Experience

• Former AISD Board Secretary & Calendar Committee Chair
• Member of the Board's Committees on Intergovernmental Relations; Policy; and Equity, Diversity & Inclusion
• The only AISD Trustee to be designated a "Master Trustee" by the Texas Association of School Boards (TASB)
• Member of the TASB Board of Directors, the Council of Urban Boards of Education & the Federal Relations Network
• Alumnus of Leadership TASB
• Actively serves both District 2 middle schools: as a mentor with the Seedling Foundation at Martin Middle School, and as a math tutor with Austin Partners in Education at Mendez Middle School
• Member & major supporter of all twenty District 2 Parent-Teacher Associations 

Leadership with Results

Rev. Dr. Jayme Mathias

• Reversed the privatization of Austin’s public schools
• Regularly hosts tours & community conversations at all twenty District 2 schools
• Helped craft the District’s first balanced budgets in years, for SY15/16 & SY 16/17
• Pushed for the District’s first studies on inequities in business practices & student outcomes
• Has advocated for continuous raises for AISD employees, despite budget restraints, resulting in a 12% increase for teachers over five years
• Hired the District’s first-ever Hispanic superintendent
• Pushed Austin to become the second ISD in Texas to offer same-sex benefits for all employees
• Has raised funds to benefit all 20 PTAs of District 2

• Led the drafting of the RFP that led to the turnaround of Eastside Memorial High School after 12 years of underperformance 
• Helped lead efforts in 2013 to pass a $490M bond election for AISD students & schools
• Spurred conversation on the purchase of land for a high school in Southeast Austin, ending eight years of inaction on the issue
• Has raised scholarships for graduates of all five high schools to which District 2 students are tracked
• Raised the AISD minimum wage to $11.25 in 2013, then again to $13.00 in 2016
• Lowered the AISD tax rate three years in a row, so that Austin taxpayers now save $50 for every $100,000 of property value each year from what they paid in 2013

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!

Dr. Mathias remains grateful to the following organizations for their endorsement of his re-election campaign in 2016. 

Dr. Mathias is also grateful to the following individuals for their support of his re-election campaign in 2016:

