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Dennis C. Dinge

Forward Party · New Mexico · 2026

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Public Education Commission District 3New Mexico · 2026Bernalillo County sample ballot

Top priorities

  • Wants to evaluate new and existing charter schools for whether they meet students' educational needs and to intervene in schools showing inadequate progress
  • Wants to identify high quality, evidence based curricula and improve educator recruitment and retention through compensation and evaluation policy
  • Wants to expand access to early childhood education and have charter schools address the Martinez and Yazzie court ruling on equitable education

Per the campaign site.

Biography

Dennis Dinge is a physicist whose career has spanned industry, national laboratories, and academia, with research experience in supercomputing, astronomy, and computational fluid dynamics, per his campaign site. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Physics from Clemson University and a PhD in Astrophysics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and serves as Secretary of the New Mexico Forward Party, per the same source.

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Profile facts follow official election office filings and the sources cited in each biography. Roster last verified September 29, 2026. Official sources are the final word on who appears on your ballot.

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