Superintendent of Public Instruction, Arizona State Board of Education, 2015-2019

Candidate, Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction, 2018

Candidate, Arizona State House of Representatives, District 9, 2010

No caucus information on file.

Employee, Accounting, Century Office Products

Employee, Accounts Payable, Polychrome Incorporated

Employee, General Accounting, Ethicon Incorporated

Glass Artisan, Instructor, The Stained Glass Shop, 1994-2014

Financial Analyst, International & Corporate Accounting, Thomas & Betts Corporation, 1981-1988

Member, Site Council, Desert Valley Elementary

Member, Site Council, Ironwood High School

Panelist, A.C.E. National School Choice Forum, 2013

Member, Apostle’s Lutheran Church Board of Education, 2009-2013

Panelist, Arizona American’s for Prosperity “Milton Friedman’s Birthday Celebration A Discussion of Common Core”, 2013

Member, Governing Board, Peoria Unified School District, 2005-2012

Presenter, The American’s for Prosperity “Defending the American Dream Summit”, Washington D.C, 2012

President, Governing Board, Peoria Unified School District, 2008, 2009

Panelist, Arizona Right to Life Conference, 2008

Reason for Seeking Public Office:

Quite simply, to stop the Common Core Standards in Arizona and return control over your children's education to you through your locally elected school boards.

We now clearly understand that a major piece of President Obama's plan to "fundamentally change" America is by controlling the education of our children through the federally mandated Common Core Standards (renamed "Arizona's" College and Career Ready Standards).

Common Core is to education what ObamaCare is to healthcare -- top down, one size fits all federal government control.

When it became apparent that our current superintendent, incumbent John Huppenthal not only supports but actively promotes Obama's invasion of our children's education I decided to run. (Read his letter to Gov. Brewer supporting Common Core under the "Common Core AZ" tab).

COMMON CORE MUST BE STOPPED!

Current picture of education in Arizona

Over the past 30 years we have "reformed" education time and again -- America 2000 (G H Bush); Goals 2000 & School to Work (Clinton); No Child Left Behind (G W Bush) and now Common Core (Obama) -- at great expense to the American taxpayers while decimating the quality of our children's education. I don't have to tell you that our system remains broken; our children uneducated or under-educated and ill prepared for success in their adult lives.

These systemic problems will only get worse under Common Core. Our schools are under the control of the same Washington bureaucrats who have marginalized academic content -- stressing culture over content, social engineering over student achievement and conspiring to rewrite the story of American pre-eminence in the world. Our education system was the envy of the world for over 200 years prior to the involvement of progressive educators and the federal government.

My vision for Arizona:

My goal is and always will be to do everything in my power to ensure that all our children receive a content-rich education. Students should graduate with the knowledge and skills they need to participate in our rapidly changing world and to pursue happiness as they define it for themselves - not as the government assigns it to them. They will be prepared to participate in our system of self-governance as well-educated American citizens.

When elected with your help, I will:

Use every power of the office and all my energies to ensure the AZ Dept & our State Board of Education protect and defend our 10th Amendment right to direct and control the education of our children.

Work with our Republican legislators to protect our children, and their families, from the unconstitutional invasion of their privacy through massive federally mandated data collection.

I need your help: I need your efforts to collect petition signatures, $5 contributions and seed money! Most of all I need your vote on August 26th!

Thank you and God bless!