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Max Chang
Max Chang ran for election to the Granite School District to represent Precinct I in Utah. He lost in the general election on November 3, 2020.
Chang completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Max Chang was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. He earned a bachelor's degree from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1991 and a master's degree from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 1996.[1]
Elections
2020
See also: Granite School District, Utah, elections (2020)
General election
General election for Granite School District Precinct I
Julie Jackson defeated Max Chang in the general election for Granite School District Precinct I on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Julie Jackson (Nonpartisan)  | 57.6 | 18,617 |
 | Max Chang (Nonpartisan) | 42.4 | 13,724 | |
| Total votes: 32,341 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for Granite School District Precinct I
Julie Jackson and Max Chang defeated incumbent Todd Zenger and France Barral in the primary for Granite School District Precinct I on June 30, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Julie Jackson (Nonpartisan) | 40.6 | 7,741 |
| ✔ | | Max Chang (Nonpartisan) | 26.0 | 4,964 |
 | Todd Zenger (Nonpartisan) | 20.8 | 3,971 | |
 | France Barral (Nonpartisan) | 12.5 | 2,385 | |
| Total votes: 19,061 | |||
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Endorsements
To view Chang's endorsements in the 2020 election, please click here.
Campaign themes
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Max Chang completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Chang's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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The Granite schools prepared and afforded me opportunities to attend some of the nation's best universities for both my undergraduate and graduate degrees. My high school debate and journalism teachers empowered this once shy teenager to write and speak freely and articulately. Moreover, I developed critical thinking skills and how to manage both quantitative and qualitative information to derive the best decisions possible.
My two daughters are currently students in the district. I have been actively involved by currently being the PTA Treasurer and Junior Achievement coordinator and teacher at their school. I have created and taught author studies and combined them with activities ranging from writing a play about the Trial of the Big Bad Wolf to creating a game show with trivia based on everything about Roald Dahl.
My family has instilled a principle in me to actively participate in and engage with the community in which we live and work. We should always strive to leave it better than how we found it.- Commitment to Education: Doing the most good for the most is insufficient when it comes to educating our future. All Granite administrators, teachers, students and parents regardless of the zip code in which they teach, learn and reside deserve the best possible support, guidance and tools from a Board to ensure the best possible education for a growing, changing and diversifying student population. I will bring a fresh untainted and unbiased perspective to the Board that will focus on both short- and long-term objectives that will best serve this community for generations to come.
- Commitment to Teachers: What many are just realizing because of the pandemic is how indispensable our teachers are. Without notice, they were thrust into a new paradigm with distance learning. Some are doing this while juggling the needs of their own families. We need to be more proactive in providing competitive salaries, adequate classroom support and freedom to do what they do best-teach. As a Board Member of Holladay Preschool, we replenished a depleted Professional Development fund in order for teachers to refresh and learn new ideas in early childhood education. Similarly, I would like to increase support for professional development for teachers in the district so we can be the most up to date district in the state.
- Commitment to the Community: For over twenty years, I have invested thousands of volunteer hours on numerous non-profit and community boards to help the Utah community connect. I am a proven community leader who works collaboratively with all parties and will bring this work ethic and dedication to the Granite School Board in order to make our community and neighborhood schools better.
Through partnerships with arts foundations and organizations, several classes developed their own graphic novel, play and opera. Students were eager, engaging and inquisitive. Their projects have been featured on KSL News and Radio, KRCL Radio as well as the PBS series The Future of America's Past. A narrated version of the graphic novel, the lesson plan and a video of the class taught at Mill Creek elementary are permanently available to educators everywhere through the Utah Education Network website.
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See also
2020 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on June 13, 2020
