Samuel Quezada Jr.
AZ · Vice President, Tolleson Elementary School District Governing Board
Samuel Quezada Jr. is vice president of the Tolleson Elementary School District board. He did not file a candidate statement, and we found no public statement of his goals.
Where Samuel Quezada Jr. stands, based on their records
Supports
Government Efficiency (1 record), Public Safety and Crime Control (6 records), Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties (1 record),
Mixed record
Government Spending Reduction (1 support · 20 oppose)
Track record
Track record — Government Efficiency
Government Efficiency · 1 support
Voted to authorize up to $13 million in tax-exempt lease-purchase financing for Veregy school energy-conservation improvements. The district projected that energy and operating savings would offset annual payments; these were expected savings, not reported completed savings.
April 1, 2026Supports Government Efficiency
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Track record — Government Spending Reduction
Government Spending Reduction · 1 support · 20 oppose
Voted to approve $529,761 in 2025–2026 performance pay including benefits: $468,261 for eligible certified teachers, counselors and related staff, and $61,500 for eligible principals, assistant principals, a mentor teacher and coaches.
July 8, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: simbli.eboardsolutions.com
Voted to adopt the district’s fiscal-year 2026–2027 expenditure budget after public discussion of the budget and Truth in Taxation notice.
July 8, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: simbli.eboardsolutions.com
Voted to authorize up to $13 million in tax-exempt lease-purchase financing for Veregy school energy-conservation improvements. The district projected that energy and operating savings would offset annual payments; these were expected savings, not reported completed savings.
April 1, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: simbli.eboardsolutions.com
Seconded and voted to authorize the remaining $10 million in school-improvement bonds under the voter-approved $30 million authorization, with a tax levy for repayment. The bonds fund school renovations, site improvements, transportation replacements and safety upgrades. He also supported calling the bond election and the first issuance.
March 4, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: simbli.eboardsolutions.com
Voted through the consent agenda to amend the city preschool agreement so its funds could also provide one-on-one support for students with disabilities in the city afterschool program. He had supported the preschool agreement in September; the amendment kept total city funding at $400,000.
December 10, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: simbli.eboardsolutions.com
Voted through the consent agenda to establish AARP Experience Corps early-literacy tutoring with Phoenix through June 2030, providing volunteer tutors for kindergarten through third grade. District support included up to $2,000 in materials per school and volunteer fingerprinting and background-check costs.
July 9, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: simbli.eboardsolutions.com
Seconded and voted to adopt new district legislative priorities opposing bans on inclusive, historically accurate educational materials and unreasonable burdens on educators, and seeking more state funding for competitive teacher salaries, certified-teacher pipelines and equitable technology and broadband access.
May 7, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: simbli.eboardsolutions.com
Voted to increase returning classified employees’ base pay by $0.50 an hour for 2025–2026, replacing their previously approved 1.5% raise. He had supported the 1.5% increase for returning staff in February. The hourly adjustment was contingent on stable enrollment and a state base-support increase of at least 2%, and carried an estimated $91,890 cost including employee-related expenses.
May 7, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: simbli.eboardsolutions.com
Voted through the consent agenda to approve a $1,214,367 districtwide HVAC replacement contract with Pueblo Mechanical, funded by school bonds, to replace failing classroom equipment more than 20 years old.
April 2, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: simbli.eboardsolutions.com
Voted through the consent agenda to approve and ratify the Jobs for Arizona Graduates middle-to-high-school transition partnership, providing a leadership and career-orientation program at each school. The agreement listed $65,000 for the specialist’s salary and $8,000 in district expense reimbursements.
March 5, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: simbli.eboardsolutions.com
Voted through the consent agenda to approve WestEd’s Stay Interview teacher-retention research partnership through January 2027. The federally funded project trains school leaders to discuss working conditions with teachers at risk of leaving; it was free to the district.
December 11, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: simbli.eboardsolutions.com
Seconded and voted to approve the board’s argument supporting continuation of the maintenance-and-operation budget override. He had moved to call the override election; the district described funding for full-day kindergarten, STEM, athletics, counseling, music, art and physical education.
