Tony Rose
Little Rock School District, Zone 4
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Tony Rose is a member of the Little Rock School District in Arkansas, representing Zone 4. He assumed office on December 5, 2024. His current term ends in 2026.
Rose ran for election to the Little Rock School District to represent Zone 4 in Arkansas. He won in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Rose completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
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2024
See also: Little Rock School District, Arkansas, elections (2024)
General election
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2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Tony Rose completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Rose'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 mathematician and historian with a wife and daughter who are public school teachers. I attended public school in Waldron, studied at Univ of Ark at Fayetteville and graduated undergraduate and graduate school at UALR. I have lived in Little Rock very nearly my entire adult life.
- I want all graduates of LRSD to be college-ready through middle school and high school mathematics and literature immersion.
- I am a strong opponent of the state's LEARNS Act and will urge the school district to do all it can to repeal or void the act. I am a strong union supporter and hope to restore the districts ability to negotiate a contract with the LREA.
- I will work to see that LRSD students are provided with safe and clean learning environments.
education, the environment, wealth inequality
Too many to list, but I'll settle on JFK for his intelligence and compassion. He was the last president we had that would regularly conduct frequent news conferences, and answer with erudition and style.
As an historian, my reading is large and varied. My politics are very much oriented toward the idea that the exploitation of labor by capital and the extraction of wealth from the system are to fought against at all times.
The ability to know when to compromise and when to stand of principle in the face of opposition.
I know the difference between when it is time to talk and when it is time to listen.
To work with the community to create a strategic vision and to hire a superintendent who will be able and willing to execute that vision.
A truly great school district that is held up as a positive example to others.
I have to list two: the daily report of the number of those killed in Vietnam and the first manned moon landing. My first memories of both are from when I seven.
Working construction for my father. I did it every summer from the time I was 15 until I was 20. I learned that hard work won't kill you.
Either Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein or Julian by Gore Vidal. Both are about seeing the world from a different point of view than that of the majority.
Tarzan comes to mind. He's strong, confident, handsome, and at home in the jungle or in a London drawing room. He feels himself to be apart from humanity, but exhibits the finest characteristics of humans in his capacity for compassion and his innate sense of decency.
I, me, mine by the Beatles.
I too often let my passions get the best of me and I find myself shouting. It is often interpreted as anger, but it seldom is.
All the citizen of Little Rock. All of our lives depend on quality public education.
I feel that the Algebra Project is something that the district should definitely investigate. Languages are learned through immersion and mathematics is a language. Students should also have long and varied required reading lists in world literature.
Public schools will probably never be properly funded, but the legislature should be pushed every session to increase funding. And, when special projects suggest a temporary millage increase, that should be examined.
I have supported health clinics in public school for many, many years and will continue to advocate for them.
Two men walk into a bar. The other one ducks.
A clean, safe space surrounded by books with a highly qualified teacher.
I think they did an adequate job with the hand they were dealt. The district should maintain its alternate methods of education programs or at least be able to quickly pivot to them.
I will meet with parents anytime, anywhere.
My strategies can only be applied to the superintendent, the only direct employee of the school board. I think that if there is a strong internal candidate that is interests in the job, they should be considered even while a national search is underway. Public input is appreciated, but cannot be the only determining factor.
All the business of the district, save direct personnel actions, must be conducted in public, by Arkansas law.
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