Cave Creek Unified School District recall, Arizona (2021-2022)

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Cave Creek Unified School District recall

Officeholders
Scott Brown
Janet Busbee
Jeff Fortney
Beth Hatcher
Brianna Lynn Walker
Recall status
Did not go to a vote
Signature requirement
6,646 signatures for each member by January 14, 2022
See also
Recall overview
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An effort to recall all five members of the Cave Creek Unified School District Governing Board did not go to a vote in 2022. The effort failed to qualify for the ballot.[1]

The recall effort began in September 2021. Scott Brown, Janet Busbee, Jeff Fortney, Beth Hatcher, and Brianna Lynn Walker were named in the recall petitions. To get the recalls on the ballot, supporters would have had to submit petitions with 6,646 signatures for each member by January 14, 2022.[2][3]

Busbee won re-election to a four-year term on the board on November 3, 2020. Fortney and Walker were first elected to the board in the same election. The three members received 19%, 18.1%, and 18% of the vote, respectively, in the six-way at-large race. Hatcher and Brown were first elected to four-year terms on the board on November 6, 2018. Hatcher received 41.9% of the vote, and Brown received 34.1% of the vote in the three-way at-large race.

## Contents

* 1 Recall supporters
* 2 Recall opponents
* 3 Path to the ballot
* 4 About the district
* 5 2022 recall efforts
* 6 2021 recall efforts
* 7 See also
* 8 External links
* 9 Footnotes

## Recall supporters[edit]

All five applications for recall petitions contained the following grounds for recall:[2]

“  | Cave Creek community members are petitioning to recall the entire CCUSD governing board on the basis of malfeeasance. Stakeholders interests are not being represented resulting in tremendous enrollment and revenue loss. In excess of $1 million dollars was lost in a single school this year alone.[4] | ”

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## Recall opponents[edit]

Ballotpedia did not identify any responses to the recall effort.

## Path to the ballot[edit]

See also: Laws governing recall in Arizona

Recall supporters submitted recall applications against all five members on September 16, 2021. To get the recalls on the ballot, supporters would have had to submit petitions with 6,646 signatures per member by January 14, 2022.[2]

## About the district[edit]

Cave Creek Unified School District is located in Maricopa County, Arizona.

Cave Creek Unified School District is located in Maricopa County, Arizona. It is classified as a mid-sized city school district by the National Center for Education Statistics. The district served 5,396 students during the 2018-2019 school year and comprised eight schools.[5]

During the 2018-2019 school year, 7.2% of the district's students were eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 1.2% were English language learners, and 14.3% of students had an Individual Education Plan (IEP).[6]

Racial Demographics, 2018-2019

Race  | Cave Creek Unified School District (%)  | Arizona K-12 students (%)
American Indian/Alaska Native | 0.4 | 4.5
Asian or Asian/Pacific Islander | 2.1 | 2.9
Black | 1.1 | 5.5
Hispanic | 10.2 | 45.6
Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander | 0.3 | 0.4
Two or More Races | 2.3 | 3.3
White | 83.7 | 37.8

Note: Percentages for race and ethnicity may add up to more than 100 percent because respondents may report more than one race and the Hispanic/Latino ethnicity may be selected in conjunction with any race. Read more about race and ethnicity in the census here.

## 2022 recall efforts[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

* Cave Creek Unified School District, Arizona
* Cave Creek Unified School District, Arizona, elections (2020)
* Cave Creek Unified School District elections (2018)
* Recall campaigns in Arizona
* Political recall efforts, 2021
* Political recall efforts, 2022
* School board recalls
* States that allow school board recalls

## External links[edit]

* Search Google News for this topic
* Cave Creek Unified School District
* Office of the Maricopa County School Superintendent

## Footnotes[edit]

1. ↑ Office of the Maricopa County School Superintendent, "Recall Elections," accessed January 18, 2022
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Office of the Maricopa County School Superintendent, "Recall Elections," accessed September 28, 2021
3. ↑ Cave Creek Unified School District No. 93, "2021 CCUSD Governing Board Members," accessed September 28, 2021
4. ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
5. ↑ National Center for Education Statistics, "Search for Public School Districts," accessed March 8, 2021
6. ↑ National Center for Education Statistics, "Public Elementary/Secondary School Universe Survey," accessed March 8, 2021

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December 14: Butternut School District, Wisconsin

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