- Occupation: School Board Member
- Education and Community Relations Consultant
- Council of Urban Boards of Education, National Steering Committee Member
- califonia School Boards Association, Delegate Assembly Member, past Director
- Association of California Urban School Districts, Past President
- California State Committee of Practitioners for Title I
- Council of the Great City Schools, active participant
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Top Priorities if Elected |
- Secure adequate funding for public schools in San Francisco
- Making every school in San Francisco a viable choice for San Francisco families
- Monitoring implementation of the spending of city dollars through Prop H
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- Mayor Gavin Newsom
- San Francisco Bay Guardian
- San Francisco Chronicle
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- Site-Based Decision-Making and Weighted-Student Formula.
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SFUSD has instituted a Weighted-Student Formula to distribute resources in a targeted way within the District. Elected School Site Councils at schools now are making budget and program decisions. We are committed to expanding and strengthening this programs through training, re-allocation of new and existing resources and looking at best practices inside and outside the District.
- Parent Involvement
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After twenty years of rhetoric about involving parents, we are finally seeing the School District investing money and human resources in supporting services for parents. This is only the beginning; we must explore all avenues for parents ot be more involved, like serving on School Site Councils.
- School Funding
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Publis schools in California are under-funded and have been since the short-sighted passage of Proposition 13 in the late seventies. Getting adequate funding for schools is a constant challenge in which we need to engage the entire community.
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