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Nicole Konz
Nicole Konz is an at-large member of the Academy School District 20 school board in Colorado. She assumed office on November 19, 2021. Her current term ends in 2025.
Konz ran for election for an at-large seat of the Academy School District 20 school board in Colorado. She won in the general election on November 2, 2021.
Konz completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2021. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Nicole Konz was born in Tucson, Arizona. She graduated from the University of Arizona in 2000. Konz's professional experience includes asset and business management, fiscal responsibility and budgeting, youth ministry, religious education, servant leadership and working as a youth and adult dance instructor.[1]
Elections
2021
See also: Academy School District 20, Colorado, elections (2021)
General election
General election for Academy School District 20 school board, At-large (3 seats)
The following candidates ran in the general election for Academy School District 20 school board, At-large on November 2, 2021.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Nicole Konz (Nonpartisan)  | 18.2 | 17,118 |
| ✔ |  | Thomas LaValley (Nonpartisan) | 17.8 | 16,832 |
| ✔ |  | Aaron Salt (Nonpartisan) | 17.0 | 16,059 |
 | Jackie Lesh (Nonpartisan) | 10.5 | 9,893 | |
 | Tiana Clark (Nonpartisan) | 10.2 | 9,652 | |
 | Brian Coram (Nonpartisan) | 10.1 | 9,548 | |
 | Nathan Johnson (Nonpartisan) | 5.4 | 5,132 | |
 | Lindsay Moore (Nonpartisan) | 4.5 | 4,245 | |
 | Jason Silva (Nonpartisan) | 3.7 | 3,483 | |
 | Michael Riffle (Nonpartisan) | 2.5 | 2,338 | |
| Total votes: 94,300 | |||
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Campaign themes
2021
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Nicole Konz completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2021. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Konz's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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I am a proactive mother & community member & an extremely competent administrator.
I have an unwavering commitment to bring integrity & transparency to our district while holding students, staff & the board to the highest standards & expectations. I fight for our school board to focus solely on educational excellence & empowering parents as the primary educators & caregivers of their children...and I will never back down from demanding that from our school district.
My dual vocation of business management & youth ministry make me uniquely suited to be an effective & vocal board member.
My goal is to foster academic success in core areas of study: civics, writing, reading, math, job training & fiscal responsibility. This singular focus is necessary for our students to complete schooling with competency & a sense of responsibility & work ethic. Social theories & lifestyle choices are solely the parents responsibility and prerogative to teach. Parents have the right to completely raise their children autonomously in regard to medical, religious & cultural beliefs. We will see improved scores & metrics met when we resolve to not let anything take time away from educational excellence.
D20 has a history of high level academics & a great community. I will build upon that mission & let our children thrive!- High Expectations & Standards of Academic Excellence
- Parental choice to direct their child’s education and health
- Board transparency & fiscal responsibility
I believe in seeking the heroic. How can students maintain hope and focus on the future when they’re being bombarded with a culture telling them their sole identity is being victimized and having anxiety about every facet of life? When we hone in on facilitating academics for students, and leave aside the fear, confusion and division caused by CRT, covid, and gender identity, the students will thrive!
Any extraneous focus on our differences and the misguided attempt to draw attention to them has no place in the educational system, and more importantly only breeds division, victimhood, lack of accountability and reduction of morals and values.
Furthermore, every attempt to draw attention toward these policies and ideologies in schools leads us further away from the goal of fostering educational excellence.
Parents should have the right and the freedom to choose what's best for their own children!
Without a moral, virtuous foundation and coinciding goals, there is no purpose or meaning to our lives. Setting the bar high makes everyone better. They might not achieve things equally, but more people have the expectation to seek, and to surpass. High expectations lead to greater joy and success and must be sought in all areas-our own life, our families, our schools, our businesses.
Why don’t people want to live and come through adversity any more? Why is everyone not striving to do their best each day to live a full, rich life? And to welcome obstacles?! Surmounting those is the essence of wisdom and a life well-lived.
It cannot remain taboo to honor trials and tribulations from which we grow. It does no good to coddle our children and create safe spaces and social programs where every specific difference must be addressed.
I support merit-based pay, frequent reviews, and teachers and school alike creating a culture of meeting and exceeding high standards. Students’ grades and outlook are improved with an expectation of and adherence to high standards.
Dual-credit college courses facilitated by high schools are a wonderful way for students to jump ahead in their college courses while saving the family much in tuition costs. These should be offered at all of our D20 high schools.
Only three things should be done moving forward: wash hands and surfaces often with warm water and soap for 30 seconds, stay home if you are actively ill, and take extra care to do the preceding two items around elderly and those with severe, multiple co-morbidities associated with covid-19. Anything further is inhumane and unconstitutional.
Many people talk about eradicating the virus (which is scientifically impossible) and truly believe perpetual quarantines & masks and the ‘flatten the curve’ model are meant to diminish all cases.
The Infection Fatality Rate for COVID-19 is somewhere between 0.07-0.20%, in line with seasonal flu, and it will remain so. The initial worry that 3% (10 million Americans) were going to die last year from this virus was grossly incorrect and we need to move far away from the fears and subsequent behaviors driven by this false model of high fatalities.
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See also
2021 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on September 15, 2021
