "Brown signs bailout for Inglewood schools," September 15, 2012
- ↑ 89.3 KPCC, "Nearly 2 years after state takeover, Inglewood schools still bleeding red ink," May 13, 2014
- ↑ Margaret 4 Kids, "About," accessed April 2, 2015
- ↑ Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, "Campaign Finance Reports," accessed July 2, 2014
- ↑ Daniel Anderson, “Email communication with Brenda Duran, Los Angeles County Public Information Officer," October 7, 2016
- ↑ Abbey Smith, “Email communication with Brenda Duran, Los Angeles County Public Information Officer," January 2, 2018
- ↑ Los Angeles Wave, "Nine candidates seek Inglewood school board seats," March 26, 2015
- ↑ Margaret 4 Kids, "Endorsements," accessed April 2, 2015
| 2015 Inglewood Unified School District Elections | |
| Los Angeles County, California | |
| Election date: | April 7, 2015 |
| Candidates: | Seat 1: • Margaret Richards-Bowers • Dionne Young Faulk Seat 3: • Melody O. Ngaue-Tuuholoaki Seat 4: • Incumbent, Graciela Patino • Incumbent, Rene Talbott • Margaret Evans • Darius Leevy Seat 5: • Incumbent, Henry C. Brown • D’Artagnan Scorza |
| Important information: | Key deadlines • Additional elections on the ballot |
