Adrian Nogales
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Adrian Nogales ran for election to the Albuquerque Public Schools Board of Education to represent District 2 in New Mexico. He lost in the general election on November 7, 2023.
Nogales completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2023. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Adrian Nogales was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Texas at San Antonio in 2007 and a graduate degree from Grand Canyon University in 2018. Nogales' career experience includes working as a history teacher.[1]
Elections
2023
See also: Albuquerque Public Schools, New Mexico, elections (2023)
General election
General election for Albuquerque Public Schools Board of Education District 2
Ronalda Tome defeated incumbent Peggy Muller-Aragon and Adrian Nogales in the general election for Albuquerque Public Schools Board of Education District 2 on November 7, 2023.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Ronalda Tome (Nonpartisan) | 42.4 | 4,487 | |
 | Peggy Muller-Aragon (Nonpartisan) | 39.7 | 4,200 | |
Adrian Nogales (Nonpartisan)  | 18.0 | 1,905 | ||
| Total votes: 10,592 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Karen Sanchez-Griego (Nonpartisan)
- Eric Toledo (Nonpartisan)
Endorsements
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Campaign themes
2023
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Adrian Nogales completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2023. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Nogales' responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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I've been a teacher with APS since 2008. I started in elementary before settling into middle school and my preferred grade of 6th social studies. Being a teacher is the most beautiful and rewarding profession, marred by a bad system in Albuquerque Public Schools, with bad outcomes to prove this. The district has an enormous budget and too many snakes are hindering progress by misspending it. In 2023 the district laid out a 5 year plan that failed to mention the 500 teacher positions it has cut and over 200 positions currently sitting vacant. I've never seen guns so rampant in our school district, with 2 young teenagers dead, yet the district has sat idle, just dancing with fire and the dangerous possibilities left when guns go unchecked in the hands of teens at schools. On Oct 23, 2023 all 11, 12 and 13 year olds in the district were given a survey, parents had been given a "passive" consent form that stated "little harm will be caused to your student" and it had questions about if they have ever had sexual intercourse, how many times they have had sexual intercourse?, With how many people have they had intercourse? have they ever used a condom? I just don't get why this material has wound up anywhere near an 11 year old or whats up with the "passive consent" form. APS is notorious for hiding things from the public, from parents and here is a great example.
- School safety is #1 issue, 5 guns have been found at the high schools since this campaign started. No action taken. The district has over 700 teachers missing between eliminated positions and vacancies. That is the problem with classroom learning, those who stay are doing amazing work, but double work with too many students.
- Parents rights and involvement are essential to students well being, I will always fight to hold the district accountable to our community.
- I ran because the other two candidates accepted so much money in contributions and their answers to questions reflect it.
I am interested in how APS has ballooned their budget to over 2.3 billion dollars just in the operating budget and yet there always seems to be millions unaccounted for. In February of 2024 the district will have to answer to the FBI for the Sheryl Stapleton Williams debacle and how the former #3 could be involved in felonious lawbreaking while setting APS policy, like T.O.P.S. schools, she pushed that entire pilot program and wrote the policy on it.
Veterans, Police, Nurses, Teachers and Firefighters, amongst others. Public service is a calling, those who answer are worth their weight in gold.
1984 by George Orwell, scary parallels to today's attempted control of parents rights, teachers rights, students rights, human rights, privacy.
Having good ethics. Political graft and greed is all I see from school board members, which is supposed to be for the children and families a non-partisan position. My opponents "raised" 70k (PMA) and 50k (RTW) yet spent 20k, leaving them money to play with their friends. Yuck. Show some ethics people.
I became a watchdog for teachers rights during the pandemic. Going over the contract word for word, I discovered a slew of lawbreaking. The contract teachers agree to comes 1 month after the school year starts, that is illegal as it is due by law NMSA 1978 10-22A, the contract is due 10 days before the start of the school year, signed by the school board." APS is out of compliance with a variety of laws, putting teachers on a bended knee and basically just opening the exit door for staff that sniff out what a bad employer APS is, non transparent, bullying and non receptive to listening to schools instructional councils, who are the teachers who vote on decisions for their school.
To advocate for the families in their district and to be in contact with all the principals at each school (texting/emailing often).
A safer APS for everyones children. That I protected kids with every ounce of my strength.
I remember when Rio Rancho Public Schools became independent of APS in 1992 and my education, educational services improved significantly.
Waited tables at Indigo Crow in Corrales when I was 14, older waiters had to come and take alcohol orders. I worked there for over a year.
