Gladstone Area Schools recall, Michigan (2021-2022)
| Gladstone Area Schools recall |
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| Officeholders |
Linda Howlett Henry Knoch |
| Recall status |
| Signature requirement |
| See also |
| Recall overview Political recall efforts, 2022 Recalls in Michigan Michigan recall laws School board recalls Recall reports |
An effort to recall three of the seven members of the Gladstone Area Schools Board of Education in Michigan did not go to a vote. The effort began in 2021. Steve Tackman, Linda Howlett, and Henry Knoch were named in the recall petitions.[1][2]
The recall petitions listed the board members' votes to pass a six-week COVID-19 testing pilot program on September 20, 2021, as the reason for the recall effort. The board voted on November 15, 2021, to extend the program through January 14, 2022.[1]
Tackman's and Howlett's terms are due to expire in 2024, and Knoch's term is due to expire in 2022.[2]
To read about other recall efforts related to the coronavirus and government responses to the pandemic, click here.
Path to the ballot
- See also: Laws governing recall in Michigan
Michigan recall law requires recall supporters to collect signatures equal to 25% of the number of votes cast in the last general election for the office.[3] The petitioner has 60 days to collect these signatures beginning on the date the first signature is collected; however, the petition must be submitted no later than 180 days after it was approved by the board.[4]
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.
2022 recall efforts
- See also: School board recalls
Ballotpedia tracked 54 school board recall efforts against 123 board members in 2022. Recall elections against school board members were held on January 11, 2022, January 18, 2022, January 24, 2022, February 15, 2022, March 29, 2022, April 4, 2022, and November 8, 2022. The school board recall success rate was 7.3%.
The chart below details the status of 2022 recall efforts by individual school board member.
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
- Gladstone Area Schools, Michigan
- Recall campaigns in Michigan
- Political recall efforts, 2021
- Political recall efforts, 2022
- School board recalls
- States that allow school board recalls
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Daily Press, "Effort to recall school board members continues," November 26, 2021
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Gladstone Area Public Schools, "Board of Education," accessed December 8, 2021
- ↑ Michigan Legislature, "Michigan Compiled Laws Section 168.955," accessed February 16, 2016
- ↑ 'Michigan Legislature, "Michigan Compiled Laws Section 168.961, accessed March 15, 2016
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