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Michael Stevens (Texas)
Michael Stevens (Republican Party) (also known as Travis) ran for election to the Texas State Board of Education to represent District 1. He lost in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Stevens completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Michael Stevens was born on an Army base in Wurzburg, Germany. Stevens earned a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Texas at San Antonio in 2009, a master's degree in education and teacher leadership from the University of Phoenix in 2014, and a Ph.D. in education and curriculum from Northcentral University in 2019. His career experience includes working as a language arts instructional coach and an adult education instructor. Stevens also worked as an insurance agent and claims adjuster for a property and casualty insurance company. He has been a licensed minister with the United Pentecostal Church International and a board member of the Uvalde Foundation for Kids.[1][2][3]
Elections
2024
See also: Texas State Board of Education election, 2024
General election
General election for Texas State Board of Education District 1
Gustavo Reveles defeated Michael Stevens in the general election for Texas State Board of Education District 1 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Gustavo Reveles (D) | 50.9 | 314,162 |
![]() | Michael Stevens (R) ![]() | 49.1 | 302,544 |
Total votes: 616,706 | ||||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Texas State Board of Education District 1
Gustavo Reveles advanced from the Democratic primary for Texas State Board of Education District 1 on March 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Gustavo Reveles | 100.0 | 72,349 |
Total votes: 72,349 | ||||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Jessica Cerda (D)
Republican primary election
Republican primary for Texas State Board of Education District 1
Michael Stevens advanced from the Republican primary for Texas State Board of Education District 1 on March 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Michael Stevens ![]() | 100.0 | 67,158 |
Total votes: 67,158 | ||||
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Campaign finance
Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Stevens in this election.
2022
Congressional election
See also: Texas' 20th Congressional District election, 2022
General election
General election for U.S. House Texas District 20
Incumbent Joaquin Castro defeated Kyle Sinclair and Adam Jonasz in the general election for U.S. House Texas District 20 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Joaquin Castro (D) | 68.4 | 115,352 |
![]() | Kyle Sinclair (R) | 31.6 | 53,226 | |
![]() | Adam Jonasz (Independent) (Write-in) ![]() | 0.0 | 21 |
Total votes: 168,599 | ||||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Ismael Garcia (Independent)
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Texas District 20
Incumbent Joaquin Castro advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. House Texas District 20 on March 1, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Joaquin Castro | 100.0 | 33,214 |
Total votes: 33,214 | ||||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Texas District 20
Kyle Sinclair advanced from the Republican primary for U.S. House Texas District 20 on March 1, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Kyle Sinclair | 100.0 | 15,938 |
Total votes: 15,938 | ||||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Michael Stevens (R)
- Mark Murray (R)
- Raquel Lopez (R)
Campaign finance
State executive election
See also: Texas State Board of Education election, 2022
General election
General election for Texas State Board of Education District 1
Melissa Ortega defeated Michael Stevens in the general election for Texas State Board of Education District 1 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | Melissa Ortega (D) | 55.8 | 247,093 | |
![]() | Michael Stevens (R) ![]() | 44.2 | 195,794 |
Total votes: 442,887 | ||||
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Democratic primary runoff election
Democratic primary runoff for Texas State Board of Education District 1
Melissa Ortega defeated Laura Marquez in the Democratic primary runoff for Texas State Board of Education District 1 on May 24, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | Melissa Ortega | 57.5 | 32,123 | |
Laura Marquez | 42.5 | 23,776 |
Total votes: 55,899 | ||||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Texas State Board of Education District 1
Melissa Ortega and Laura Marquez advanced to a runoff. They defeated Omar Yanar in the Democratic primary for Texas State Board of Education District 1 on March 1, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | Melissa Ortega | 46.1 | 42,374 | |
✔ | Laura Marquez | 35.4 | 32,504 | |
Omar Yanar | 18.5 | 17,008 |
Total votes: 91,886 | ||||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Texas State Board of Education District 1
Michael Stevens defeated Lani Popp in the Republican primary for Texas State Board of Education District 1 on March 1, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Michael Stevens ![]() | 63.6 | 39,865 |
![]() | Lani Popp | 36.4 | 22,772 |
Total votes: 62,637 | ||||
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Campaign finance
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Michael Stevens completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Stevens' responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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|For 13 years, Dr. Stevens worked in our Texas education system as a teacher, instructional coach and as campus administrator. Dr. Stevens has primarily worked in public schools, but also has experience working in both charter and private schools.
