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Dennis C. Dinge

Forward Party · New Mexico · 2026

On the November 3 ballot for Public Education Commission District 3, New Mexico

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Public Education Commission District 3
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Top priorities

From the campaign site

  • 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
Biography

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.

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Public Education Commission District 3New Mexico · 2026Bernalillo County sample ballot

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