State of Texas
Member, State Board of Education, District 7
Tiffany Perkinz
Democratic- On ballot as
- TIFFANY PERKINZ
- Current role
- Owner, Perkinz with a Z Education (tutoring business)
- Background
- Bachelor's degree in language arts education,
- Master's degree in English
- Master's degree in education
- Experience
- Former English teacher
- Former assistant director of study abroad
- Top priorities
- "Restore Freedom to Public Education"
- "Will make a motion on day 1 to amend the TEKS to restore political and religious neutrality"
- "Champion local control over state interference"
- Textbooks that "include evidence-based science, honest-history and inclusive literature" (Meaning Greater emphasis on slavery, Jim Crow, Native dispossession, segregation, redlining, and the ongoing effects of those systems; Framing racism and white supremacy as foundational rather than peripheral)
- Tidbits
- Curriculum and instructional materials: See Top Priorities
- Pro Abortion
- Library books: "Books are challenged not because they are inaccurate, but because they are uncomfortable."
- School funding and bonds: "Public schools are being asked to do more with less, while private institutions receive public money without public responsibility."
- Vouchers / school choice: Will "Oppose voucher programs that drain public school funding"
- Endorsements
- Texas AFT
- Community Voices for Public Education
- Texas AFL-CIO
- Texas Gulf Coast Area Labor Federation
- Emgage Action
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- Houston Chronicle Editorial Board
- Texas Progressive Caucus
- Campaign website
- texasfortiffany7.org
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