One trustee was appointed by the TEA to oversee the district when a prior elected board got out of hand. He's worried it could happen again.
The Edgewood Independent School District board of trustees could see a major shakeup this November, with challengers looking to defeat incumbents, including one who has been on the board since it returned to local control following a state takeover in 2016.
“What pushed me to run for school board was mainly seeing that they weren’t challenging and pushing the students to the best of their ability,” she said. “We weren’t challenging them and giving them the quality education that each child deserves.” Vying for his spot are a college student Jubilee Pena, 19, and Rudy Lopez, 54, who retired from a career in law enforcement.Having recently been in the classroom, Pena said she is concerned with mental health resources. “I know the struggles the kids are going through without the proper tools mentally and emotionally,” she said.
Lopez says the race “is going to boil down on who the public trusts the most, with the most experience and who they want in that position.” Both candidates said they would use their position to speak out against school vouchers in the next legislative session. Proposed voucher programs by the state would allow some parents to use public education funds to help pay for private or alternative schooling.
“We had hoped early on that this trustee would carry on this partnership with our superintendent,” Santoyo said. “Rather, he and the people he associates with have different agendas of bringing back what I feel is a return to the old ways.” “It’s a slow process,” he said. “We knew it wasn’t going to be overnight, but we are seeing progress in these areas, and so that’s one of the reasons why I continue to run as a trustee, because I want to continue working with the superintendent and bringing about even better change.”
“We’re going to do whatever it takes to continue that, giving them the optimal opportunity to learn, to become better citizens for our city in the process,” he added.
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