In addition to being an educator, Dr. Stevens has served as a licensed Minister at his church for the past 17 years and is currently the President of the Board, for the Uvalde Foundation for Kids.
Dr. Stevens holds Bachelor's Degree in English, a Master's degree in Education/Teacher Leadership, a Doctorate Degree in Education/Curriculum and Instruction and is a certified Texas teacher.
- Teachers are the experts in their field and should be regarded as such. I feel that it is imperative to include teachers in the discussions by the State Board of Education and legislators, when it comes to policies that will directly affect their day-to-day teaching duties.
- Not all students learn the same, or have the same goals after graduation. The cookie-cutter approach to curriculum and graduation requirements is not beneficial for every student. Creating curriculum and graduation pathways for students to pursue career goals, trade school, technical school, the military, or college would give every student the opportunity to gain the skills they deserve, to be successful in their future endeavors.
- In its current form, standardized testing inhibits academic growth, as opposed to encouraging it. Not all students do well when it comes to high stake testing and not all standardized tests cover the state required curriculum standards. Using these types of tests to measure a students ability to master grade level content material, does not truly capture a students academic performance. What these tests do however, is cause unnecessary stress for students and teachers alike.
A: June, July and August.
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2022
Congressional election
Michael Stevens completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2021. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Stevens' responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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|- Let's have a conversation!
- People not politics!
- We need everyday people, and not career politicians in Washington!
Veterans care
Conservative values
Immigration reform
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State executive election
Michael Stevens completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Stevens' responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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|Dr. Stevens proudly serves as a board member of the Uvalde Foundation for Kids, an organization focused on preventing bullying and violence in public schools across America.
Dr. Stevens holds a Bachelor's Degree in English, a Master's degree in Education/Teacher Leadership, a Doctorate Degree in Education/Curriculum and Instruction and is a certified Texas teacher.
Additionally, Dr. Stevens is currently in his 12th year working in K-12 education. During his career as an educator, Dr. Stevens has worked as a campus administrator, a High School English Language Arts teacher and an English Language Arts Instructional Coach. Dr. Stevens also has experience working at the Adult Education level as both an instructor and an Instructional Coach.
- Texas teachers deserve to be valued, compensated and treated as the professionals that they are!
- Standardized testing, in its current format, (STAAR) is detrimental to Texas students and teachers.
- Education, not indoctrination!
and oversees the Texas Permanent School Fund.
A: Well, the Bible said that all 12 disciples were in one Accord.
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Campaign website
Stevens' campaign website stated the following:
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As a member of the SBOE, I will advocate for a parents right to decide what school is best for their child. I will fight to keep sexually explicit books out of our school libraries and curriculum that is not based on factual evidence, such as CRT, out of our classrooms. I will stand up for parents and teachers to decide for themselves if they will be vaccinated, or wear a mask. I will also pursue alternative standardized testing, so that students who do not test well, are not held back due to STAAR testing. Parents, teachers and students are fed up with the ridiculous policies, mandates and ideologies from progressive Democrats. Issues such as limiting school choice, mask/vaccine mandates, promoting sexually explicit books and CRT are being pushed into our public schools by progressive Democrats. It is time to push back and send a clear message to Democrats that we will no longer tolerate their progressive ideas and influences in our public school classrooms.[4] |
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—Michael Stevens' campaign website (2022)[5] |
Campaign finance summary
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See also
2024 Elections
External links
Candidate Texas State Board of Education District 1 |
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on June 28, 2021
- ↑ Vote Dr. Stevens, "About," accessed February 11, 2022
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on October 9, 2022
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Vote Dr. Stevens, “Issues,” accessed January 26, 2022
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