Carol Anne Teague (Mingus Union High School District, At-large, Arizona, candidate 2024)
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Carol Anne Teague ran for election to the Mingus Union High School District, At-large in Arizona. She was on the ballot in the general election on November 5, 2024.[source]
Teague completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
[1]Biography
Carol Anne Teague provided the following biographical information via Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey on October 26, 2024:
- Birth date: February 20, 1960
- Birth place: Prescott, Arizona
- High school: Prescott High
- Gender: Female
- Religion: Christian: Episcopalian
- Profession: Realtor
- Prior offices held:
- Mingus Union Governing Board President, Vice President, and member. (2018-Prsnt)
- Incumbent officeholder: Yes
- Campaign slogan: My wingmen and I call ourselves "The Slate of Sanity."
Elections
General election
General election for Mingus Union High School District, At-large (3 seats)
The following candidates ran in the general election for Mingus Union High School District, At-large on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | ||
| James Ariola (Nonpartisan) | ||
| Taylor Bell (Nonpartisan) | ||
| Ashley Koepnick (Nonpartisan) | ||
| Frank Nevarez (Nonpartisan) | ||
Carol Anne Teague (Nonpartisan)  | ||
| Joe Wegwert (Nonpartisan) | ||
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Election results
Endorsements
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Campaign themes
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Carol Anne Teague completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Teague's responses.
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I'm 64 years old, born and raised in Arizona. I moved to Cottonwood when I was 18. I have been a real estate agent and Broker in the Verde Valley for 35 years. I first ran in 2018 because my son, a teacher at Mingus, asked me to. There was a political threat to Mingus and he asked me to help defeat it. I won by a landslide and the threat was defeated. I ran again 2 years later because there was another threat to Mingus, again political. I saw that far right leaning and far right religious people were trying to take over our school. We had 2 new Governing Board members, and one of them immediately demanded that 5 books with the word "Queer" in their titles be removed from Mingus' library. Well, here we go again. I'm running this time because 3 friends of that Board member are also running and I feel that they must be stopped. Don't misunderstand me - I am a Christian. I simply do not believe that I have a duty to force my beliefs on other people's children. I asked Dr. Joe Wegwert and Jim Ariola to run with me, making it us 3 against the other 3. It's a clear choice.
- We encourage critical thinking in our students.
- We encourage our students to feel comfortable in their own skins, and we vow to keep them safe. We do not favor any race, gender orientation, or religion.
- We want parents and guardians to be involved in their own students' education. We do not want a parent or guardian to make decisions regarding what sort of books are in the library, how comprehensive the sex ed is, whether other parent's students get to read Mark Twain, who was the last author to be banned by the current Board.
Equal treatment of all students.
I look up to and (try to) follow the example of people that I find to be honest, intelligent, and kind.
Critical thinking. Good communication skills. A reverence for all students' lives and safety. The ability to listen to an opposing viewpoint and change my stance accordingly if the evidence warrants it.
I am a successful officeholder. I believe that I am successful because I care about our students and our school. I pay attention, I prepare for a meeting, I listen to everybody, and most importantly I keep the reason that I'm behin=d that table in mind. I'm there for the good of the students.
To keep the welfare and education of the students forefront in my mind.
I'd like to be the answer to the above question: "Who do you look up to?"
I remember Kennedy getting shot, vaguely - I was 3. I mostly remember the Moon Landing and some comet because my Dad grabbed my head and told me "Look at this. Remember this! You'll be glad you did!" He was right.
My very first job was pulling weeds for a neighbor. I have been a waitress, a bartender, I ran a chicken ranch for Banquet - 50,000 chickens at a time and I've been a vegetarian ever since. I've broken and trained Arabians and Quarterhorses. I've been the tree whisperer, pruning and nurturing people's orchards. I've been a real estate broker for 35 years now, which is much easier on the body then the previous jobs. I'm a certified life coach, a certified Diversity, Equity and Inclusion instructor, I teach Ethics for the Realtors.
Anything by Cormac McCarthy. I am awed by his use of words.
"Singapore" by Tom Waits.
Everything. No, seriously. I seem to have packed many lifetimes into this one. I've had too many heartbreaks, and tons of corresponding joy. My main struggle at the moment is that I try to understand and be logical about the gratuitous meanness and hatred that I see on display every day, especially around this election.
A Governing Board member, with the rest of the Board, creates policy for the school. It is NOT the Governing Board's job to micromanage admin, the Superintendent, or the teachers.
The members of the community in our District.
The first thing is to listen and respect everybody who cares to share their opinion with me. Constituents, parents, employees, students get heard when they talk to me.
My concern is the students. To support the students a school has to support the highly educated teachers and administration who deal with the students, our boots on the ground.
Good teaching comes from a teacher who knows their field and is capable of engaging the students. We measure this by grades and graduation rates.
We absolutely need more CTED (Career and Technical Education.) courses. I would like to see a Comparative Religions course. I'd like more counselors.
I rolled my eyes at this question because we are in Arizona, the state with the most meager per-pupil funding in our great nation. I would ask people to vote for legislators who will fund our schools. I would revive the bond override that the current Board murdered.
I want to buy the most protection for our students that I can with the limited funds available. We have a new kick-butt surveillance system at Mingus, which makes me happy. I would have liked to have gotten override funds. With that we could have physically strengthened our perimeter and hired more security guards.
We already have more counselors per pupil than is the dismal national average. I think most important for the mental health of our students, teachers, and staff is to focus on nurturing everybody at Mingus, as opposed to attacking teachers and students for being not white, not straight, and not Christian.
Nope. I'd get excoriated.
Mike Westcott, the former Superintendent of Mingus endorsed us. We've been endorsed by Save Our Schools AZ, and most importantly, by the Mingus Union Education Association, who are the teachers and staff at Mingus. That was HUGE and made me cry.
A student should be safe, fed, and in the company of teachers who are passionate about children and education. The physical environment should be conducive to learning: quiet, clean, free of harmful fluorescent lights and mold.
I wish that we had known then what we know now. Failing at owning a crystal ball, I think we did well. We followed CDC guidelines and flexed our policies as the guidance changed.
I invite parents to contact me. My phone number and email are published and easy to find. We encourage parents to come to Board meetings, to get involved with the student's teachers, and to communicate if they see a problem.
A 4-day school week (with the same amount of time in the classroom) is huge. Salaries and benefits are huge. Encouraging and making it possible for our people to continue their education is and earn more degrees huge. Listening to and respecting our teachers and staff, and defending them against the people who attack them as "indoctrinating" and "grooming" is huge.
Our constituents have every right to know where every penny is spent. They have this right and are welcome to exercise it diligently.
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See also
2024 Elections
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