Mark Stegeman

Ran as a challenger for the Tucson Unified School Governing Board, first-time candidate Mark Stegeman is an MIT-educated professor of economics at the University of Arizona. Mark ran for this non-partisan office because of his passion for education and because of the terrible mismanagement the district during the past several years. Tucson Unified is the largest school district in Arizona; it includes more than 150 schools and receives more dollars per student in funding than any other district in the state. Due to bloated bureaucracy, however, the district ranks near the bottom in the state in terms of dollars spent per student. During the past few years, Mark has been serving on the district's budget advisory committee, and he will use his experience on the committee, as an economist, and as a small business owner to streamline the district's overhead to put more money in the classroom and increase teacher pay.