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Houston Independent School District elections
General election date
November 2, 2021
Runoff election date
December 11, 2021
Enrollment ('17-'18)
214,175 students

Five seats on the Houston Independent School District school board in Texas were up for general election on November 2, 2021. A general runoff election was held on December 11, 2021. The filing deadline for this election was August 16, 2021.

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Candidates and results

District I

General runoff election

General runoff election for Houston Independent School District, District I

Incumbent Elizabeth Santos defeated Janette Garza Lindner in the general runoff election for Houston Independent School District, District I on December 11, 2021.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Elizabeth Santos (Nonpartisan)	50.5	2,223
		Janette Garza Lindner (Nonpartisan)	49.5	2,175

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 4,398
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General election

General election for Houston Independent School District, District I

Incumbent Elizabeth Santos and Janette Garza Lindner advanced to a runoff. They defeated Matias Kopinsky in the general election for Houston Independent School District, District I on November 2, 2021.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Elizabeth Santos (Nonpartisan)	41.6	3,940
✔		Janette Garza Lindner (Nonpartisan)	35.0	3,315
		Matias Kopinsky (Nonpartisan)	23.5	2,225

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 9,480
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District V

General runoff election

General runoff election for Houston Independent School District, District V

Incumbent Sue Deigaard defeated Caroline Walter in the general runoff election for Houston Independent School District, District V on December 11, 2021.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Sue Deigaard (Nonpartisan)	63.9	8,584
		Caroline Walter (Nonpartisan)	36.1	4,851

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 13,435
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General election

General election for Houston Independent School District, District V

Incumbent Sue Deigaard and Caroline Walter advanced to a runoff. They defeated Maria Benzon in the general election for Houston Independent School District, District V on November 2, 2021.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Sue Deigaard (Nonpartisan)	49.5	7,921
✔		Caroline Walter (Nonpartisan)	36.3	5,814
		Maria Benzon (Nonpartisan)	14.2	2,276

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 16,011
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District VI

General runoff election

General runoff election for Houston Independent School District, District VI

Kendall Baker defeated incumbent Holly Maria Flynn Vilaseca in the general runoff election for Houston Independent School District, District VI on December 11, 2021.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Kendall Baker (Nonpartisan)	50.7	2,700
		Holly Maria Flynn Vilaseca (Nonpartisan)	49.3	2,625

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 5,325
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General election

General election for Houston Independent School District, District VI

Incumbent Holly Maria Flynn Vilaseca and Kendall Baker advanced to a runoff. They defeated Gregory Degeyter in the general election for Houston Independent School District, District VI on November 2, 2021.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Holly Maria Flynn Vilaseca (Nonpartisan)	42.5	3,422
✔		Kendall Baker (Nonpartisan)	40.1	3,229
		Gregory Degeyter (Nonpartisan)	17.4	1,405

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 8,056
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District VII

General runoff election

General runoff election for Houston Independent School District, District VII

Bridget Wade defeated incumbent Anne Sung in the general runoff election for Houston Independent School District, District VII on December 11, 2021.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Bridget Wade (Nonpartisan)	53.7	6,705
		Anne Sung (Nonpartisan)	46.3	5,790

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 12,495
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General election

General election for Houston Independent School District, District VII

Bridget Wade and incumbent Anne Sung advanced to a runoff. They defeated Lee Macerlaen Walker and Dwight Jefferson in the general election for Houston Independent School District, District VII on November 2, 2021.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Bridget Wade (Nonpartisan)	40.8	6,118
✔		Anne Sung (Nonpartisan)	36.8	5,509
		Lee Macerlaen Walker (Nonpartisan)	19.6	2,944
	Submit photo	Dwight Jefferson (Nonpartisan)	2.8	413

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 14,984
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District IX

General election

General election for Houston Independent School District, District IX

Incumbent Myrna Guidry defeated Gerry Monroe and Joshua Rosales in the general election for Houston Independent School District, District IX on November 2, 2021.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Submit photo	Myrna Guidry (Nonpartisan)	60.6	4,854
		Gerry Monroe (Nonpartisan)	22.4	1,793
		Joshua Rosales (Nonpartisan)	17.0	1,357

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 8,004
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Candidate survey responses

District I

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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?

