Leticia Ozuna

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Leticia Ozuna

Nonpartisan

Prior offices

San Antonio Independent School District, District 3

Successor: Jacob Ramos

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Elections and appointments

Last election

May 3, 2025

Education

High school

Thomas Jefferson High School

Bachelor's

University of Texas at Austin

Graduate

Our Lady of the Lake University, 2017

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Profession

Systems engineer

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Leticia Ozuna was a member of the San Antonio Independent School District school board in Texas, representing District 3. She assumed office on May 17, 2021. She left office on May 12, 2025.

Ozuna ran for re-election to the San Antonio Independent School District school board to represent District 3 in Texas. She lost in the general election on May 3, 2025.

Ozuna completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. Click here to read the survey answers.

Biography

Leticia Ozuna earned a high school diploma from Thomas Jefferson High School, a bachelor's degree from the University of Texas at Austin, and a graduate degree from Our Lady of the Lake University in 2017. Her career experience includes working as a systems engineer.

Elections

2025

See also: San Antonio Independent School District, Texas, elections (2025)

General election

General election for San Antonio Independent School District, District 3

Jacob Ramos defeated incumbent Leticia Ozuna in the general election for San Antonio Independent School District, District 3 on May 3, 2025.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Submit photo	Jacob Ramos (Nonpartisan)	59.5	1,182
		Leticia Ozuna (Nonpartisan)	40.5	806

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 1,988
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Endorsements

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2021

See also: San Antonio Independent School District, Texas, elections (2021)

General election

General election for San Antonio Independent School District, District 3

Leticia Ozuna defeated Judit Vega in the general election for San Antonio Independent School District, District 3 on May 1, 2021.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Leticia Ozuna (Nonpartisan)	55.1	1,806
	Submit photo	Judit Vega (Nonpartisan)	44.9	1,472

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 3,278
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Campaign themes

2025

Ballotpedia survey responses

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Leticia Ozuna completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Ozuna's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

Leticia Ozuna was elected to the Board of Trustees in May of 2021. She is a third generation SAISD alumni and a proud parent of a recent SAISD graduate. Ms. Ozuna served on the San Antonio City Council and the San Antonio Water System Board of Trustees. As an active parent, she supported students as a Girl Scout Leader, a sports team mom, and a PTA member. Professionally, she is a Sytems Engineer, and Cloud and Cybersecurity Subject Matter Expert . Her post-secondary education and degrees are from the University of Texas at Austin, Texas A&M at College Station and Our Lady of the Lake University, San Antonio. Ms. Ozuna is an outcome oriented collaborator and looks forward to serving her community.

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?

• A good Trustee understands their role in providing good governance, representation, and sound fiscal oversight. Leticia has vast experience serving on both the city council and as a trustee for the San Antonio Water System, which has given her an advantage to immediately take on leadership roles to advance the board goals. This is particularly important when it comes to understanding the larger federal and state ecosystem as it pertains to the board’s priorities in a time when public school funding is at risk.
• Leticia has a commitment to the district Strategic Management Plan, referred to as “Always Learning” and the goals and guardrails she worked to develop along with her fellow board members. Goals to improve reading and writing outcomes for all students, to improve math outcomes specifically for Black students, improve college readiness for students with disabilities, and to improve social emotional readiness in all students. She believes in the guardrails that guide their decision making: to embrace our community, support excellent schools in every neighborhood, to create safe environments, and to ensure equitable funding. Leticia’s own strategic work has been instrumental in consistent measurable improvement towards these goals.
• Every child, at every school deserves the best teachers, facilities, curriculum, and services in a space that provides safe and affirming learning environments. There is no one way to teach a child and no one way to learn, and so providing choice in the district and resources to our parents to make informed decisions is a critical part of the board’s role. To be advocates for every school and every child is a job Leticia takes seriously. Whether it’s at an art show or football game, an open house for incoming Kindergartners or convocation for graduating seniors, the priority is the whole student experience and the ability to responsibly provide those opportunities to each student and their families for years to come.

