Tucson’s 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.
As of early Wednesday morning, tens of thousands votes remained uncounted in Pima County.
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 maintained their leads over incumbent Julie Cozad and Mick Stewart.
Sahuarita (3 seats): Incumbent Kris Ham, Dalia Zimmerman and Shari S. Lowell continued to lead over incumbent J. Elaine Hall.
Tanque Verde (3 seats): Incumbent Jeffrey M. Neff, Carlos Ruiz and Jeremy Schalk maintained their leads over Vieri M. Tenuta.
Vail (3 seats): Incumbent Allison Pratt, along with Callie Tippett and Mark Tate held their leads Anthony Sizer.
School district bonds, overrides
Amphitheater School District: Voters approved $58 million in school-improvement bonds.
Marana School District: A request for a continuation of its 10 percent maintenance and operations budget override is narrowly passing.
Sahuarita School District: A bid for $25 million in school improvement bonds appeared to be successful, as was 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. The previous override was for 10 percent, this one is for 12.5 percent.
Pima College Governing Board
Luis A. Gonzales won the sole District 5 seat on the Pima Community College Governing Board, beating Martha Durkin and Francis Saitta.
Pima County School Superintendent
Democrat Dustin Williams continued to hold a strong lead over Republican Margaret Burkholder. The two educators were vying to replace county schools chief Linda Arzoumanian, who has held the seat for nearly two decades.
