According to Ballotpedia, 58 such efforts against 144 board members have taken place in 2021. Those are both all-time highs since it started tracking school board recall efforts in 2006, and far above the next highest year, 2010.
Only one school board member has been removed in 2021, however, while three resigned and seven were retained in elections. One is scheduled for a November recall vote in Kansas for upholding a mask mandate.
Ballotpedia identifies most of the efforts against individual board members as “underway,” followed by those not going to a vote.
Wealthy Northern Virginia enclaves have experienced some of the fiercest battles, with one school board going so far as to sharply restrict public comment and even attendance at its meetings.
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