Jon Alfuth
DC
Jon Alfuth is listed by DCBOE on the November 2026 Ward 5 State Board of Education ballot.
Where Jon Alfuth stands, based on their records
Supports
Government Efficiency (6 records), Public Education Quality (16 records), Data Privacy (1 record),
Track record
Track record — Government Efficiency
Government Efficiency · 6 support
Signed a national letter asking Congress to reverse the executive transfer of U.S. Department of Education programs, arguing the transfers weakened civil-rights enforcement, expertise, accountability, and efficient delivery to states.
January 12, 2026Supports Government Efficiency
Source: all4ed.org
Co-authored a review urging states to move beyond isolated education pilots by adding implementation support, updating accountability and funding systems, redesigning high school, and validating skills.
November 3, 2025Supports Government Efficiency
Source: knowledgeworks.org
Argued that high-school redesign needs state policy changes in assessment, graduation, educator preparation, funding, leadership, and implementation—not only changes inside individual classrooms.
August 14, 2025Supports Government Efficiency
Source: knowledgeworks.org
Co-developed a state policy framework calling for eight conditions to scale personalized, competency-based learning, including clear statewide goals, flexible pathways, balanced assessments, educator support, and sustainable funding.
May 12, 2025Supports Government Efficiency
Source: knowledgeworks.org
Recommended that states modernize graduation requirements by measuring mastery, allowing learning outside traditional courses, and balancing local flexibility with statewide quality safeguards.
October 15, 2024Supports Government Efficiency
Source: knowledgeworks.org
Authored a state-policy review urging assessment systems to use multiple measures, provide timely information to students and educators, and support improvement rather than rely mainly on end-of-year standardized tests.
September 15, 2021Supports Government Efficiency
Source: knowledgeworks.org
Track record — Public Education Quality
Public Education Quality · 16 support
Called for colleges and states to replace admissions rules centered on seat time, course sequences, and grades with skills-based standards, portfolios, and demonstrations of learning.
June 8, 2026Supports Public Education Quality
Source: gettingsmart.com
Urged states to make AI readiness concrete by aligning graduate profiles with diploma endorsements, mastery-based graduation plans, transcripts, and accountability measures that reward evidence, judgment, ethics, and verification.
May 4, 2026Supports Public Education Quality
Source: knowledgeworks.org
Advocated K-12 artificial-intelligence policies built around safety, accountability, fairness, transparency, effectiveness, AI literacy, and public trust rather than unrestricted classroom adoption.
April 13, 2026Supports Public Education Quality
Source: knowledgeworks.org
Signed a national letter asking Congress to reverse the executive transfer of U.S. Department of Education programs, arguing the transfers weakened civil-rights enforcement, expertise, accountability, and efficient delivery to states.
January 12, 2026Supports Public Education Quality
Source: all4ed.org
Co-authored a review urging states to move beyond isolated education pilots by adding implementation support, updating accountability and funding systems, redesigning high school, and validating skills.
November 3, 2025Supports Public Education Quality
Source: knowledgeworks.org
Argued that high-school redesign needs state policy changes in assessment, graduation, educator preparation, funding, leadership, and implementation—not only changes inside individual classrooms.
August 14, 2025Supports Public Education Quality
Source: knowledgeworks.org
Recommended statewide competency-based transcripts that show skills and real-world learning, align with graduation and admissions rules, and give schools support to verify and report mastery.
July 21, 2025Supports Public Education Quality
Source: knowledgeworks.org
Co-developed a state policy framework calling for eight conditions to scale personalized, competency-based learning, including clear statewide goals, flexible pathways, balanced assessments, educator support, and sustainable funding.
May 12, 2025Supports Public Education Quality
Source: knowledgeworks.org
Praised New Mexico's community-developed graduation reform and urged other states to adopt graduate profiles, multiple diploma pathways, proficiency-based credit, work-based learning, and protections for mastery-based applicants.
March 3, 2025Supports Public Education Quality
Source: knowledgeworks.org
Recommended that states modernize graduation requirements by measuring mastery, allowing learning outside traditional courses, and balancing local flexibility with statewide quality safeguards.
October 15, 2024Supports Public Education Quality
Source: knowledgeworks.org
Promoted high-school models that award credit for demonstrated competence, flexible scheduling, clinical experience, industry credentials, and research rather than only classroom time.
August 15, 2023Supports Public Education Quality
Source: knowledgeworks.org
Argued that state policymakers should remove assessment, grading, graduation, admissions, and financial-aid roadblocks that prevent schools from using competency-based evaluation instead of traditional letter grades.
October 19, 2022Supports Public Education Quality
Source: edweek.org
Advocated mastery-based student transcripts that document academic and real-world skills, and urged states to remove seat-time, grading, financial-aid, and admissions barriers to their adoption.
June 23, 2022Supports Public Education Quality
Source: knowledgeworks.org
Authored a state-policy review urging assessment systems to use multiple measures, provide timely information to students and educators, and support improvement rather than rely mainly on end-of-year standardized tests.
September 15, 2021Supports Public Education Quality
Source: knowledgeworks.org
Called on states to replace rigid classroom seat-time rules with credit based on demonstrated mastery and to recognize learning through remote, work-based, and other out-of-class experiences.
July 8, 2021Supports Public Education Quality
Source: educationnext.org
Advocated stronger links between K-12, higher education, and workforce systems, highlighting rural-school investment, workforce scholarships, and limits on public-college tuition growth as useful state strategies.
December 12, 2019Supports Public Education Quality
Source: ecs.org
Track record — Data Privacy
Data Privacy · 1 support
Advocated K-12 artificial-intelligence policies built around safety, accountability, fairness, transparency, effectiveness, AI literacy, and public trust rather than unrestricted classroom adoption.
April 13, 2026Supports Data Privacy
Source: knowledgeworks.org
Track record — Civil Rights
Civil Rights · 1 support
Signed a national letter asking Congress to reverse the executive transfer of U.S. Department of Education programs, arguing the transfers weakened civil-rights enforcement, expertise, accountability, and efficient delivery to states.
January 12, 2026Supports Civil Rights
Source: all4ed.org
Past race Jon Alfuth ran in:
- Ward 5 Member of the State Board of Education · November 3, 2026 · Ward 5; District of Columbia