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Jim Bartlett
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 | ||
| ✔ |  | Kirsten Baesler (Nonpartisan) | 56.9 | 185,318 |
 | 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 | ||
| ✔ | | Kirsten Baesler (Nonpartisan) | 54.9 | 59,170 |
| ✔ | | Jason Heitkamp (Nonpartisan) | 22.1 | 23,837 |
 | Jim Bartlett (Nonpartisan) | 19.7 | 21,216 | |
 | Darko Draganic (Nonpartisan) | 3.1 | 3,320 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.3 | 280 | ||
| Total votes: 107,823 | |||
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Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Bartlett in this election.
Campaign themes
2024
Campaign website
Jim Bartlett’s campaign website stated the following:
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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:
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| —Jim Bartlett’s campaign website (2024)[3] | ||
Ballotpedia survey responses
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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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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
We have a lot of undoing and protecting to do, to get back to real good education system!
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Campaign finance summary
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See also
2024 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on April 30, 2024
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Jim Bartlett’s campaign website, “Home,” accessed June 10, 2024
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