Tami Carlone

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Tami Carlone

Republican Party

Elections and appointments

Last election

November 8, 2022

Education

Bachelor's

University of Michigan, 1989

Personal

Birthplace

Las Cruces, N.M.

Religion

Christian

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Tami Carlone (Republican Party) ran for election for an at-large seat of the Michigan State Board of Education. She lost in the general election on November 8, 2022.

Biography

Tami Carlone was born in Las Cruces, New Mexico. She earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan in 1989. Carlone's career experience includes working as a Certified Public Accountant, as a process improvement expert, as a co-owner and operator with Subway restaurants, and as an employee with the Internal Revenue Service. She has served as a delegate with the Republican Party at the national, state, and precinct levels; she has served as a member with the Republican Party Executive Committee in Oakland County, Michigan, as a member, volunteer teaching leader, and as a volunteer financial coach with NorthRidge Church. Carlone has been affiliated with Therapaws and the American Kennel Club.

Elections

2022

See also: Michigan State Board of Education election, 2022

General election

General election for Michigan State Board of Education (2 seats)

The following candidates ran in the general election for Michigan State Board of Education on November 8, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Pamela Pugh (D)	25.2	2,068,706
✔	Submit photo	Mitchell Robinson (D)	24.2	1,989,022
		Tami Carlone (R)	23.3	1,914,330
		Linda Lee Tarver (R)	22.8	1,873,715
		Mary Anne Hering (Working Class Party)	1.7	135,789
		Donna Gundle-Krieg (L)	1.1	87,353
	Submit photo	Bill Hall (L)	1.1	87,316
		Ethan Hobson (U.S. Taxpayers Party)	0.6	48,248

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 8,204,479
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Democratic convention

Democratic convention for Michigan State Board of Education (2 seats)

Incumbent Pamela Pugh and Mitchell Robinson advanced from the Democratic convention for Michigan State Board of Education on August 21, 2022.

		Candidate
✔		Pamela Pugh (D)
✔	Submit photo	Mitchell Robinson (D)

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Republican convention

Republican convention for Michigan State Board of Education (2 seats)

Tami Carlone and Linda Lee Tarver advanced from the Republican convention for Michigan State Board of Education on August 27, 2022.

		Candidate
✔		Tami Carlone (R)
✔		Linda Lee Tarver (R)

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Libertarian convention

Libertarian convention for Michigan State Board of Education (2 seats)

Donna Gundle-Krieg and Bill Hall advanced from the Libertarian convention for Michigan State Board of Education on July 10, 2022.

		Candidate
✔		Donna Gundle-Krieg (L)
✔	Submit photo	Bill Hall (L)

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U.S. Taxpayers Party convention

U.S. Taxpayers Party convention for Michigan State Board of Education (2 seats)

Ethan Hobson advanced from the U.S. Taxpayers Party convention for Michigan State Board of Education on July 23, 2022.

		Candidate
✔		Ethan Hobson (U.S. Taxpayers Party)

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Working Class Party convention

Working Class Party convention for Michigan State Board of Education (2 seats)

Mary Anne Hering advanced from the Working Class Party convention for Michigan State Board of Education on June 26, 2022.

		Candidate
✔		Mary Anne Hering (Working Class Party)

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2020

See also: Michigan State Board of Education election, 2020

General election

General election for Michigan State Board of Education (2 seats)

The following candidates ran in the general election for Michigan State Board of Education on November 3, 2020.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Ellen Lipton (D)	24.6	2,472,087
✔		Jason Strayhorn (D)	23.5	2,368,523
	Submit photo	Michelle Frederick (R)	23.0	2,316,051
		Tami Carlone (R)	22.8	2,291,915
		Mary Anne Hering (Working Class Party)	1.5	147,345
	Submit photo	Bill Hall (L)	1.2	124,758
	Submit photo	Richard Hewer (L)	0.9	91,661
	Submit photo	Hali McEachern (Working Class Party)	0.8	82,700
	Submit photo	Karen Adams (U.S. Taxpayers Party of Michigan)	0.8	80,299
	Submit photo	Tom Mair (G)	0.6	58,397
	Submit photo	Douglas Levesque (U.S. Taxpayers Party of Michigan)	0.3	34,033

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 10,067,769
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Democratic convention

Democratic convention for Michigan State Board of Education (2 seats)

Ellen Lipton and Jason Strayhorn advanced from the Democratic convention for Michigan State Board of Education on August 29, 2020.

		Candidate
✔		Ellen Lipton (D)
✔		Jason Strayhorn (D)

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Republican convention

Republican convention for Michigan State Board of Education (2 seats)

Tami Carlone and Michelle Frederick advanced from the Republican convention for Michigan State Board of Education on August 29, 2020.