June 12, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: simbli.eboardsolutions.com
Moved and voted to approve the board’s argument supporting the $1.75 million District Additional Assistance override, after supporting the election call. The override funds classroom technology, curriculum materials, STEM equipment, band equipment and school-safety upgrades.
June 12, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: simbli.eboardsolutions.com
Voted to authorize a roughly $2.22 million Edge Construction contract for the first phase of renovations and repairs at Porfirio H. Gonzales Elementary School, paid from school-bond funds.
May 8, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: simbli.eboardsolutions.com
Voted to close the Tolleson Virtual Academy after the 2023–2024 school year. He had voted against its final-year continuation in March 2023; the district cited declining enrollment and educational needs. The academy had been funded by federal pandemic-relief money.
April 3, 2024Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: simbli.eboardsolutions.com
Voted through the consent agenda to continue Arizona State University onsite tutoring at an estimated $80,100, funded by federal pandemic-relief grants, and to approve the Arizona Department of Education’s Achievement Tutoring partnership for grades 1–8 in math, reading and writing.
December 13, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: simbli.eboardsolutions.com
Voted through the consent agenda to approve the Maricopa County Learning Acceleration Partnership through September 2026. Grant funding pays four teacher-leader specialists to identify learning gaps and support grade-level mastery.
October 4, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: simbli.eboardsolutions.com
Voted through the consent agenda to approve a $100,000 Northern Arizona University master-teacher mentor agreement, funding a full-time mentor teacher, benefits, a stipend and professional development to support new teachers.
September 6, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: simbli.eboardsolutions.com
Voted through the consent agenda to approve Phoenix and Tolleson school-resource-officer agreements covering four elementary schools for 2023–2024. The agreements carried estimated costs of $166,028 and $133,180, funded by the state School Safety Program grant.
August 9, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: simbli.eboardsolutions.com
Voted through the consent agenda to approve $459,440 for Desert Choice Schools special-education and alternative-behavior services for 2023–2024, including therapeutic placements for students with qualifying individualized education plans and a program offering alternatives to suspension or expulsion.
July 12, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: simbli.eboardsolutions.com
Seconded and voted to adopt district legislative priorities seeking preschool funding, locally directed school-safety and student mental-health funding, compulsory attendance through age 18 or graduation, financial and academic transparency for recipients of public funds, and flexible English-learner instruction.
May 10, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: simbli.eboardsolutions.com
Track record — Public Safety and Crime Control
Public Safety and Crime Control · 6 support
Seconded and voted to authorize the remaining $10 million in school-improvement bonds under the voter-approved $30 million authorization, with a tax levy for repayment. The bonds fund school renovations, site improvements, transportation replacements and safety upgrades. He also supported calling the bond election and the first issuance.
March 4, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: simbli.eboardsolutions.com
Voted through the consent agenda to adopt the Comprehensive School Threat Assessment Guidelines as the district’s process for assessing threats and preventing violence, using teams that include mental-health professionals, law enforcement and school administrators.
July 10, 2024Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: simbli.eboardsolutions.com
Moved and voted to approve the board’s argument supporting the $1.75 million District Additional Assistance override, after supporting the election call. The override funds classroom technology, curriculum materials, STEM equipment, band equipment and school-safety upgrades.
June 12, 2024Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: simbli.eboardsolutions.com
Voted to adopt comprehensive multi-hazard emergency operations plans for the district’s four schools and district office.
April 3, 2024Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: simbli.eboardsolutions.com
Voted through the consent agenda to approve Phoenix and Tolleson school-resource-officer agreements covering four elementary schools for 2023–2024. The agreements carried estimated costs of $166,028 and $133,180, funded by the state School Safety Program grant.
August 9, 2023Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: simbli.eboardsolutions.com
Seconded and voted to adopt district legislative priorities seeking preschool funding, locally directed school-safety and student mental-health funding, compulsory attendance through age 18 or graduation, financial and academic transparency for recipients of public funds, and flexible English-learner instruction.
