Additionally, as a podcaster, Co-Creator, and host of the Moms Talk Autism Podcast, which offers peer-to-peer support and expert guest advice, she leads research and development for the pod's content.

Originally from Baltimore, MD, Jean and her family relocated to Texas in 2015. Prior to having their own two children, Jean and her husband at the time, Brad, shared guardianship of her two adolescent nieces.

Bio - Ms. Jean Mayer

Jean Mayer

Jean lives in Pflugerville, Texas, a suburb of Austin, and is navigating life as a recent single mom to her two children. She is an avid animal lover and volunteers her time as an elected school board trustee in her district. She serves in many local community programs and mentors families through peer-to-peer support worldwide.

The Hosts

Jean Mayer is originally from Baltimore, Maryland. She relocated to Texas with her family in 2015. She lives in Pflugerville, Texas, and is a single mother of two children.

PfISD Board of Trustees

Meet the Hosts | Moms Talk Autism Podcast

Jean Mayer was elected to the Pflugerville Board of Trustees in 2020.

Jean is currently a full-time advocate, mentor, and podcaster, additionally serving as a family faculty member to Texas Parent-to-Parent in their medical training program and participating in their public policy group.

Training 1st and 2nd-year medical residents on being a medical mom, navigating the care map, trauma, stress, and need for familial support when supporting the whole child with exceptional or high medical needs.

Additionally, as a podcaster, Co-Creator, and host of the Moms Talk Autism Podcast, which offers peer-to-peer support and expert guest advice, she leads research and development for the pod's content.

With over 20+ years of experience in the Hospitality Industry, Jean has honed her skills in operations, leadership, service, development, general contracting, event management & production, nutrition, menu development, networking, award-winning creative design, fundraising, and philanthropy. She served on several local boards, provided relief efforts to the homeless, and volunteered with at-risk youth.

Jean Mayer currently works as a podcaster and serves as a family faculty member in Texas Parent-to-Parent's medical training program. She co-created and hosts the Moms Talk Autism Podcast. She has worked in the hospitality industry.

Jean currently works as a podcaster and serves as a family faculty member in Texas Parent-to-Parent's medical training program. She co-created and hosts the Moms Talk Autism Podcast. She has worked in the hospitality industry.

Bio - Jean Mayer

Jean Mayer was elected to the Pflugerville Board of Trustees in 2020.

Jean is currently a full-time advocate, mentor, and podcaster, additionally serving as a family faculty member to Texas Parent-to-Parent in their medical training program and participating in their public policy group.

JEAN MAYER

Place 6
Jean.Mayer@pfisd.net

Term: May 2023 - November 2026

Pflugerville ISD Board of Trustees

Jean currently serves on the Pflugerville ISD Board of Trustees in Place 6. She was elected to the board in 2020.

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School Curriculum

Treat equity as stewardship of public dollars: invest where the gaps are largest, not where it's politically easiest.
Protect the highest-need programs from across-the-board cuts that fall hardest on students who can least absorb them.
Close persistent funding gaps — like the special-education shortfall — instead of spreading the shortfall around.

Priorities

Protect the highest-need programs from across-the-board cuts that fall hardest on students who can least absorb them.
Close persistent funding gaps — like the special-education shortfall — instead of spreading the shortfall around.

PRIORITY 03

Disability & Special Education

Invest in educators: competitive pay, real support, and the staffing that keeps good people in our classrooms.
Steward facilities and budgets so resources reach classrooms, not overhead.
Defend strong, well-funded neighborhood public schools as the foundation of our community.

Prioritizes funding for high-need programs and closing special-education funding gaps rather than applying across-the-board cuts.

Plans to manage facilities and budgets so resources reach classrooms rather than being spent on administrative overhead.

- Prioritizes funding for high-need programs and closing special-education funding gaps rather than applying across-the-board cuts.
- Plans to manage facilities and budgets so resources reach classrooms rather than being spent on administrative overhead.

