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Mary Bone
Mary Bone was a member of the Round Rock Independent School District in Texas, representing Place 2. She assumed office on November 19, 2020. She left office on November 21, 2024.
Bone (Republican Party) ran for election to the Texas State Board of Education to represent District 10. She lost in the Republican primary runoff on May 28, 2024.
Bone completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Mary Bone earned a graduate degree from Iowa State University in 2007 and a Ph.D. from the Stevens Institute of Technology in 2015. Her career experience includes working as a systems engineer.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: Texas State Board of Education election, 2024
General election
General election for Texas State Board of Education District 10
Incumbent Tom Maynard defeated Raquel Saenz Ortiz in the general election for Texas State Board of Education District 10 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Tom Maynard (R) | 67.6 | 594,496 |
 | Raquel Saenz Ortiz (D)  | 32.4 | 285,508 | |
| Total votes: 880,004 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
Republican primary runoff election
Republican primary runoff for Texas State Board of Education District 10
Incumbent Tom Maynard defeated Mary Bone in the Republican primary runoff for Texas State Board of Education District 10 on May 28, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Tom Maynard | 51.8 | 24,658 |
 | Mary Bone | 48.2 | 22,924 | |
| Total votes: 47,582 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Texas State Board of Education District 10
Raquel Saenz Ortiz defeated Daniel Caldwell in the Democratic primary for Texas State Board of Education District 10 on March 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Raquel Saenz Ortiz | 78.6 | 35,622 |
 | Daniel Caldwell | 21.4 | 9,703 | |
| Total votes: 45,325 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Texas State Board of Education District 10
Incumbent Tom Maynard and Mary Bone advanced to a runoff. They defeated Daniel Caldwell in the Republican primary for Texas State Board of Education District 10 on March 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Tom Maynard | 49.3 | 101,741 |
| ✔ | | Mary Bone | 40.5 | 83,497 |
| Daniel Caldwell | 10.3 | 21,162 | |
| Total votes: 206,400 | |||
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Green convention
Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Daniel Caldwell (G)
Libertarian convention
Libertarian convention for Texas State Board of Education District 10
Gerald McAlexander advanced from the Libertarian convention for Texas State Board of Education District 10 on March 23, 2024.
Candidate | ||
| ✔ | Gerald McAlexander (L) | |
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Daniel Caldwell (L)
Campaign finance
Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Bone in this election.
2020
See also: Round Rock Independent School District, Texas, elections (2020)
General election
General election for Round Rock Independent School District Place 2
Mary Bone defeated Lacey Mase and Cornell Woolridge in the general election for Round Rock Independent School District Place 2 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Mary Bone (Nonpartisan) | 38.2 | 32,531 |
| Lacey Mase (Nonpartisan) | 34.0 | 28,998 | ||
| Cornell Woolridge (Nonpartisan) | 27.8 | 23,727 | ||
| Total votes: 85,256 | |||
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Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Mary Bone completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Bone's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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Mary and her husband, Jason, have been married for 24 adventurous years. They have two children in public schools. Mary is a Christian and attends Fellowship Church.
Mary has a PhD in Systems Engineering. She currently consults for NASA and teaches at a university in Norway. Mary spent many years supporting the US Military. She also manages her family’s farming business.
Mary was 2019 Volunteer of the Year at her daughter’s school, where she was also the PTA President. For 5 years, Mary instilled character and leadership skills in girls as a Unit Leader for American Heritage Girls. Mary enjoys volunteering in her community and deeply loves America.
Mary had a humble upbringing and attended a low-income rural school. She is passionate that all students deserve an excellent education.
As a member of the Texas State Board of Education, she will fight to ensure Texas kids are taught to love their country and state, to value family and service, and to learn responsibility.- ENDING WOKE CULTURE - The mind-virus of wokeness is spreading rapidly through our public schools. It has reared its ugly head in attacking girls’ sports and teaching our children to hate their country. I have fought against these radical, insane ideologies as a School Board member in Round Rock, and I will stop them in their tracks on the State Board of Education. Our kids deserve an education, not propagandization!
- IMPROVING STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT AND FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY - Texas currently ranks 28th in the nation for Public School Education, in spite of both skyrocketing property taxes and the Legislature pumping billions in new funding into the system. The children of Texas deserve a rigorous education that brings us into the top tier of school systems in America. As a successful systems engineer, I will use my experience to help transform our public schools so that the children of Texas are provided world-class education to compete in the global marketplace and keep Texas one of the world’s top 10 economies.
- PARENTAL RIGHTS - Let me be clear: Parents must have full authority over their child’s education. Part of that authority includes the right to access any materials that are being presented in the classroom, at school events, and anywhere else, free of charge. Pornography and Critical Race Theory, which teaches kids to hate themselves and each other, are extremely dangerous. They have NO place in any taxpayer-funded setting, especially a public school campus.
Grassroots America - We the People
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Campaign website
Bone’s campaign website stated the following:
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PARENTAL RIGHTS FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY This conservative philosophy should govern the Permanent School Fund (whose board includes members of the State Board of Education). IMPROVING STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT The children of Texas deserve a rigorous education that brings us into the top tier of school systems in America. As a successful systems engineer, I will use my experience to help transform our public schools so that the children of Texas are provided world-class education to compete in the global marketplace and keep Texas one of the world’s top 10 economies. Part of improving our academic scores includes shutting down illegal immigration. Our hard-working teachers are just not equipped to teach the massive influx of non-English speaking students. This is causing a terrible strain on public resources in Texas, and I call on Washington to put an end to the Biden open-border policy that’s hurting our schools! ENDING WOKE CULTURE |
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| —Mary Bone’s campaign website (2024)[3] | ||
2020
Mary Bone did not complete Ballotpedia's 2020 Candidate Connection survey.
Campaign finance summary
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See also
2024 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on January 9, 2024
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Dr. Mary Bone, Republican for State Board of Education, “Priorities,” accessed February 15, 2024
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