Jeanne Beasley
Candidate for Scottsdale Unified School District Governing Board
Scottsdale · Scottsdale Unified School District
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Statement
I'm running to make a real difference for the children in our community, bringing a paralegal's skills in research, critical thinking, and problem-solving to the board. My priorities are academic achievement, fiscal responsibility, and thriving neighborhood schools — so families feel confident choosing and staying in our public schools.
Biography
Jeanne Beasley is a Scottsdale litigation paralegal and roughly 30-year resident whose three children attended Scottsdale Unified schools. She serves on the SUSD Audit Committee and is a regular attendee of board meetings, experience she cites as grounding her focus on district finances and academics. She first ran for the Governing Board in 2024 on the "Just Be Honest" slate, finishing fourth of six candidates for three seats, and is running again in 2026 for one of two open seats.
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Issue Stances
Academic Achievement & Curriculum
SupportsBeasley makes academic decline her central concern, arguing core reading, writing, and math must come first and that curriculum should be evidence-based, factually accurate, age-appropriate, and standards-aligned.
"Educating our kids in reading, writing and math must be the district's top priority."
Library Books & Instructional Materials
SupportsBeasley frames instructional-material decisions around the same standard she applies to curriculum — factual accuracy, age-appropriateness, and alignment with state standards — rather than describing specific book challenges.
"factually accurate, age appropriate and meet all state standards"
Parental Rights & Involvement
SupportsBeasley emphasizes respecting parents' primary role in their children's education and pledges to remain accessible to parents and voters while exercising independent judgment on policy.
"I will always be available to listen to the voters and parents when I am elected to serve."
Budget & Fiscal Oversight
SupportsDrawing on her SUSD Audit Committee role, Beasley wants dollars prioritized to classrooms with transparent accounting, and criticizes a long-term decline in the share of the budget spent on instruction.
"We start with funding the classrooms to deliver a quality academic product, and work backward from there."
Teacher Pay & Retention
SupportsBeasley supports appropriate compensation for teachers and support staff and ties classroom-first budgeting to retaining excellent educators as central to academic quality.
Student Safety & Wellbeing
SupportsBeasley calls for school resource officers on all elementary, middle, and high school campuses and staff safety training, and supports a common-sense cell-phone policy developed together with parents and administrators.
"We must ensure that all elementary, middle and high school campuses are secured by school resource officers."
Declining Enrollment & Consolidation
OpposesBeasley frames enrollment loss as fixable by improving academics rather than marketing, and positions school closure or consolidation as a last resort rather than a default response.
"Slogans and marketing taglines are not going to fix the problem. Refocusing on educating children will."
Board Governance & Transparency
SupportsRunning on a 'Just Be Honest' theme, Beasley criticizes a decline in board decorum and calls for a more professional, transparent board, favoring evaluation of the superintendent against clear performance metrics.
"The SUSD board would be well served with an infusion of professionalism."
DEI & Social-Emotional Learning
No official stance on record.
Legislature
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