School Facilities & Resources

Build accommodation into every decision from the first planning stage — never as an afterthought.
Treat special education as a core obligation, addressing vacancy, turnover, and the state-funding gap head-on.
Advocate for students and families who can't always advocate for themselves.

Plans to incorporate accommodations from the first stage of district decision-making.

Prioritizes special education, including addressing staff vacancies, turnover, and state funding gaps.

- Plans to incorporate accommodations from the first stage of district decision-making.
- Prioritizes special education, including addressing staff vacancies, turnover, and state funding gaps.

Student Wellbeing

Real growth is built from the bottom up. When we support the people who need it most — students and the educators who serve them — the whole district gets stronger.

Invest in educators: competitive pay, real support, and the staffing that keeps good people in our classrooms.
Steward facilities and budgets so resources reach classrooms, not overhead.

Supports competitive educator pay, staff support, and staffing levels intended to retain classroom personnel.

- Supports competitive educator pay, staff support, and staffing levels intended to retain classroom personnel.

Teachers

Supports strong, well-funded neighborhood public schools.

- Supports strong, well-funded neighborhood public schools.

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- Prioritizes special education, including addressing staff vacancies, turnover, and state funding gaps.

Bio - Jean Mayer

Originally from Baltimore, MD, Jean and her family relocated to Texas in 2015. Prior to having their own two children, Jean and her husband at the time, Brad, shared guardianship of her two adolescent nieces.

Jean Mayer is originally from Baltimore, Maryland, and relocated to Texas with her family in 2015. She has two children.

The combination of her parenting experiences further amplified Jean’s plight to fight for equal educational opportunities.

With over 20+ years of experience in the Hospitality Industry, Jean has honed her skills in operations, leadership, service, development, general contracting, event management & production, nutrition, menu development, networking, award-winning creative design, fundraising, and philanthropy.

Jean Mayer currently works as a mentor and podcaster and serves as a family faculty member in Texas Parent-to-Parent's medical training program. She is the co-creator and host of the Moms Talk Autism Podcast and leads research and development for its content. She has experience in the hospitality industry.

Bio - Jean Mayer

Jean Mayer was elected to the Pflugerville Board of Trustees in 2020.

RENAE MITCHELL

Place 3
Renae.Mitchell@pfisd.net

Term: May 2025 - November 2028

JEAN MAYER

Place 6
Jean.Mayer@pfisd.net

Term: May 2023 - November 2026

Jean currently serves as a trustee for Pflugerville Independent School District, Place 6. She was first elected in 2020, and her current term runs from May 2023 to November 2026.

PRIORITY 02

Equity as Financial Stewardship

Equity and fiscal responsibility are the same conversation. You don't cut evenly from areas that are already fractured and call it fair.

Treat equity as stewardship of public dollars: invest where the gaps are largest, not where it's politically easiest.
Protect the highest-need programs from across-the-board cuts that fall hardest on students who can least absorb them.
Close persistent funding gaps — like the special-education shortfall — instead of spreading the shortfall around.

PRIORITY 04

Strong Public Schools

Real growth is built from the bottom up. When we support the people who need it most — students and the educators who serve them — the whole district gets stronger.

Invest in educators: competitive pay, real support, and the staffing that keeps good people in our classrooms.
Steward facilities and budgets so resources reach classrooms, not overhead.
Defend strong, well-funded neighborhood public schools as the foundation of our community.

Prioritizes directing public dollars to areas with the largest gaps and closing the special-education funding shortfall.

Plans to manage facilities and budgets so resources reach classrooms rather than overhead.

- Prioritizes directing public dollars to areas with the largest gaps and closing the special-education funding shortfall.
- Plans to manage facilities and budgets so resources reach classrooms rather than overhead.
- Supports strong, well-funded neighborhood public schools.

PRIORITY 03

Disability & Special Education

Disability is the largest minority group, and it intersects every other. When you plan for accommodation from the start, no one gets left out later.

