State of Texas
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Julie PickrenRepublican Incumbent
Tiffany PerkinzDemocraticOn ballot as
JULIE PICKREN
TIFFANY PERKINZ
Current role
Member, Texas State Board of Education, District 7 Vice Chair, Committee on School Initiatives
Owner, Perkinz with a Z Education (tutoring business)
Background
- Small business owner
- Enrolled in The Wharton School of Business Executive Leadership Program
- Bachelor's degree in language arts education,
- Master's degree in English
- Master's degree in education
Experience
- Alvin ISD Trustee,
- Board member of two Christian private schools;
- Education policy advisor for many states
- Former English teacher
- Former assistant director of study abroad
Top priorities
- "God in Schools"
- "Reform Public Education"
- "School Choice"
- "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: Campaign site: "holding curriculum to a standard of academic rigor rather than ideological fashion"
- Library books: No statement
- Pro Life
- School funding and bonds: "measuring schools on what students actually learn rather than on how many of them show up"
- Vouchers / school choice: "giving parents genuine choice among public, charter, private, and home school options"
- 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
- Dr. Ben Carson, former U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
- Texas Right to Life
- Texas Home School Coalition (THSC)
- Texas Values Action
- Gov. Greg Abbott
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- Texas Alliance for Life
- Conservative Republicans of Texas
- President Donald Trump
- Linda McMahon, Former U.S. Administrator – Small Business Administration
- Dr. Robin Armstrong, Republican Party of Texas National Committeeman
- Texas Eagle Forum
- Texas Conservative Review
- BizPac
- The Link Letter
- 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
Julie Pickren
Republican Incumbent- On ballot as
- JULIE PICKREN
- Current role
- Member, Texas State Board of Education, District 7 Vice Chair, Committee on School Initiatives
- Background
- Small business owner
- Enrolled in The Wharton School of Business Executive Leadership Program
- Experience
- Alvin ISD Trustee,
- Board member of two Christian private schools;
- Education policy advisor for many states
- Top priorities
- "God in Schools"
- "Reform Public Education"
- "School Choice"
- Tidbits
- Curriculum and instructional materials: Campaign site: "holding curriculum to a standard of academic rigor rather than ideological fashion"
- Library books: No statement
- Pro Life
- School funding and bonds: "measuring schools on what students actually learn rather than on how many of them show up"
- Vouchers / school choice: "giving parents genuine choice among public, charter, private, and home school options"
- Endorsements
- Dr. Ben Carson, former U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
- Texas Right to Life
- Texas Home School Coalition (THSC)
- Texas Values Action
- Gov. Greg Abbott
Show all 14
- Texas Alliance for Life
- Conservative Republicans of Texas
- President Donald Trump
- Linda McMahon, Former U.S. Administrator – Small Business Administration
- Dr. Robin Armstrong, Republican Party of Texas National Committeeman
- Texas Eagle Forum
- Texas Conservative Review
- BizPac
- The Link Letter
- Campaign website
- juliepickren.com
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
Show all 7
- Houston Chronicle Editorial Board
- Texas Progressive Caucus
- Campaign website
- texasfortiffany7.org
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