May 10, 2023Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: simbli.eboardsolutions.com
Track record — Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties · 1 support
Seconded and voted to adopt new district legislative priorities opposing bans on inclusive, historically accurate educational materials and unreasonable burdens on educators, and seeking more state funding for competitive teacher salaries, certified-teacher pipelines and equitable technology and broadband access.
May 7, 2025Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: simbli.eboardsolutions.com
Track record — Public Education Quality
Public Education Quality · 25 support
Voted to adopt board improvement goals that added attendance and suspension metrics to monitoring student social-emotional learning, character development and mental well-being, alongside academic achievement and family-engagement goals.
August 12, 2026Supports Public Education Quality
Source: simbli.eboardsolutions.com
Voted to approve the district’s legislative agenda with added language seeking policies that minimize fear, instability and trauma from immigration-related issues affecting school communities, and directed its association delegate to represent that position.
August 12, 2026Supports Public Education Quality
Source: simbli.eboardsolutions.com
Voted to approve $529,761 in 2025–2026 performance pay including benefits: $468,261 for eligible certified teachers, counselors and related staff, and $61,500 for eligible principals, assistant principals, a mentor teacher and coaches.
July 8, 2026Supports Public Education Quality
Source: simbli.eboardsolutions.com
Voted to adopt the district’s fiscal-year 2026–2027 expenditure budget after public discussion of the budget and Truth in Taxation notice.
July 8, 2026Supports Public Education Quality
Source: simbli.eboardsolutions.com
Voted through the consent agenda to approve a one-year renewable GenTechEDU partnership for 2026–2027, providing STEM educators, instructional programming and learning materials for district courses, contingent on district counsel’s review. The agreement listed no financial obligations.
May 13, 2026Supports Public Education Quality
Source: simbli.eboardsolutions.com
Seconded and voted to authorize the remaining $10 million in school-improvement bonds under the voter-approved $30 million authorization, with a tax levy for repayment. The bonds fund school renovations, site improvements, transportation replacements and safety upgrades. He also supported calling the bond election and the first issuance.
March 4, 2026Supports Public Education Quality
Source: simbli.eboardsolutions.com
Voted through the consent agenda to amend the city preschool agreement so its funds could also provide one-on-one support for students with disabilities in the city afterschool program. He had supported the preschool agreement in September; the amendment kept total city funding at $400,000.
December 10, 2025Supports Public Education Quality
Source: simbli.eboardsolutions.com
Voted through the consent agenda to approve HealthCorps’ Teens Make Health Happen program for 2025–2026, combining weekly health and wellness instruction, leadership opportunities and service learning. The agreement listed no financial impact.
July 9, 2025Supports Public Education Quality
Source: simbli.eboardsolutions.com
Voted through the consent agenda to establish AARP Experience Corps early-literacy tutoring with Phoenix through June 2030, providing volunteer tutors for kindergarten through third grade. District support included up to $2,000 in materials per school and volunteer fingerprinting and background-check costs.
July 9, 2025Supports Public Education Quality
Source: simbli.eboardsolutions.com
Voted through the consent agenda to approve a five-year Arizona State School for the Deaf and the Blind cooperative agreement providing special-education services for students with visual or hearing impairments, with an $800 annual district membership fee.
May 7, 2025Supports Public Education Quality
Source: simbli.eboardsolutions.com
Seconded and voted to adopt new district legislative priorities opposing bans on inclusive, historically accurate educational materials and unreasonable burdens on educators, and seeking more state funding for competitive teacher salaries, certified-teacher pipelines and equitable technology and broadband access.
May 7, 2025Supports Public Education Quality
Source: simbli.eboardsolutions.com
Voted to increase returning classified employees’ base pay by $0.50 an hour for 2025–2026, replacing their previously approved 1.5% raise. He had supported the 1.5% increase for returning staff in February. The hourly adjustment was contingent on stable enrollment and a state base-support increase of at least 2%, and carried an estimated $91,890 cost including employee-related expenses.
May 7, 2025Supports Public Education Quality
Source: simbli.eboardsolutions.com
Voted through the consent agenda to approve a $1,214,367 districtwide HVAC replacement contract with Pueblo Mechanical, funded by school bonds, to replace failing classroom equipment more than 20 years old.
