Linda Avila
Non-Partisan | Texas
Candidate Profile
Conservative (Conditional)
BIOGRAPHY
Name
Linda Avila
Party
Non-Partisan
Election Year
2022
Election
General
Race
Round Rock ISD Board of Trustees, Place 4
Incumbent
No
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EDUCATION
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WORK & MILITARY
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AFFILIATIONS
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POLITICAL OFFICES HELD
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Race
ENDORSEMENTS
CONSERVATIVE (2)
Hispanic Republicans of Texas
Focus on Education in RRISD
SELECTED CONTRIBUTIONS
CONSERVATIVE
GIVEN BY CANDIDATE (2)
Allen West (2021)
State Republican Party Organizations (2022)
RECEIVED BY CANDIDATE (0)
SELECTED FINANCIAL SOURCE DOCUMENTS
OTHER INFORMATION
Election Voting History for Linda Gonzalez Avila from the Williamson County Elections Department during time of residence in district and/or at current address:
- 2022 Primary Election: Republican
- 2020 Primary Election: Republican
- Voted in two Republican Primary elections 2016 - 2018
- Voted in five General elections 2016 - 2021
**Voter history is not considered during panel evaluations.**
QUESTIONNAIRE
RIGHT TO LIFE
Abortion providers, including Planned Parenthood, should not be a resource for instruction or services in the school.
Agree
School board trustees take recommendations from the School Health Advisory Committee.
Human life begins at conception and deserves legal protection at every stage until natural death.
Strongly Agree
This response is a personal opinion which has no bearing upon school board policy. School board trustees do not make policies about Right to Life.
ECONOMY
Free enterprise and the right to private property are essential elements of a productive economic system.
Agree
School districts should be able to use taxpayer money for lobbying the state legislature.
Strongly Disagree
School district, Tax payer money is for providing direct educational services for children, funding school staff and Round Rock ISD.
What is your position on government funding of public education from Pre-K through college?
A school board trustee must ensure that tax payer money should fund free appropriate public education for each child through 12th grade.
RELIGIOUS LIBERTY
At school, students should be able to speak freely and civilly about matters of conscience and faith, including Christianity.
Strongly Agree
Every student has a first amendment right to speak about any matter within a structured environment and appropriate setting.
School districts should not discriminate against individuals, organizations or small businesses because of their belief that marriage is only a union of one man and one woman.
Strongly Agree
School districts should not discriminate against ANY individual no matter what their belief.
Students should not be allowed to pray in school.
Strongly Disagree
EDUCATION
What is the function of the local school board?
The function of the school board is to govern. To govern is to conduct the policy, actions and affairs of the school district. Effective governing is to demonstrate responsiibility and accountability and to provide the district freedoms but with structure. The Board has five responsibilities: 1. Write and adopt student outcomes. 2. Monitor student outcome goals using a monitoring calendar and report. 3. Write policy. 4. Approve the budget and set the tax rate. 5. Hire, terminate, and conduct an evaluation of their one employee, the superintendent.
Who should have the authority to set curriculum and determine resources used in those curricula?
The superintendent with guidance and/or set policies from the school board trustees should set the curriculum and determine resources used in those curricula.
When should parents be restricted from speaking in school board meetings?
Parents should not be restricted from speaking in school board meetings.
Please list in order the following priorities in relation to the role of a K-12 public school (omitting any that do not apply): Mathematics, Information Technology, Science, Political Activism, Personal Finances, Gender Identity, Physical Fitness, American History, Critical Race Theory, Language Arts, Art & Music, Vocational Learning, Sexuality, Foreign Language, Social Emotional Learning
Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, American History, Physical Fitness, Art & Music, Vocational Learning, Personal Finances, Information Technology, and Foreign Language.
American civics education should emphasize our nation's founding principles of liberty and equality.
Agree
Before students are taught courses such as Comprehensive Sex Ed (CSE) or Social Emotional Learning (SEL), they must opt-in with written parental permission.
Strongly Agree
The loss of local control in education is too high a price to pay in exchange for federal dollars.
Agree
I support the teaching of curricula (such as the 1619 Project, No Place for Hate, Second Step, etc.) that emphasizes slavery and racism as the foundation of American history.
Strongly Disagree
Parents are the ultimate authority in their child’s education and should be able to freely pursue whatever educational options they deem best for their child.
Strongly Agree
VALUES
Briefly describe your spiritual beliefs and values.
Aspects of faith are visible through morality, education, law and liberty. Those creating policies on behalf of others must balance their decisions on goodness, truthfulness, justice and mercy. Accountability is achieved through responsibility and excellence is attained by having a standard of expectations.
I support allowing public high school students to participate in athletic competition based on the gender with which they identify instead of biological sex.
Disagree
Who is responsible for teaching sexual education to children, and what is the appropriate age when it should be taught?
The parent is the ultimate authority on who, when and where their child is taught sexual education.
If you support the teaching of Sex Ed, please answer the following question: Sexual education should include these topics (list all that apply and add your own, if needed) -- Physical and emotional health outcomes; contraceptive methods; consent; abstinence; sexual orientation and gender identity; human anatomy/the reproductive system; abortion methods and side effects; stages of pregnancy and fetal development; sex acts and pleasures of sex
If parents choose to Opt-in their child to a Sex Ed class, the class should address the following: Consent, abstinence, and human anatomy/the reproductive system.
Judeo-Christian values established a framework of morality that is necessary for our system of limited government.
Agree
No healthcare diagnosis or treatment, whether mental, reproductive, or otherwise, should be given to a child without first receiving written consent from the parent.
Strongly Agree
No school official should be involved in the sexual transitioning of a student, including the use of alternative names and pronouns.
Agree
ELECTIONS AND VOTING
People should be able to vote without photo identification.
Strongly Disagree
Every voter should be verified.
ABOUT YOU
Which of the 11 objectives specified in the Texas Education Code is your highest priority?
Objective one: Parents will be full partners with educators in the education of their children.
Have you ever been convicted of a felony or been penalized in either civil or criminal court for sexual misconduct? If so, please explain.
NO
A candidate's personal moral values should not be relevant when considering a candidacy for elective office.
Disagree
School Board Trustees have a fiduciary duty which includes integrity, loyalty, good faith, confidentiality, prudence and disclosure
When you consider your views on a wide range of issues from economic and social matters to foreign policy and immigration, which of the following best describes you overall?
Conservative
Please provide publicly available information, including interviews and media reports, validating your answer to the previous question (other than your website).
Member of the Republican Party.
Is there anything else you would like voters to know about you?
I have been an educator for 30 years. Having both educational and parental experience, I bring leadership with a fresh perspective on tackling challenges head on. I am guided by common sense and committed to making a positive impact on public education by restoring academic excellence and helping to provide a safe environment for students to learn. I am the Voice of Reason for Round Rock ISD.
2ND AMENDMENT
Teachers who are licensed to carry should be allowed to carry guns at school.
Disagree
While I am a supporter of the 2nd amendment, many questions about having guns roaming the schools remain unanswered. I will be seeking more information on this topic from security experts.
OTHER IMPORTANT ISSUES
Under what circumstances (if any) should schools be allowed to require vaccinations?
The parent is the ultimate authority on when to vaccinate their child.
I support mask mandates.
Disagree
I support those individuals who chose to wear a mask.
