There are two candidates running for Zone 3 - and the difference couldn’t be more clear.

Watch the Zone 3 interviews.

Question: “What are your suggestions for involving the community in curriculum development, can you describe the roles and levels of influence for parents, teachers and the district in the curriculum development process” 

Answer: “Can I skip that question?”- Jennifer Parker (5:27) 

Question: “In thinking about the school district’s decisions regarding funding and budget matters over the past years, which ones did you support and which ones did you not support?”

Answer: “I’m not in favor of anybody losing their job but some positions were not 100% always necessary”- Jennifer Parker (7:45) 

Question: “What are your suggestions for involving the community in curriculum development, can you describe the roles and levels of influence for parents, teachers and the district in the curriculum development process” 

Answer: “Sometimes we forget that our constituents are our students, parents and educators and we work for them. One of the first things that we should always do when making decisions is reach out to the community”- Angelo Arredondo (6:39)


Question: “In thinking about the school district’s decisions regarding funding and budget matters over the past years, which ones did you support and which ones did you not support?”

Answer: “I would prioritize (keeping) our educators, we need our experienced educators to stay in our classrooms, so I wouldn’t support the cutting of our educators.- Angelo Arredondo (10:43)

Answer: “I would also support the maintaining of our programs like music and the arts”.- Angelo Arredondo (10:59)

Statesman Journal, 4/26/25

“Parker did not respond to the Statesman Journal’s interview request.”

Photo: Kevin Neri/ Statesman Journal

Statesman Journal, 4/26/25

“I bring both the experience of a guardian and the experience of a recent graduate,” he said. “This is a personal race. It’s where I grew up. The school system really shaped who I am today.”

~ Angelo

  • Jennifer Parker

    “Parker supports returning police officers to schools. She said that would allow students to feel safe and teachers to teach again while officers respond to dangerous or violent disruptions. She didn’t have a suggestion for how to pay for such a program.

    ‘I would have to go look at the budget and see where we could, where the gaps are, where we can find some funding,’ she said. 

    As a last resort, she said she’d consider asking voters for a tax increase to pay for police.”

  • Angelo Arredondo Baca

    “Arredondo Baca describes himself as an advocate for equity in schools. To him that means ‘giving the necessary tools to all students, depending on their needs,’ he said. As a student, he said he struggled with math in middle school.

    ‘I worked slower. I needed more support, and that is how I managed to pass my math classes. Not all students, not all my peers, needed that,’ he said.

    He said the board plays a role in making sure all students feel welcome in school.”