Biannual Voters Guide

In collaboration with the Santa Clara County Office of Education, KIC develops a biannual Voters Guide, which asks candidates their positions on topics that impact children.

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Even though they do not vote, over 415,000 children living in Santa Clara County deserve elected officials who understand how funding and policy decisions impact their lives. Too often, children are lost in a long list of priorities. However, decisions made today about investing in children’s safety, health, education and economic security have long-term effects on our community’s future. Our community’s and our nation’s current and future prosperity will be decided by our elected officials. This is why we, the voters, have an obligation to speak for children at the ballot box and why Choose Children, Strong Start of Santa Clara County and Kids in Common came together to create this Voter’s Guide on Children’s Issues.

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This Voter’s Guide is informational only and no endorsement of any candidate is intended.
For this guide we asked each candidate running for selected local, state or federal offices in Santa Clara County to answer five questions about their priorities for children. Candidates were given several weeks to respond to the survey. The responses are in their words and are unedited.