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San Benito County Board of Education, District 4

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On the ballot

This person would hold the District 4 seat on the San Benito County Board of Education, which governs the County Office of Education: budget approval, policy development, expulsion and inter-district-attendance appeals, credential registration, instructional-material adoption, and program acceptance for state and federal projects affecting San Benito County's local school districts. A 4-year term.

San Benito County's Board of Education has a contested race for its District 4 seat: incumbent Reb Monaco faces challenger Ed Schmidt.

The winner serves a 4-year term on the county's 5-member Board of Education, which governs the County Office of Education: budget approval, policy development, expulsion and inter-district-attendance appeals, credential registration, instructional-material adoption, and program acceptance for state and federal projects, for San Benito County's local school districts.

Monaco's sitting incumbency is independently confirmed by the County Office of Education's own current board roster, which lists him as the Area 4 member with a term expiring this year. Beyond that structural fact, neither candidate drew any independent news coverage this pass, and neither has a findable campaign platform -- Schmidt's "Retired Educator" ballot designation is the only public information about him found this pass.

Ed Schmidt

Ed Schmidt is challenging incumbent Reb Monaco for the District 4 seat, per the county's own certified candidate list, which lists his ballot designation as "Retired Educator" and confirms he filed a Candidate Statement. No campaign website, public platform statement, or news coverage of his candidacy was found this pass.

Strengths

A "Retired Educator" ballot designation, suggesting direct classroom or school-administration experience relevant to the board's work, and a filed Candidate Statement (Monaco did not file one).

Trade-offs

No campaign website, public statement, or news coverage was found this pass to say what kind of educator he was, where, or for how long.

Keep in mind

Beyond his name, filing date, and ballot designation from the county's own record, this dataset found no independent information about his background or priorities -- an absence, not a judgment.

Reb Monaco

Reb Monaco is the incumbent District 4 trustee, seeking another term. The County Office of Education's own current board roster independently confirms his sitting membership. No public statement, campaign platform, or news coverage of his 2026 candidacy was found this pass, and the county's own candidate list shows he did not file a Candidate Statement this cycle.

Strengths

Already serving on the board, independently confirmed by the County Office of Education's own current roster -- direct, verified familiarity with the board's work.

Trade-offs

No campaign platform, public statement, or news coverage explaining his record or priorities was found this pass, and he did not file a Candidate Statement this cycle, unlike his challenger.

Keep in mind

How long he has held the seat, or what he has done with it, could not be confirmed this pass -- only that the county's own current roster lists him as the sitting Area 4 member.

Source review: Strong (84/100) · 3 cited sources

Official records anchor this contest, with multiple sources checked.

  • sanbenitocounty-ca-cre.gov (opens in a new tab)San Benito County Department of Elections -- "Final Qualified Candidate List" for the November 3, 2026 General Election (all 75 qualified candidates countywide; retrieved via a real browser session since the county site 403s non-browser clients): source for the County Supervisor District 5 (Short Term) and Board of Education District 4 rosters and Board of Education District 3's 'On Ballot: No' status.
  • sbcoe.org (opens in a new tab)San Benito County Office of Education -- "Board of Education" (sbcoe.org/about-us/board-of-education): the office's own current five-trustee roster by district and term-expiration year (independently confirming Rodney Bianchi's District 1 presidency and Reb Monaco's District 4 incumbency), plus the board's stated functions.
  • netfile.com (opens in a new tab)A documented negative result across three independent methods: San Benito County's own election/campaign-finance pages return HTTP 403 to this session's fetch tools; NetFile's own public agency directory lists no San Benito County-level agency distinct from the City of Hollister's own separate 'HOL' portal; and the state's Cal-Access filer search returned no extractable content.

Last updated September 2, 2026.