Christine Thompson

Key Facts

Party N/A; nonpartisan election
Status Challenger

Background

Christine Thompson graduated with a BA in Political Science and a JD from the University of Arizona. Currently, Thompson is an Executive Consultant and Education Advocate [2]. She is an author for Raising Kids Arizona Magazine [3], a member of the Flinn-Brown Fellowship [6], and CEO of Expect More Arizona [7]. 

She is known for having tension with the Superintendent of Public Instruction Diane Douglas in 2015 [2].

Key Issues

Community

Thompson wants to work with the diversity in Madison to understand what to the district needs [8].

Teachers

Thompson wants to increase teacher pay to make wages competitive to other careers. She thinks teacher recruitment and retention is the biggest issue facing the district [8].

Endorsements

No endorsements could be found.

Sources

1 Twitter
2 AZ Capitol Times
3 Raising Arizona Kids
4 Ballotpedia
5 Flinn Foundation
6 The 74 Million
7 Linkedin
8 AZCentral