Margaret Turner-Carrigan
Non-Partisan | Texas
Candidate Profile
Moderate
BIOGRAPHY
Name
Margaret Turner-Carrigan
Party
Non-Partisan
Election Year
2023
Election
School Board
Race
Plano ISD Board of Trustees - Place 4
Incumbent
No
Links
EDUCATION
University of Texas School of Law, Austin, J.D., 1979
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, B.A., 1976
WORK & MILITARY
Candidate did not provide
AFFILIATIONS
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., Southwest Region Member of Scholarship and Standards
POLITICAL OFFICES HELD
None
POLITICAL OFFICES SOUGHT
None
Race
SELECTED FINANCIAL SOURCE DOCUMENTS
OTHER INFORMATION
- Election Voting History for Margaret Turner Carrigan from the Collin County Elections Department during the time of residence in district and/or at current address:
- 2022 Primary election: Republican
- 2020 Primary election: Republican
- Voted in four Republican Primary elections 1994 - 2018
- Voted in six Democratic Primary elections 1994 - 2018
- Voted in 20 General elections 1994 - 2022
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Please note: This information was received by iVoterGuide after panel evaluations occurred and is for additional educational purposes only.
Please note: This information was received by iVoterGuide after panel evaluations occurred and is for additional educational purposes only.
QUESTIONNAIRE
RIGHT TO LIFE
Abortion providers, including Planned Parenthood, should be a resource for instruction or services in the school.
Disagree
Human life begins at conception and deserves legal protection at every stage until natural death.
Agree
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.
Disagree
What is your position on government funding of public education from Pre-K through college?
Disagree
RELIGIOUS LIBERTY
At school, students should be able to speak freely and civilly about matters of conscience and faith, including Christianity.
Agree
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.
Agree
EDUCATION
What is the function of the local school board?
The function of the local school board is to operate within the legal parameters of the state and federal constitutions, statutes, courts and administrative agencies. The board is charged with the responsibility of providing the finest educational program possible for the students in the district. School trustees make all final decisions regarding school district priorities, policies, personnel, textbooks, expenditures and growth management.. Trustees adopt a budget which is necessary to maintain and operate the schools, levy taxes to support the budget and submit bond issues to the citizens of the district to finance construction projects. The board employs and evaluates the superintendent of schools, selects and supervises the internal auditor.
Who should have the authority to set curriculum and determine resources used in those curricula?
The Board of Trustees
When should parents be restricted from speaking in school board meetings?
When they refuse to follow the rules or are disruptive
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
Reading, Mathematics, Science, Language Arts, Information Technology, Personal Finances, American HIstory, Foreign Language, Physical Fitness, Language Arts, Art & Music, Vocational Learning
Which more closely matches your view of America's founding principles? A) Liberty and equality. B) Slavery and racism.
Both A and B
What does "equity in education" mean to you?
That all students are given the opportuniity to learn taking into consideration the learning abilities of the student.
Written parental consent (opt-in) must be obtained before students are taught courses such as Comprehensive Sex Ed (CSE) or Social Emotional Learning (SEL).
Agree
The loss of local control in education is too high a price to pay in exchange for federal dollars.
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.
Agree
School boards are accountable to parents and taxpayers.
Agree
Do you believe students should have access to materials that graphically depict and describe sexual acts?
No
All print and digital material available or presented to students should be easily accessible for public review.
Disagree
VALUES
Briefly describe your spiritual beliefs and values.
The function of the local school board is to ensure that all students in the district receive the finest educational program possible. Make final decisions regarding school district policies.Adopt a budget which is necessary to maintain and operate the schools, levy taxes to support the budet and submit bond issues to the citizens of the district to finance construction projects.Operate within he legal parameters of the state and federal constitutions, statutes, courts and administrative agencies.
I support allowing public high school students to participate in athletic competition based on the gender with which they identify instead of biological sex.
Strongly Disagree
No school official should be involved in the sexual transitioning of a student, including the use of alternative names and pronouns.
Choose not to answer
No healthcare diagnosis or treatment, whether mental, reproductive, or otherwise, should be given to a child without first receiving written consent from the parent.
Agree
Who is responsible for teaching sexual education to children, and what is the appropriate age when it should be taught?
Parents should be responsible for teaching sexual education to children and they decide what the appropriate age is when it should be taught. School districts can teach sex education so long as the parents are aware and agree.
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
Sex Ed should not inclue sex acts and pleasures of sex.
Judeo-Christian values established a framework of morality that is necessary for our system of limited government.
Agree
ELECTIONS AND VOTING
People should be able to vote without photo identification.
Disagree
ABOUT YOU
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 are relevant when considering a candidacy for elective office.
Agree
When you consider your views on a wide range of issues from economic and social matters to foreign policy and religious liberty, which of the following best describes you overall?
Moderate
Please provide publicly available information, including interviews and media reports, validating your answer to the previous question (other than your website).
None
Is there anything else you would like voters to know about you?
School Boards are non partisan and I will be non patisan in all decisions.
2ND AMENDMENT
Teachers who are licensed to carry should be allowed to carry guns at school.
Disagree
OTHER IMPORTANT ISSUES
Under what circumstances (if any) should schools be allowed to require vaccinations?
Schools already require vaccinations.
I support mask mandates.
Agree
All official open meetings should be live streamed, recorded, and have transcripts available online for public access.
Agree
All votes should be roll call votes and recorded in meeting minutes.
Agree
