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Jonathon Acosta

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Rhode Island State Senate District 16

Tenure

2021 - Present

Term ends

2027

Years in position

4

Predecessor

Compensation

Elections and appointments

Education

Personal

Contact

Jonathon Acosta (Democratic Party) is a member of the Rhode Island State Senate, representing District 16. He assumed office on January 5, 2021. His current term ends on January 5, 2027.

Acosta (Democratic Party) ran for re-election to the Rhode Island State Senate to represent District 16. He won in the general election on November 5, 2024.

Biography

Jonathon Acosta was born in New York, New York. He earned a bachelor’s degree and two master’s degrees from Brown University in 2011, 2016, and 2019, respectively. Acosta’s career experience includes working as a dean and middle school administrator.[1]

Committee assignments

2023-2024

Acosta was assigned to the following committees:

2021-2022

Acosta was assigned to the following committees:

The following table lists bills this person sponsored as a legislator, according to BillTrack50 and sorted by action history. Bills are sorted by the date of their last action. The following list may not be comprehensive. To see all bills this legislator sponsored, click on the legislator's name in the title of the table.

Elections

2024

See also: Rhode Island State Senate elections, 2024

General election

Democratic primary election

Endorsements

Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Acosta in this election.

2022

See also: Rhode Island State Senate elections, 2022

General election

Democratic primary election

2020

See also: Rhode Island State Senate elections, 2020

General election

Democratic primary election

Endorsements

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Campaign themes

2024

Ballotpedia survey responses

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Jonathon Acosta did not complete Ballotpedia's 2024 Candidate Connection survey.

2022

Jonathon Acosta did not complete Ballotpedia's 2022 Candidate Connection survey.

2020

Candidate Connection

Jonathon Acosta completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Acosta's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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Jonathon Acosta is a father, educator, Eagle Scout, youth wrestling coach, and doctoral student in Sociology at Brown University. He was a middle school math teacher in Miami-Dade County and Central Falls before becoming a school administrator. During this time, he earned an MA in Urban Education Policy at Brown and implemented a district-wide teacher evaluation program in cultural competence. Jonathon is a member of the Juvenile Hearing Board and a City Councilman representing Ward 1 in Central Falls, where he has been a strong voice for responsible green city planning, transparency in governance, and affordable housing. His academic work is in political sociology, social stratification, segregation, race, class, and ethnicity.

  • Jonathon will fight for a living wage so that everyone in our district can live a decent life.
  • Jonathon will use the skills he acquired in his education career to revisit the school funding formula and propose a more equitable approach to funding our schools.
  • Jonathon has been an advocate for affordable housing and will push the State to adopt an affordable housing allcoation in its yearly operating budget.

In my time on the Central Falls City Council, I have been active in affordable housing, green city planning, criminal justice reform, and education. I will be taking these fights to the State level and show legislators from across the State how our futures are tied. Reforms that help Central Falls and Pawtucket will help the rest of our State as well.

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Scorecards

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2023

To view all the scorecards we found for this legislator in 2023, click [show].   

In 2023, the Rhode Island State Legislature was in session from January 3 to June 16.

Legislators are tracked on their votes related to civil liberties.
Legislators are scored on their votes on conservative issues.

2022

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In 2022, the Rhode Island State Legislature was in session from January 4 to June 23.

Legislators are tracked on their votes related to civil liberties.
Legislators are scored on their votes on a variety of issues of interest to the organization.
Legislators are scored on their votes on bills related to environmental policy.
Legislators are scored on their votes on bills related to business issues.

2021

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In 2021, the Rhode Island State Legislature was in session from January 5 to July 1.

Legislators are tracked on their votes related to civil liberties.
Legislators are scored on their votes on a variety of issues of interest to the organization.
Legislators are scored on their votes on bills related to environmental policy.
Legislators are scored on their votes on conservative issues.

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    1. Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on August 07, 2020

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