League of Women Voters of the Cincinnati Area Education Fund
Hamilton County, OH November 8, 2011 Election
	Alexander Poccia Kuhns Answers Questions Candidate for Board Member; Cincinnati City School District

The questions were prepared by the League of Women Voters of the Cincinnati Area and asked of all candidates for this office.
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Questions & Answers

1. What are your qualifications for office? (50 word limit)

I am an instructor at Cincinnati State College, I am working on my third degree in education, I have over ten years of experience working with children and I am a proud product of Cincinnati Public Schools.

2. What would you do to advance the concept of "equity in education" for Cincinnati Public Schools? (100 word limit)

I believe education has become a civil rights issue because of how valuable yet unequitable learning is in our society. As a board member I will continue to advocate for neighborhood schools to ensure that every student is given equal opportunity for an excellent education. I will work hard to engage schools with families and communities, including businesses to make this a reality.

3. How would you use your students' state test results to improve education in your district? (100 word limit)

The state test results can be used to leverage funding, community support and government support as well. I will use these resources and positive press to improve education by recruiting quality teachers and strengthening the curricula in our neighborhood schools.

4. What will you do to build consensus in the community in support of Cincinnati Public Schools?

I will encourage the quality functioning of the Local School Decision Making Committees (LSDMC) within each school. These are the most effective avenues to recruit community support in the school. Through these LSDMCs we can unite the community voice.

5. What are your budget priorities?

Careful analysis of the budget is something I believe to be of the utmost importance. Finding alternative funding sources for important support services like counseling and nurses will be vital. Oversight of our district's food costs and procedures should bring possible savings to light. Funding education should be a much higher priority for our society because of it's preventative potential (keeping people out of prisons). Recruiting more students to the district (with a quality product) would bring more in more funding.

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