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George Shirakawa
31,789 votes
23.1%
(This candidate has not responded to Smart Voter)
- Occupation: Vice-Mayor, City of San Jose
J. Manuel Herrera
30,019 votes
21.8%
(This candidate has not responded to Smart Voter)
- Occupation: Governing Board Member, East Side Union High School District
Patricia Martinez-Roach
28,633 votes
20.8%
- Occupation: Schoolteacher/Mother/Consultant
- San Jose State University;
- MA Administration and Higher Education
- BA Art /Minor Political Science
- Elementary Teaching Credential
- Bilingual Teaching Credential
- State of California: Certified Interpreter
Priorities:
- Student Safety
- Student Achievement
- Fiscal Solvency
Jeff Ota
26,197 votes
19.1%
- Occupation: Governing Board Member, East Side Union High School District
- Governing Board Member, Metropolitan Education District
- Research Engineer
- University Instructor
- PhD Candidate, Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
- M.S., Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Stanford Unviversity
- B.S., Engineering, Stanford University
Priorities:
- Statisically accurate student assessment to optimize student achievement
- Increasing educational options
- Studying the impacts of unification of the feeder district
Khanh D. Tran, M.A.
20,849 votes
15.2%
- Occupation: University Instructor/Father/Husband
- Certified Business and Information Technology Instructor for National University and University of Phoenix
- Former IT Coordinator II for San Joaquin County Office of Education
- An East Side Graduate and former IT Manager for East Side Union High School District; co-founded Mayor Susan Hammer's San Jose Education Network
- Former Campaign Manager for Patricia Martinez-Roach for 23rd Assembly District in 1998
- BS/MA in Management; currently a Distant Learning Ph.D Doctoral Student at Nova Southeastern University
- A High-Tech Network Security Consultant for a Fortune 500 Company
Priorities:
- Support after school programs including sports, games, and tournaments; keeping kids interested in school and out of drugs and crimes.
- Increase employment and training standards for employees; giving teachers back control of their classrooms and syllabi.
- Cut unnecessary costs; increase spending for teachers and classrooms; ensure every kid will go to college; protect and preserve district assets
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