Party: N/A; nonpartisan election

Dailey wants to impose financial discipline in the district by reducing nepotism, reducing financial waste, and monitoring how administrators spend the district’s money [1].

Dailey wants to improve access to education specialists for special education students [1].

Dailey thinks curriculums should focus on reading, writing, science, technology, engineering, and math. He believes education should not include personal bias, political opinions, or indoctrination [1].

Dailey wants to parents to be able to opt out of surveys, be incorporated in the curriculum discussions, and direct their children’s education [1].

Hodge wants to provide students with a social-emotional learning and mental health support [2].

Hodge wants increase staff retention and provide staff with mental health support [3].

Hodge wants to increase equity across schools for funding. She identifies this as the biggest issue students are facing [3].

Wade hopes to use her experience as a teacher to attract and retain more teachers in the district [1] .

Wade wants to endures all schools have a competitive curriculum [1]. She also wants to focus on student’s social emotional needs.

Wade wants Higley to plan for the growing population through expanding facilities and staff to keep class size low [1].

Hoek supports parents having a strong involvement in their children’s education. She wants all “political opinions and beliefs” to be removed from curriculums [1]. Her focus is on the areas of Reading, Writing, Math, History, and Science [2].

Hoek supports strict academic standards that are tested for. She wants the results to have consequences to ensure schools remain competitive [1].

Hoek wants to be transparent about the district’s spending.

Hoek encourages parents to advocate for their children, especially when obtaining IEPs or a 504 [2].

Soucinek believes that the board should not get into the development of the curriculum and that responsibility should be on the committee of experts created by the superintendent. She does want to point out that she will still ensure that the all stakeholders are able to see the curriculum prior to purchasing material [1].

She says that she will prioritize quality staff and quality instructional programs when preparing the district budget [1]. In order to better support public education in the state, Soucinek highlights the need for a greater investment in its students and schools through funding textbooks, supplies and building maintenance in addition to salaries and compensation for educators [2]. She says that preventative maintenance to lengthen the life of facilities and transportation vehicles are a priority for her [3].

Soucinek believes that finding, hiring, and retaining qualified staff is one of the most pressing issues facing the district. She plans on addressing this issue by approaching alternative staffing ideas which says she is currently doing on the board [1]. Soucinek urges that the appreciation and respect of all educational professionals, administrators and school staff be given in compensation [2], as well as involving them in discussions about school and classroom needs [3].

In regards to meeting the needs of all children with a limited district budget, she says she wants to address this through looking at various intervention programs [1].

Soucinek does not believe in expanding school vouchers. She says that the vouchers started off as a way to get students with special needs access to highly specialized schools, but the expansion to include any student allows for funding to go to private schools, which is weakening the ability of public schools to meet the needs of all students. She says that Littleton lost out on about $400,000 in ESA scholarships this year. [3]

Ceniceros wants to ensure that the district has a budget that invest in the district’s teachers and students [1].

Ceniceros says that he will work with the governing board on finding ways to bring green energy to the district such as electric buses rather than diesel and solar panels to campuses [1]. He also want to create a tradition in the district where students and educators plant trees [2].

In order to protect rights of teachers, Littleton wants to adopt a meet and confer process, which would call for annual meetings between representatives of the Littleton Education Association and the governing board. He believes it will strengthen the relationship between the governing board and educators, and giving educators more say in the district. Ceniceros also hopes for this to be the solution towards increasing teacher retention [2].

He says he will find ways to communicate transparently to community parents, staff, and students to ensure that the  community can have a say and be up to date on the decisions that are affecting their children’s future [2].

Nielson is an advocate for better parent and teacher cooperation and involvement in regards to student reading [1].

Nielson recognizes the need for clean energy given current global events. He notes the limited budget from legislation, however, he wishes an installation of solar panels at more schools and the transition to electric school buses [1].

Dennis Dowling he plans to address learning loss after more than two years of pandemic-related disruptions by providing an aggressive academic remedial support program for struggling students to include mentors, personal tutors and expanded after school and summer programs [1].

Dr. Dowling hopes to work towards more recruitment and retention of highly qualified teachers and support staff. Dowling wants to ensure that Litchfield Elementary School District creates a supportive work environment that values all employees and their contributions to the district, while providing competitive salaries for certified and classified personnel [2].

Dowling wants to ensure that the curriculum focuses on reading, writing, math, social studies and technology in the classroom. He says that student academic achievement must be the first priority for all school personnel in his school district and members of the community [2].

Owens believes that the curriculum adopted by the board and every program implemented into Litchfield Elementary School District must be for the advancement of academic improvement or have a direct impact to promoting educational success. He also wants to put an emphasis on making up for the learning loss that occurred during the pandemic [1]. He plans on establishing a way to identify the amount of learning loss of each child so they can make a plan for each student, as he thinks students who need more assistance than others need to receive extra instruction, whereas other students should be allowed to advance and not slowed down [3].

Ryan Owens believes that teachers must feel supported by their board. As a part of the board, he plans on focusing on making teachers’ jobs easier, not placing distracting programs or additional responsibilities that fail to provide tangible advancement in the classroom [1].

Owens says that as a part of the board, he wants to ensure that the board never take for granted their fiduciary responsibility to the taxpayers. He hopes to prevent LESD from being in its current situation of asking voters to pass an override after it failed due to voter mistrust [1].

Stenberg advocates for adequate police staffing in communities and quicker response times to crises [1].

 Stenberg supports a strong local economy and more revenue for city services as a small business owner [1].

Stenberg hopes to improve and update city infrastructure [1].

Stenberg hopes to work with regional governments and nonprofits to increase safety in neighborhoods with homlessness [1].