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Laura Gannon (Centennial School Board, Minnesota, candidate 2022)

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Laura Gannon
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Candidate, Centennial Public School District, At-large
Elections and appointments
Last election
November 8, 2022
Education
High school
Mater Dei High School
Bachelor's
Cal Poly Pomona, 2003
Graduate
Cal Poly Pomona, 2007
Personal
Birthplace
Los Alamitos, CA
Profession
Software engineer
Contact

Laura Gannon ran for election to the Centennial Public School District, At-large in Minnesota. She was on the ballot in the general election on November 8, 2022.[source]

Gannon completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.

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Elections

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General election

General election for Centennial Public School District, At-large (3 seats)

Laura Gannon, Tom Knisely, Andrew Meyer, Gloria Murphy, and Jessica Schwinn ran in the general election for Centennial Public School District, At-large on November 8, 2022.

Candidate
Laura Gannon (Nonpartisan) Candidate Connection
Tom Knisely (Nonpartisan)
Andrew Meyer (Nonpartisan)
Gloria Murphy (Nonpartisan)
Jessica Schwinn (Nonpartisan)

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Candidate Connection

Laura Gannon completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Gannon's responses.

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I am a Centennial parent who lives in Circle Pines with my husband, Mike, and my two children. My oldest child, Jillian, is 12 and attends Centennial Middle School. My youngest child, Emma, is 3 and will be attending Golden Lake Elementary School in a couple of years. We moved to Minnesota four years ago, when my job took us on a journey far from my home state of California. I love living here and I am always awed by the beauty I can find by just stepping out my front door.

I am also a Systems Software Engineer, which means that I make a lot of decisions about what a user needs in their Software to use a System that performs a job for them. I've designed Systems Software for Radars, Military vehicles, and Cardiac devices and systems used in heart procedures. I have always worked amongst a diverse team of engineers and have led them effectively on design teams.

As a lifelong learner, our children's education is of top importance to me. I recognize we are in a critical time to make changes to help our kids succeed in a new and ever changing landscape of obstacles.
  • Safe environments do not exist in a vacuum, they are created from a culture of support and acceptance at all levels. When everyone knows they belong and that the environment that they learn and work in is supportive of them, the environment becomes a safer one.
  • When everyone is given the same tools and resources without regard to where they are emotionally, physically, financially, and socially, inequity is inevitable. Individuals have differing needs for learning and growing and they need to be honored in order to create equity in our schools.
  • Educating our children honestly, empowers them to think critically and analyze the world around them. Honesty in education means trusting our educators to provide an age appropriate curriculum that tackles increasingly complex issues as our children are ready for them.
I have always valued education. As a child, I learned that knowledge is power and freedom. I was a voracious learner as a child and I still am. I saw an education as something that could lift me beyond the humble life I was born into. I understood how valuable a good education is and what opportunities can open for someone who has a great education. It has always seemed like the sky was the limit if you could only embrace life long learning. I am a lifelong learner and with that comes a person who is able to grow and adjust their opinion and strategy from new insights that are gained. Knowing how valuable my education has been for me, I want every child to have a chance to be as successful as they can be, because they also had an awesome education at their local public school.
The Challenger Space Shuttle explosion. I was five years old and watched it in class with all the other kindergarteners. Our teacher was so excited about the launch, because the first teacher was going into space! It was very unfortunate and shocking to witness at that age. I wouldn't go on a plane until I was 13 years old.

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