The Board of Trustees consists of seven board members elected to serve, without compensation, for overlapping terms of three years each. Elections are conducted annually in May. While candidates run for specific places, they do not represent specific geographical areas; rather, each represents Allen ISD at large. Following the annual election, the Board elects a president, vice-president, and secretary to serve for one-year terms.
Duties of the Board
Operating within the legal parameters of the state and federal constitutions, statutes, courts, and administrative agencies, the Board is charged with the responsibility of providing the finest educational program possible for the students in the district. School trustees make all final decisions regarding school district priorities, policies, personnel, textbooks, expenditures, and growth management. Trustees adopt a budget that is necessary to maintain and operate the schools, levy taxes to support the budget, and submit bond issues to the citizens of the district to finance construction projects.
Allen Independent School District operates under a seven-member School Board of Trustees elected at large. Elections of Trustees are held annually for three-year terms in cycles keyed off the years below:
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Positions 1, 2, & 3 -- 2024, 2027, 2030 and in three-year intervals thereafter.
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Positions 4 & 5 -- 2025, 2028, 2031 and in three-year intervals thereafter.
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Positions 6 & 7 -- 2023, 2026, 2029 and in three-year intervals thereafter.
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Terms for the Board of Trustees expire as follows:
Place Nos. 1, 2, and 3 May 2024
Place Nos. 4 and 5 May 2025
Place Nos. 6 and 7 May 2023
Filing Period
If an individual is interested in serving on the Allen ISD Board of Trustees, the first day to file an application for a place on the ballot in a school district’s general election is the 30th day before the filing deadline. The filing deadline for a general election is 5 p.m. on the 78th day before election day. Tex. Educ. Code § 11.055(a); Tex. Elec. Code § 144.005. The deadline to file a declaration of write-in candidacy is 5 p.m. on the 74th day before election day.
Candidate application packets will be available in the Allen Administration Building Lobby as well as online.
Texas School Board Member Qualifications
To be eligible to be a candidate for, or elected or appointed to, the office of a school board member, a person must:
- Be a United States citizen.
- Be 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.
- Have not been determined by a final judgment of a court exercising probate jurisdiction to be totally mentally incapacitated or partially mentally incapacitated without the right to vote.
- Have not been finally convicted of a felony from which the person has not been pardoned or otherwise released from the resulting disabilities [but see Ineligibility below].
- Have 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 a candidate's application for a place on the ballot.
- For a write-in candidate, the date of the election at which the candidate's name is written in.
- For an appointee to an office, the date the appointment is made.
- Be registered to vote in the territory from which the office is elected on the date described above.
Election Code 1.020, 141.001(a); Education Code 11.066; Gov’t Code 601.009; Tex. Const. Art. XVI, Sec. 14
Related Links
Texas Secretary of State Elections Division
Texas Ethics Commission
Collin County Elections Office
