Ed Brey (Sheboygan Falls School District, At-large, Wisconsin, candidate 2024)

Ed Brey

Nonpartisan

Candidate, Sheboygan Falls School District, At-large

Elections and appointments

Last election

April 2, 2024

Education

High school

New Berlin West High School

Bachelor's

Marquette University, 1995

Medical

Nanyang Technological University, 2001

Personal

Birthplace

Hoffman Estates, Ill.

Religion

Christian

Profession

Software engineer

Contact

Campaign website

Campaign Facebook

Ed Brey ran for election to the Sheboygan Falls School District, At-large in Wisconsin. He was on the ballot in the general election on April 2, 2024.

Brey completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.

Biography

Ed Brey provided the following biographical information via Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey on March 21, 2024:

• Birth date: August 2, 1973
• Birth place: Hoffman Estates, Illinois
• High school: New Berlin West High School
• Bachelor's: Marquette University, 1995
• M.D.: NTU, 2001
• Gender: Male
• Religion: Christian
• Profession: Software Engineer
• Incumbent officeholder: Yes
• Campaign slogan: Safe students. Academic excellence. Parent and community values.
• Campaign website
• Campaign Facebook

Elections

General election

General election for Sheboygan Falls School District, At-large (2 seats)

Adam Arnhoelter, Ed Brey, Nicole Kuplic, and Cathryn Schear ran in the general election for Sheboygan Falls School District, At-large on April 2, 2024.

		Candidate
	Submit photo	Adam Arnhoelter (Nonpartisan)
		Ed Brey (Nonpartisan)
	Submit photo	Nicole Kuplic (Nonpartisan)
	Submit photo	Cathryn Schear (Nonpartisan)

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Election results

Endorsements

Brey received the following endorsements.

• State Rep. Amy Binsfeld (R)
• State Rep. Terry Katsma (R)
• Sheboygan Falls City Common Councilor Jacob Immel (Nonpartisan)
• Sheboygan County, Wisc., Republican Party Chair Russ Otten
• Sheboygan Falls School Board Memb. Gary Thelen
• Republican Party of Wisconsin
• Sheboygan County, Wisc., Republican Party

Campaign themes

Ballotpedia survey responses

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Ed Brey completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Brey's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

I’m a 17-year resident of Sheboygan Falls, supporting safe students, academic excellence, and parent and community values, and want to continue working to ensure they are strong in Sheboygan Falls schools.

Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

• In my current term, we improved student safety by preparing teachers with a wider range of threat response options and modernizing cameras and communication technology. Now we need to give parents confidence that girls’ bathrooms, locker rooms, and sports teams are separate from boys.
• We also improved academics by expanding our college-level and trade-skill courses and upgrading to new evidence-based curriculums in math and English. We should further expand our career readiness offerings. In English, we should bring the study of exceptional literature and precise language back to our academic standards. We should also bring back and expand merit pay to attract and retain top teachers at fair market rates.
• We should teach our heritage as a great nation while learning from our mistakes. We should bring analysis of U.S. founding documents back to our academic standards. We should continue to keep our classrooms welcoming and to treat everyone with dignity and respect, but without identity politics like “Progress Pride” flags and “Safe Space” signs. We should replace polarizing political slogans on classroom walls with projects rich in perspective and critical thinking.

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

Number one is improving academic achievement. During my current term, we updated our math and English curriculums with more intuitive number sense and stronger phonics at the elementary and middle school level. I’m looking forward to working with our administration to bring those advances to the high school. We also need to better attract and retain top teachers with compensation that encourages high achievement and is fair to teachers and taxpayers.

What qualities do you possess that you believe would make you a successful officeholder?

I’m a 17-year resident of Sheboygan Falls and have run my own software engineering business for the last 12 years. Before that, I managed software engineering teams at Kohler Company and Eaton Corporation. I’m treasurer of our middle school PTA and was treasurer of our elementary school PTA. I also volunteer with Junior Achievement, Special Olympics, and the school robotics team.

I combine the experience and insight to assess our schools’ needs with the confidence to ask tough questions and make principled decisions. I bring the well-reasoned, articulate leadership we need to strengthen our academics and keep out special-interest politics.

As we address the major maintenance needs in our school buildings, my background leaves me well prepared to analyze the details and crunch the numbers. I see opportunity to dovetail improvements like lab upgrades and more natural light to inspire our students and advance their learning. Yet even amid a big project, each expenditure should be justified as cost efficient and worthy of your tax dollars.

What do you believe are the core responsibilities for someone elected to this office?

Ed sees his role as a steward, prudently investing taxpayer funds into teaching students the skills, character, and wisdom they’ll need to build strong families and careers.

In what areas would you like to expand curriculum? For example, do you see a need for advanced technical training or apprenticeships? What sort of innovative programming would you advance if given the opportunity?

We should continue to expand our college-level and trade-skill courses. Our existing offerings save our students thousands and jump start them on their career path. Let’s bring those opportunities to more subjects, such as computer science.

What organizations or individuals have endorsed your campaign?

Terry Katsma – Wisconsin State Representative (Assembly District 26)

Amy Binsfeld – Wisconsin State Representative (Assembly District 27)
Jacob Immel – City of Sheboygan Falls Common Council Member
Gary Thelen – Sheboygan Falls School District Board Member
Abbie Palenske – Former Sheboygan Falls Middle School Parent-Teacher Associate President

Russ Otten – Republican Party of Sheboygan County Chair

What will you do to build a relationship with parents in the district?

We should expand parent rights and focus on building trust. Parents should decide what’s best for their kids, e.g. on gender identity. We should post instructional material online and end the Gender and Sexuality Alliance bypass of parent, community, and Board review of sex ed content. Letting the community in keeps special interests out.

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