CCISD Administration Office 936-398-2341

 504 S. Home Street, Corrigan, Texas 77360

Susan Ard, Election Coordinator

BOARD TRUSTEE ELECTION INFORMATION

The Board of Trustees consists of seven (7) board members, elected for three-year terms, with elections conducted annually.

• Election of Board Members shall be by position
• To be elected, a candidate must receive more votes than any other candidate for the position.

Candidate Requirements

Form, Content, and Procedure: An application for a place on the ballot must be in writing; signed, sworn to by the candidate before a person authorized to administer an oath, and dated; timely filed with the district’s filing authority; and contain specified information about the candidate. 

• The candidate’s name, date of birth, and occupation;
• The candidate’s residence address or the address at which the candidate receives mail with a description of the location of the candidate’s residence;
• The candidate’s length of continuous residence in Texas and in the district (and single-member district, if applicable) as of the date the candidate swears to the application;
• If available, a public mailing address and email address at which the candidate receives correspondence relating to the candidate’s campagin;
• The office sought, including any place or other distinguishing number and an indication of whether the office sought is for a full or unexpired term;
• Statements that the candidate is a U.S. citizen; has not been determined by a court to be mentally incapacitated; has not been convicted of a felony; is aware of the nepotism law, and swears an oath to support and defend the U.S. and Texas Constitutions and laws. 

Eligibility

An individual is eligible to be a candidate for, or elected or appointed to, a Texas school board if the individual;

• Is a United States citizen;
• Is 18 years of age or older on the first day of the term to be filled at the election or on the date of appointment, as applicable; 
• Has not been determined by a final judgement of a court exercising probate jurisdiction to be totally mentally incapacitated or partially mentally incapacitated without the right to vote;
• Has not been finally convicted of a felony; 
• Has resided continuously in the state for 12 months and in the territory from which the office is elected for six months immediately preceding the following date;
• For an independent candidate, the date of the regular filing deadline for candidates applying for a place on the ballot;
• For write-in candidate, the date of the election at which the candidate’s name is written in; or 
• For an appointee to an office, the date the appointment is made;
• Is registered to vote in the territory from which the office is elected on the date described above; and 
• Satisfies any other eligibility requirements prescribed by law for the office. 

Tex. Elec. Code § 141.001; Tex. Educ. Code § 11.066

The Texas Education Code imposes additional requirements:

• To be elected to a school board, an individual must be a qualified voter: 18 years of age or older, a U.S. citizen, a Texas resident, a registered voter, not determined to be totally or partially mentally incapacitated by an appropriate court, and not finally convicted of a felony. Tex. Educ. Code § 11.061; Tex. Elec. Code § 11.022.
• A person is ineligible to serve on a school board if the person has been convicted of a felony or an offense under Texas Penal Code section 43.04(b) regarding prostitution. Tex. Educ. Code § 11.066.

Deadline

The first day to file an application for a place on the ballot in a school district’s general election is the 30^th day before the filing deadline. The filing deadline for a general election is 5:00 pm on the 78^th day before Election Day. Tex. Educ. Code § 11.055(a); Tex. Election Code § 144.005. The deadline to file a declaration of write-in candidacy is 5:00 pm on the 74^th day before Election Day. 

Application for a Place on the Ballot

Code of Fair Campaign Practices

Notice of Deadline to file an application for place on the Ballot

2026 CCISD Order of Election

Posting of Political Subdivisions