Jim Bartlett

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Jim Bartlett
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Elections and appointments
Last election

June 11, 2024

Education

Associate

New Hampshire Vocational Technical College, 1979

Bachelor's

Purdue University, 1984

Ph.D

North Dakota State University, 1991

Personal
Birthplace
Concord, N.H.
Religion
Reformed Presbyterian
Profession
Teacher/Business Owner
Contact

Jim Bartlett ran for election for North Dakota Superintendent of Public Instruction. He lost in the primary on June 11, 2024.

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

Biography

Jim Bartlett was born in Concord, New Hampshire. He earned an associate degree from New Hampshire Vocational Technical College in 1979, a bachelor's degree from Purdue University in 1984, and a Ph.D. from North Dakota State University in 1991. His career experience includes being a teacher and business owner.[1]

Elections

2024

See also: North Dakota Superintendent of Public Instruction election, 2024

General election

General election for North Dakota Superintendent of Public Instruction

Incumbent Kirsten Baesler defeated Jason Heitkamp in the general election for North Dakota Superintendent of Public Instruction on November 5, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Kirsten Baesler
Kirsten Baesler (Nonpartisan)
 
56.9
 
185,318
Image of Jason Heitkamp
Jason Heitkamp (Nonpartisan)
 
42.4
 
138,085
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.7
 
2,316

Total votes: 325,719
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Nonpartisan primary election

Nonpartisan primary for North Dakota Superintendent of Public Instruction

Incumbent Kirsten Baesler and Jason Heitkamp defeated Jim Bartlett and Darko Draganic in the primary for North Dakota Superintendent of Public Instruction on June 11, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Kirsten Baesler
Kirsten Baesler (Nonpartisan)
 
54.9
 
59,170
Image of Jason Heitkamp
Jason Heitkamp (Nonpartisan)
 
22.1
 
23,837
Image of Jim Bartlett
Jim Bartlett (Nonpartisan) Candidate Connection
 
19.7
 
21,216
Image of Darko Draganic
Darko Draganic (Nonpartisan)
 
3.1
 
3,320
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.3
 
280

Total votes: 107,823
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Endorsements

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Campaign themes

2024

Campaign website

Jim Bartlett’s campaign website stated the following:

The implications of teaching the Ten Commandments are thoroughgoing - including reducing the size of government and increasing liberty for students, parents, and teachers. Some of the positive changes that will be experienced with fully parent-controlled education include:

  1. Choice in where the child goes to school.
  2. Choice on what they learn.
  3. Better behavior with effective discipline.
  4. Less teacher stress and overload with more pay.
  5. Easier to recruit gifted teachers.
  6. Higher, decentralized, parent designed, learning standards.
  7. More self-directed learning.
  8. More parent learning alongside of their children.
  9. Special education handled like homeschooling or with private tutors.
  10. Local financial management for best accountability.
  11. Children treated like people, not cars on an assembly line.
  12. Revival of parents taking responsibility for the education of their children.
  13. Restoration of the Christian work ethic.
  14. Putting ND on the road to the most intelligent, patriotic, highest integrity, and moral future.
  15. Phasing out the DPI and federal indoctrination influences.
  16. North Dakota becoming the happiest state.

[2]

—Jim Bartlett’s campaign website (2024)[3]

Ballotpedia survey responses

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Candidate Connection

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

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My name is Jim Bartlett and I am running to be the ND Superintendent of Public Instruction. North Dakota schools are failing at their constitutional requirements of teaching intelligence, integrity, morality, truthfulness, temperance, purity, and work ethic. It seems like a good time for something new that worked in history.

For background, I went to public schools and colleges, then met my wife while in graduate school at NDSU in Fargo, where I taught engineering for 17 years. I directed the North Dakota Home School Association for 6 years, helped start Christian ministries, schools, and colleges, and now operate Bartlett Farms.

I saw how public education has been institutionally captured by the far left and was being used to advance secular agendas. Through educating our own four boys, we discovered and used many effective solutions to the education issues we face.