Janette Garza Lindner (Nonpartisan)

STUDENTS FIRST. Our children must have access to the education they deserve, even as the pandemic continues to disrupt daily life. The quality of our schools must be equitable for all students in the district. Our most vulnerable students must not be overlooked and must receive the resources and support they need.

BALANCED BUDGET. Pass a fiscally responsible and realistic budget based on the needs of students that reflects the vision and values of our community. We have allowed our fund balance to grow unusually large instead of serving our students through additional services or giving teachers raises. The board must operate in an open and transparent way that allows the community to have input into the board decision-making process.

TEACHER PAY. Managing the budget in a fiscally responsible way will enable the district to raise teacher salaries to competitive levels. Teachers are the district’s most important asset. HISD must hire, retain, and nurture the best teacher talent in our region. If we are to improve student outcomes we must raise salaries and create conditions to allow our teachers to effectively respond to the needs of their students. We have left money on the table that has been allotted by the state (House Bill 3 2019) to pay our best teachers an incentive to teach at our most struggling schools through the Teacher Incentive Allotment (TIA) program. HISD elected to start this in Spring 2022.

Matias Kopinsky (Nonpartisan)

Keeping money in schools

Retaining Top Educator Talent

Push for better health insurance for all district employees

Elizabeth Santos (Nonpartisan)

Our district has struggled to pay teachers and staff enough to recruit and keep the most talented educators. While in office, I led multiple successful efforts to raise teacher and support-staff salaries. The largest employee organizations in the district are endorsing me because they know how important it is to have someone on the board that gets the job done. And in that respect, my track record speaks for itself.

My priorities have always derived from my belief that our tax dollars should be used where they have the greatest impact on our students—in the classrooms. To that end, I will continue to push for more competitive pay and better working conditions for our educators. I will continue advocating for additional funding for students with special needs, students learning English, and students striving to overcome the challenges of poverty.

I have long advocated for the community-schools model because it creates the social power necessary for us to close the longstanding gaps caused by decades of inequity. Schools are the souls of our communities. When properly supported, they amplify the power that comes from the unique and rich identities of our people. They become a resource and a rallying point. We saw that when our community schools distributed food and medical services at various times during the pandemic. One thing I’m very proud of is that we have budgeted for every school in the district to have a wraparound specialist—a person working in the school dedicated to connecting students with community resources.

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

Janette Garza Lindner (Nonpartisan)

In addition to education, a few other policy areas I am passionate about include health care, especially removing the stigma from mental and emotional health services; agriculture and food policy, including improvements to ensure the nutritional value of our food supply is improved and regenerative practices are more widely used; and our country’s energy policy, especially innovation in generation, transmission and storage to meet our country’s needs for the next 100 years.

Matias Kopinsky (Nonpartisan)

The board has made numerous controversial decisions in recent years and appears to be swayed more by its campaign contributors than the needs of our fellow constituents. Every few years, vendors can donate an increased amount to campaign contributions, which leads the board to be more influenced by its campaign contributors instead of taking into account the needs of its individual communities.

Being an outsider and not working in education means that I have no biases. I have no obligation to any source that seeks to profit from HISD and its students. I pledge not to accept any donation from those who want to do business with HISD. I will do my best to prevent anyone from enriching themselves at the expense of our students.. As a trustee, I will strengthen ethics rules while decreasing the campaign contribution cap to pre- 2016 levels.

While the current HISD trustees have been responsible for a $2 billion budget, only half of that money has ever seen the classroom. The board continuously votes to decrease the percentage of money that is spent on its most valuable assets: its teachers. Educators are what make up the backbone of the district and should be compensated properly. As a trustee, I will use my youth and energy to work tirelessly on ensuring that all employees on campuses are properly compensated for their work. This will put our tax dollars where they are meant to be: with our children.