		Candidate
✔		Tami Carlone (R)
✔	Submit photo	Michelle Frederick (R)

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Green convention

Green convention for Michigan State Board of Education (2 seats)

Tom Mair advanced from the Green convention for Michigan State Board of Education on June 20, 2020.

		Candidate
✔	Submit photo	Tom Mair (G)

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Libertarian convention

Libertarian convention for Michigan State Board of Education (2 seats)

Bill Hall and Richard Hewer advanced from the Libertarian convention for Michigan State Board of Education on July 18, 2020.

		Candidate
✔	Submit photo	Bill Hall (L)
✔	Submit photo	Richard Hewer (L)

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U.S. Taxpayers Party of Michigan convention

U.S. Taxpayers Party of Michigan convention for Michigan State Board of Education (2 seats)

Karen Adams and Douglas Levesque advanced from the U.S. Taxpayers Party of Michigan convention for Michigan State Board of Education on July 25, 2020.

		Candidate
✔	Submit photo	Karen Adams (U.S. Taxpayers Party of Michigan)
✔	Submit photo	Douglas Levesque (U.S. Taxpayers Party of Michigan)

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Working Class Party convention

Working Class Party convention for Michigan State Board of Education (2 seats)

Mary Anne Hering and Hali McEachern advanced from the Working Class Party convention for Michigan State Board of Education on July 26, 2020.

		Candidate
✔		Mary Anne Hering (Working Class Party)
✔	Submit photo	Hali McEachern (Working Class Party)

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2018

See also: Michigan State Board of Education election, 2018

General election

General election for Michigan State Board of Education (2 seats)

The following candidates ran in the general election for Michigan State Board of Education on November 6, 2018.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Judith Pritchett (D)	25.2	1,830,312
✔		Tiffany Tilley (D)	24.0	1,743,379
		Tami Carlone (R)	22.3	1,615,129
		Richard Zeile (R)	20.3	1,473,904
		Mary Anne Hering (Working Class Party)	1.7	125,693
		Scott Boman (L)	1.7	125,309
	Submit photo	Logan Smith (Working Class Party)	1.3	91,077
	Submit photo	John Tatar (L)	1.1	80,414
	Submit photo	Karen Adams (U.S. Taxpayers Party)	1.0	72,639
		Sherry A. Wells (G)	0.8	61,493
	Submit photo	Douglas Levesque (U.S. Taxpayers Party)	0.4	32,326

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 7,251,675
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Campaign themes

2022

Ballotpedia survey responses

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2020

Tami Carlone completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Carlone's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

I am a CPA and Process Improvement Expert. I enjoy going into large organizations, saving them millions of dollars, and making them more efficient and effective. My two children are very academically, artistically, and athletically successful. Twenty years ago, when my children were in elementary school, I became an education activist as I found unbalanced and inaccurate material in their public-school course work. I have studied education every day since then, so I understand the issues, law, structure, standards, tests, data flow, special interests, teacher training, etc., as well as why things are the way they are and what we need to do to get our schools back to truth and excellence. I love my family and all children. I have completed thousands of hours of service as a youth advocate, including being a Girl Scout leader and administrator, a certified therapy dog team with my Samoyed Luna helping special needs and college students, teaching Sunday School, tutoring at risk youth in Detroit, and raising and donating over $100,000 to help abused children and girls rescued from sex trafficking. I am a Christian that loves her country, am very politically active, and am DAR qualified with seven relatives that served.

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?

• The students are learning less academically due to the use of constantly changing and unproven educational methods, and more of a focus on testing and social issues. Many students are coming out of Michigan schools thinking socialism is great, America is bad, and if you are a Christian or a Republican you better keep quiet. This is completely inappropriate for OUR children; especially at taxpayer expense. Our children must know about our founding, what made our country the most innovative and prosperous nation the world has ever seen, and they must be able to practice free speech. Many students are coming out of our schools not ready to work hard to achieve the American dream. This has a negative effect on each child and our nation.
• Children only get one chance at a K-12 education and we must get it right. We must make sure teacher programs are excellent and that graduates can effectively teach their material. Teachers, as applicable, must be able to teach students to read using explicit phonics. Even one child not being able to read is unacceptable. Our students must have reading help in every grade until every child can read to their full potential. Professionalism must be a requirement to keep a job as a teacher. Political agendas and personal feelings and beliefs must not be part of our classrooms. Indoctrinating other people's children is a failure at every level and it must stop. The lack of academic and intellectual integrity of this is astounding.
• We must make clear the power and accountability structure for education in Lansing. If everybody is making education policy, and there is no transparency and accountability, excellent overall results will continue to elude Michigan. Same for education spending; we must hold everybody accountable and expect results. The State Board of Education has the Constitutional duty to oversee education in our state. We all need to make sure people that know what they are doing, and that represent us, are elected to the board, that they can fulfill their role, and that the public holds this elected body accountable. The buck must stop somewhere, or we will go nowhere good in education as a state.

