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SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – The San Dieguito Union High School District’s teachers union, the San Dieguito Faculty Association, published a press release on April 29 that made clear their intentions to remove the newly-elected and only black board member at the SDUHSD.
The teachers union launched a petition to remove San Dieguito Union School Board Member Ty Humes from his unanimously-voted position and hold a special election to replace him.
The special election would be at the cost of the district, totaling an estimated $500,000 to $650,000.
Only 400 verified signatures are necessary from residents of SDUHSD’s Area 5 which includes Canyon Crest Academy, Carmel Valley Middle School, and Pacific Trails Middle School.
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EDITOR’S NOTE: This article has been updated to include a quote from Trustee Maureen “Mo” Muir.
ENCINITAS The San Dieguito Faculty Association has collected enough signatures to force a special election for Trustee Area 5 of the San Dieguito Union High School District after Trustee Ty Humes was appointed to the seat last month.
“We’re going to continue to collect signatures for a little while longer to far exceed the bare minimum of 399,” SDFA President Duncan Brown told The Coast News. “We will wait for that to go through and then we would look to see who are the candidates who would like to put their name in. There’s an endorsement process that we have done for any election and then we would move from there.”
SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – The San Dieguito Union High School District’s teacher’s union delivered a press release on April 29 launching their petition to remove Ty Humes from the district’s board and hold a special election, costing the district an extra $500,000 to $650,000.
Humes is the first African-American to ever serve on the board and was unanimously voted in.
The teacher’s union is hoping collecting signatures to overturn his appointment and hold a new special election to replace him.
Only 400 verified signatures are needed from residents of of SDUHSD’s Area 5.
San Dieguito Union School Board Member, Humes, joined KUSI’s Ginger Jeffries to discuss the situation.
After all the tumult at the San Dieguito Union High School District – with the appointment of new board member Ty Humes, the resignation of Superintendent Robert Haley, and the appointment of interim Superintendent Lucile Lynch – my hope was that the community would give the district some breathing room to regain its footing and engage in a fresh start.