Guanajuato-Webb stresses teamwork, staff support, safety, high standards for schools

Linda Guanajuato-Webb is leaning on more than four decades inside San Felipe Del Rio Consolidated Independent School District as she seeks Place III on the board in the May 2 general election. Her pitch is rooted in a simple test: whether experience on a seven-member, at-large board can produce clearer staff support, safer campuses and stronger academic results for Del Rio students.

Guanajuato-Webb’s district résumé runs through nearly every corner of the school system. The 830 Times profile said she has worked as an elementary teacher, gifted and talented teacher, bilingual teacher, counselor, district counselor supervisor, middle school assistant principal, bilingual coordinator, principal at multiple campuses and director of Head Start. That long trail through classrooms, campuses and district offices gives her a depth of institutional memory that few candidates can match, and it also explains why her campaign centers on governance rather than slogans.

Her message is that trustees should act as a board, not as isolated voices. Guanajuato-Webb has said the work begins with teamwork, communication and transparent decisions grounded in integrity. She has also argued that the district has to do several hard things at once: recruit and keep quality teachers, invest in ongoing staff development, maintain strong campus safety and hold high academic expectations. In her view, those goals are not separate priorities but parts of the same system, and she has framed communication with parents, stakeholders and the broader community as essential to making that system work.

The district’s own board materials echo several of those priorities. San Felipe Del Rio CISD says its board is charged with providing the finest educational program possible for students, while the district’s mission emphasizes a high-quality, innovative curriculum, safe and nurturing schools and collaboration with families and the community. The board also lists Guanajuato-Webb as a current member, which adds a continuity argument to her campaign as voters decide whether to keep an incumbent with deep district ties in place.

Her profile also points to a record she says includes helping obtain funding for STEM programs, earning a Fit Campus award, receiving recognition from President George W. Bush for the first elementary newspaper co-edited by students in a fourth-grade gifted program and being recognized in TEXAS CEO magazine for connecting music, science and technology. For voters weighing whether steady experience or a different direction is needed, her race now turns on whether that record can translate into measurable gains inside Del Rio classrooms.