Breanne Barnes
TX · Canutillo ISD Board of Trustees member
Breanne Barnes, a Canutillo ISD trustee since 2022, is a former elementary school teacher of 11 years who now works in sales and design. Her priorities are parental rights, transparency and accountability, careful spending of tax money, and finishing bond projects as promised.
Where Breanne Barnes stands, based on their records
Supports
Government Efficiency (2 records), Government Spending Reduction (2 records), Public Education Quality (1 record)
Track record
Track record — Government Efficiency
Government Efficiency · 2 support
Filed a complaint with the Texas Education Agency after the superintendent signed the horse-farm purchase contract without board approval.
April 4, 2025Supports Government Efficiency
Source: elpasomatters.org
Voted against ratifying the superintendent's contract to buy a 51-acre horse farm for a new school, which he signed without the board's approval; it passed 5-2.
December 17, 2024Supports Government Efficiency
Source: elpasomatters.org
Track record — Government Spending Reduction
Government Spending Reduction · 2 support
Moved to approve the central office reorganization in Canutillo ISD's 2025 budget cuts, except for the nursing coordinator job.
March 25, 2025Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: meetings.boardbook.org
Cast the only vote against calling the district's $387 million school bond election, saying taking on that much debt was not fiscally responsible.
February 13, 2024Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: elpasomatters.org
Track record — Public Education Quality
Public Education Quality · 1 support
Moved to adopt the state's Bluebonnet Learning math curriculum for kindergarten through Algebra I; the motion failed 3-4.
March 24, 2026Supports Public Education Quality
Source: meetings.boardbook.org
Track record — General
General · 8 records
Moved to post the donated Ten Commandments posters right away to comply with state law (Senate Bill 10); the motion failed 3-4.
December 16, 2025
Source: meetings.boardbook.org
Voted against replacing Josue Borrego with Oscar Rico as the sole superintendent finalist; the change failed 3-4.
December 16, 2025
Source: meetings.boardbook.org
Voted against delaying the posting of donated Ten Commandments posters in classrooms until court cases over the new state law end; the delay passed 5-2.
October 28, 2025
Source: meetings.boardbook.org
Voted against a board resolution supporting public education, which passed with four votes.
May 23, 2023
Source: meetings.boardbook.org
Cast the only vote against a Canutillo ISD board resolution opposing private school vouchers, which passed 6-1.
April 25, 2023
Source: meetings.boardbook.org
Voted against a board resolution to the Texas Education Agency about the state takeover of Houston ISD; it passed 5-2.
March 28, 2023
Source: meetings.boardbook.org
Won a seat on the Canutillo ISD Board of Trustees in the Nov. 8, 2022 election, running on transparency and parental rights.
November 8, 2022
Source: elpasomatters.org
As a parent, filed a formal challenge to remove the graphic memoir 'Gender Queer' from the Canutillo High School library and urged trustees to act; a district committee later kept the book.
October 26, 2021
Source: elpasomatters.org
Past race Breanne Barnes ran in:
- Canutillo Independent School District Board of Trustees, District at Large · November 3, 2026 · Canutillo Independent School District, Texas · incumbent