Build accommodation into every decision from the first planning stage — never as an afterthought.
Treat special education as a core obligation, addressing vacancy, turnover, and the state-funding gap head-on.
Advocate for students and families who can't always advocate for themselves.

Supports competitive educator pay, support, and staffing to retain classroom staff.

Calls for addressing special-education vacancies, turnover, and the state funding gap.

- Supports competitive educator pay, support, and staffing to retain classroom staff.
- Calls for addressing special-education vacancies, turnover, and the state funding gap.

HOUSE (2nd reading) RESEARCH HB 2890 ORGANIZATION bill digest 5/11/2023 Cunningham. SUBJECT: Revising vote threshold for approval of open-enrollment charter schools. WITNESSES: For —Stephanie Matthews, Texas Association of Business; Bryce Adams, Texas Public Charter Schools Association; Michael Barba, Texas Public Policy Foundation; SaJade Miller; Susie Spencer. Against — Tony Hanson, Jean Mayer, Pflugerville ISD Trustee; Alejandro Pena, Texas AFT; HD Chambers, Texas School Alliance; Carrie Griffith, Texas State Teachers Association; Meg Bakich; Lynn Davenport; Susybelle Gosslee; Mary Lowe.

HOUSE RESEARCH ORGANIZATION • TEXAS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES — Daily Floor Report (Thursday, May 11, 2023), Part Five (PDF)

DIGEST: HB 2890 would revise provisions regarding the authorization of an eligible entity to operate a charter school. The bill would establish that the commissioner of education’s proposal to grant a charter to an eligible entity would take effect unless, before the 90th day after the date on which the State Board of Education (SBOE) received a required notice from the commissioner of education of each proposed charter, two-thirds of the total membership of the board, rather than a majority of the members of the board present and voting, voted against the grant of that charter. The bill would take immediate effect if finally passed by a two-thirds record vote of the membership of each house. Otherwise, it would take effect September 1, 2023.

Opposed House Bill 2890, which would have required a two-thirds State Board of Education vote to block a proposed charter school.

Advocates for incorporating accommodations into decisions from the initial planning stage.

- Opposed House Bill 2890, which would have required a two-thirds State Board of Education vote to block a proposed charter school.
- Advocates for incorporating accommodations into decisions from the initial planning stage.

Jean Mayer is originally from Baltimore, Maryland, and relocated to Texas in 2015. She is a single mother of two children.

Additionally, as a podcaster, Co-Creator, and host of the Moms Talk Autism Podcast, which offers peer-to-peer support and expert guest advice, she leads research and development for the pod's content.

Jean Mayer currently works as a full-time podcaster and serves as a family faculty member for Texas Parent-to-Parent's medical training program. She is the co-creator and host of the Moms Talk Autism Podcast.

RENAE MITCHELL

Place 3
Renae.Mitchell@pfisd.net

Term: May 2025 - November 2028

JEAN MAYER

Place 6

Jean.Mayer@pfisd.net

Term: May 2023 - November 2026

Board Committees

Jean was elected to the Pflugerville Independent School District Board of Trustees in 2020. She serves in Place 6 for a term running from May 2023 to November 2026.

Advocates for directing funds to the largest gaps and closing the special-education funding shortfall.

Advocates for incorporating disability accommodations during initial planning rather than after decisions are made.

Prioritizes special education and efforts to address staffing vacancies, turnover, and the state funding gap.

Prioritizes managing facilities and budgets so resources reach classrooms rather than administrative overhead.

- Advocates for directing funds to the largest gaps and closing the special-education funding shortfall.
- Advocates for incorporating disability accommodations during initial planning rather than after decisions are made.
- Prioritizes special education and efforts to address staffing vacancies, turnover, and the state funding gap.
- Prioritizes managing facilities and budgets so resources reach classrooms rather than administrative overhead.

Supports competitive educator pay, additional support, and staffing measures intended to retain classroom teachers.

- Supports competitive educator pay, additional support, and staffing measures intended to retain classroom teachers.

