Tucsonโs largest school district may have a new board dynamic come January with early election results showing one of the three incumbents being unseated Tuesday.
Incumbents Kristel Foster and Mark Stegeman, along with newcomer Rachael Sedgwick, appeared to have edged out incumbent Cam Juarez and challengers Betts Putnam-Hidalgo, Lori Riegel and Brett Rustand for three seats open on the Tucson Unified School District Governing Board.
The results are based on early ballots cast before election day. Ballots cast at the polls along with provisional ballots and early ballots received Tuesday were still in the process of being counted.
Foster and Juarez began serving on the TUSD Governing Board in 2013, while Stegeman has been in office since 2009.
Here are the early results for other school boards around Tucson:
Amphitheater (3 seats): Incumbent Deanna Day, Scott Baker and Vicki Cox Golder were leading incumbent Julie Cozad and Mick Stewart.
Sahuarita (3 seats): Incumbent Kris Ham, Dalia Zimmerman and Shari S. Lowell were leading incumbent J. Elaine Hall.
Tanque Verde (3 seats): Incumbent Jeffrey M. Neff, Carlos Ruiz and Jeremy Schalk were leading Vieri M. Tenuta.
Vail (3 seats): Incumbent Allison Pratt, along with Callie Tippett and Mark Tate, were leading Anthony Sizer.
School district bonds, overrides
Amphitheater school district: Early results show voters approving $58 million in school-improvement bonds.
Marana school district: Early results for a request for a continuation of its 10 percent maintenance and operations budget override show the bid failing, although it was still very close at deadline.
The override funds programs and positions such as school aides, counseling, full-day kindergarten, library, athletics, physical education and fine arts.
Sahuarita School District: A bid for $25 million in school improvement bonds appeared to be successful.
That was not the case for a request for the lesser of $1 million or a 10 percent district additional assistance override.
Vail school district: Voters said yes to continuing a maintenance and operations budget override, according to early results. The previous override was for 10 percent, this one is for 12.5 percent.
Pima College
Governing Board
Of the three candidates vying for the sole District 5 seat on the Pima Community College Governing Board, Luis A. Gonzales was in the lead, followed by Martha Durkin and Francis Saitta.
Pima County
schools superintendent
Early results show Democrat Dustin Williams in the lead over Republican Margaret Burkholder.
If he holds the lead, Williams will replace county schools chief Linda Arzoumanian, who has held the seat for nearly two decades.
