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Nancy Loera

CA · Member, Hacienda La Puente Unified School District Board of Education

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Nancy Loera is a Hacienda La Puente Unified school board member and a classroom teacher of nearly 25 years. She says her priorities are reading, math and STEM achievement, balanced budgets that protect student programs, and school safety.

Where Nancy Loera stands, based on their records

Supports

Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties (1 record), Public Education Quality (6 records), Data Privacy (2 records),

Mixed record

Government Spending Reduction (2 support · 6 oppose)

Track record

Track record — Government Spending Reduction

Government Spending Reduction · 2 support · 6 oppose
  • Moved and voted for a 2.5% salary increase for confidential and management staff, retroactive to July 1, 2025. It passed 4–0, with one trustee absent.

    June 25, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction

    Source: go.boarddocs.com

  • Voted for a three-year fiscal plan using staff vacancies, attrition and contract reductions to address projected deficits. District projections listed $6 million in vacancy savings and $1 million in contract savings. It passed 4–0, with one abstention.

    November 6, 2025Supports Government Spending Reduction

    Source: go.boarddocs.com

  • Seconded and voted for reducing classified management positions in the school district. The staffing-cut resolution passed 4–1.

    March 13, 2025Supports Government Spending Reduction

    Source: go.boarddocs.com

  • Voted against an initial reduction of certificated management positions, including directors for special education, elementary schools and multilingual programs. The amended resolution passed 3–2, despite her no vote.

    March 13, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction

    Source: go.boarddocs.com

  • Voted to adopt the school district’s 2024–25 special education budget and service plans. The motion passed 4–0, with one trustee absent.

    June 27, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction

    Source: go.boarddocs.com

  • Approved the district’s main spending plan for the 2024–25 school year. The annual budget passed 4–0, with one trustee absent.

    June 27, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction

    Source: go.boarddocs.com

  • Seconded and voted for an 8% salary increase for confidential staff, and voted for the same increase for management. Both took effect July 1, 2023 and passed 4–0, with one trustee absent.

    October 26, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction

    Source: go.boarddocs.com

  • Seconded and voted to authorize issuing up to $78 million in school district bonds. The borrowing resolution passed 5–0.

    August 10, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction

    Source: go.boarddocs.com

Track record — Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties · 1 support
  • Seconded and voted for rules requiring student phones to be off during instructional time, with emergency, medical and learning-plan exceptions. The policy allowed use outside instruction and limited searches of personal devices. It passed 4–1.

    May 7, 2026Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

    Source: go.boarddocs.com

Track record — Public Education Quality

Public Education Quality · 6 support
  • Seconded and voted for rules requiring student phones to be off during instructional time, with emergency, medical and learning-plan exceptions. The policy allowed use outside instruction and limited searches of personal devices. It passed 4–1.

    May 7, 2026Supports Public Education Quality

    Source: go.boarddocs.com

  • Moved and voted for a resolution supporting Proposition 55, the California Children’s Education and Health Care Protection Act of 2016. The resolution passed 5–0.

    February 12, 2026Supports Public Education Quality

    Source: go.boarddocs.com

  • Voted for a new student mental-health policy requiring staff training, referral procedures and notices about available services. It passed 5–0.

    January 22, 2026Supports Public Education Quality

    Source: go.boarddocs.com

  • Moved and voted to accept $100,000 in state grant funds for the Aviation Pathway program at Los Altos High School. The motion passed 5–0.

    October 9, 2025Supports Public Education Quality

    Source: go.boarddocs.com

  • Seconded and voted for revised rules supporting students in foster care. The policy required a district liaison, enrollment training and annual reports on student outcomes. It passed 5–0.

    September 9, 2025Supports Public Education Quality

    Source: go.boarddocs.com

  • Seconded and voted for revised student suicide-prevention rules. They required staff training, crisis-response plans and counseling after a student’s suicide. The policy passed 5–0.

    September 9, 2025Supports Public Education Quality

    Source: go.boarddocs.com

Track record — Data Privacy

Data Privacy · 2 support
  • Seconded and voted for rules requiring student phones to be off during instructional time, with emergency, medical and learning-plan exceptions. The policy allowed use outside instruction and limited searches of personal devices. It passed 4–1.

    May 7, 2026Supports Data Privacy

    Source: go.boarddocs.com

  • Seconded and voted for revised immigration-enforcement rules that barred collecting families’ immigration status and prohibited discrimination based on that status. The policy also required staff training and notices explaining families’ education rights. It passed 5–0.

    February 26, 2026Supports Data Privacy

    Source: go.boarddocs.com

Track record — Civil Rights

Civil Rights · 2 support
  • Seconded and voted for revised immigration-enforcement rules that barred collecting families’ immigration status and prohibited discrimination based on that status. The policy also required staff training and notices explaining families’ education rights. It passed 5–0.

    February 26, 2026Supports Civil Rights

    Source: go.boarddocs.com

  • Voted for revised district rules banning discrimination and harassment against students. The policy required staff intervention, complaint investigations and protection against retaliation. It passed 5–0.

