Newport-Mesa Unified Candidate Reina Shebesta Is Ready to Serve Kids
Reina Shebesta is a unicorn.
Or so she’s been called by others for being both pro-public education and conservative.
However, the candidate in the upcoming Nov. 8 election for Newport-Mesa Unified School District’s Trustee Area 5—which stretches along the majority of Newport Beach’s coast—maintains that it was 22 years of serving as a counselor at public schools that changed her political views.
“It was looking at inner city policies … and learning how families of color were decimated by liberal policies that got me to my conservative bent,” Shebesta told the Epoch Times.
(Courtesy of Reina Shebesta)
As she examined education policies and worked with students, Shebesta said she became increasingly involved in advocating for parental choice and for improved safety for the school district, where her two children attend school….