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Nancy Riddle
20528 votes
25.0%
- Occupation: Chief Financial Officer
- Masters and Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from U.C. Berkeley
- CPA license
- Co-Chair Berkeley Schools Educational Excellence Project (BSEP) Planning and Oversight Committee
- Vice Chair Berkeley Unified School District Citizens Budget and Finance Committee, Former Chair District Advisory Committee for Title I
- Campaign Treasurer for School Measures AA and BB in 2000
- Member Student Assignment Committee, District Goals Committee, PTA and League of Women Voters
Priorities:
- Establishing and maintaining financial integrity
- District wide staff and curriculum development and sustainable implementation of reform at Berkeley High School to improve student achievement
- Updating BSEP to insure smaller class size, full funding of the music program, library support and diverse student support and enrichment programs
Terry S. Doran
17285 votes
21.1%
- Occupation: School Board Director/Teacher
- Berkeley School Board Member since 1998
- Teacher and Administrator in Berkeley Schools for 32 years
- Taught at Berkeley High School from 1969-1998
- Active Teacher Union member; elected to the Executive Council of the Berkeley Federation of Teachers for over 20 years
- Have lived in Berkeley all my adult life with wife Lenore and raised two children who went from parent nursery to high school in the Berkeley schools
- Board of Directors of Berkeley Community Media ( BCM) and Berkeley Boosters
Priorities:
- Continue to work towards fiscal solvency and integrity for our District
- Reorganize Berkeley High School into small schools to serve ALL students
- Work for a better and closer relationship between the schools and the city.
Shirley Issel
16836 votes
20.5%
- Occupation: School Director/Psychotherapist
- University of California Berkeley, BA History, 1966
- Smith College School for Social Work, MSW, 1970
- Masterson Insititue of Postgratuate Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, 1991
- President, Berkeley School Board; Co-Chair, Joint City-School "2X2" Committee
- Berkeley High Development Group Board Member; Measure AA & BB Campaign Committee; BSEP P&O; Beth El Homeless Meal Program, Founding Director
- Director, Alameda County School Board; Founding Member Berkeley Therapy Institute; Author & Instructor
Priorities:
- Improving student achievement by delivering comprehensive teacher training and student support services;
- Delivering safe and well maintained buildings and grounds; and
- Implementing accountability systems to monitor progress and report results.
Sean P. Dugar
10166 votes
12.4%
- Occupation: Student
- Student Activist
- Educational Lobbist
- Community Activist
Priorities:
- Obtain equal representation for all at the school boards level
- Create a system for community input in the discision making process
- Activily address the Achievement Gap
Cynthia Papermaster
6804 votes
8.3%
- Occupation: Library Administrator/Parent
Lance Montauk
5232 votes
6.4%
- Occupation: Emergency Physician
- doctor locally including UCSF, Alta Bates, Kaiser, and UC Berkeley
- full-time Consultant to Education Committee California State Senate
- Legal Office, Amnesty International, London, when Nobel prize awarded
- Volunteer doctor, Surmang Clinic, Tibet
- Convicted of felony for interfering with draft during Vietnam War, 1967
- expelled from Poland for Solidarity Union work during martial law, 1982, Krakow Poland
Priorities:
- Stop ridiculously high costs for non-teachers and divert money to teaching/classroom
- Quit experimenting on pupils and school system like they were lab rats
- Defeat Measure K which gives School Board Members a 71% pay raise!
Derick D. Miller
5014 votes
6.1%
- Occupation: Business Consultant
- Previously held positions as Vice President of Business Development, QA Director, Software Development
- Parent Activist with two children in Berkeley public elementary school
- President, Berkeley PTA Council (2nd year); Co-Chair, Student Access Advisory Committee (3rd year); BSPED; Jefferson Building Committee
- Member Jefferson PTA, BHS PTSA, NAACP, League of Women Voters (active on Education sub-committee); BHS Building Committee
- MA Eastern Classics (Asian Studies); BA (Dual major) Philosophy and History of Science, St. John's College, Annapolis, MD
- Director, Berkeley High School Development Group; Director, Downtown Berkeley
Priorities:
- Fiscal responsibility: disclosing financial decisions and the rationale behind them; responding to community; adding an internal auditor to charter
- Open public process: honest communication; day-lighting essential issues and information; regular public forums
- Achievement for all students: challenging each at their level; choice among diversity; Academic Choice; African Studies; Dual Immers.; CAS; BAM; etc.
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