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Jorge Pacheco Jr.
2024 - Present
2028
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Jorge Pacheco Jr. is a member of the Santa Clara County Board of Education in California, representing Trustee Area 4. He assumed office on December 13, 2024. His current term ends on December 8, 2028.
Pacheco ran for election to the Santa Clara County Board of Education to represent Trustee Area 4 in California. He won in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Biography
Pacheco holds the following degrees: an A.A. in liberal arts from De Anza Community College, a B.A. in anthropology and legal studies from UC Berkeley, and an M.A. in urban education: educational policy and administration from Loyola Marymount University. He is an elementary and middle school teacher.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: Municipal elections in Santa Clara County, California (2024)
General election
General election for Santa Clara County Board of Education Trustee Area 4
Jorge Pacheco Jr. defeated Tomara Hall, Shane Lewis, and Tammy Slaughter in the general election for Santa Clara County Board of Education Trustee Area 4 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Jorge Pacheco Jr. (Nonpartisan) | 41.3 | 41,455 |
| Tomara Hall (Nonpartisan) | 33.2 | 33,356 | ||
 | Shane Lewis (Nonpartisan)  | 21.3 | 21,391 | |
 | Tammy Slaughter (Nonpartisan) | 4.3 | 4,284 | |
| Total votes: 100,486 | |||
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Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Pacheco in this election.
2022
See also: Oak Grove School District, California, elections (2022)
General election
The general election was canceled. Jorge Pacheco Jr. (Nonpartisan) won without appearing on the ballot.
2018
General election
General election for Oak Grove School District Trustee Area 3
Jorge Pacheco Jr. defeated incumbent Dennis D. Hawkins and Kaushik Joglekar in the general election for Oak Grove School District Trustee Area 3 on November 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Jorge Pacheco Jr. (Nonpartisan) | 52.8 | 3,295 |
 | Dennis D. Hawkins (Nonpartisan) | 41.1 | 2,563 | |
 | Kaushik Joglekar (Nonpartisan) | 6.1 | 378 | |
| Total votes: 6,236 | |||
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Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
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2022
Jorge Pacheco Jr. did not complete Ballotpedia's 2022 Candidate Connection survey.
2018
Ballotpedia biographical submission form
The candidate completed Ballotpedia's biographical information submission form:
| “ | What is your political philosophy?
Pacheco Jr. was born, raised and taught in the Oak Grove School District. As a near high school dropout who became the first in his family to earn a college degree, he knows firsthand how education can change lives for the better, which is why he returned to his hometown of San Jose to serve his community's youth and families as a public school teacher. Nothing is more important than the education of the next generation. He wants to make sure that his district's teachers are paid enough to live in the city that they teach, he wants to fix the district's fiscal deficit by creating new revenue streams and eliminating unnecessary spending, and he wants to increase student enrollment and achievement by providing innovative educational programs such as coding, business, economics, ethnic studies and bilingual education. As a teacher and alumnus who was failed by the district himself, he wants to close the achievement and opportunity gap that nearly robbed him of his future and that of thousands of others in the district who also fell through the cracks. Lastly, in a district that is 50% Latinx, Pacheco Jr. also wants to make sure that the Latinx community has representation on the school board, which would be for the first time in the district's history. |
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| —Jorge Pacheco Jr.[1] | ||
See also
2024 Elections
External links
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Candidate Santa Clara County Board of Education Trustee Area 4 |
Personal |
Footnotes