Originally from Baltimore, MD, Jean and her family relocated to Texas in 2015. Prior to having their own two children, Jean and her husband at the time, Brad, shared guardianship of her two adolescent nieces. The combination of her parenting experiences further amplified Jean’s plight to fight for equal educational opportunities.

Bio - Ms. Jean Mayer | Pflugerville Independent School District

Jean Mayer is originally from Baltimore, Maryland. She relocated to Texas with her family in 2015 and has two children.

Jean is currently a full-time advocate, mentor, and podcaster, additionally serving as a family faculty member to Texas Parent-to-Parent in their medical training program and participating in their public policy group.

Training 1st and 2nd-year medical residents on being a medical mom, navigating the care map, trauma, stress, and need for familial support when supporting the whole child with exceptional or high medical needs.

Jean Mayer currently works full-time as a mentor and podcaster. She also serves as a family faculty member with Texas Parent-to-Parent’s medical training program.

Bio - Jean Mayer

Jean Mayer was elected to the Pflugerville Board of Trustees in 2020.

Jean is currently a full-time advocate, mentor, and podcaster, additionally serving as a family faculty member to Texas Parent-to-Parent in their medical training program and participating in their public policy group.

The district’s current board page identifies her as Place 6, with a term of May 2023 - November 2026. Each board member serves a three-year term.

Jean was elected to the Pflugerville Board of Trustees in 2020.

Equity and fiscal responsibility are the same conversation. You don't cut evenly from areas that are already fractured and call it fair.

Treat equity as stewardship of public dollars: invest where the gaps are largest, not where it's politically easiest.
Protect the highest-need programs from across-the-board cuts that fall hardest on students who can least absorb them.
Close persistent funding gaps — like the special-education shortfall — instead of spreading the shortfall around.

Priorities | Jean P for Pflugerville

Advocates protecting high-need programs from across-the-board cuts and closing special-education funding gaps.

Supports directing facilities and budget resources to classrooms rather than overhead.

- Advocates protecting high-need programs from across-the-board cuts and closing special-education funding gaps.
- Supports directing facilities and budget resources to classrooms rather than overhead.

Advocates competitive educator pay, support, and staffing to retain classroom staff.

- Advocates competitive educator pay, support, and staffing to retain classroom staff.

When you plan for accommodation from the start, no one gets left out later.

Build accommodation into every decision from the first planning stage — never as an afterthought.
Treat special education as a core obligation, addressing vacancy, turnover, and the state-funding gap head-on.

Steward facilities and budgets so resources reach classrooms, not overhead.
Defend strong, well-funded neighborhood public schools as the foundation of our community.

HOUSE (2nd reading)
RESEARCH HB 2890
ORGANIZATION bill digest 5/11/2023 Cunningham
SUBJECT: Revising vote threshold for approval of open-enrollment charter schools

Against — Tony Hanson, Jean Mayer, Pflugerville ISD Trustee; Alejandro Pena, Texas AFT; HD Chambers, Texas School Alliance; Carrie Griffith, Texas State Teachers Association; Meg Bakich; Lynn Davenport; Susybelle Gosslee; Mary Lowe.

DIGEST: HB 2890 would revise provisions regarding the authorization of an eligible entity to operate a charter school. The bill would establish that the commissioner of education’s proposal to grant a charter to an eligible entity would take effect unless, before the 90th day after the State Board of Education received required notice of the proposed charter, two-thirds of the board’s total membership voted against the grant.

HOUSE RESEARCH HB 2890 | House Research Organization

Advocates planning for accommodations from the outset rather than as an afterthought.

Opposes House Bill (HB) 2890, which would require two-thirds of the State Board of Education to block a proposed charter school.

- Advocates planning for accommodations from the outset rather than as an afterthought.
- Supports strong, well-funded neighborhood public schools.
- Opposes House Bill (HB) 2890, which would require two-thirds of the State Board of Education to block a proposed charter school.

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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. 