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Dan Newberger
Dan Newberger ran for election for an at-large seat of the Howard County Public Schools Board of Education in Maryland. He lost in the general election on November 8, 2022.
Newberger completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Newberger earned a bachelor's degree from the United States Naval Academy in 1996. He earned a graduate degree from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 2005.[1]
Elections
2022
See also: Howard County Public Schools, Maryland, elections (2022)
General election
General election for Howard County Public Schools Board of Education At-large (2 seats)
Jacky McCoy and Linfeng Chen defeated Dan Newberger and Tudy Adler in the general election for Howard County Public Schools Board of Education At-large on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Jacky McCoy (Nonpartisan) | 27.6 | 53,800 | |
| ✔ |  | Linfeng Chen (Nonpartisan)  | 26.5 | 51,541 |
 | Dan Newberger (Nonpartisan) | 26.0 | 50,636 | |
| Tudy Adler (Nonpartisan) | 19.4 | 37,812 | ||
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.5 | 1,016 | ||
| Total votes: 194,805 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for Howard County Public Schools Board of Education At-large (2 seats)
The following candidates ran in the primary for Howard County Public Schools Board of Education At-large on July 19, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Dan Newberger (Nonpartisan) | 19.7 | 19,997 |
| ✔ | Jacky McCoy (Nonpartisan) | 18.4 | 18,690 | |
| ✔ | | Linfeng Chen (Nonpartisan) | 15.3 | 15,507 |
| ✔ | Tudy Adler (Nonpartisan) | 12.7 | 12,912 | |
| Susan Dreisch (Nonpartisan) | 10.2 | 10,353 | ||
| Monique Richards (Nonpartisan) | 9.9 | 10,025 | ||
| Julie Hotopp (Nonpartisan) | 7.4 | 7,514 | ||
 | Meg Ricks (Nonpartisan) | 6.4 | 6,465 | |
| Total votes: 101,463 | |||
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Endorsements
To view Newberger's endorsements in the 2022 election, please click here.
Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Dan Newberger completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Newberger's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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As an active-duty naval officer, I served onboard warships and as a budget requirements officer on the Navy headquarters staff. Since then, I’ve led teams in corporate America, in federal and local government, and in the nonprofit sector. In these roles, I’ve helped complex organizations solve tough problems and accomplish their missions more effectively and efficiently through my expertise in strategic planning, organization design, and performance management. I am an experienced negotiator, team leader, and coalition builder, always seeking to find common ground and build consensus.
The Howard County Public School System faces big challenges right now. We need strong, compassionate leaders on the BOE. I am committed to the core Howard County values that are fundamental to HCPSS’s success, most importantly the belief that every child deserves the opportunities, resources, challenges, and support to reach their full potential.- We must ensure a full recovery from the pandemic. So many students have experienced academic learning loss, mental health impacts, and delays in social & emotional development. So many educators are exhausted and feel alienated from the central office. As much as we want to return to “normal,” a full recovery is going to take years of focused leadership and dedicated resources. We must develop comprehensive, tailored, data-driven recovery plans for each school in the district to guide their recovery. With input from educators, parents, and community members, and with metrics and timelines to ensure accountability, these plans can be our roadmaps for ensuring every student, educator, and school receives the support and resources they need.
- Mental health: Even before the pandemic upended their lives, alarming numbers of our children were coping with depression, anxiety, suicidal thoughts, and behavioral disorders. It’s so dire that the American Academy of Pediatrics declared a National Emergency in Child and Adolescent Mental Health. We need real commitment & resources to ensure that high-quality, trauma-informed, & culturally competent mental health care is made available to every child in every school. We simply must have more school counselors & psychologists in the schools. We also need more partnerships with community mental health organizations & connections to regional social work graduate school programs that can build a pipeline of school counselors into the district.
- Staffing: We are facing a tidal wave of retirements and resignations and must compete with neighboring districts to hire and retain the best educators while our salaries aren’t competitive. We simply must have the resources necessary to fund competitive salaries. We also must make HCPSS an employer of choice: by giving educators enough planning time; developing a pool of quality substitutes; providing the coaches, mentors, and support needed to turn good teachers into great teachers, and great teachers into world-class; and developing principals who are strong, compassionate leaders. Only if our educators and staff feel encouraged, empowered, and appreciated, will we be able to hire and retain the best talent our students need and deserve.
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See also
2022 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on October 14, 2022
