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School districts in hot seat over election systems

  • 11-02-2010
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By Ashly McGlone/San Diego Union-Tribune

School districts across the county are rethinking their rules for electing school board members amid legal challenges from minority groups. Candidates for every school board in the county are selected through at-large elections in which all voters in a school district’s boundaries can vote for any candidate, even if a voter lives in a neighborhood miles from the area represented by a school board member. Critics say such elections dilute minority representation. They argue school board seats should represent specific geographic areas known as subdistricts, with elections restricted to voters in those areas. (more…)

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