Fisher, Kimberly

Meet the Candidate

Running For:
School Board
District:
Deer Valley Unified District
Phone:
(602) 620-2359
Occupation:
CFO
Education:
BS in HR Management, Masters Accounting and Financial Management
Family:
Married, 3 natural children, 5 other children
Religion:
Christian
Biographical Info:

Kim has been a Deer Valley School District parent for the past 24 years. She has three children who have attended DVUSD schools: Kathleen DVHS class of 2005, Elizabeth DVHS class of 2014, and William who attended DVHS but is currently being homeschooled for his final year. Kim holds a Bachelor of Science in Technical Management, a Master of Accounting and Finance, and has a standard specialized teaching certificate for K-12 CTE Business/Marketing.
Six of her thirty years in administration/management were school district related. Kim previously served on the Governing Board from 2015 to 2018. Her focus in her first term was ensuring legal compliance, transparency, continuous improvement, and championing the efficiency study, special ed. study, a full revision of the student handbook, and various employee relations improvements.

In this new term, her goal is to use her knowledge and experience to support the parents and students in navigating the education system and supporting positive relationships with all DVUSD staff. She plans to accomplish this through various community engagement opportunities and through being fully informed for sound decision making. Kim welcomes the community to engage fully with her as opportunity permits so she has full input from all stakeholders.

Kim believes education is one of the most important things in an individual’s life and feels that it is a privilege when parents select DVUSD as their school of choice. She seeks to ensure that DVUSD is the premier choice of parents and will work to support such choice.

Statement:

To serve the parents, student, teachers, and staff of DVUSD. We have some issues that many aren’t aware of. I know with a good board and a little work we can make a great district even better.

Endorsements:

AZ Women of Action

Survey

Response Legend

  • SSupports
  • OOpposes
  • *Comment
  • −Declined to respond
  • †Declined to respond, Position based on citation

Question Response Comments/Notes
1. Requiring district and charter school officials, including teachers, to inform parents about their child’s social, mental, emotional, or physical health. S* Parents are the primary person in a child's life. They must be aware of what is going on in their child's life so they can assist them navigate growing up to adulthood.
2. Allowing parents to opt their children out of activities or lessons that offend their personal, moral, or religious beliefs. S* Proverbs 22:6 says it best. 'Direct your children onto the right path, and when they are older, they will not leave it.'Parent decide the direction and so they must be able to also protect them from being led away from the teachings of the parents.
3. Increasing state and local taxes to provide more funding for schools and school facility projects. −* This isn't a support or oppose topic as a blanket. It is the duty of a board member to provide oversight in the district and if there is a valid need bring it forward and let the community decide if the need is great enough or worth the cost to find. It would be better to fix the school facilities department and board so that schools were being built when and where needed.
4. Requiring signed permission from a parent before a student may participate in any sexuality related instruction, activities, or clubs. S* This should be limited. The garbage being put out is offensive. If in any other situation it would be considered pornography or inappropriate then it has no place in schools at all.Let them be kids and teach them the beauty of valuing themselves.
5. Allowing all parents to use tax credits and publicly funded empowerment scholarship accounts to enable their children to attend any private, homeschool, or online academy of their choice. S* Not all kids learn the same. They need the best environment for them. Public districts can reduce the need for people to use these by including the community and ensuring they are meeting the needs of students education.
6. Making available books and instructional materials that include sexually explicit images and themes in school classrooms and libraries. O* As noted above. Let them be kids!!
7. Acquiring parental consent for school faculty and staff to refer to students by pronouns that do not align with the student’s birth sex. S* XX = femaleXY = male
8. Allocating teacher pay raises based upon merit rather than providing uniform salary schedule increases based upon years of teaching or additional credentialing (e.g. master’s degrees) S* This needs to be done across the industry because we are getting in a situation where some of the higher-end administrators who may or may not be highly proficient are paid for in excess of the value of their work. At this point superintendents make more than the governor and it is getting out of hand. Then you consider they have a bunch of deputy Superintendents, executive directors, directors, and so on, you start to see why there are financial struggles.
9. Implementing policies to allow students and faculty to use the restroom, locker room, and shower room based on self-identification rather than biological sex. O* XX = femaleXY = male
10. Teaching what is known as diversity, equity, inclusion (DEI); social, emotional learning (SEL); or critical race theory (CRT) in public schools. O* We are already a diverse culture and by virtue of just working together when we learn to include everyone and work with everyone. All these programs do is create racism and it's wrong no matter who it's being done to it is wrong.
11. Requiring each district and charter school to post online a list of all curriculum and instructional materials being used in the classroom. S* At least be sure they have an opportunity to review it when it's being adopted and upon request. There is no reason School should be hiding anything.