Candidate for
Member, Governing Board; San Lorenzo Unified School District

Students, including gifted, average and at risk need challenge, opportunity, choice, and top quality teachers and administrators. Test scores are painfully low in a number of our schools and student achievement must rise. Teachers and administrators should have the best staff development training to improve student achievement. To insure curricular responsibility, I intend to advocate for curriculum correlation training. When schools say that they are teaching to the State Standards, that means NOTHING if the work the students are given meets the standards at grade levels 4 to 6 grades BELOW their current grade. That is exactly what is happening in the majority of classrooms in San Lorenzo Unified, NOT because teachers are doing so deliberately, but because they have never been trained to correlate their curriculum to GRADE LEVEL STANDARDS. The State of California has made draconian cuts in money for staff development training so we need to make sure that EVERY training is important and worthy of each teacher's precious time, and that our resources are spent in the best way possible towards student achievement.