BIOGRAPHY

EDUCATION
Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, Commercial Recreation, 1999

WORK & MILITARY
Candidate did not provide

Voter Guide Profile for TX Leander ISD Board of Trustees, Place 7 candidate - Paul Gauthier

I graduated from a 4 yr university

I have been Married for over 20+ yrs.

I have 4 Children

I’m currently on the Leander ISD School Board.

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AFFILIATIONS

St. Margaret Mary Church, Parishioner, SAR Sons of the American Revolution

Member, LARW, Member

Paul Gauthier attended Central Michigan University in Mount Pleasant, where he studied commercial recreation. He has been married for more than 20 years and has four children. He is a parishioner at St. Margaret Mary Church.

Leander ISD Board of Trustees, Place 7 - Paul Gauthier - iVoterGuide

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And I said, you know, if I didn’t know any better, I would say that’s a form of intimidation. And I do know. And that is. And so I pulled my kids out, and currently, I’m working as a theater teacher, which I find very interesting because this whole theater of the schools and the district and Dr. Gearing and the board. The PTA, who says they want to help the parents, but I have never been much of an advocate lately. It’s an interesting show.

Paul Gauthier: Place 7

Paul currently works as a theater teacher.

Paul Gauthier – Place 7 - The Wolfpack

I AM A ...
Place 7: Paul Gauthier

Current Term

November 2022 – November 2026

Send email to Gauthier at [email protected].

Place 7: Paul Gauthier | Leander ISD

Paul currently serves on the Leander ISD Board in Place 7. His current term runs from November 2022 to November 2026.

2026 Texas General Election

2026 Texas General Runoff

Nonpartisan

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

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

Who should have the authority to set curriculum and determine resources used in those curricula?

The community has a partnership with School Board. The curriculum should be done together.

Please list in order the following priorities in relation to the role of a K-12 public school (omitting any that do not apply): Mathematics, Information Technology, Science, Political Activism, Personal Finances, Gender Identity, Physical Fitness, American History, Critical Race Theory, Language Arts, Art & Music, Vocational Learning, Sexuality, Foreign Language, Social Emotional Learning

Reading, Language Arts, Math, Science, Art & Music, History, Personal Finances, Vocational Training, Physical Fitness, Information Technology, Foreign Language, & Sexuality in Biology class. (Though kids do not need to learn everything that Adults do in the bedroom using school resources.) Just the facts of the reproductive system. The rest Do NOT belong in School educational programs.

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

Strongly Agree

That is Why I was at the SBOE fighting to keep it.

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

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.

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

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

Strongly Agree

Supports requiring written parental permission before students take comprehensive sex education or social-emotional learning courses.

Supports developing school curriculum through a partnership between the community and school board.

Supports limiting school sexuality instruction to reproductive-system facts taught in biology.

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

Opposes curricula that characterize slavery and racism as the foundation of American history.

Supports barring school officials from participating in a student's gender transition, including using alternative names and pronouns.

- Supports requiring written parental permission before students take comprehensive sex education or social-emotional learning courses.
- Supports developing school curriculum through a partnership between the community and school board.
- Supports limiting school sexuality instruction to reproductive-system facts taught in biology.
- Supports civics education that emphasizes the nation's founding principles of liberty and equality.
- Opposes curricula that characterize slavery and racism as the foundation of American history.
- Supports barring school officials from participating in a student's gender transition, including using alternative names and pronouns.

School Curriculum

If elected, what will be your top priorities to address district challenges?

To Finally Clean up All the Waste. The Financials, Stop over spending expecting a tapped out, stretched thin public $$$ to bail you out. Central Admin is acting like a petulant Spoiled Child away at College.& every-time they get in financial trouble they accept no responsibility & ask for more $$$. -No! …

Q&A: Meet the candidates for Leander ISD Place 7

Q: And should Prop B not pass and the district needs to count over $32 million from the school’s budget next year, what specifically would be the top three places you would suggest those cuts to come from? 
A: Administration, administration and administration. All that wasteful spending and the line items. We know some people come into the office and we’ve done, I guess, a Freedom of Information Act, but here they call it PIR, public information request. Anyway, people show up and they go to the administration office and they’ll leave there with tens of thousands of dollars and it will be marked only as “administration services” or some sort of educational services.

If elected, what new district projects or policies would you like to see implemented?

Currently the District still has in place a 500 child attendance threshold to start the process at Consolidating schools. At 400 they can close schools automatically!!!. From last yr that would mean 15 schools qualify! It’s an outrageous Threshold! It must be changed immediately! These schools in the neighborhood School …

Calls for reducing district spending and administrative costs, which he characterizes as wasteful.

Calls for changing the district's student enrollment thresholds for consolidating or automatically closing schools.

- Calls for reducing district spending and administrative costs, which he characterizes as wasteful.
- Calls for changing the district's student enrollment thresholds for consolidating or automatically closing schools.

School Facilities & Resources

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

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

RIGHT TO LIFE

Abortion providers, including Planned Parenthood, should not be a resource for instruction or services in the school.

Strongly Agree

Human life begins at conception and deserves legal protection at every stage until natural death.

Strongly Agree

Supports requiring written parental consent before children receive healthcare diagnoses or treatment, including mental or reproductive care.

Opposes abortion providers, including Planned Parenthood, serving as school resources for instruction or services.

- Supports requiring written parental consent before children receive healthcare diagnoses or treatment, including mental or reproductive care.
- Opposes abortion providers, including Planned Parenthood, serving as school resources for instruction or services.

Student Wellbeing

As of September 21, 2026, Paul Gauthier did not have a website or any information online.

Teachers

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

VALUES

Supports parents freely pursuing the educational options they consider best for their children.

- Supports parents freely pursuing the educational options they consider best for their children.

Access to Education

Paul Gauthier

- Supports developing school curriculum through a partnership between the community and school board.
- Supports limiting school sexuality instruction to reproductive-system facts taught in biology.
- Supports civics education that emphasizes the nation's founding principles of liberty and equality.
- Opposes curricula that characterize slavery and racism as the foundation of American history.
- Supports barring school officials from participating in a student's gender transition, including using alternative names and pronouns.

As of September 21, 2026, Paul Gauthier’s website did not contain information on this issue.

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- A trustee is an elected member of a local school board who helps govern a public school district.

- Trustees represent community interests and are responsible for setting policies that guide how the school district operates.

- The board of trustees hires and evaluates the superintendent, who manages the day-to-day operations of the district.

- Trustees approve the district’s budget, monitor spending, and may set the local tax rate or call for bond elections to fund schools.

- The board also oversees educational programs, district goals, and overall performance.

- In Texas, trustees are elected to four-year terms, often on a rotating basis, so not all seats are elected at the same time.

- Trustees serve without financial compensation.

An official who sets policy for a local school district. 