BRANDY’S TOP PRIORITIES

Brandy is committed to improving teacher pay, retention, and working conditions so educators have the support they need to stay in the profession. With years of volunteering in local schools and advocating alongside teachers, she understands how burnout, testing pressures, and understaffing are driving educators away. Brandy will fight for competitive pay, manageable workloads, and policies that respect teachers as professionals.

As a mom of two daughters in South Knox County Schools, Brandy believes every child deserves a safe, secure learning environment. She supports modernized safety measures, improved school infrastructure, and consistent planning across campuses, ensuring safety decisions are based on evidence and community input—not politics. Her approach is grounded in preparedness, transparency, and student well-being.

Brandy opposes politically motivated book bans that strip students of access to diverse, educational, and developmentally appropriate materials. She believes decisions about learning resources should be rooted in professional standards and made with input from educators and families. Brandy will work to protect students’ freedom to learn, support librarians and teachers, and keep politics out of the classroom.

As a parent whose daughter nearly faced retention under the state’s Third Grade Retention law, Brandy knows firsthand that literacy support must begin long before high-stakes testing. She will advocate for expanded early-literacy programs, reading intervention resources, and evidence-based instructional support so kids get the help they need to succeed. Her goal is to lift children up — not punish them for a single test score.

Brandy is dedicated to fully funding public schools, including improved facilities, updated classrooms, arts and enrichment programs, tutoring, athletics, and restoring essential student services like the Clothing Center for Kids, which the current board voted to remove. She believes taxpayer dollars must stay in public schools — not be diverted to vouchers — and that South Knoxville students deserve the same high-quality infrastructure and opportunities as any child in Tennessee.