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Dennis C. Dinge
Forward Party · New Mexico · 2026Biography
Dennis Dinge is a physicist whose career has spanned industry, national laboratories, and academia, with research experience in supercomputing, astronomy, and computational fluid dynamics, per his campaign site. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Physics from Clemson University and a PhD in Astrophysics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and serves as Secretary of the New Mexico Forward Party, per the same source.
Top Priorities
- Wants to evaluate new and existing charter schools for whether they meet students' educational needs and to intervene in schools showing inadequate progress
- Wants to identify high quality, evidence based curricula and improve educator recruitment and retention through compensation and evaluation policy
- Wants to expand access to early childhood education and have charter schools address the Martinez and Yazzie court ruling on equitable education
Per the campaign site.
On the ballot
Public Education Commission District 3 · New Mexico · 2026
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