Hon. Lloyd Doggett • Hon. Eddie Rodriguez • Hon. Celia Israel • Hon. Sabino & Lori Rentería • Hon. Allen Kaplan • Hon. Jeffrey Richard • Hon. Guadalupe Sosa • Hon. Rob Reyes • Hon. Carole Keeton • Hon. Glen Maxey • Hon. Jim Powers • Hon. Charlie Baird • Hon. Tim Mahoney • Hon. Annette LoVoi • Hon. Larry Waterhouse • Hon. Richard Franklin • Frances Acuña Connie • Aguero • Chris Aiena • Brian Alford • Adriana Alvarado • Diana Alvarado • Jenny Amor Irizarry-Deleza • Esmeralda Aros • Elma Arriaga-Briones • Estella Arteaga • Mike Austin • Andrea Avalos Villegas • Gabriela Avalos • David Allen Baker • Sofía Barajas • Nadia Barrera de Ramirez • Marichuy Basoria • Bill Bleyle • Rhonda Bly • Christopher Bisett • Mary Botello • Maria Briones • Margaret Bruch • Meghan Buchanan • Melissa Cabello Bishop • James Calderone • Sissy Camacho • Isidro Camarillo • Josie Camarrillo Borrero • Eyna Canales-Zarate • Cindy Canto • Kara Cardona Messer • Mireya Carrillo González • Lupe Casarez • Dianna Dory Castaneda • Jimmy Castaneda • Julia Castaneda • Lauralei Castaneda Kufrin • Rigo Castañeda • Toni Castaneda • Maribel Castelar • Juany Castilla Tellez • Rosario Castillo • Elaine Castro • Betty Chávez • Sandy Chilton • Hiep Chung • Jocelyn Connell • Andy Cox • Diana Coy • Mario & María Cruz • Mirna de Cruz • Louis & Rita Cuevas • Teresa Cuevas Estrada • Donna DeCesare • Devon Degollado • Alex de la Cruz • Michelle Dippel Dahlberg • Travis Donoho • Traci Dunlap • Dr. Mercedes de Uriarte • Michelle Edwards • Arturo Elizondo Cordova • Lilie Elizondo-Limas • Gabriel Estrada & Laura Sheridan • Roxanne Evans • Michael Figueroa • Paul Flores • Monte Franzetti • Martha Fredritz Weinandy • Miguel Fuentes • John Fuller • Leticia Gaitán • Alberto García • Chato & Lilly García • Montserrat Garibay • Felipe Garza • Larry Gase • Billy Giffin • Rosa Gil • Joaquín Gloria • Christina Gomez Kerbow • Magali Gomez • Michael Gomes • César González • Saúl González • María T. Govea • Margarita Guerrero • Rebecca Guerrero Castillo • Sylvia Guevara • Stacy Guidry • Fabián Guzmán • Monica Guzman & Carl Webb • Yadira Guzman Zumaya • Donna Hagey • Laura Haley • Mark Hall • Most Rev. Rob Hall • James Gordon Haney • Jamie Haynes • Kathy Hemminger • Jeremy & Lyn Hendricks • Anaís Hernández • Irma Hernández • Jonathan Hernandez • Jorge & Deyanira Hernandez • Julia Hernandez • Chris Herrera • Marco Huerta • Deborah Hurtado de Velázquez • Manuel Jimenez • Jennifer Johnson • Most Rev. William Johnson • Richard Jung • Francisco Lara • Jessica Leal • Dinora Leyva • Zach Lindsey • Adrian Lopez • Annette Lopez • Cynthia Lopez Rodriguez • Isabel López Aguilar • Jaime López • Luz María López • James Lovett • Benny Lozano • Carlos Lozano • Eloysa Lozano • Evaline Lu • Marie Luna • Albers Magary • Vincent Maldonado • Debra A. Martinez • Francisco Javier Martínez • Jaime Martínez • Lynett Martinez • Patsy Martinez • Rudy Martinez • Veronica Martinez • David & Rose Mathias • Joey & Erin Mathias • Jeffrey Mathias • Diana C. Mayo • Bob McKenzieSullivan • Mark McKim • Lizette Melendez • Luisana Mendez • Pablo Mendoza García • Michelle Mendoza Leal • Ana Mier • Jessica Montez Ibarra • Angela Moreno • Jaime Moreno • Frances Morey • Amit Motwani • Marcy Muñoz • Jim Murphy • Sandy Niño • Shirley Nolan Mitchell • Cindy Noland • Tom Nuckols • Erika Núñez • Víctor Ramón Pascual • Irma Pedraza • Sara Pedrosa • Elsa Perales • Andrea Perez • Cynthia & Manuel Perez • Gloria Estefany Pérez • Juanita Perez • Darci Piel • Rolando Piña • Betty Portuondo • Gabby Qintana • Jill Ramirez • Joe Ramirez • Lisa Raspberry • Martin Rather • John Rayner • Toni Rayner • Mia Reyes • Steven D. Rivas • Kelly Rivera • Pete Rivera • Jose Rios • Betty Rodriguez • Isidro & Priscilla Rodriguez • María Rodríguez Zuvieta • Ricardo Rodriguez • Alvino Rosales, Jr. • Mayra Rosales • Juanita Rosas • Santos J. “Buddy” Ruiz • Rebecca Saenz • Angélica Salazar • Christina Salazar • Gloria Salazar • Phoenix Salazar • Victoria Salinas • Jessica Sandoval • Alfredo Santos c/s • Sam Sargent • Laura Sheridan • David Shine • Gloria Sifuentes • Deb Sorrells • Sylvia Stern • Christopher Tarango • Alawan Thomas • Jeff Thompson • Rosie Tovar • Vincent Tovar & Stacey Smith • Jason Soileau • Lana Stone • Jude Sunday • Caroline Sweet • Blanca Tello • Roger Temme • Jack Terry • David Thomas • Walter Timberlake • Mary Tolentino • Yvonne Torrez • Annavelia Urrutia • Cynthia Valadez, Sr. • Jessica Vaquera • Peggy Vasquez • Albert Vázquez • Eric Vázquez • Dora Vega • Chito Vela • Deebie Velazquez • Deborah Vera • Luis & Jana Versalles • Maru Victoria • Juan Villa • Stephen Gerard Villanueva • Bren Villarreal • Paula Viruegas • Kathryn Whitley • Alice Belle Williams • W.T. Bill Williams • Dawn Williams • Erica Williams • Griselda Zamora • Ken Zarifis • Nina Zavala • Michael Zocholl