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Ventura County Board of Education, Trustee Area 4

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Ventura County Board of Education, Trustee Area 4

This person is one of five members on the Ventura County Board of Education. The board sets policy for the County Office of Education. That office runs special-education and alternative-education programs countywide. It also trains local teachers and hears student transfer and expulsion appeals. The term is four years.

Ventura County Board of Education's Area 4 seat is open this November. There is no incumbent on the ballot. Kristina Pine, a former Simi Valley Unified School District board president, is running. She faces Scott Dettorre, a former Moorpark Unified School District trustee. Area 4 covers Moorpark and Simi Valley. The appointed sitting member, Arleigh Kidd, did not file to run. Whoever wins takes a fresh 4-year term. The board is now overseeing a forensic audit of its own superintendent's office.

The winner joins the same 5-member board Area 2 sends a trustee to. It sets policy for the Ventura County Office of Education (VCOE), which runs the county's special-education and alternative-education programs, provides credentialing and professional-learning support to local districts, and hears interdistrict-transfer and expulsion appeals those districts can't resolve on their own. VCOE employs roughly 700 people on an annual budget near $285 million; the board oversees the elected county superintendent's office rather than running schools directly.

This board is mid-crisis: after County Superintendent Cesar Morales admitted in May to an unauthorized bonus and unauthorized staff benefits, the board committed roughly $350,000 -- more than double its own annual budget -- to a forensic audit and new financial-oversight rules. Neither Area 4 candidate currently sits on the board, so the choice here is less a referendum on that oversight work than a question of which outside experience -- a fellow local board's presidency, or a longer, twice-elected tenure on a neighboring district's board -- a newcomer brings to it.

Kristina Pine

Kristina Pine served on the Simi Valley Unified School District board. She served from December 2022 until she resigned as board president in June 2025. She resigned after district lawyers found a conflict of interest. Her spouse had been hired as a district teacher in 2023. Her resignation was voluntary and self-reported. The district superintendent publicly credited how she handled it. She points to her record of a dual-language academy, inclusive playgrounds, and new campus security fencing. Her ballot designation is "Teacher/Mother."

Scott Dettorre

Scott Dettorre is a retired Ventura County fire captain. He is also a fire-technology instructor at Ventura County Community College District. He served on the Moorpark Unified School District board from 2016 to 2024. He lost his 2024 reelection bid. He finished behind both other candidates in a three-way race for two seats. No platform specific to this race was found for him. His ballot designation is "Retired Firefighter."

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