Elizabeth Santos (Nonpartisan)

I am passionate about demanding that all students have the opportunity to enrich their lives through public education. Our district--like many throughout the state--has structural barriers in its policy that prevent the stable development of arts programs in schools. We put test scores before everything else, including the arts. A school that is struggling to bring test scores up to passing levels is likely to cut a fine arts teacher to hire a STAAR tutor. Part of my role as a policy leader, as I see it, is to show education stakeholders the harm caused by the obsession with "outcomes" in the form of test scores alone. We cannot honestly say that arts education is important on one hand while defending rating systems that reduce schools to a single letter-grade based on their test scores.

Who do you look up to? Whose example would you like to follow, and why?

Janette Garza Lindner (Nonpartisan)

There are many people that I look up to so I will list just a sample: Stacy Abrams for her inspirational work and call to action for more people (like me) to pursue public office; Lina Hidalgo for her tireless work in the face of constant challenge and criticism; Warren Buffett for acknowledging the advantages that helped him grow his early investments into a massive fortune and criticising the systems (such as our tax code that taxes lower incomes at a higher percentage than higher incomes) that provide unequal benefits to our citizens; and meteorologist Joe Bastardi, whose entertaining hurricane coverage inspired me as a young girl to want to pursue this as a career (and thumbs down to the “how much math do you need for this job” poster on my 6th grade classroom wall for discouraging me from pursuing this as a career.)

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

Janette Garza Lindner (Nonpartisan)

I am a thoughtful, passionate leader who works tirelessly to solve problems and serve others. My commitment to improving access to high-quality education for our Houston students is driven by a belief that all children deserve an education that lets them live the future they choose. I am also driven by a belief that every child can learn, and when we enable and support our teachers, we can help them effectively educate every child no matter their background. I am a lifelong learner and avid reader. I believe the most important thing we can teach our students is HOW to learn effectively to enable them to be successful as our workplaces become more complex and the need to adapt in our careers continues to increase.

Matias Kopinsky (Nonpartisan)

I am honest and caring. I am a good person. When a friend of mine is need, I try my best to help them out. This is all equivalent to being a good leader and officeholder. If you care for your constituents and are transparent with them, then they will be willing to tell me what challenges they face in their schools. This relationship with faculty and parents will enable me to better the district.

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

Janette Garza Lindner (Nonpartisan)

A school board trustee’s primary responsibilities are to represent the vision and values of our community, hire and manage the superintendent, and set the budget for the district in order to improve student outcomes. These must be informed by active engagement with the community, and continuous learning about the issues impacting our students’ educational attainment and the systemic challenges that board members must understand when making decisions.

What is the first historical event that happened in your lifetime that you remember? How old were you at the time?

Janette Garza Lindner (Nonpartisan)

I remember watching the Challenger shuttle explosion on TV at school. I especially remember a teacher in our school who cried so hard because she was a finalist in the Teacher in Space program. I can’t imagine the feeling of almost being the one on that shuttle and watching it explode with your colleague on it.

What was your very first job? How long did you have it?

Janette Garza Lindner (Nonpartisan)

When I was 15 I started working at HEB, a well known Texas grocery chain, as a cashier. I worked there for 3 years until I graduated from high school and I left town to attend college at University of Texas at Austin.

Matias Kopinsky (Nonpartisan)

I was a soccer referee from the ages of 11-18. I originally started reffing games of the U-7 and U-8 level, and later moved up all the way to the open division. This job taught me leadership and how to hold my ground. I was able to keep this job through middle and high school due to games being on Saturdays and Sundays. I would usually ref about 4-6 hours a weekend among working other part time jobs.

What is your favorite book? Why?

Matias Kopinsky (Nonpartisan)

The Glass Castle. This book inspired me to be the best person I can be. There are numerous challenges in life one faces, but when one approaches them, the choice is very clear. You either face your challenges or run away from them. The story shows how someone who has been through challenges her whole life, was still able to succeed due to her perseverance. Oh, I also met the author in 10th grade, which was awesome.

What was the last song that got stuck in your head?

Janette Garza Lindner (Nonpartisan)

Cats Sit on You by the Story Pirates.

What is the primary job of a school board member in your view?

