René Archambault
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René Archambault was a member of the Frisco Independent School District in Texas, representing Place 7. She assumed office in 2018. She left office on June 10, 2024.
Archambault ran for re-election to the Frisco Independent School District to represent Place 7 in Texas. She won in the general election on May 1, 2021.
Elections
2021
See also: Frisco Independent School District, Texas, elections (2021)
General election
General election for Frisco Independent School District, Place 7
Incumbent René Archambault defeated Evelyn Brooks in the general election for Frisco Independent School District, Place 7 on May 1, 2021.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | René Archambault (Nonpartisan) | 58.0 | 7,301 | |
 | Evelyn Brooks (Nonpartisan) | 42.0 | 5,283 | |
| Total votes: 12,584 | |||
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2018
General election
General election for Frisco Independent School District, Place 7
René Archambault defeated Linda McConnell in the general election for Frisco Independent School District, Place 7 on May 5, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | René Archambault (Nonpartisan) | 64.9 | 4,341 | |
| Linda McConnell (Nonpartisan) | 35.1 | 2,352 | ||
| Total votes: 6,693 | |||
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Campaign themes
2021
Ballotpedia survey responses
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René Archambault did not complete Ballotpedia's 2021 Candidate Connection survey.
2018
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Rene Archambault participated in Ballotpedia's candidate survey on April 4, 2018. The survey questions appear in bold, and Rene Archambault's responses follow below.[1]
What would be your top three priorities, if elected?
| “ | 1) Expanding Student Opportunity 2) Increased Investment in our Teachers |
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What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about? Why?
| “ | I am passionate about public education. Education is the greatest equalizer in our society and funding it fully is critical to the future of our nation. I'm running for school board because I believe in public education, I believe in our schools, and I believe in our district's mission to know every child by name and need. I'm invested in our schools in Frisco, and I'm ready to take on a new role, not just for my daughter, or the children in our neighborhood feeder pattern, but for the over 58,000 students in Frisco ISD, for our over 3,800 teachers, and for our entire community. I believe deeply that public schools are for everybody, and in Frisco ISD, ""everybody"" is a huge array of learners. Learners of all ages, ethnicities, abilities, interests, and passions, and each one of those young minds deserves the very best education that we can give them. Education that will take them far beyond the comfort of our tiny farming community turned metropolis. And that is a huge challenge, and one that I take very seriously. How do we meet that challenge? We work on increasing student opportunity, increasing investment in our teachers, supporting our teachers so that they can meet the individualized needs of our students, supporting our counselors so that they can spend more time on counseling and less time on standardized testing, advocating to the state to fix the funding models for public education, expanding our relationships and transparency with our community of parents and taxpayers, and by having safe and healthy environments in which all of this can happen. That's a big job. And i'm ready for it.Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; invalid names, e.g. too many[3]
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Ballotpedia also asked the candidate a series of optional questions. Rene Archambault answered the following:
Who do you look up to? Whose example would you like to follow, and why?
| “ | My grandfather, Dr. Bill Jacobs. He served as the Denison Independent School District superintendent from 1981 to 1993. When he began is career in education, he was a teacher at the former Layne Elementary School, and after eight years of serving as an elementary and high school principal, he was named the first ever director of federal programs for Denison ISD. His dedication led to his promotion to assistant superintendent in 1970 and he was officially named superintendent in 1981 and served for 13 years. I remember him telling our family that he became superintendent during a tough time for the District. He was responsible for picking up the pieces and putting them back together after three elementary schools had been closed down and the former superintendent left after only 18 months. He had to work hard to bring the board back together and to improve the morale of the teachers and other district employees. He was able to take a really rough start and turn the district around and to this day, he is still remembered as one of the best and most profound change agents of Denison ISD. He was dedicated to rebuilding trust internally and then externally with the tax payers of the district. His vision and dedication to students and teachers is a driving factor to my desire to do more for my community, to serve the great students, teachers, and tax payers of our district. He was an inspirational leader, and the one that I most admire.[3] | ” |
| “ | Robert Greenleaf wrote a book in the early 2000's called Servant Leadership. I read it for the first time when I was obtaining my Master's Degree in Education - Policy and Leadership, and then again when I decided to run for this office. I believe that there is no greater political philosophy than giving of one's experiences and time to serve others and to add to the greater good. This book gives a wonderful blueprint to doing just that. One of my favorite quotes from the book...""The servant-leader is servant first...It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. That person is sharply different from one who is leader first...""[3] | ” |
| “ | Preparation for the role. I currently serve on the Frisco ISD Long Range Planning Committee (financial transparency sub-committee), Frisco Education Foundation Advisory Board, and Frisco FastPacs Board of Directors. I am a member of Frisco Women’s League (serving on the Junior Frisco Women’s League committee, which serves 90 high school young ladies across the district in building servant leadership skills and community engagement), Griffin Middle School PTA and volunteer with the Griffin MS Band Booster. I also serve as a member of the second annual Frisco ISD Insight program, a forum which provides community stakeholders a behind-the-scenes look at school district operations.[3] | ” |
| “ | The role of an FISD Trustee first and foremost is to advocate for ALL students and teachers, working in collaboration with the superintendent to promote and implement the vision and goals of our district of academic excellence. Advocating begins with making strategic, long-range decisions that adhere to the mission of our district, and the priorities of our community of students, teachers, parents, and citizens.[3] | ” |
| “ | Students, Parents, Teachers, and Community Members/Taxpayers of Frisco ISD[3] | ” |
| “ | To tackle the safety issue, we need to look at updates to our campuses to enhance the level of security. When students feel safe, they learn better, and it is our job to make sure that we are providing them the safest space to do just that. I would like to work with the City of Frisco Police Department to add SRO's to our elementary campuses as an immediate initiative. Even if we cannot add one to every campus, we could certainly use our current campus zoning to assign coverage to a cluster of elementary schools until we have the funding and staffing to staff each independent campus. I feel strongly about increasing our counseling services in order to better identify at-risk students. Mental health is a critical component to campus safety. Currently the state ratio for counselors is 1 counselor to 430 students. We need to do better than that, and as a district, I believe this needs to be a priority.[3] | ” |
See also
2021 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Note: The candidate's answers have been reproduced here verbatim without edits or corrections by Ballotpedia.
- ↑ Ballotpedia's candidate survey, "Rene Archambault's responses," April 4, 2018
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