   Featured local question

What do you think the board can and should do to help improve K-12 education in Michigan?

1) Provide proven excellent standards, instead of Common Core, C-3 based social studies standards, and NGSS based science standards.

2) Keep political agenda's out of the classrooms.
3) Stop the constant testing so students can get back to more learning.
4) Stop the teach to the test mentality so students can get back their love of learning.
5) Improve teacher college standards so our students get the best in the classroom.
6) Exercise their constitutional duty to be in charge of education in the state so we can return more accountability to the taxpayers and students. This is not to take away from local control. We are a local control state and I am a strong supporter of that. Parents are to drive their children's learning; they love them and know what is best for them.
7) Exercise their constitutional duty to give direction on education spending. We must spend whatever is needed to properly educate the students of the state, but we also must be wise in our spending and be accountable for the spending. We cannot send millions to Detroit to improve the school buildings, for example, only to have the buildings falling apart with no accountability for the money provided. Coordination between involved governmental bodies is not against the law; we must take action to best serve our students and see a return on our investment.
8) Make sure the State Superintendent is fulfilling the role for all students in an excellent manner and not advancing a political agenda. Anything less and they must replace that person.
9) Follow the law in regard to special education and focus efforts on getting academic results for them and for all students out of the bottom rankings in the nation. Driving focus on social issues is not their job, especially when they are not meeting their job of providing high quality academics.

10) Work with experts to provide teacher evaluations that allow teachers to teach effectively and professionally while maintaining a love of teaching.

   Featured local question

Why are you running for the State Board? What qualities make you more qualified than the other candidates?

I am running because I love children and my country, and I have a uniquely exceptional skill set for the role. I also have the right passion, drive, and focus.

My career as a CPA and a Process Improvement Expert lends itself perfectly to a seat on the Board. I am also a National, State and Local Education Activist of twenty years. As a member of the national network of education experts and advocates, Truth in American Education, I keep the pulse of our nation's schools every day, and we share best practices. I am a member of U.S. Parents Involved in Education and am a founding board member of Michigan PIE. I was the main author of 2017 House Bill 4192 to repeal Common Core and give Michigan students the proven best.
https://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2017-2018/billintroduced/House/pdf/2017-HIB-4192.pdf
I am an award-winning educator of adults and children of all ages, abilities, and income levels.

I am the candidate talking about all the critical issues facing our schools, and I am the one that has the proven solutions. I am the one that has the right focus and that focus is best serving every student. My focus is not on certain groups of children, but all children. My focus is on academics, freedom, truth, and raising up well rounded American citizens.

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

I am passionate about any public policy that influences my children and the children of our nation. I love children and I love my country. Each life needs to be well lived and our youth make our future. Public policy about education is clearly a passion of mine, including the protection of our first educational freedom - homeschooling. Policy protecting children by protecting the family and the society they live in is important as well. Freedom, security, parental rights, fiscal responsibility, and data privacy are all up there too.

Who do you look up to? Whose example would you like to follow, and why?

I look up to Jesus. I try to follow his example because of who he is and because he always gave people undeserved grace and led with love in his heart. During the time Jesus was physically here on earth he was a humble and selfless servant leader. Our nation needs more of all of these things.

What legacy would you like to leave?

I would like to leave the legacy of making the world a better place for my children, who I worked very hard to raise really well, and for all children as each one is precious.
I would like to improve education to help secure the future of my state and nation.

What is your favorite book? Why?

The Bible as it is my guide to living a life of grace and love.

If you could be any fictional character, who would you want to be?

Captain America

What was the last song that got stuck in your head?

Ring of Fire

Do you believe that it’s beneficial for holders of this office to have previous experience in government or politics?

I have a good amount of experience in government and extensive experience in politics, and it will most certainly help me in this role. It is the extremely unique blend of experience that I bring to the table that makes the biggest difference, however. A person that just has the government or political experience but not a business degree from the University of Michigan, a certification in public accountancy (CPA), 30 years of experience in process improvement, and 20 years of daily experience in the field of education will, of course, not bring the same level of skill to the table. Also important is the personality and drive. A person could have every degree in the book and 30 years of experience, get elected to fill a seat, and then do nothing beneficial for education in Michigan. We need a person like me that is professional, loving, intelligent and diplomatic, but also driven, passionate, dedicated, and bold in her leadership. With the status of schools in Michigan, just filling a seat or going along to get along is not an option. It is time to return Michigan's schools to being the academic powerhouse in our nation that other states look to as the shining example.

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