I would take a different approach to what is currently being done in the North Dakota public schools. I believe that parents should be directing the education of their children, that the influences from the Department of Public Instruction and federal controls, which interfere with the best education, should be reduced to better serve the parents and taxpayers as the customers.

The ND Superintendent of Public Instruction can do a lot to improve education by rooting out secularism, Marxism, and postmodernism when setting the strategic vision, making policies, & supervising content standards..
  • The academic and moral problems in North Dakota public schools are the result of false philosophies being used for social engineering purposes. These need to be removed to allow teachers the freedom to teach and the freedom to discipline children such that the focus can return to reading, writing, math and good morals - as required by the ND Constitution.
  • God gave parents the right to direct the education of their children, not the state. I can show parents at each school how to put their values into financial statements to identify and then eliminate the wasted social engineering and practical expenses associated with their school operations. How much social emotional learning do you want this year in your school, $50,000? How much antirealism in transgender training, $100,000? How much for this desired 1974 math book for grade 8? Of course, once this sunshine illuminates the bad philosophies, it will be easy to say no to them, and eliminate their presence and expenses and time. And much more.
  • Why not try something better that will quickly root out evil, encourage the good, and get parents and taxpayers back in control. This will result in happier and healthier students and teachers. I believe that what the children are learning in school, with a few tweaks, can make North Dakota the happiest state, because God always rewards these kinds of efforts. Rooting out the bad ideas will give much more time for students to reach the highest standards for the 4 R's Reading, wRiting, aRithmetic, and Reality
I see education policy like Americans saw education policy in 1776. They knew that God had ordained the state to protect people, not provide for them.  In 1926, J Greshem Machen, President of Princeton and Founder of Westminster Seminary spoke before a joint house of Congress to explain why it would be the worst thing for education in the United States if a Department of Education was formed.  His full speech is here: https://reformed.org/christian-family/testimony-before-the-house-and-senate-committees-on-the-proposed-department-of-education-1926-by-j-gresham-machen-1881-1937/  
We have a lot of undoing and protecting to do, to get back to real good education system!
Currently the ND Public School System is producing socialist graduates because of socialist leaders and systems in the Department of Public Instruction. This observation is based on the Nehemiah Institute PEERS test. Socialism is destroying the state and country, education is a root cause of this societal decline and can be fixed with leadership that can see and purge the bad agendas.
Favorite pastor currently is Dr. Paul Michael Raymond. www.reformedbiblechurch.net
Exodus 18:21 has always been the standard for Christian civil government officials. "Able men who fear God, love truth, hate covetousness (which includes socialism). Reference Webster's 1828 for one of many examples in American History.
Romans 1. Reward good, punish evil and know the difference is defined Biblically. No moral relativism allowed.
A return to Christian culture in the ND schools and culture.
Bible. Truth that changes the world.
Psalm 44 in Trinity Psalter to tune of Immortal Invisble.
Setting the strategic vision and marching it through the organizations.
Yes, in fact for every office, people should use the Doctrine of Lesser Magistrates. Essentially, be able to know the difference between legitimate authority that comes from God and illegitimate authority, then obey God rather than man. ref. www.defytyrants.com
No, need people that can discern between good and evil and know the limited role of government is more important.
Understanding the worldviews of our day, knowing that the Marxist ideas of separation of church and state is that the state owns the children and that Christians should be silent, that the idea of neutrality of religion in public schools is impossible, therefore we are currently teaching the religion of secular humanism in the public schools and more.
Transparency should also include worldview or social engineering transparency. Accountability is important for all aspects because all people are inherently sinful and need accountability to God and others.

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Campaign finance summary


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Jim Bartlett campaign contribution history
YearOfficeStatusContributionsExpenditures
2024* North Dakota Superintendent of Public InstructionLost primary$17,740 $0
Grand total$17,740 $0
Sources: OpenSecretsFederal Elections Commission ***This product uses the openFEC API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
* Data from this year may not be complete

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Footnotes

  1. Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on April 30, 2024
  2. Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
  3. Jim Bartlett’s campaign website, “Home,” accessed June 10, 2024