Social lander · Educators
For teachers, principals, counselors, aides, professors, school staff, and everyone protecting student opportunity.
Students need stability. Washington keeps sending chaos.
Educators plan in semesters, school years, and student futures. Partisan standoffs force schools to plan around uncertainty instead of learning.
The partisan problem
They fight. CA-18 keeps working.
Across CA-18, educators face a brutal affordability equation: housing costs, retention pressure, family stress, and the constant uncertainty of federal school funding. The classroom should not be collateral damage in national party fights.
When Democrats and Republicans use budgets as leverage, schools feel it as uncertainty around Title I, IDEA, student supports, nutrition, mental health, and staffing. The shouting happens in Washington; the consequences show up in classrooms.
The independent answer
Accountability you can inspect, not just applaud.
An independent representative can protect students without asking permission from party leadership. Demers’ accountability promise gives educators something concrete: public progress reports, refusal of corporate PAC money, and a local-first test for every vote.
Why this page says what it says
Research anchors
Data USA reports CA-18 has a young median age and a diverse multilingual population, making education central to the district’s future.
Local reporting has documented school concerns over federal funding uncertainty in San Benito County.
The campaign identifies affordable housing and cost of living as core reasons families are being pushed out of communities they grew up in.
What to fight for
Practical priorities
Defend stable federal education funding and student-support programs.
Make housing affordability part of teacher recruitment and retention policy.
Support mental health, career pathways, and safe learning environments.
Respect local educators instead of turning classrooms into partisan stages.