Janette Garza Lindner (Nonpartisan)

A school board trustee’s primary responsibilities are to represent the vision and values of our community, hire and manage the superintendent, and set the budget for the district in order to improve student outcomes. These must be informed by active engagement with the community, and continuous learning about the issues impacting our students’ educational attainment and the systemic challenges that board members must understand when making decisions.

Matias Kopinsky (Nonpartisan)

The primary job of a school board member should be to better education for all children. That is the reason to serve. Education is the gateway out of poverty, and with a nonbiased, uncorrupt school board, there is a chance to benefit all children.

Who are your constituents?

Janette Garza Lindner (Nonpartisan)

My constituents are all the students in Houston ISD, their families, and our community.

How would you support the diverse needs of your district’s students, faculty, staff, and community?

Janette Garza Lindner (Nonpartisan)

Through active communication, listening, and learning from our students, their families, our faculty and staff, and our community; continuous learning about the issues that matter most to these groups; and leveraging the resources available to me as a board member to make well-informed decisions that consider the impact of our diverse Houston population.

How will you build relationships with members of the broader community? Which groups, organizations, stakeholders will you specifically target?

Janette Garza Lindner (Nonpartisan)

My job as a trustee is to represent the vision and values of our community. The broader community includes the civic, education, social service, and business organizations that all have a stake in the benefits that a well-educated student population will bring. I will build relationships by being available to these groups via community meetings and forums, and any other means of communication as appropriate.

Do you believe it is important to intentionally recruit with the aim of diversifying the district’s faculty, staff, and administration? If so, what would be your policy to achieve this?

Janette Garza Lindner (Nonpartisan)

Yes, and I would approach this by understanding the underlying reasons why we are challenged to recruit diverse talent. For example, ane area that is well understood is teacher pay, but what is not commonly understood is how low teacher salaries contribute to the low number of Latino and Black teachers. We have to understand the root cause of systemic problems to design appropriate solutions.

What issues get in the way of quality education? How would you address these obstacles?

Janette Garza Lindner (Nonpartisan)

The biggest issue in the way of quality education is adults who put their priorities above student outcomes. When we are brave enough to make tough decisions that are for the benefit of students first, our education system will move in a direction that benefits our kids.

What constitutes good teaching? How will you measure this? How will you support advanced teaching approaches?

Janette Garza Lindner (Nonpartisan)

Teacher evaluation is a difficult and fiercely debated topic. I expect the superintendent to work with administration and principals to develop and evolve an evaluation system that promotes teacher quality, that avoids surprises and encourages a culture of growth, collaboration, and continuous improvement. I don't have the solution but I do believe it should contribute to a teacher’s growth and professional goals and help support a positive interaction with their students, peers, and administration. I am a working mother who designs and conducts performance evaluations for my firm, so I believe evaluations should measure a variety of factors to consider the whole teacher experience and should absolutely factor in the specific situation for a given teacher, e.g., middle school ESL teachers in a school with a high population of immigrant students cannot be fairly compared with middle school gym teachers in an affluent neighborhood with a stable student population. Metrics should include student performance based on standardized test growth and results, but a teacher's performance is multi-faceted and should consider skills that differentiate great teachers, including professionalism, collaboration, organizational skills, preparedness, strong communication skills, maintaining a high standard for their students, and showing respect for students and their families. By doing this, advanced teaching approaches will be supported and encouraged.

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?

Janette Garza Lindner (Nonpartisan)

I want to ensure the arts are included as part of a complete education. I also want to see our curriculum focus on teaching students how to learn because that is what is needed to enable our children to be ready for the workforce. Our state’s businesses already struggle to hire qualified talent, and this need will only grow as jobs become more technologically complex.

What strategies or plans would you advance to ensure the schools are properly funded?

Janette Garza Lindner (Nonpartisan)

We have to start with a realistic, fiscally responsible, balanced budget that our Board monitors closely. We also need to take advantage of state funds already available that we are not using to pay our teachers an incentive to teach at our most struggling schools. We must shrink our bloated central office and move that money directly to our schools. We should also leverage the thousands of nonprofit organizations in our region who aim to support our community in numerous ways. Through the careful establishment of partnerships with clear expectations and outcomes outlined, and metrics measured on a regular basis, we can help our students be ready to learn when they get to the classroom.