April 2, 2025Supports Public Education Quality
Source: simbli.eboardsolutions.com
Voted through the consent agenda to approve and ratify the Jobs for Arizona Graduates middle-to-high-school transition partnership, providing a leadership and career-orientation program at each school. The agreement listed $65,000 for the specialist’s salary and $8,000 in district expense reimbursements.
March 5, 2025Supports Public Education Quality
Source: simbli.eboardsolutions.com
Voted through the consent agenda to approve a student-data-sharing partnership with Arizona State University’s Helios Decision Center, studying long-term achievement and the effectiveness of teaching strategies and interventions from pre-kindergarten through later schooling. The agreement listed no financial impact.
March 5, 2025Supports Public Education Quality
Source: simbli.eboardsolutions.com
Voted through the consent agenda to approve WestEd’s Stay Interview teacher-retention research partnership through January 2027. The federally funded project trains school leaders to discuss working conditions with teachers at risk of leaving; it was free to the district.
December 11, 2024Supports Public Education Quality
Source: simbli.eboardsolutions.com
Seconded and voted to approve the board’s argument supporting continuation of the maintenance-and-operation budget override. He had moved to call the override election; the district described funding for full-day kindergarten, STEM, athletics, counseling, music, art and physical education.
June 12, 2024Supports Public Education Quality
Source: simbli.eboardsolutions.com
Moved and voted to approve the board’s argument supporting the $1.75 million District Additional Assistance override, after supporting the election call. The override funds classroom technology, curriculum materials, STEM equipment, band equipment and school-safety upgrades.
June 12, 2024Supports Public Education Quality
Source: simbli.eboardsolutions.com
Voted to authorize a roughly $2.22 million Edge Construction contract for the first phase of renovations and repairs at Porfirio H. Gonzales Elementary School, paid from school-bond funds.
May 8, 2024Supports Public Education Quality
Source: simbli.eboardsolutions.com
Voted through the consent agenda to continue Arizona State University onsite tutoring at an estimated $80,100, funded by federal pandemic-relief grants, and to approve the Arizona Department of Education’s Achievement Tutoring partnership for grades 1–8 in math, reading and writing.
December 13, 2023Supports Public Education Quality
Source: simbli.eboardsolutions.com
Voted through the consent agenda to approve the Maricopa County Learning Acceleration Partnership through September 2026. Grant funding pays four teacher-leader specialists to identify learning gaps and support grade-level mastery.
October 4, 2023Supports Public Education Quality
Source: simbli.eboardsolutions.com
Voted through the consent agenda to approve a $100,000 Northern Arizona University master-teacher mentor agreement, funding a full-time mentor teacher, benefits, a stipend and professional development to support new teachers.
September 6, 2023Supports Public Education Quality
Source: simbli.eboardsolutions.com
Voted through the consent agenda to continue Northern Arizona University’s West Valley Grow Your Own teacher-development partnership through June 2025, coordinating recruitment, course schedules and student-teaching placements. The agreement listed no financial impact.
August 9, 2023Supports Public Education Quality
Source: simbli.eboardsolutions.com
Voted through the consent agenda to approve $459,440 for Desert Choice Schools special-education and alternative-behavior services for 2023–2024, including therapeutic placements for students with qualifying individualized education plans and a program offering alternatives to suspension or expulsion.
July 12, 2023Supports Public Education Quality
Source: simbli.eboardsolutions.com
Seconded and voted to adopt district legislative priorities seeking preschool funding, locally directed school-safety and student mental-health funding, compulsory attendance through age 18 or graduation, financial and academic transparency for recipients of public funds, and flexible English-learner instruction.
May 10, 2023Supports Public Education Quality
Source: simbli.eboardsolutions.com
Track record — Data Privacy
Data Privacy · 1 support
Voted to adopt revised student-record policies that changed access under limited circumstances from an individually elected board member to the board as a whole, alongside revised technology and child-protection policies.
