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Valerie F. Davis
39105 votes
47.9%
- Occupation: Teacher/Parent / Maestra/Madre de Familia
- Credentialed Teacher - 20 years elementary, middle, and high school teaching experience
- Parent Volunteer - Lifetime Fresno resident, PTA/Booster President, School SIte Council President
- Community Leader - School Bond Committee, School Boundaries Committee, Language Arts Book Adoption Committee
Priorities:
- Improving Student Performance through a Parent-Teacher Partnership - provide parenting classes, greater accountability for all parties.
- Reform -Reduce downtown bureaucracy, improve our athletic, music, and arts programs as well as after school activities.
- Respect - Teachers, parents, and administrators working in partnership at each school sharing decision making. Schools making their own decisions.
Nuel W. Brown
23472 votes
28.8%
- Occupation: Retired Executive Director / Director Ejecutivo Jubilado
- AA, & BA. Degree
- Excutive Director Non-profit Organization,18 yrs.
- National Publications -Board Member
- Fresno City Planning Commission
- Former Kerman Planning Commission
- Police Activities League/City -County Crime Prevention
Priorities:
- IT'S ABOUT THE KIDS - A CHILD'S RIGHT TO AN EDUCATION IS NOT NEGOTIABLE .
- This election is very critical. Our children must have a quality education in order to compete in the job market for good jobs .
- I will bring innovative leadership to the board.
Silvia Astorga Salcido
18877 votes
23.1%
- Occupation: Appointed Incumbent / Titular por Nombramiento
- Masters Degree, Organizational Behavior, CSPP, Fresno 1993
- B.A., U.S. & Latin American Political Studies, Cal State L.A. 1979
- Worked as broadcast journalist for 22 years
- Various honors, including Top 10 Professional Business Women of the Year, Fresno Bee, 1997, 3 Associated Press Awards & 1 SBA award
- Currently working as Teacher, Sanger Unified School District
- Past Boards: HUD Fair Housing Council, CERIAL, Central Calif Hispanic Chamber, Bill Honig's Statewide Hispanic Advisory Council
Priorities:
- Working collaboratively with Fresno School Board to balance current & future budgets and put district on a path for systemic change
- Ensuring that needs of all students come first
- Working with the board to re-engineer the District so that "education" and not special interests, is what drives the organization
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