What principles drive your policies for safety in schools?

Janette Garza Lindner (Nonpartisan)

Students need to feel safe in order to learn. As a parent, I know there is only so much I can do to keep my children safe in an ever evolving and complex world. I must apply a multi-faceted approach to my children’s upbringing that includes creating safe spaces, teaching them to avoid risky situations, and teaching them what to do when in an unsafe situation so they may be able to help and protect themselves. Those principles would drive my view on policies for safe schools, with the added advice and input from experts to enable us to make the best decisions for all our Houston students, and always with the input from our students, their families, faculty and staff, and our wider community. We have to create spaces that are safe, but we also need to provide age-appropriate guidance that helps students feel they are enabled to solve problems and de-escalate and resolve conflict because it is impossible to plan for every possible situation. We must also urge our wider community to address the root-causes of our community challenges, and have a 2-way dialogue with local leaders so they understand what our students, faculty and staff are dealing with so we can devise solutions together that can continue to keep everyone in our schools safe.

How might you support the mental health needs of students/faculty/staff?

Janette Garza Lindner (Nonpartisan)

The pandemic has brought challenges to students’ social and emotional health and has hindered their academic achievement. As a community we must acknowledge the severe impact that this has had throughout our community. We must enable our students to learn how to be resilient in the face of challenging events so they may thrive no matter what the future may bring. HISD must provide mental health support to kids so they can focus on accelerating their learning. Our students, faculty, and staff need access to quality mental health care, and principals must encourage a collaborative working environment where teachers and staff can support each other and students. Our district must bear the weight of all the societal challenges upon our school community; it is unfair for any district to be expected to meet all these needs alone. HISD must work with local leaders and organizations to collaboratively address the many challenges that get in the way of letting our children learn.

What role do you imagine technology playing in (and outside) the classroom in the future? How would you prepare the district for this?

Janette Garza Lindner (Nonpartisan)

As an IT professional I see the impact and value of technology on the ways we live and work. Technology is central to our lives but must be considered a tool for teaching, not a means to an end. Highly-qualified teachers in classrooms with our students is still the best way to improve student outcomes. I would ensure that we are not using technology for its own sake, and consider the strain that adopting new technology in our classrooms puts on our faculty and staff. District-wide tools must be considered carefully and employed only after proven effective across varied populations, and with faculty and staff input. Our students must learn how to learn to keep up with ever-evolving technology and be prepared for the lifetime of learning that future careers will demand.

What are your views on how to address schooling during pandemic times?

Janette Garza Lindner (Nonpartisan)

The pandemic has brought challenges to students’ social and emotional health and has hindered their academic achievement. HISD must provide mental health support to kids so they can focus on accelerating their learning. HISD teachers need access to mental health care, and principals must encourage a collaborative working environment where teachers and staff can support each other and students. We must address the significant learning loss experienced by all our students, and address the root causes for why our Black and Latino students experienced such severe learning loss compared to other students. How to do this starts by managing our budget well to pay higher salaries to our teachers. This will enable us to attract and retain highly qualified teachers for all our students, especially those in our most struggling schools. We must also enable our faculty and staff to address learning loss with the tools and approaches they know to work for their student populations. We must enable teachers, staff and administration to meet each student where they are at and personalize their learning as much as possible to help them close the learning gaps that were widened by the pandemic.

What will you do to build a relationship with parents in the district? What plans do you have to be inclusive of parental involvement?

Janette Garza Lindner (Nonpartisan)

I intend to build a communication plan that ensures the busiest of parents and families still have ways to reach me easily and participate in meetings and information sessions. This includes leveraging technology to assist, including language and translation services, and being available via phone and email for those who cannot attend meetings.

Matias Kopinsky (Nonpartisan)

Attend PTO/PTA meetings. I would also hold open office hours on zoom in order to answer questions parents may have.

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The Houston Independent School District is located in Harris County, Texas. The district served 215,627 students during the 2015-2016 school year.

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