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Larry Bumgarner was a candidate for an at-large seat on the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education in North Carolina. The seat was up for general election on November 3, 2015.[1][2] Larry Bumgarner lost the general election on November 3, 2015.

The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction released a report showing North Carolina's teacher turnover rate tripled from 2010 to 2015. Following the state-wide trend, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school district lost a 12-year high of 16.5 percent of their teachers in 2015.[3]

Elections

2015

See also: Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools elections (2015)


Three of the nine seats on the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education were up for election on November 3, 2015. The seats represent the district at-large.

The seats of incumbents Ericka Ellis-Stewart, Mary T. McCray, and Timothy Morgan were up for election. Morgan did not run for re-election. Ellis-Stewart and McCray won re-election to their seats. Newcomer Elyse Dashew won the open seat left by Morgan. The other six candidates—Angela Ambroise, Janeen Bryant, Larry Bumgarner, Levester Flowers, Jeremy Stephenson, and Amelia Stinson-Wesley— were defeated in the election.[1][2][4]

Results

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, At-Large, 4-year Term, General Election, 2015
Candidate Vote % Votes
Green check mark transparent.png Ericka Ellis-Stewart Incumbent 18.3% 36,922
Green check mark transparent.png Elyse Dashew 14.9% 29,955
Green check mark transparent.png Mary T. McCray Incumbent 13.8% 27,709
Jeremy Stephenson 11.8% 23,701
Larry Bumgarner 10.9% 21,964
Janeen Bryant 10.6% 21,270
Amelia Stinson-Wesley 7.4% 14,979
Angela Ambroise 6.3% 12,775
Levester Flowers 5.7% 11,530
Write-in votes 0.23% 453
Total Votes 201,258
Source: North Carolina Secretary of State, "11/03/2015 Official General Election Results," accessed November 30, 2015

Funding

Bumgarner reported no contributions or expenditures to the Mecklenburg County Board of Elections during the election.[5]

Endorsements

Bumgarner received no official endorsements as of October 15, 2015.

What was at stake?

2015

Election trends

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See also: 2013 school board elections

The 2015 school board race saw more candidates per seat than the district’s last election in 2013. The 2013 election had 12 candidates running for six seats, averaging two candidates per seat. The 2015 election had nine candidates for three seats, raising the rate to three candidates per seat. With one new member joining the board in 2015, a third of the members had joined the board since 2013. The other two-thirds of the members had an average of six years of experience as a board member as of 2015.

Issues in the district

Jones appointed to empty seat on board
Ruby Jones

Board member Joyce Waddell resigned from her District 3 seat on the school board when she was elected to the North Carolina State Senate in November 2014. The board was required by law to appoint a new member to fill the empty seat. The board originally split their votes 4-4 between possible appointees Pat Martinez and Levester Flowers. After two votes with the same result, the members decided to reconvene the next week to vote again. The third vote resulted in a 5-3 vote in favor of Ruby Jones over Pat Martinez. Flowers received no votes in the third round of voting.

Jones worked in education in various roles for over 40 years. She previously worked in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school district as a teacher and an administrator. At the time of her appointment, she worked as an adjunct professor at Central Piedmont Community College. Jones finished Waddell's term and was up for election in November 2017.[6][7]

Comparitive statistics on teacher attrition in North Carolina[8]
District Total Teachers Teachers Leaving Leaving with Career Status Turnover percentage
State Average 1,887.3 276.7 200.7 14.3
Northampton County Schools* 155 52 28 33.55
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools 8,609 1,420 858 16.49
Graham County Schools** 87 5 5 5.75
*Highest turnover percentage **lowest turnover percentage
Teacher turnover hit 12-year high

North Carolina saw the number of teachers leaving the state triple over a five-year period, according to a 2015 report by the state’s department of public instruction. In an effort to retain more teachers, the General Assmebly approved a starting salary increase from $33,000 to $35,000 for new teachers. While the state's school districts saw some of the largest teacher salary increases in the country in 2015, districts like Charlotte-Mecklenburg still fell below the national average for teacher lifetime earnings when salaries were adjusted for cost of living. The report also showed an increase in teachers who left the profession entirely. In 2015, approximately 1,200 teachers reported leaving North Carolina school districts for a different profession. That number was 366 in 2010.[3]

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg School District saw a teacher turnover rate of 16.5 percent in the 2014-2015 school year, compared to the state average of 14.8 percent. That was the highest rate for the district in 12 years. Over 48 percent of teachers cited "personal reasons" as their reason for leaving the district. The district had the 31st-highest turnover rate of the 115 school districts in North Carolina between 2010-2015. It also had the fourth-highest turnover rate of the 14 school districts in the Charlotte metropolitan area in 2015.[9][8]

North Carolina teacher attrition data, 2015
The graph above displays the teacher turnover percent in 2015 for the ten largest schools by enrollment in North Carolina. The table below shows 2015 teacher attrition data for the 39 North Carolina schools that are included in the largest 1,000 schools by enrollment in the country. Click [show] on the right to expand the table.[8]

Recent news

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See also

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, "Board of Education," accessed June 26, 2015
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, "Candidate Listing," accessed July 20, 2015
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 North Carolina Public Radio, WUNC, "More Teachers Leave North Carolina To Teach In Other States," October 2, 2015
  4. ↑ North Carolina Secretary of State, "11/03/2015 Unofficial Municipal Election Results," accessed November 3, 2015
  5. ↑ Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, "Campaign Finance Reports," accessed March 7, 2016
  6. ↑ The Charlotte Observer, "Ruby Jones named newest Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board member," February 10, 2015
  7. ↑ Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, "Ruby M. Jones," accessed October 20, 2015
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, "2014-2015 Annual Report on Teachers Leaving the Profession, S.B. 333 Teacher Attrition Data," accessed October 5, 2015
  9. ↑ Charlotte Observer, "CMS teacher turnover hits 16.5 percent, a 12-year high," October 1, 2015
2015 Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Elections
Mecklenburg County, North Carolina
Election date:November 3, 2015
Candidates:At-large: • Incumbent, Ericka Ellis-Stewart • Incumbent, Mary T. McCray • Angela Ambroise • Janeen Bryant • Larry Bumgarner • Elyse Dashew • Levester Flowers • Jeremy Stephenson • Amelia Stinson-Wesley
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