Candidate for
Board Member; Palo Alto Unified School District

Palo Alto Weekly:
"We are confident only about Melissa Baten Caswell and Ken Dauber. Each of them has a firm grasp of the governance problems, is willing to assert the board's responsibility to make decisions and places a high value on transparency and parent participation. Both have experience in corporate decision-making yet acknowledge that a public institution can't run like a business and needs to build support among all stakeholders in the school community. We think together they could provide the type of board leadership that could fix many of the problems identified above."

Paly High School Campanile:
"We feel most compelled to support non-incumbent Ken Dauber...Dauber has helped shape homework policy, drive discussions on student well-being and Project Safety Net and more. Dauber's focus on data-· driven decision making would allow the Board to make informed choices grounded in research."

Palo Alto Daily News:
"As school board member Barbara Klausner notes in her letter to the editor today, Dauber's comments during meetings 'have contributed to the depth and breadth of our discussion.' We believe Ken Dauber would add a beneficial dimension to the Palo Alto School Board and endorse him."

Esther Wojcicki, Paly journalism teacher and California Teacher of the Year in 2002: "[I am] impressed with his sincerity, his ideas and vision for the district. He knows that teachers are the key to good education and wants to support their efforts in the classroom. As a teacher in the district, I am endorsing Ken Dauber for PAUSD school board."

Local Officials:
Susie Richardson - former President, PAUSD School Board
Diane Reklis - former President, PAUSD School Board
Greg Scharff - Vice Mayor of Palo Alto; Palo Alto City Council member
Larry Klein - Palo Alto City Council member; former Mayor of Palo Alto
Pat Burt - Palo Alto City Council member; former Mayor of Palo Alto
Sid Espinosa - Palo Alto City Council member; former Mayor of Palo Alto
Greg Schmid - Palo Alto City Council member; former member, PAUSD School Board)
Karen Holman - Palo Alto City Council member
Peter Drekmeier - former Palo Alto City Council member; former Mayor of Palo Alto
Yoriko Kishimoto - former Palo Alto City Council member; former Mayor of Palo Alto
Leland Levy - former Palo Alto City Council member; former Mayor of Palo Alto
Hillary Freeman - former Palo Alto City Council member
Arthur Keller - member, Palo Alto Planning and Transportation Commission
Linda Murray - former Superintendent, San Jose Unified School District
Hank Levin - former PAUSD school board member
Edel Young - former PAUSD school board member

Friends and Neighbors (partial list):