WORK & MILITARY

United States Navy, Sonar Technician 3rd Class, 1998-2002

Voter Guide Profile for NC Wake County Board of Education, District 7 candidate - Jacob Arthur

Jacob served as a Sonar Technician 3rd Class in the U.S. Navy for four years.

Jacob Arthur - iVoterGuide

2026 North Carolina General Election

This belief inspired me to create The Wake Framework—a practical approach to school governance grounded in a simple principle: every significant new discretionary investment should be connected to measurable improvements in student outcomes, coupled with transparent public reporting and a focus on continuous improvement.

The Wake Framework: Enhancing Educational Governance in Wake Schools

Special Education services should never be on the chopping block, especially when considering the impact on student outcomes in Wake County public schools, as these are crucial for effective educational governance.

Opposes giving up local control of education in exchange for federal funding.

The loss of local control in education is too high a price to pay in exchange for federal dollars.

Strongly Agree

Calls for significant discretionary school investments to be tied to measurable student outcomes, transparent public reporting, and continuous improvement.

Opposes cutting special education services.

- Calls for significant discretionary school investments to be tied to measurable student outcomes, transparent public reporting, and continuous improvement.
- Opposes cutting special education services.

School Facilities & Resources

Supports parents choosing the educational options they consider best for their children and says parents, teachers, and school boards should partner in public education.

Parents are the ultimate authority in their child’s education and should be able to freely pursue whatever educational options they deem best for their child.

Strongly Agree

Who has the ultimate right to control the education of children in public schools? (a) parents (b) teachers (c)school boards.

Ultimately, parents have the right and responsibility to control the education of their children. Parents, teachers and school boards should work as partners in the education of children in the public school system.

As of September 2, 2026, Jacob Arthur’s website did not contain information on this issue.

Access to Education

Teachers

Opposes school officials using alternative names or pronouns as part of a student's sexual transition.

No school official should be involved in the sexual transitioning of a student, including the use of alternative names and pronouns.

Strongly Agree

Supports civics education emphasizing the nation's founding principles of liberty and equality.

American civics education should emphasize our nation's founding principles of liberty and equality.

Strongly Agree

Requires written parental permission before students receive comprehensive sex education or social-emotional learning instruction.

Before students are taught courses such as Comprehensive Sex Ed (CSE) or Social Emotional Learning (SEL), they must opt-in with written parental permission.

Strongly Agree

Opposes teaching curricula that emphasize slavery and racism as the foundations of American history.

I support the teaching of curricula (such as the 1619 Project, No Place for Hate, Second Step, etc.) that emphasizes slavery and racism as the foundation of American history.

Strongly Disagree

Says parents, rather than public schools, are responsible for deciding when to teach their children sexual education.

Who is responsible for teaching sexual education to children, and what is the appropriate age when it should be taught?

Parents are responsible for teaching sexual education to their children. Parents are best situated to gauge when their child is at an appropriate age to begin these discussions. A child's age and maturity level can vary greatly and parents are the best judge of when to begin sexual education. Unfortunately we do live in a world where many parents will not provide sexual education to their children, however that does not make it the responsibility of the public school.

School Curriculum

Requires written parental consent before children receive a health care diagnosis or treatment, including mental health or reproductive health care.

No healthcare diagnosis or treatment, whether mental, reproductive, or otherwise, should be given to a child without first receiving written consent from the parent.

Strongly Agree

Opposes new school vaccination requirements, describing vaccination decisions as matters for individuals, parents, and doctors.

Under what circumstances (if any) should schools be allowed to require vaccinations?

None. Vaccination of any kind is a personal choice between individuals, parents and doctors. Current vaccine requirements in public schools have exemptions available, so there should be no requirement for any new vaccines either.

I support mask mandates.

Strongly Disagree

Opposes allowing public high school students to compete in athletics based on gender identity rather than biological sex.

I support allowing public high school students to participate in athletic competition based on the gender with which they identify instead of biological sex.

Strongly Disagree

Student Wellbeing

Jacob Arthur

- Opposes cutting special education services.

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- The Board of Education runs the public school system. They create policies that establish standards, accountability and evaluation of essential operations of the school system.
- The Board of Education member hires a superintendent and can remove them when necessary. The superintendent assists the Board of Education in implementing the board’s policies. 
- The Board of Education is charged with deciding the school budget. This means they decide how to allocate money between different services, such as teacher pay, repairing school facilities, or access to technology.
- Board of Education members are elected every four years. 

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