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

As a student who struggled in school herself, Leticia is passionate about ensuring each students’ needs are met, and their strengths are the foundation of their education. After finding success in areas not typical for young women, she wanted to make sure all options were open to all students which is why she is passionate about STEM education in public schools, and providing choices for students to succeed in their areas of strength and where parents can be engaged in their child’s education and success. Furthermore, Leticia is passionate about ensuring equitable access to education so that every child has access to quality services and leaves school a success.

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

"De Colores" by Joan Baez was being sung at the recent Cesar Chavez March for Unity a few weekends ago and the entire crowd sang along. When everyone from Korean War Veterans to preschoolers are singing together, it was impossible not to have it stick with you.

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

The primary responsibility of a school board trustee is to serve as an elected representative reflecting our community's values and priorities. As stewards of the local educational system, our duty is to ensure district decisions align with community values while maintaining financial health, evaluating leadership effectiveness, and fostering meaningful community engagement and investment in our schools. Through this balanced approach, we create an educational environment that truly serves the needs and aspirations of the community that entrusted us with this vital role.

Who are your constituents?

Our school district constituents extend beyond voters to include all school system employees (the city's 7th largest employer), students, families, and the businesses that ultimately hire our graduates.

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

We support our diverse community through a governance structure with established guardrails that center community input in all significant decisions. The entire board is committed to this community-centered approach. We maintain accountability to our goals through active stakeholder participation, making this a fundamental principle in addressing the diverse needs of our district's students, faculty, staff, and community members.

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

It's not how I will, but how I am building relationships—this is ongoing work. As trustees, we engage with advisory councils, committee members, and staff while maintaining connections with other elected officials to find alignment and leverage resources toward shared goals. These partners include state legislators, county commissioners, city council members, municipal and utilities boards trustees, and other school boards. I'm committed to working with all stakeholders to develop shared goals for our students while adhering to the guardrails established in our Always Learning Plan. Success requires collaboration both within our system and alongside external partners.

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

While the board celebrates and recognizes excellence in teaching at every opportunity, the role of governance doesn’t oversee the implementation or instruction. We provide the overall resources and policies to support and evaluate our superintendent and the superintendent is accountable to the Board they determine the levels of excellence and what support we can provide to achieve those results.

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?

The board sets the educational policy to align with state standards and district leadership is responsible for the selection and implementation of the curricula. It’s critical to understand that while we may oversee policy and have the ability to allocate the resources to ensure curriculum is available, the precise selection is left to district educational leadership who are best equipped to make these selections. SAISD is distinguished by our innovation and strategic partnerships. We collaborate with Alamo Colleges to provide early college learning opportunities and, as a board, commit resources to these educational advancements. While supporting programs in curriculum development, our primary role is establishing partnership expectations. We've developed Texas's most innovative partnering models in public education, as evidenced by our collaborations with the Center for Applied Science and Technology (CAST), Public Montessori in Action, Alamo Colleges, UTSA, P-TECH implementation across high school campuses, and numerous choice campuses that allow students to select learning pathways aligned with their passions and desired academic rigor.
We are the state leader in successfully bringing in partner programs into our schools, and we are effectively innovating to bring in instructors for programs that can provide students skills that the market values, cyber-security, culinary, drone, automotive and aerospace are just a few of the areas of interest.

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

Our strategy for ensuring proper school funding operates on many fronts:

First, we maintain strong relationships with our delegation in the State Legislature while coordinating efforts to bring parents to the Capitol. This centers parent voices in our advocacy work and creates powerful firsthand testimonials about funding needs.
Second, we practice complete transparency regarding our finances. Every budget cycle is public, published, and trackable. Citizens can monitor each allocation from state, federal, and local sources.
Third, both the Trustee and Superintendent are firmly committed to maintaining relationships with our elected representatives to advocate for adequate funding.

Given that Texas school finance remains chronically underfunded despite the recapture system and demonstrated needs, our approach combines persistent advocacy with transparent financial management to demonstrate we maximize the impact of every dollar received.

