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The current incumbent is a full time educator who votes with the progressive liberal agenda every time. We currently have a 15 member board- 2 Democrats and 13 Republicans. There is no pushback and it looks to me as if the liberal Superintendent and her staff manage that board. So many votes go 8-7 and always for the new curriculums, dumbing down the standards, woke policies.... I was recruited to run by people following the board and as I have looked at her votes I am very concerned. I want traditional values and principles of sound academics, character, and true history to be the focus. I understand that the FAMILY is the fundamental unit of society and want to protect our families, children, and the principled teachers who just want to teach their subjects. I also want to see God back in our schools. The Supreme Court paved the way for this is 2019 and if we can get flip a few seats on our board we can work to turn things around in Utah.

Natalie Cline has been all over the news and they are trying to destroy her for her work protecting children. She has woken so many parents up to the dangers in the curriculum and the agendas within our schools. She woke me up. I feel like our board plays defense and makes terrible decisions to block her in a corner. She sits on the curriculum and standards committee and asks great questions, does her research and makes important suggestions. She does the job she is supposed to do to govern. I want to be on that committee with her. I hope and pray her constituents send her back and do not fall for the cancel culture being spearheaded by our Governor. I appreciate the endorsement you all gave her. I am a former history teacher who understands how important solid and true education to shape the minds of our youth.
Our board has too many that seem to not understand the bigger agendas. I also want to root out the diversity and equity in our trainings and curriculum. These ideologies are spreading racism, and a victim mentality, and dumbing down the education to try and force equal outcomes. It is socialism. I agree with follow James Lindsay- I was honored to meet and talk to him at a debut of Beneath Sheeps Clothing - a documentary coming out soon from Utah showing the tactics to usher in socialism. Capturing the minds of the youth is KEY to that plan.

I absolutely support school choice from a family perspective. This is America and parents are the experts in their children's education. I have concerns about how states are rolling out "school choice". The Utah legislature has passed a program to roll it through their Utah Fits All Scholarship that many are behind and optimistic about. It gives an $8000 scholarship to private schools or homeschools. I see pros and cons. I worry that anything the government steps in to do for us will come with more and more strings. Right now students have to submit portfolios to show their work and over half of those applying are homeschoolers. I worry for the private schools that choose not to comply with requirements that it sets up unfair competition and interferes with our American ideals of free market. I do not want to see the the divisive ideologies coming in to private schools and homeschools.
Our parents want choice, and help with financing for that choice as the public schools have been taken over ideologically. The legislature is responding to that. This is an area I feel like needs to be watched very carefully to make sure it doesn't lead us to dangerous intrusion into those previously protected spaces.

Parents!
I stand with Kimberly Ells - author of The Invincible Family- on this wholeheartedly. I am the chapter president for Eagle Forum of Washington County and attended their national conference in DC last September.

Absolutely not. America is the greatest nation on earth. It's foundations are solid and provided a beacon to the rest of the world where all have been able to come here, rise and achieve IF they put the work in. I taught history- I love this land, the Constitution and the framework that has been established here. I believe our kids are being indoctrinated with false notions of racism, revisionist histories, and diversity models of oppression trying to stir them up to be angry victims. America is under attack ideologically. We must teach our kids the truth.

All of these ideologies are destructive. They come from people seeking to overthrow America. Natalie Cline's website - www.higherground.work is an excellent resource to educate on these ideologies, as is Jame's Lindsay's New Discourses.
Parents have the primary responsibility to teach these things at home. The schools are where we entrust our children to learn sound academics. Schools should get back to focusing on core subjects and character education. Leave the other things to the parents to pass on their values. Schools are becoming indoctrination centers rather than educational centers. We need to stop this, or have a mass migration to home and private schools to save this rising generation.

I hope to get on the state school board and be a strong voice for putting parents and children first. The state board is responsible for setting the standards and Utah's standards have seen a sharp decline. I want to see a restoration of sound academics, rooting out standards that force out older sound curriculums, and leave LEA's with out true choice to run their districts the way they would like. Children and parents should be the #1 customer and concern in our schools- NOT the vendors, unions, etc. This is not the case right now- the Educational partners and elites are running the direction of our school board currently. The shift to competency based education, survey upon survey gathering data on our kids, removing grades until 8th grade, relaxing standards for grades... Utah touts Portrait of a Graduate as a great success where 9 of 10 Utah students graduates; yet half can not read, write or do math at grade level. I want to see that removed. SEL, DEI, CRT - even though they keep changing the wording to hide it- all need to go and I want to advocate for that! I want to go back to 1987 math books- we need restoration in so many areas to root out the progressive agendas. I want to see a focus on actual data that shows the results of what they have been doing are not working for our kids.

I will stand up to protect girls spaces- I have met and talked to Riley Gaines twice now. She is a hero! Our state board has been all talk and no action on this, they have pushed the buck to our LEA's and not given them back up. The legislature keeps having to act in response to concerns because they USBE does not do the job they were set up to do. Bathrooms and locker rooms in general need to be protected by sex at birth. Period.

Absolutely it is. The Biden admin is weaponizing it to usher in transgenderism. I am studying up on queer theory right now. Queer by definition means to spoil, or ruin.....We are in a cultural revolution and need to wake people up to what is happening. We must push back and I think defund the NEA...States should take steps to take over education and figure out how to fund that and get the fed out of our schools/sports, etc

So far : Utah Platform Republicans PAC, Utah State Rep. Colin Jack- who I have worked with on legislation to protect children from lewdness in Utah, former State Senator and head of the Utah Tax Commission Howard Stephenson, Dixie Technical University former President Kelle Stephens, former staffer for Mike Lee & the Heritage Foundation Jordan Hess , Washington County Commissioner Adam Snow , and working on others. Currently I have only publicized Rep. Jack's endorsement. I will release the rest after or at our state convention April 27
Endorsements are more helpful with the primaries I have been told, our state delegates do not like them as much. Utah is a caucus state.

FYI- I am solidly on track to beat the incumbent at convention- I received 71.8% of the straw poll vote at our county convention and my county has 2/3's of the state delegates. My area covers southern, rural utah as well. Utah passed SB54 some years ago which opened up the possibility for gathering signatures to get on the primary ballot and my opponent is gathering signatures. IF she gets them- which I will know next week- then this becomes a much pricier, harder race as she is the hometown teacher, and no one knows how she votes. The USBE votes are very hard to find. I asked the local superintendent if he knew how she voted up there and he said no. He doesn't have time to follow that.