Hayward USD Accepting Applications to Fill Vacancy on Board of Education

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

MEDIA CONTACT:

Dionicia Ramos Ledesma

dramos@husd.us

Hayward USD Accepting Applications to

Fill Vacancy on Board of Education

HAYWARD, Calif., Jan. 6, 2021—The Hayward Unified School District’s Board of Education will be accepting applications to fill a vacancy on the board that was created when Dr. Luis Reynoso was elected to an open Chabot-Las Positas Community College District seat in the November 2020 election. We appreciate Dr. Reynoso for his service to the Hayward community in his capacity as trustee for the last 12 years and wish him well as he continues his service in support of our local community college district.

The Board of Education will undergo the appointment process to appoint a new board member. The appointee will hold office until the next regularly scheduled Statewide General Election for governing board members, which will take place on November 8, 2022, or if and until a special election is required by a petition of district voters.

To be eligible to serve on the board, a person must be (as per Education Code 35107):

18 years of age or older
A resident of the school district
A registered voter

Any person who has been convicted of a felony involving the giving, accepting, or offering of a bribe, embezzlement or theft of public funds, extortion, perjury, or conspiracy to commit any such crime, under California law or the law of another state, the United States, or another country, is not eligible to be a board member except when he/she has been granted a pardon in accordance with law. Additionally, current employees of the Hayward Unified School District are not eligible to serve on the school board.

Eligibility is determined regardless of race, color, ancestry, national origin, ethnic group identification, religion, marital or parental status, physical or mental disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, or genetic information, the perception of one or more of such characteristics, or association with a person or group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics.

To complete and submit the application, please click below. Completed applications must be received no later than January 25, 2021 at 5:00 p.m.

Complete the application

A subcommittee of the Board of Education will review the applications for eligibility (based on Education Code 35107 and Government Code 1770). The board subcommittee will then inform the Superintendent’s Office of the applicants that meet the eligibility criteria. The Superintendent’s Office will invite those applicants to participate in the interview, which will take place at the regularly scheduled board meeting on February 3, 2021.

About HUSD

The Hayward Unified School District (HUSD) serves more than 20,000 students at its 32 school sites throughout the City of Hayward. We honor our diversity and partner with our families to ensure that every student is ready to learn and learns a lot in a joyful, safe environment. Our goal is to provide all of our students and families opportunity and access to a range of programs that engage their interests, inspire a love of learning, challenge them to think critically, and prepare them for college, career and life.

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