Harrison County’s Rhonda Rhoads knows about education.  After graduating high school, she received her Bachelors degree in education from Indiana State, followed up by here Masters in Education from Indiana University. Rhonda then spent 29 years as a non-union teacher in the North Harrison Community School Corporation.

Now Rhonda is running to be State Representative in District 70 so she can bring her experience in the classroom to work in the Indiana House of Representatives.  She believes that our best teachers should be paid more and that our education dollars need to be focused on the classroom.  Currently, Indiana only spends 63% of the nearly $11 billion we spend on education every year on classroom instruction.  The national average is near 66%.

In addition to education issues, Rhonda believes in protecting taxpayers and getting government out of the way so the private sector can create jobs.  Even though Indiana leads the nation in private sector job growth, we need leaders in the Statehouse who will work with Governor Daniels to continue the work of developing a strong business climate.  Rhonda’s history of supporitng a pro-growth environment  helped earn her the endorsement of the Indiana Manufacturers Association.

Rhonda was first elected to the Harrison County Council in 2000 and was reelected in 2004.  She served as vice-chair of the council in 2004-2005.

Help bring Rhonda and her pro-education and pro-taxpayer ideas to the Statehouse so Governor Daniels and the citizens of Indiana will have another ally.  To find out more about Rhonda, go to http://rhondarhoads.com/ .