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Yolanda Rodriguez-Peña
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2028
Yolanda Rodriguez-Peña is a member of the Azusa Unified School District school board in California, representing Trustee Area 2. Her current term ends in 2028.
Rodriguez-Peña ran for re-election to the Azusa Unified School District school board At-large in California. She won in the general election on November 3, 2015.
Rodriguez-Peña participated in Ballotpedia's 2015 survey of school board candidates. To read her responses, check out her 2015 campaign themes.
Elections
2015
Two of the five at-large seats on the Azusa Unified Board of Education were up for general election on November 3, 2015.[1] Incumbent Yolanda Rodriguez-Peña faced challengers Jeri Bibles-Vogel, Russell Rentschler, Ralph Rodriguez and Thomas Sanchez.[2][3] Rodriguez-Peña won another term, and Bibles-Vogel won the open seat.[4]
Results
| Azusa Unified School District, At-large, General Election, 2015 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
 Yolanda Rodriguez-Peña Incumbent |
31.9% | 1,056 |
| Jeri Bibles-Vogel |
26.9% | 890 |
| Russell Rentschler | 15.7% | 520 |
| Thomas Sanchez | 14.3% | 473 |
| Ralph Rodriguez | 11.2% | 372 |
| Total Votes | 3,311 | |
| Source: Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, "NOVEMBER 03, 2015 - LOCAL AND MUNICIPAL CONSOLIDATED ELECTIONS: Final Official Election Returns," accessed November 24, 2015 | ||
Funding
Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk did not publish school board candidate campaign finance reports online. Ballotpedia staffers requested this information, but the only free method of viewing the files was at their office.
The Los Angeles Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk targeted the end of 2017 to make school board candidate campaign finance reports available online for free. From that point forward, Ballotpedia began including campaign finance data for Los Angeles County school board candidates.[5][6]
The first campaign finance reporting deadline was September 24, 2015, and the second one was October 22, 2015. If candidates raised or spent more than $1,000 from a single source, including their own funds, between August 5, 2015, and November 2, 2015, they had to file a campaign finance report within 24 hours.[7]
If you have any information regarding the campaign finance disclosures in this race, please contact the school board elections team at editor@ballotpedia.org.
Endorsements
Rodriguez-Peña received endorsements from the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO and the community organization Evolve.[8][9]
2011
| Azusa Unified School District, At-Large General Election, 4-year term, 2011 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Nonpartisan | Burke Hamilton |
25.9% | 937 | |
| Nonpartisan | Yolanda Rodriguez-Peña |
25.8% | 931 | |
| Nonpartisan | Ilean M. Ochoa | 24.2% | 876 | |
| Nonpartisan | Paul Naccachian | 24.1% | 869 | |
| Total Votes | 3,613 | |||
| Source: Smart Voter.org, "Governing Board Member; Azusa Unified School District Voter Information" accessed September 4, 2013 | ||||
Campaign themes
2015
Ballotpedia survey responses
Rodriguez-Peña participated in Ballotpedia's 2015 survey of school board candidates. The following sections display her responses to the survey questions. When asked what her top priority would be if elected, Rodriguez-Peña stated:
| “ | I am seeking for Re-Election I will continue to be a voice for parents,student, and employee. |
” |
| —Yolanda Rodriguez-Peña (2015)[11] | ||
Ranking the issues
Rodriguez-Peña was asked to rank the following issues by importance in the school district, with 1 being the most important and 7 being the least important. This table displays this candidate's rankings from most to least important:
| Education policy |
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| Education on the ballot |
| Issue importance ranking | |
|---|---|
| Candidate's ranking | Issue |
| Balancing or maintaining the district's budget | |
| Expanding career-technical education | |
| Closing the achievement gap | |
| Improving college readiness | |
| Improving education for special needs students | |
| Expanding arts education | |
| Expanding school choice options | |
Positions on the issues
Rodriguez-Peña was asked to answer 10 questions from Ballotpedia regarding significant issues in education and the school district. The questions are in the left column, and the candidate's responses are in the right column of the following table:
| Question | Response |
|---|---|
| "Modifications are required before they are implemented." | |
| "No" | |
| "No" | |
| "No" | |
| "provide courses that will help students of all calibers. test student at an early age such as 3rd grade on math and reading to see what they are lacking in their education to help them, monitor as they enter middle and High School." | |
| "Expulsion should be used for serious offenses to ensure the safety of other students as well as the integrity of education at district schools." | |
| "implement program to prepare our students to be college and career ready after they leave high school to be productive citizens in their community." | |
| "Yes" | |
| "Set up a mentorship program for the underperforming teacher with a more experienced teacher in the district." | |
| "Make our school more friendly so parents can feel excepted in their child school. Environment of a school setting is really important so parent can feel comfortable. At AUSD we have parent Ed Center at most of our schools. that provide the parents computer so they can look up their child grades,attendance,discipline on a program called ARIAS. Parents can come in after they leave off their children at school. They also have monthly meeting regarding whats going on at their school sites." |
See also
- Azusa Unified School District, California
- Azusa Unified School District elections (2015)
- Incumbency no guarantee of success in Nov. 3 school board elections (November 6, 2015)
- What happened in Nov.'s top board elections? (November 4, 2015)
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, “2015 Scheduled Elections,” accessed January 27, 2015
- ↑ Los Angeles, California, "Candidate List," accessed August 10, 2015
- ↑ Azusa Unified School District, "Board of Education," accessed January 27, 2015
- ↑ Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, "NOVEMBER 03, 2015 - LOCAL AND MUNICIPAL CONSOLIDATED ELECTIONS: Semi-Final Official Election Returns," accessed November 4, 2015
- ↑ Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, "Campaign Finance Reports," accessed July 2, 2014
- ↑ Daniel Anderson, “Email communication with Brenda Duran, Los Angeles County Public Information Officer," October 7, 2016
- ↑ Fair Political Practices Commission, "Filing Schedule for Candidates and Controlled Committees for Local Office Being Voted on November 3, 2015," accessed August 5, 2015
- ↑ Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO, "Endorsements," accessed October 26, 2015
- ↑ Evolve, "2015 Endorsements: November 03, 2015 Election," accessed October 26, 2015
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Ballotpedia School Board Candidate Survey, 2015, "Yolanda Rodriguez-Peña responses," September 15, 2015
| 2015 Azusa Unified School District Elections | |
| Los Angeles County, California | |
| Election date: | November 3, 2015 |
| Candidates: | At-large: • Incumbent, Yolanda Rodriguez-Peña • Jeri Bibles-Vogel • Russell Rentschler • Ralph Rodriguez • Thomas Sanchez |
| Important information: | What was at stake? • Key deadlines • Additional elections on the ballot |