Mario Puzo, the Last Don. It's the author that wrote the Godfather, this book touches on a variety of topics that interest me....how good prevails over greed only half the time.
My students and I are Swifty's. Karma.
To advocate for parents, students and the schools within their district, but also the entire district as a whole.
My wife and my dog, several teachers.
I read, write and speak Spanish everyday at home and am beside myself that APS fails to recognize Navajo or Spanish as bilingual services, refusing to pay Navajo and Spanish teachers a $5,000 stipend owed by law. I will fight to restore our languages and our peoples culture from a district notorious (Yazzie Martinez) for neglecting our people.
I'm willing to work with both problem solvers and that includes either D or R. Nobody is right 100% of the time, our community needs someone who will tackle the issues and set bipartisan politics aside.
Good teaching is displayed everyday by teachers in a variety of ways. The ultimate measure of a school's success in my opinion is their turnover rate. If teachers are leaving, students are suffering and there is much to be said about schools that have a high turnover rate compared to schools where staff is comfortable.
APS is lightyears behind in coding, A.I., E-sports and everyother modern advancement. It would be wise to prepare our students for the jobs in our community (Intel, Sandia, LANL, Facebook, etc).
The budget is larger then ever before, yet APS is cutting positions while simultaneously requesting budget increases. There is hyper inflation and then there is dumb spending, compounded by greedy interests (see Sheryl Stapleton Williams) and the entire APS hierarchy having to explain how the #3 in the district stole millions. APS needs to be watched and audited, down to every last penny.
My father is a retired homicide detective with APS and it makes me sick to see that despite 2 teenagers dying in 2021 and 2022, the district has failed our families and community in protecting the high schools and all schools. West Mesa has been a masterclass is failed policy by wimpy politicians who need to get tough and act, or else.
Currently counselors have 100's of students on their rosters. I have failed to mention them throughout my campaign and I apologize, when I say we are missing teachers I extend that to counselors and mental health workers in the schools. Where to societies problems begin? Where is the best place to intervene early?
My least favorite joke is APS's math proficiency levels. Not funny.
Any policy that Sheryl Stapleton Williams has a footprint on needs to go, in particular TOPS schoolsHere is the list of TOPs Schools (Extended Year and Day Schools). These teachers are not being compensated properly and I question where is all the money earmarked for all the hours they are working. They are being paid a meager stipend that is less then half what they should be earning. The union has failed them all and APS lead contract negotiator Hoose should be looked into for this failure.
Alamosa
Atrisco
Bel-Air
Bellhaven
Carlos Rey
East San Jose
Emerson
Hawthorne
Inez
Kirtland
Lavaland
Lew Wallace
Longfellow
Los Padillas
Los Ranchos
Lowell
Mary Ann Binford
Matheson Park
Pajarito
Reginald Chavez
Engagement is the most important part of learning. This is displayed different through each teachers mastery of their subject and the educational tools they are comfortable using (I blend about 50% paperwork, 50% computer based assignments).
F-. The APS school board repeatedly tabled votes and looked to other districts for guidance (Hobbs, RR, Los Alamos, Santa Fe). Instead of lead, we got watch and wait. They created a policy and many schools that students didn't need to put their cameras on because that would be insensitive. The PED ordered APS to have all teachers teaching online at home to take a "Covid" test in February and March 2022, only they sent Vault/Spectrum DNA tests and all teachers genetics were sent to a genomics lab in NJ, against Federal GINA laws. Oh and on day 2 of the return to campus David Baca a janitor at my school died of Covid, the district despite having 16 months of closed campuses had zero safety measures installed other then arrow-stickers on the ground for social distance. David spoke Spanish and the district denied his family a $10k life insurance policy. How many teachers got sick, how many employees died. I heard 5 employees died (from a principal) from March 2022-May 2022. David was 1 of those.
Parents are the most important people in my campaign. My phone number, email is all listed. Reach out. Reach out fierce, reach out kindly, I get it.
We need to have an actual plan to recruit teachers and recommend to the Public Education Department to streamline the process of "leveling up." Teachers have to jump through hoops to go from level I (50K) to level II (60K) or Level III (70K). The majority of teachers are level I, about 65% or so and less then 15% reach level III. We can't retain anyone if their is no incentive or upward mobility. Level I to Level II takes an average of 5-7 years, while the States website sells it as a 3 year process. People leave, level I always leave, every year and often in the middle of the week.
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See also
2023 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
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