State of CaliforniaCandidate for Superintendent Of Public Instruction

A father of 5, Lance Christensen has 20 years of direct experience in education policy, as a teacher, legislative consultant, parent advocate, education nonprofit executive, and public finance specialist. Lance knows what it takes to produce an exceptional education, has the vision and leadership to re-establish California as the country’s best place to educate our children, and is willing to fight alongside parents on behalf of their children. 

California’s public education is broken and continues to get worse. Despite record spending on our schools, decades of bad education policies have brought us among the lowest test scores and literacy rates in the nation. Unless dramatic steps are taken now and someone advocates for parents and children at the top, California won’t be able to graduate students who can read, work in the 21st Century’s dynamic economy or participate as thoughtful and engaged citizens in our communities.

Together we will:

• Empower parents to make consequential decisions for their children’s education.

• Hold K-12 schools accountable in their responsibility to provide a constitutionally protected, high-quality public education.

• Allow a wide range of options for educational opportunities where the money follows the student.

We need to add parents back into the education equation.