What principles drive your policies for safety in schools?

Student and staff safety is paramount in our decision-making. We approach safety through three core principles:

First, we maintain robust physical security measures, regularly consulting with law enforcement to assess and enhance our defensive capabilities.
Second, we emphasize prevention through strong mental health support. We've established student social and emotional health as a board goal, not just for academic outcomes but for holistic wellbeing.
Third, we're committed to building student resilience. Our policies aim to ensure all students develop social and emotional readiness, providing them with the tools to navigate challenges effectively.

These principles guide our comprehensive approach to creating safe learning environments where students can focus on education rather than concerns about their security.

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

We acknowledge the critical importance of mental health and have established it as a specific board goal. Our support strategy includes providing proper facilities, such as PEACE rooms where students can access trained personnel who address root causes of behavioral issues rather than just symptoms. We've also implemented policy changes that emphasize restorative practices over punitive measures. As a board, our role is to make these initiatives possible through strategic resource allocation, including budget prioritization, facility development, and empowering the superintendent to implement necessary personnel changes and program updates. The health and well-being of our faculty and staff is at the forefront as well and we recently changed our leave policies to allow for extended bereavement.

What existing district policies would you like to change, or what new policies would you like to implement?

All trustees take an oath to abide by local, state and federal laws. In the past 6 months the board reviewed the entire body of policies for the district. We retired obsolete or redundant policies and revised policies to assure clear lines of accountability.

I would very much like to have some control over how we are governed at the state or national level but have to comply with state and federal law.

Describe your ideal learning environment for students.

Always learning is the framework we developed with hundreds of hours of input from families, students and staff over the course of months through 2022. In these first years of implementation this continues to be informed by the input of families and students and staff and is a living document meant to be continually refined to best meet our community’s needs.

There no cookie cutter approach to a classroom that can produce students who are performing well; we know that our district, with some classrooms that are over 100 years old, this can vary greatly. But we also know that we provide the means for students to be self-directed, empowered, and able to choose educational pathways that include a future they envision for themselves in an environment that is safe, affirming and well-resourced.

How do you feel like your school district handled the coronavirus pandemic? What, if anything, would you do differently in the future?

In hindsight, I think the board would look at the authority and decison-making at the superintendent level especially with regard to school closing. I would go to our Always Learning plan, our goals and guardrails and to what our commitment to learning is. This community informed document has been a living breathing document that informs and provides structure for accountability.

What will you do to build a relationship with parents in the district?

As a parent of an SAISD graduate, I understand firsthand the critical importance of parent involvement from pre-K through graduation. I will prioritize:

Implementing our governance accountability structure that mandates authentic community engagement before any major board decisions
Utilizing campus advisory committees to provide parents with reliable information and direct access to the Board
Centering parents in decision-making processes affecting their children
Ensuring parents have access to vital information about campus safety, student programs, school calendars, partnerships, and projects
Even during significant changes like right-sizing, campus mergers, or facility updates, I will ensure parents have a seat at the table, particularly when selecting campus leadership. Our specific Guardrail policy states: "The Superintendent will not implement major decisions of the board without authentic community engagement, including students, staff, families, and community."

Building trust with families isn't just policy—it's personal to me. I believe that when parents are properly informed and included, better decisions are made for our students.

What are your preferred strategies for faculty, staff, and administration recruitment?

While the Board doesn't directly recruit or dictate hiring strategies for individual campuses, we enable community partnerships that lead to successful program implementation. We support initiatives like the Teacher Pipeline and SAISD Homegrown program, which create career growth opportunities for current staff and partner with local institutions for training and credentialing. These programs build pathways for substitute teachers and instructional assistants to become certified teachers. The Board participates in selecting and evaluating the superintendent to ensure they can effectively develop recruitment strategies and utilize these partnerships. As trustees, we understand our governance role is to create the foundation for successful recruitment through policy, resource management, relationship-building, and accountability, while leaving implementation to administrators.

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2021

Leticia Ozuna did not complete Ballotpedia's 2021 Candidate Connection survey.

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