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2024 Tulsa school board election campaign contributions

Pre-election campaign contributions and expenditures reports

Posted by Michael Bates on March 29, 2024 5:26 PM

2023 Oklahoma school board filing final day

UPDATE: At the close of the filing period, we have three contested races for Tulsa school board, and contests for single seats in Berryhill, Owasso, and Union. The remaining 13 seats (including two each in Keystone and Liberty and the Tulsa Tech Center seat), are uncontested. Maria Mercedes Seidler filed...

Posted by Michael Bates on December 6, 2023 12:55 AM

SB962 to move school board elections to the fall

SB962, which would move school board general elections to November, has cleared the Oklahoma House of Representatives Rules Committee and is awaiting action by the whole house. The bill does not alter terms of office and does not make the elections partisan. The bill does not change the date for...

Posted by Michael Bates on April 27, 2022 12:37 PM

Run for School Board; filing ends Wednesday

UPDATE Thursday, December 7, 2017: Filing is closed, and here is the final 2018 school board candidate list from the Tulsa County Election Board. Only three of 17 seats will be contested. Shawna Keller, the incumbent from District 4 in the eastern part of the Tulsa school district, has drawn...

Posted by Michael Bates on December 4, 2017 11:11 PM

Run for School Board

Next Monday through Wednesday, December 7 - 9, 2015, is the filing period for public school board positions in Oklahoma. Most school districts will have a single seat, Position No. 1 up for election to a five-year term. Skiatook will have one additional seat on the ballot to fill an...

Posted by Michael Bates on December 3, 2015 1:14 AM

Tulsa school board forum next Wednesday, February 5, 2014

TulsaNow is hosting a forum for candidates for the upcoming Tulsa School Board election. The forum will be at Foolish Things Coffee, 1001 S Main Street in downtown Tulsa, at 5:30 pm on Wednesday, February 5, 2014. The League of Women Voters has posted its 2014 Tulsa area school board...

Posted by Michael Bates on January 31, 2014 9:02 PM

Who is Leigh Goodson, Tulsa school board candidate?

Leigh Goodson is a candidate for Tulsa Public Schools Election District 5, a seat currently held by Brian Hunt, who has opted not to run for re-election. Goodson is involved in what looks very much like an arm of Tulsa's Cockroach Caucus. She's a member of the board of the...

Posted by Michael Bates on December 7, 2011 1:03 AM

Tulsa area school board 2012 election filing: Day 2 update

Not many more people filed for school board in Tulsa County on the second day of the three-day filing period. Three seats (in Skiatook, Sperry, and Broken Arrow) that had no candidates after the first day now have one candidate, and one seat (and only one) in Skiatook has a...

Posted by Michael Bates on December 7, 2011 12:24 AM

School board filing underway for 2012 election

Not only is this the filing period for Oklahoma's presidential preference primary, but it's also the school board filing period, and every school district in the state has at least one seat up for election in 2012. Filing for a school board seat takes place at the election board for...

Posted by Michael Bates on December 6, 2011 12:42 AM