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Alameda County, CA November 5, 2002 Election
Member, Board of Directors; Berkeley Unified School District Voter Information

Results as of Nov 15 4:54pm, 100.0% of Precincts Reporting (77/77)
(12 Writein Votes 0.0%)
Candidates (Vote for 3)
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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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