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Michelle Murphy
2022 - Present
2026
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Michelle Murphy is a member of the Newport-Mesa Unified Board of Education in California, representing Trustee Area 2. She assumed office on December 9, 2022. Her current term ends on December 11, 2026.
Murphy ran for election to the Newport-Mesa Unified Board of Education to represent Trustee Area 2 in California. She won in the general election on November 8, 2022.
Murphy completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Elections
2022
See also: Newport-Mesa Unified School District, California, elections (2022)
General election
General election for Newport-Mesa Unified Board of Education Trustee Area 2
Michelle Murphy defeated Danielle Mills in the general election for Newport-Mesa Unified Board of Education Trustee Area 2 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Michelle Murphy (Nonpartisan)  | 59.8 | 4,562 |
 | Danielle Mills (Nonpartisan) | 40.2 | 3,062 | |
| Total votes: 7,624 | |||
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2018
General election
General election for Newport-Mesa Unified Board of Education Trustee Area 2
Incumbent Charlene Metoyer defeated Michelle Murphy in the general election for Newport-Mesa Unified Board of Education Trustee Area 2 on November 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Charlene Metoyer (Nonpartisan) | 52.4 | 4,327 |
| Michelle Murphy (Nonpartisan) | 47.6 | 3,938 | |
| Total votes: 8,265 | |||
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Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Michelle Murphy completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Murphy's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- Address the achievement gap and disparity in academic success for schools in Costa Mesa. It’s unacceptable that in the same school district, with some schools in Newport are ranked among the best in OC, yet just up the street we have several schools in Costa Mesa falling to the bottom of countywide rankings. We deserve a strong advocate to bring home our kids a fair share of resources to create more educational opportunities for success.
- Hire more experienced and trained professionals to serve the mental and emotional well-being and health needs of our kids. With our students still reeling from the COVID-19 Pandemic, our school board must be focused on providing adequate mental health support and access to services, as well as improved infrastructure for protecting all kids health in our schools.
- Focus on our teacher community. Teachers should be able to openly communicate with the administration and the School Board about their needs for additional tools and training to help their students, to help them grow in their professions and empower their learning environments so that every child can reach his or her potential.
As Trustee, Michelle is determined for the district to deliver more proactive solutions to the issues our kids face today. She will advocate for more open and transparent communication between the District and community, better allocation of resources to address the needs of students, especially addressing mental health issues, and most importantly, serve as a trusted voice for parents, leading the way to create a Board that is more in touch with families and the problems they face now and in the future.
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2018
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Michelle Murphy completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Murphy's responses.
What would be your top three priorities, if elected?
Provide a safe school environment for our children with adequate mental health supports and improved infrastructure. Expand and create programs that include additional opportunities for growth and educational achievement for all children. And Focus on our teacher community. Teachers should be able to openly communicate with the administration and the School Board about their needs for additional tools and training to help their students, to help them grow in their professions and empower their learning environments so that every child can reach his or her potential.
What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?
Create a safe and healthy environment in every school, eliminate crumbling school buildings and update infrastructure, early childhood education and literacy, reading at grade level by 3rd grade
Note: Ballotpedia reserves the right to edit Candidate Connection survey responses. Any edits made by Ballotpedia will be clearly marked with [brackets] for the public. If the candidate disagrees with an edit, he or she may request the full removal of the survey response from Ballotpedia.org. Ballotpedia does not edit or correct typographical errors unless the candidate's campaign requests it.
See also
2022 Elections
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