    August 24, 2023Supports Civil Rights

    Source: go.boarddocs.com

Track record — Public Infrastructure

Public Infrastructure · 1 support
  • Seconded and voted for a sports-field concept on Wedgeworth Drive with two soccer fields and two baseball or softball fields. It passed 4–1. The district identified $1.1 million in previously approved funding; this vote added no funding.

    September 10, 2026Supports Public Infrastructure

    Source: go.boarddocs.com

Track record — General

General · 20 records
  • Voted against placing a two-term limit for school board members on the November ballot. The resolution passed 3–2.

    May 7, 2026

    Source: go.boarddocs.com

  • Seconded and voted for a resolution opposing data-center development over its effects on students, school facilities and community resources. Her amendment limiting the superintendent’s authority failed for lack of a second. The original resolution passed 5–0.

    March 26, 2026

    Source: go.boarddocs.com

  • Moved to approve the employment agreement for John Roach as superintendent, with a January 5, 2026 start date. Her motion passed with four votes in favor and one abstention.

    December 11, 2025

    Source: go.boarddocs.com

  • Seconded and voted to repeal the district’s requirement that all employees receive COVID-19 vaccinations. The repeal passed 5–0.

    October 9, 2025

    Source: go.boarddocs.com

  • Voted to remove Stephanie Serrano as school board president and elect Gino Kwok to replace her. The board also elected Loera as its clerk; each final motion passed with three votes in favor, one opposed and one abstention.

    September 3, 2025

    Source: go.boarddocs.com

  • Voted against hiring district-funded legal counsel to represent trustee Stephanie Serrano in a Los Angeles Superior Court case. The agreement passed 3–1, with one abstention.

    August 14, 2025

    Source: go.boarddocs.com

  • Cast the only vote against forming a joint agency with the City of La Puente to preserve green space on former school sites and seek grant funding. The agreement passed 3–1, with one trustee absent.

    July 27, 2025

    Source: go.boarddocs.com

  • Proposed allowing staff housing and services for foster youth on former school properties. Her amendments failed 2–3. She abstained on the broad preservation resolution and opposed the separate Lomitas restriction; both passed.

    June 24, 2025

    Source: go.boarddocs.com

  • Voted for a final resolution not to rehire certificated management employees. It passed 4–1, following the separate preliminary staffing-cut vote in March.

    May 8, 2025

    Source: go.boarddocs.com

  • Proposed banning the sale of all school district property as an amendment to a school-site preservation resolution. Her amendment failed 2–2; she then voted against the narrower resolution, which also failed 2–2.

    February 27, 2025

    Source: go.boarddocs.com

  • Was removed from a school board meeting after a 3–2 board vote citing repeated disruption. At the April 17 meeting, she said the district attorney had rejected the citation issued to her during that incident.

    February 13, 2025

    Source: go.boarddocs.com

  • Spoke on a California Department of Education and UC Davis webinar about the district’s use of coding and robotics in math education. She joined district administrators and teachers to discuss the program’s implementation and results.

    February 5, 2025

    Source: c-stem.ucdavis.edu

  • Seconded and voted for a resolution formally censuring fellow trustee Stephanie Serrano over her board conduct. It passed 4–1.

    September 12, 2024

    Source: go.boarddocs.com

  • Was chosen as vice president of the Hacienda La Puente school board at its annual reorganization.

    December 14, 2023

    Source: resources.finalsite.net

  • Voted to close Del Valle Elementary and transfer its students to other schools in the Workman area. The resolution also reassigned grades among neighboring schools and approved an environmental exemption. It passed 3–2.

    November 9, 2023

    Source: files.ceqanet.lci.ca.gov

  • Voted for the Los Robles Academy closure and consolidation with Palm Elementary. The resolution approved the transfer of students and an environmental exemption by a 3–2 vote.

    November 9, 2023

    Source: files.ceqanet.lci.ca.gov

  • Supported closing Bixby Elementary and moving its students to Cedarlane Academy or other schools with available space. The board approved the closure and its environmental exemption 3–2.

    November 9, 2023

    Source: files.ceqanet.lci.ca.gov

  • Voted to close Sunset Elementary and transfer its kindergarten through fifth-grade students to Lassalette Elementary. The resolution also reassigned sixth- through eighth-grade students in the La Puente area to Sparks Middle School and passed 3–2.

    November 9, 2023

    Source: files.ceqanet.lci.ca.gov

  • Requested results and progress reports on counselor and reading-instruction training. She voted for contracts capped at $105,550 and $78,633; each passed 5–0.

    June 22, 2023

    Source: go.boarddocs.com

  • Took the oath of office as the new Hacienda La Puente school board representative for Trustee Area 2.

    December 13, 2022

    Source: caschoolnews.net

Track record — Candidate Ethics

Candidate Ethics · 1 record
  • Received an FPPC warning for missing the September 29, 2022 deadline to file her Form 470 campaign statement. The agency found a filing violation. It closed the case without a fine after she filed promptly before the election.

    November 16, 2022

    Source: fppc.ca.gov

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