Step 01
Audit the buildings.
Walk every campus. Publish utilization by classroom, not by school. Parents see the spreadsheet. So does the board.
Maria Salgado-Whitman · PVUSD Board
Maria Salgado-Whitman for Paradise Valley Unified School District School Board Paradise Valley USD
Audit the buildings.
Redraw the lines.
Hold the bond.
32 kids in my son's third grade. 18 in a third grade eight miles south. PVUSD doesn't need another bond fight — it needs a clipboard, a class roster, and a board willing to redraw the map.
Ninety minutes. Once a month. From a lawn chair. We'll bring the clipboards.
Tatum Highlands · Cave Creek · Pinnacle Peak · Sunset Canyon · Desert Cove · Mountain Trail
Why Maria is running
PVUSD has empty rooms south of Bell — and 32 kids per class up the Tatum corridor. That's not a money problem. That's a map problem. Maria's answer is the one nobody on the dais has tried: walk every campus, publish the utilization audit, redraw the attendance boundaries, and freeze new bond questions until parents can read the numbers.
The current board's answer is a $385M bond on the November ballot. Maria's answer is the one nobody on the dais has tried: walk every campus, publish the utilization audit, redraw the attendance boundaries for 2027-28, and freeze new bond questions until parents can read the numbers. She's not against funding our schools. She's against asking twice.
Read the full plan105%
Tatum corridor
Six campuses at or above design capacity.
82%
South of Bell
Six campuses with empty classrooms.
$385M
November bond
What the current board wants. Before the audit.
The plan, three steps
Verbs over nouns. Numbers over slogans.
Step 02
Redraw the lines.
Smart-zone the 2027-28 school year. Pair north-corridor campuses with under-enrolled south-of-Bell schools. Grandfather siblings. Run two rounds of parent input.
Step 03
Hold the bond.
No new bond question until the audit and the rezone are public. PVUSD parents shouldn't fund a problem the board hasn't shown them.
About Maria
Meet Maria Salgado-Whitman.
PVUSD has empty rooms south of Bell — and 32 kids per class up the Tatum corridor. That's not a money problem. That's a map problem. Maria's answer is the one nobody on the dais has tried: walk every campus, publish the utilization audit, redraw the attendance boundaries, and freeze new bond questions until parents can read the numbers.
Read Maria's storyEndorsed by the people who know the work
Neighbors, not party chairs.
The endorsements that matter come from inside the community — the people who show up every week.
Janet Crowley
Retired Principal · Mountain Trail Middle (1998-2019)
Coach Aaron Begay
Boys' Basketball Coach · Pinnacle High School
Dr. Priya Ramaswamy
Pediatrician · Honor Health Pediatrics, Tatum
Will Henderson
Owner · Henderson Hardware (Cave Creek, est. 1976)
Theresa "Tess" Olague
PTA President · Desert Cove Elementary 2023-2025
Sgt. (Ret.) Mike Doolan
Retired Phoenix PD School Resource Officer
Ninety minutes a month
From your kitchen table. Or your lawn chair. Either works.
We're not running a phonebank with a quota. We're asking neighbors to talk to neighbors. Pick your campus. Pick your week. We'll hand you the clipboard and the talking points — in English or in Spanish.
- ●Greet at a community event
- ●Door-knock your block
- ●Translate (Spanish/English)
- ●Drop a yard sign
Coming up
Find Maria near you.
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May 14
Coffee with Maria — Desert Cove cafeteria
6:30 PM · Desert Cove Elementary, 32421 N. Tatum Blvd
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May 18
Campus walk — Mountain Trail Middle
9:00 AM · Mountain Trail Middle, 11800 N. 32nd St
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May 22
Parent town hall (Spanish/English)
7:00 PM · Pinnacle HS library, 3535 E. Mayo Blvd
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Jun 4
Cave Creek meet-the-candidate
6:00 PM · Henderson Hardware patio, 6210 E. Cave Creek Rd
From the campaign
News.
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Statement · May 02, 2026
Salgado-Whitman calls for a PVUSD facility audit before the November bond -
Op-ed · Apr 24, 2026
Why I'm running: 32 in my son's third grade, 18 eight miles south -
Endorsement · Apr 11, 2026
Six PVUSD parents, three coaches, one principal: an endorsement reel
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$50 prints 200 door-hangers.
No bundlers. No PACs. Lawn-sign donations are how a community race actually gets paid for. Every dollar past the legal max gets refunded — we'd rather you knock doors anyway.
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