August 13, 2025Supports Data Privacy
Source: simbli.eboardsolutions.com
Track record — Civil Rights
Civil Rights · 3 support
Voted through the consent agenda to amend the city preschool agreement so its funds could also provide one-on-one support for students with disabilities in the city afterschool program. He had supported the preschool agreement in September; the amendment kept total city funding at $400,000.
December 10, 2025Supports Civil Rights
Source: simbli.eboardsolutions.com
Voted through the consent agenda to approve a five-year Arizona State School for the Deaf and the Blind cooperative agreement providing special-education services for students with visual or hearing impairments, with an $800 annual district membership fee.
May 7, 2025Supports Civil Rights
Source: simbli.eboardsolutions.com
Voted through the consent agenda to approve $459,440 for Desert Choice Schools special-education and alternative-behavior services for 2023–2024, including therapeutic placements for students with qualifying individualized education plans and a program offering alternatives to suspension or expulsion.
July 12, 2023Supports Civil Rights
Source: simbli.eboardsolutions.com
Track record — Public Infrastructure
Public Infrastructure · 5 support
Voted to authorize up to $13 million in tax-exempt lease-purchase financing for Veregy school energy-conservation improvements. The district projected that energy and operating savings would offset annual payments; these were expected savings, not reported completed savings.
April 1, 2026Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: simbli.eboardsolutions.com
Seconded and voted to authorize the remaining $10 million in school-improvement bonds under the voter-approved $30 million authorization, with a tax levy for repayment. The bonds fund school renovations, site improvements, transportation replacements and safety upgrades. He also supported calling the bond election and the first issuance.
March 4, 2026Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: simbli.eboardsolutions.com
Seconded and voted to adopt new district legislative priorities opposing bans on inclusive, historically accurate educational materials and unreasonable burdens on educators, and seeking more state funding for competitive teacher salaries, certified-teacher pipelines and equitable technology and broadband access.
May 7, 2025Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: simbli.eboardsolutions.com
Voted through the consent agenda to approve a $1,214,367 districtwide HVAC replacement contract with Pueblo Mechanical, funded by school bonds, to replace failing classroom equipment more than 20 years old.
April 2, 2025Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: simbli.eboardsolutions.com
Voted to authorize a roughly $2.22 million Edge Construction contract for the first phase of renovations and repairs at Porfirio H. Gonzales Elementary School, paid from school-bond funds.
May 8, 2024Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: simbli.eboardsolutions.com
Track record — General
General · 6 records
Accepted nomination and voted in the board election that selected him as vice president for 2026. The vote was three in favor with two abstentions.
January 14, 2026
Source: simbli.eboardsolutions.com
Voted through the consent agenda to approve the BHHS Legacy Connection Clothing Closet partnership, extending emergency clothing, school-supply and hygiene support to students across district schools year-round. He also supported the partner’s Delivering Dreams Bus agreement earlier that year; the closet agreement listed no district cost.
November 5, 2025
Source: simbli.eboardsolutions.com
Cast the sole dissenting vote on sending a complaint to Tolleson’s city attorney alleging that Mayor Juan Rodriguez aggressively confronted two board members after the superintendent-appointment meeting. The complaint passed 4–1; the minutes reported that an independent attorney had been assigned to investigate.
October 11, 2024
Source: simbli.eboardsolutions.com
Seconded and voted to approve Gisselle Herrera’s contract addendum and superintendent contract beginning January 2025, following his vote to appoint her in September 2024.
October 9, 2024
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Voted through the consent agenda to approve use of Desert Oasis Elementary School for the Phoenix Afterschool Center program through June 2029. The city subsidizes the low-cost youth program, and the district provides facility use without compensation.
July 10, 2024
Source: simbli.eboardsolutions.com
Voted to appoint himself as the district’s delegate to the Arizona School Boards Association Delegate Assembly, with Roberta Garcia as alternate.
August 9, 2023
Source: simbli.eboardsolutions.com
Past race Samuel Quezada Jr. ran in:
- Tolleson Elementary School District Governing Board Member · November 3, 2026 · Tolleson Elementary District, Arizona · incumbent