Christopher McCoy
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Christopher McCoy ran for election to the Corona-Norco Unified Board of Education to represent Trustee Area 3 in California. He lost in the general election on November 3, 2020.
McCoy completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
McCoy was born in Albany, New York, and attended Cal Poly Pomona. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1985 to 1989.[1]
Elections
2020
See also: Corona-Norco Unified School District, California, elections (2020)
General election
General election for Corona-Norco Unified School District Board of Education Trustee Area 3
Incumbent Mary Helen Ybarra defeated Christopher McCoy in the general election for Corona-Norco Unified School District Board of Education Trustee Area 3 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Mary Helen Ybarra (Nonpartisan) | 54.7 | 8,551 |
 | Christopher McCoy (Nonpartisan)  | 45.3 | 7,068 | |
| Total votes: 15,619 | |||
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Campaign themes
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Christopher McCoy completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by McCoy's responses.
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I am a parent, veteran, and businessman living in Area 3. I am running to reform CNUSD. The District has a distinct lack of leadership at the top. We have wasteful spending, poor labor relations, and no plan for Covid. I have a track record of fixing big systems, and I believe I can do that for our kids. Help me put a parent's voice on the board November 3rd.
- Gets kids SAFELY back to school.
- Get life-skill classes back in our curriculum
- Provide oversight to eliminate wasteful spending and embezzlement like we found with Ted Rozzi. .
Term limits, purchasing and accounting reform, better communication with parents, and better parent representation at board meetings.
I admire people that keep their integrity no matter what. Heroes would include Teddy Roosevelt, Martin Luther King, Thomas Jefferson, Neil Degrasse Tyson, Carl Sagan, and John McCain. I am a strong believer in morality as a conscience choice and education as the foundation of any life worth living.
Platform of Hope by Timothy Bult
Fiscal conservative - social liberal. I am a moderate that refuses to be pulled into the red-blue warfare that is destroying our nation.
Leadership, Empathy, Intelligence, Patience.
To be a representative for ALL stakeholders in the district, and to ensure the Superintendent is excelling at their job.
Term limits and improved education for our kids.
I remember the Moon landings. I was very small and it was on a black and white TV in my parent's apartment in Albany New York.
I worked as a peperboy for 2 years starting at 15. I was up early every morning and this was back when i had to collect the money physically every month.
Dune - Frank Herbert
It is an amazing tale with so many levels.
It is an amazing tale with so many levels.
Valentine Michael Smith
Dreams - Fleetwood Mac
Being too forgiving
1. To direct and give guidance to the Superintendent. 2. To listen to parents, students, and teachers more than I speak. 3. To provide leadership in times of crisis. 4. To demand oversight on district funds.
1. Parents and households that are not "plugged in" to our information age yet. Their kids deserve an equal education. 2. Parents that work hard that need better communication from the district to keep them involved in their kids education. 3. Parents that want their kids to be safer on campus. 4. Parents that want better and more education opportunities for their children.
Listen more than I talk. Find consensus whenever possible. Find solutions by thinking outside the box.
Each campus should be encouraged to do community outreach to help those around them and teach kids how to be involved with their community and city.
Town halls in the evenings at each school twice a year.
Yes. All positions should be filled using a selection committee. One of that committee's criterias for candidate selection will be diversity.
Districts and states getting in the way of teachers and site-based education. I want to see educators given goals and the emphasis should be on them reaching the goals, not how they get there. We need to trust our teachers.
Making sure every child receives the instruction necessary to thrive after they graduate, and being vocal about the resources they need to get there.
In addition to college prep, we need to give them more life skills (soft skills). Cooking, checkbooks, resume's, budget, repairs, creativity. We need to be graduating fully functioning adults, ready for the world.
Extend transferable AA level college classes to all of our high schools to give our kids a head start on college.
Welding, accounting, billing, shop, pipe-fitting, HVAC repair, mechanics. We must not assume all our kids are college-bound. We must give them alternatives that allow them to make good livings and stay in Corona.
I believe our procurement/ purchasing is poorly done. I see possible savings of 3-5% of our budget if we rewrite our purchasing policy to ensure we safe money.
The ONLY thing kids should be concerning themselves with at school is learning. They should never feel fear to their person from bullying, disease, or outsiders.
We already do a great job of this, but I would like to see us expand mental health staff by 1-2 more counselors per campus.
A central dashboard for all messages and information regarding your child's education. In addition, expand the Chromebook purchasing system to ensure every underprivileged child has the electronics they will need in the next 20 years.
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See also
2020 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on October 15, 2020.
