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Albert Gonzalez
 
17,876 votes
36.79%
- Occupation: Engineer/Father/Businessman
 - Parent of two SCUSD students
 - Past Tutor for Wilcox HS students
 - BS - Electrical Engineering  Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
 - Elected to  Board of Directors - Associated Students Inc., Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
 - Coach - Santa Clara Youth Soccer League
 - Over sixteen years of tutoring and mentoring students
  
Priorities:
- District accountability at all levels
 - Retain/Recruit quality teachers and increase parent/community involvement
 - Narrow the achievement gap while raising the bar
  
 
Don Bordenave
12,071 votes
24.85%
Noelani Sallings
 
12,042 votes
24.79%
- Occupation: Community Volunteer
 - Executive Director of a Non Profit
 - Santa Clara Unified School District Parent
 - Bachelors Degree of Science, Santa Clara University
 - Public School Week Award Receipant
 - Executive Board of the Santa Clara Schools Foundation
  
Priorities:
- Contiuning to set high standards while reducing the achieve gap and raising the achievement bar.
 - Empowering all student to their greatest potential by educating the entire learner in all areas of their lives.
 - Ensuring the fiscal security of the district.
  
Ashish Mangla
 
6,594 votes
13.57%
- Occupation: Technologist/Engineer
 - MS and Specialization in VLSI design
 - Parent of three Children who are in SCUSD Schools
  
Priorities:
- - Increasing Education standards of the Santa clara city schools along with incentivizing children from economically weaker section of our community.
 - - Bringing greater transparency in the SCUSD.
 - - Increasing economic benefits of Santa Clara school teachers.
  
  
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