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Endorses Kushner
The race
This school board election is on the November 3, 2026 general-election ballot in Sunnyvale School District (Santa Clara County). Three trustee-area seats are involved, per the Registrar, but only one is a contest:
- Trustee Area 1 — Bridget Watson: appointed in lieu of election (no contest; not on the ballot, Ed. Code 5328).
- Trustee Area 3 — contested: Michelle Maginot vs. Rommy Kushner.
- Trustee Area 5 — Evelyn D. Castillo Profeta: appointed in lieu of election.
The candidates
### Trustee Area 3 (contested)
Rommy Kushner. The Silicon Valley DSA guide's Sunnyvale section — the only narrative source on this race found anywhere — describes her as "a Spanish educator heavily involved in the Sunnyvale community," carrying an endorsement from Sunnyvale Safe Streets, and "an advocate for higher walking and biking accessibility for students commuting to and from school." Credit: a working educator with a named community endorsement and a concrete, if narrow, documented issue (safe routes for students). Dirt: none found. No broader platform — on budgets, curriculum, books, or school choice — was found for her in any source worked. First-time candidate on the record available — unproven, not a demerit.
Michelle Maginot. No campaign site, platform, questionnaire response, endorsement, or news mention of her candidacy was found in any source worked — name searches against the Registrar's list, endorsement guides, local news, and the open web returned her roster line and nothing else. Insufficient record, documented below.
### Appointed in lieu — compact files
Bridget Watson (Area 1). The district's board president. Both columns: Credit — she leads the board and speaks for it publicly. Con, documented — in that role she fronted the board's formal endorsement of California Proposition 50, the partisan congressional-redistricting measure, stating for the district that "Proposition 50 is essential to safeguard fair congressional representation," per the district's own published news post. A school board lending its institutional voice to a partisan redistricting fight is a fact voters may weigh as they like; we record it because a governing board's job is schools, and its president chose to spend its credibility on a maps dispute. She takes her seat by appointment in lieu; there is no vote to call.
Evelyn D. Castillo Profeta (Area 5). No platform, biography, endorsement, or news mention was found in the sources worked — her file is the Registrar's annotation alone. She takes her seat by appointment in lieu; there is no vote to call.
Pros and cons
- Kushner — Pro: Working Spanish educator, deep community involvement per the DSA guide, a named Safe Streets endorsement, a concrete student-commute safety position. Con: No documented position on the larger governing questions — budget, curriculum, books, choice.
- Maginot — Pro/Con: No documented record either way; see Record gaps.
Record gaps
Searches run, by exact name plus district: the Registrar's qualified list (roster, areas, appointed-in-lieu annotations); the Silicon Valley DSA guide's Sunnyvale section (Kushner profile; the guide does not mention Maginot); IBEW Local 332, OE3 and South Bay Labor Council endorsement lists (neither Area 3 candidate appears); the district's own site and news posts (the board's Proposition 50 endorsement and Watson's statement; nothing on the Area 3 race); San José Spotlight's Sunnyvale archive (district-mapping coverage from 2024; no 2026 candidate coverage); Vote411 and GoodParty listings (roster only). Maginot and Castillo Profeta returned nothing beyond the roster in every source. That is the documented deep pass, and its dryness is reported rather than papered over.
OUR CALL
Trustee Area 3 — endorse Rommy Kushner. Narrowly, and on the basis stated: she is the only candidate in the area with any documented public file at all — an educator, community-involved, with a named endorsement — against an opponent whose candidacy does not appear in the public record after a full search. She is unproven on the big governing questions, and we say so; an unproven candidate with a findable record beats an unfindable one. Trustee Areas 1 and 5 — no call. Watson and Castillo Profeta are appointed in lieu of election; there is no contest for voters to decide.
For the complete Election 2026 breakdown — every race, claim by claim — see the full coverage on our website. Vote early. Research your candidates. Choose the best moderates, whatever their party — no extremism from either side. And encourage your friends and family to do the same. --- Sources - Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters — Final Qualified List of Local Eligible Candidates, Nov 3 2026 General Election — https://files.santaclaracounty.gov/exjcpb1296/2026-09/qualified-list-of-local-candidates-9-28-26.pdf?VersionId=CM6jbwAVTLFIjLakj6hJku2l9KPAIxli - Silicon Valley DSA — 2026 November Voter Guide, Sunnyvale section (Kushner profile) — https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/e/2PACX-1vQAtAN3xtKSl7Pkx34nNpJyypPlm_Zga45PZHEYVk6jNpwxcp0GDBFrLsU9wjTjliya6ZP0OrMkljEt/pub - Sunnyvale School District — SSD Board of Education Supports Proposition 50 (district news post; Watson statement) — https://www.sesd.org/news/news-details/~board/sunnyvale-news/post/ssd-board-of-education-supports-proposition-50
Result pending. No verified call (Associated Press or official) as of November 4, 2026. This page will be updated when the race is called or certified. The original article above is unchanged.
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