Candidate for
Board Member; Pasadena Unified School District; Seat 4

1. My education, service, and career have focused on providing for the welfare of our community and our children. I hold a doctorate in education from UCLA with emphasis on "Urban Education Policy and Planning". I am a trained and experienced educational policymaker serving in public schools and Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

2. As a board member I will work to develop and implement board policy that guides and directs design and delivery of curriculum and provides curricular quality control. These policies must ensure program focus, accountability, effectiveness, and consistency. These policies promote the development of a comprehensive educational program that provides for not only academic challenge, but also opportunity to develop skills in art, music, vocations, and technology. Our children must graduate from schools that provide career choices and skills to succeed. Remember parents enroll their children in schools that will provide them with the best education and opportunity. That's the answer.

3. As a board member I will work to validate that our policies reflect the development and maintenance of a budget process that is performance-based and curriculum driven. This will identify critical cost and resources necessary for our children's continued academic success. I will work to assure board policy reflects the development of partnerships with community stakeholders that allocate resources to programs critical to the success of our children, elimination of any and all redundancy within the operational framework of the district, sharing of resources among city governmental agencies, and identification and application for grants that will supplement critical programs.