Patti Serrano

This page was last updated during the official's most recent election or appointment. Please contact us with any updates.

Patti Serrano

Nonpartisan

Chandler Unified School District Governing Board At-large

Tenure

2023 - Present

Term ends

2027

Years in position

2

Report an officeholder change

Elections and appointments

Last elected

November 8, 2022

Education

High school

Hamilton High School

Personal

Birthplace

Arizona

Contact

Campaign website

Campaign Facebook

Campaign X

Campaign Instagram

Patti Serrano is an at-large member of the Chandler Unified School District Governing Board in Arizona. She assumed office on January 1, 2023. Her current term ends on January 1, 2027.

Serrano ran for election for an at-large seat of the Chandler Unified School District Governing Board in Arizona. She won in the general election on November 8, 2022.

Serrano completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.

Biography

Patti Serrano was born in Arizona. Serrano earned a high school diploma from Hamilton High School.

Elections

2022

See also: Chandler Unified School District, Arizona, elections (2022)

General election

General election for Chandler Unified School District Governing Board At-large (2 seats)

Kurt Rohrs and Patti Serrano defeated Charlotte Golla, incumbent Lara Bruner, and Marilou Estes in the general election for Chandler Unified School District Governing Board At-large on November 8, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Submit photo	Kurt Rohrs (Nonpartisan)	23.5	34,471
✔		Patti Serrano (Nonpartisan)	23.3	34,177
	Submit photo	Charlotte Golla (Nonpartisan)	19.8	29,060
		Lara Bruner (Nonpartisan)	19.0	27,765
	Submit photo	Marilou Estes (Nonpartisan)	14.1	20,586
		Other/Write-in votes	0.2	351

---

	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 146,410
= candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey.
If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey.
Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team.

Campaign themes

2022

Ballotpedia survey responses

See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection

Patti Serrano completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Serrano's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

Expand all | Collapse all

Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

Patti Serrano is an Arizona native who graduated from CUSD's own Hamilton High in 2001. After starting her family, Patti made it a priority to continue her family's legacy in CUSD. Patti has been a CUSD Mom for over 9 years now. Her family is rooted and invested in our District. She has family who has taught in CUSD for over 24 years, family who has worked as Staff, and all of her local family’s children have gone through CUSD schools. She is a proud public school Mom grounded in our CUSD community.

​ As a CUSD Mom, Alum and community member, Patti has distinct ties to our District. Ties that continually remind her of how much she loves our District, chooses it everyday and wants to always do better by our schools. This is why you will consistently catch Patti in different parts of our District listening and learning to bring the best representation she can to our board. ​ As a Mom, she 'gets it' and is ready to bring representation to CUSD that prioritizes the best Whole Child education we can offer at all of our schools; for our children, educators, staff and community at large.

Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

• Supporting Whole Child Education: In order to help our students achieve full academic potential, we must recognize and respond to our children’s whole well-being that includes academic, social-emotional, mental and physical health needs. Patti firmly believes in meeting our students where they are and acknowledging one cannot learn to the best of their ability if their basic needs are not met. This requires courage and a willingness to evolve and truly invest in this holistic approach to produce positive outcomes in our schools, prepare tomorrow’s workforce, attract economic investment, and foster innovation.
• Listening: Listening is the base of Patti’s campaign. That's why you will continually find Patti out in our community listening, learning and becoming as informed as we can on what our CUSD residents and key stakeholders have to share. As we learn more, our service and representation will be better informed. This starts with those directly impacted by School Board decisions: our students!
• Data Driving: There exists meaningful information and lessons behind numbers to help the District improve. Coming from a background in academic research, Patti plans to request and review reports beyond budgets and collaborate to prioritize working towards better together. Examples include analyzing and addressing: CUSD sub-groups across employment; disciplinary action events across school sites; demographics and academic achievement across school sites; teacher retention rate; the (missing) feedback loops on any parent, educator and staff surveys.

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

School funding: it's no secret that Arizona's public schools are sorely underfunded. We consistently rank at the bottom for per pupil and overall spending - and we're now suffering a teacher shortage in relation to this fact. This serious underfunding requires creative and thoughtful responses from our communities in an attempt to do better and keep our schools running: local overrides and bonds help achieve this and in part, fill existing gaps, while we consistently work to advocate for the funding we need from the state legislature. As long as we continue to be underfunded and falling at the bottom nationwide, our schools will continue needing such alternative streams of investment and support - which is why they traditionally pass with strong support. Our communities want our public schools open, running and funded. Patti is proud to have been asked to be a CUSD override social media influencer with our last successful override efforts, and, she is proud to have a strong history of advocating for the proper funding our schools deserve in order to produce the best education we can and provide all of our students with the opportunity to reach their full potential - excellence.

What qualities do you possess that you believe would make you a successful officeholder?

Serving our School Boards is very much a job in management and community representation. Patti comes with clear project management and community advocacy receipts. Patti directly knows what it takes to coordinate and bring stakeholders together to accomplish goals and outcomes in the best interest of a community.

As a project director and coordinator in academic research and education advancing children’s health, Patti's professional skills and current experience directly translate to this job (hiring; developing/approving /monitoring budget; setting salaries; approving purchases; developing/approving policies; adopting curriculum).

Above all, Patti sees this role as one of community commitment and listening. Her strong ties to stakeholders and leaders will be of great benefit to serving our School Board. Patti has already held a Student Roundtable with current student leaders. She if often out connecting with different parts of our community to best represent across stakeholders (meeting with students, families, educators, the business community and more). Patti looks to expand and strengthen her already present personal ties to pro-education advocacy groups. She is ready to lead as a School Board Member.

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

What's on the ballot? U.S. Congress U.S. Congress special elections State executives State legislatures State courts Ballot measures Municipal government School boards Election analysis hub

Government

Who represents me? U.S. Congress State executives State legislators State courts Ballot measures Municipal government School boards

Newsletters

The Heart of the Primaries The Daily Brew The Weekly Brew The Ballot Bulletin Checks and Balances Economy and Society Hall Pass Number of the Day Robe & Gavel Union Station

External links

Search Google News for this topic

Candidate

Chandler Unified School District Governing Board At-large

Website

Facebook

X

Instagram