League of Women Voters of California Education Fund
Los Angeles County, CA March 5, 2013 Election
	Nancy Pearlman Answers Questions Candidate for Member of the Board of Trustees; Los Angeles Community College District; Office 6

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

1. What is the single most important issue facing LACCD today? How, as Trustee, would you deal with it?

I believe funding to maintain classes and to increase class availablity is the single most important issue facing LACCD. I will work to obtain more Federal grants for our nine Community Colleges and to get more state funding. I also will strive to insure that all our campusues are accredited.

2. What do you think should be the balance in LACCD between preparing students for transfer to four-year institutions and programs that provide workforce training?

I believe Community Colleges should provide both vocational and avocational programs for transfer and special creditentail programs. I also believe that work force training is imnportant to our programs.

3. What experience in general management, fiscal management and budgetary oversight would you bring to the job of Trustee?

I am currently serving my third term as a Trustee where we have annually voted on billion dollar budgets. For 40 years, I have run a non-profit organization where I have handled the finances and fundraising. As a video & radio documentarian, I have produced over 2,500 television and radio programs where I have been responsible for all the management, production, and funding.

4. AB 2572 (Furutani) seeks to give the LACCD Board of Trustees authority to make changes in the way Trustees are elected (e.g. by district instead of 'at large') and make it possible to eliminate one round of the two-round LACCD election. Where do you stand on this legislation and the issues involved?

This legislation will save the district millions of dollars which could be used to provide more classes at the nine Community Colleges.

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