- Occupation: Pediatrician
- Parent of children enrolled in SFUSD since 1984
- Elected San Francisco Board of Education 1990, 1994, 1998
- Led Class-size Reduction effort
- Strengthened curriculum, support services, and funding for Arts, and classroom supplies
- Exposed mis-magement and mis-spending by prior leadership. Worked to recruit new Superintendent and institute fiscal responsibility
- Led the resistance to school privitization
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Top Priorities if Elected |
- Reduce Achievement gaps by providing rich, challenging education at all schools and by garaunteeing parent choice in enrollment
- Extend Class Size reduction to upper grades
- Modernize all facilities, including the replacement of all 'temporary' structures with permanent ones.
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- United Educators of San Francisco
- San Francisco Democratic Central Comittee
- Congreswoman Nancy Pelosi
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