Candidate for
State Senator; District 32

• I am a woman with a mission - to transforms the lives of Californians through education. My education transformed my life. As a teacher and principal I transform young lives every day. As an adjunct professor I have prepared Masters and Doctoral candidates to take their place in an army of educators who can transform millions of others.
• California should be doubling its investment in education - from pre-school to graduate school. Instead we've doubled what we spend on prisons while we doubled college tuition.
• People will call me a "one-issue" candidate. That's a label I will wear proudly. Because investing in human potential will grow the middle class, attract advanced manufacturing, spawn invention and research and medical breakthroughs that will cure disease and reduce mental illness and lower crime.
• One mission. My first bill is my concrete proposals for how we can accomplish that mission.

Senate Bill 1
Irella Perez

• An act related to the establishment of the College Corps Student Scholarship Public Service Program at California State University and University of California Campuses.
• It shall be requested of the Regents of the University of California and shall be required of the Trustees of the California State University to develop the College Corps Student Scholarship Public Service Program to operate at every University of California and at every California State University campus prior to July 1, 2018.
• A student enrolled at a UC or CSU campus graduating with a bachelors degree within four years will be eligible to participate in the College Corps Student Scholarship Public Service Program under the following conditions:
• 1) College Corps Student Loans shall be forgiven at a rate of 25% of the student's total loan obligation for each of the four years of voluntary or paid public service for each calendar year, following the completion of a bachelor's degree.
• 2) Qualifying voluntary public service shall consist of 500 working hours in a calendar year at any non-profit agency providing necessary public services designated by the participating student's campus.
• 3) Qualifying paid public service shall consist of employment at any public agency designated by the student's campus.
• 4) A participant who leaves public service before his or her commitment is completed shall repay that portion of his or her scholarship assistance that is equal to the proportion of the four-year commitment that has not been completed. Such repayment shall include an interest amount equal to the state's Pooled Investment return for the years the tuition grant was made.