What Makes a Qualified Candidate?

What makes a qualified candidate?

Qualifications are not subjective. You either have them or you don’t. So, what qualifications should a candidate for school board have?

The only positions more important than school administration are parents and teachers. School boards shape fiscal and educational policies. They determine not only what your children learn and how they learn it, but how resources are provided for that education. The first responsibility of any school board is fiscal responsibility. Without money there are no teachers, no schools, and no resources. If a school board is running a multi-million dollar budget deficit, then something is clearly not working and a new perspective is needed.

Electing candidates and supporting incumbents who maintain the status quo and refuse to change patterns of irresponsible spending behaviors need to be told by parents and other concerned voters that they are failing. What is the best way to do that? Elect a new candidate!

The most qualified candidate should be passionate about helping children, forward-thinking about improvements and methodologies, innovative about new approaches to resolve stagnation, and above all, know what works and what doesn’t from a real world perspective.

Plano ISD needs a candidate like Steve Navarre. He is impassioned about improving the districts ratings, processes and educational opportunities because he has children in the district. His experience in the IT industry is a testament to his forward-thinking and innovation because he knows what it means to solve problems dealing with millions of dollars in resources and plan for the future. And, he is knowledgeable about business decision-making and knows that the best intentions are not enough if it means failure.

The children of Plano ISD deserve someone dedicated to the betterment of their schools. They deserve more than the status quo that has resulted in a $17 million dollar budget shortfall that will further degrade their educational options. They deserve a candidate who is not looking for another feather in their cap. They deserve a candidate not looking to toot his own horn shouting, “look at everything I do.” Instead, they deserve a true business leader with real business experience. They deserve someone who will standing up and say that Plano ISD needs to make a change. They deserve Steve Navarre.

And that is why...I’D VOTE FOR STEVE!!!

Blog by Diana Carroll
Carroll Creative House



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Meet My Team - Diana Carroll

Diana Carroll Biography, Advertising Consultant - Diana Carroll is a highly versatile advertising and marketing professional. Born and raised in Houston, she graduated from the Art Institute in 1991 and began a productive advertising career shortly thereafter. Combining her innate creative ability with top notch project management skills, she has excelled at insuring on-target, on-time and on-budget advertising and marketing solutions for her clients. She moved to Dallas in 2002 and worked to set up and manage the Creative and Production Services department for a local niche agency in Addison, Texas until this past December. Currently contracting, she strives to give her clients effective creative and superior production services.Although Diana currently resides in Carrollton, she is passionate about children and their needs as she is a devoted aunt of three nephews ages 13, 11 and 1 and two nieces ages 8 and 1-month.


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Meet My Team - Jane Hansen

Jane Hansen Biography, Campaign Treasurer - Jane Hansen is a licensed Texas CPA with 24 years of experience. She graduated from the University of Iowa in 1984, passed the CPA exam in the same year, and moved to DFW to start her career. Her specialty is taxation, but she also has extensive experience in general ledger accounting, cash management, payroll and budgeting. During her career she has worked in public accounting and various industry positions. She was Tax Manager with one of the largest DFW local firms, Henry, Held & Reilly LLP, for 7 years. She left the firm in 2004 when she was employed by a long-term client, who is still her employer.

Jane resides in Plano, and has a vested interest in making sure our school system is the highest quality possible.


If you like to volunteer for my campaign, please contact me at Steve@IdVote4Steve.org


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Meet My Team - Neal Rapoport

Neal Rapoport, Campaign Adviser - Neal is a seasoned entrepreneur. He graduated from the University of Arizona in 1991, and moved to Dallas in 1993 and Plano in 2000. Neal started a popular deals & coupons site in 2004 and just sold it in 2008. Prior to that, he has been part owner in 2 consulting businesses, and worked for companies such as Microsoft & CompuCom. Currently Neal is in the process of looking at new business opportunities as either an angel investor or starting another business himself.

Neal also resides in Plano, and has 3 children in the Plano School District, so he is very supportive of Steve’s initiatives to make the schools even better.

If you like to volunteer for my campaign, please contact me at Steve@IdVote4Steve.org


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