Stevens Point Area Public School District recall, Wisconsin (2021)
| Stevens Point Area Public School District recall |
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Barbara Portzen Christina Scott Gee Pope Jeffrey Ebel |
| Recall status |
| See also |
| Recall overview Political recall efforts, 2021 Recalls in Wisconsin Wisconsin recall laws School board recalls Recall reports |
An effort to recall five of the nine members of the Stevens Point Area Public School District school board in Wisconsin did not go to a vote in 2021. Recall supporters did not submit petition signatures by the deadline on November 2, 2021.[1]
The recall effort began in September 2021. Ann Vang, Barbara Portzen, Christina Scott, Gee Pope, and Jeffrey Ebel were named in the recall petitions. To get the recalls on the ballot, supporters would have had to collect 7,033 signatures per board member.[2][3]
To read about other recall efforts related to the coronavirus and government responses to the pandemic, click here.
Recall supporters
The recall effort was started by Rebecca Kressin, a resident of Stevens Point. She told the Stevens Point Journal that the following issues prompted the recall effort:[2]
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Recall opponents
School Board President Meg Erler, who was not included in the recall effort, said that she is proud of the work the board has done during the pandemic. "It's up to members of our community to decide what they want in terms of representation on the school board," Erler said. "I am fundamentally proud of how this board and district has responded to the past year and a half."[2]
Path to the ballot
- See also: Laws governing recall in Wisconsin
Recall supporters filed initial paperwork to start the efforts on September 3, 2021. To get the recalls on the ballot, they would have had to collect 7,033 signatures per board member by November 2, 2021. The number of signatures was equal to at least 25% of the votes cast within the school district in the 2018 gubernatorial election.[2]
Ballotpedia covered 35 coronavirus-related recall efforts against 94 officials in 2022, accounting for 13% of recalls that year. This is a decrease from both 2020 and 2021. COVID-related recalls accounted for 37% of all recall efforts in both 2020 and 2021. In 2020, there were 87 COVID-related recalls against 89 officials, and in 2021, there were 131 against 214 officials.
The chart below compares coronavirus-related recalls to recalls for all other reasons in 2020, 2021, and 2022.
2021 recall efforts
- See also: School board recalls
Ballotpedia tracked 92 school board recall efforts against 237 board members in 2021. Recall elections against 17 board members were held in 2021. The school board recall success rate was 0.42%.
The chart below details the status of 2021 recall efforts by individual school board member.
See also
- Stevens Point Area Public School District, Wisconsin
- Recall campaigns in Wisconsin
- Political recall efforts, 2021
- School board recalls
- States that allow school board recalls
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Stevens Point Journal, "Stevens Point school board recall effort fails to get enough signatures needed for a special election," November 2, 2021
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Stevens Point Journal, "Conservatives circulating petition to recall more than half Stevens Point School Board over COVID-19 response," September 3, 2021
- ↑ Stevens Point Area Public School District, "School Board Information," accessed September 10, 2021
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
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