Sherri Ybarra

A candidate for Superintendent of Public Instruction, State of Idaho in the 2014 Nov. 4 Idaho General Election

Party: Republican

City: Mountain Home, Idaho

Occupation: Mountain Home School District school administrator

Curriculum director and federal programs director for the Mountain Home School District. She has a master’s and is working toward a doctorate in education. Ybarra taught school in Mountain Home for 11 years before becoming a vice principal and then a principal; she’s in her second year in her current administrative position with the district. Has struggled with a series of gaffes during the campaign, from a campaign website that copied Jones’ to mistakenly identifying a former primary rival as a backer; she says she’s “not a polished politician.”