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Santa Clara County, CA November 4, 2014 Election
Board Member; Palo Alto Unified School District Voter Information

4 Year Term.

Results as of Dec 28 11:41am, 100.0% of Precincts Reporting (46/46)
Candidates (Vote for 2)
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Ken Dauber Click here for more information about this candidate 10709 votes 29.54%

  • Occupation: Software Engineer, Google
  • Member of PAUSD district-wide committees
  • Project Safety Net committee member
  • B.A, M.A. from Yale, Ph.D in Sociology
  • Former college teacher
  • Consultant to US Department of Education
Priorities:
  • Supporting achievement for all students, while improving student social, emotional, and physical health and reducing unnecessary academic stress.
  • Reducing overcrowding in our elementary schools by reopening a 13th school
  • Providing all of our elementary school students foreign language instruction, and strengthening foreign languages in our middle schools
Terry Godfrey Click here for more information about this candidate 9837 votes 27.13%
  • Occupation: Finance Director/Parent
  • Finance Director, New Americans Campaign
  • Past President, Palo Alto Partners in Education (PiE), educational foundation raising $5M+ annually for PAUSD students
  • Founder/Leader, Project Safety Net
  • Senior Manager, Intel Corp (11 yrs)
  • Director Finance and Strategic Planning, Stanford Graduate School of Business (3 yrs)
  • MBA UCLA, BS Math UC Irvine
Priorities:
  • Student-centered decision making
  • Great teachers, great teaching
  • Impeccable management and governance
Catherine Crystal Foster Click here for more information about this candidate 9637 votes 26.58%
  • Occupation: Education Nonprofit Consultant
  • Education Policy/Strategy/Evaluation Consultant to Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Hewlett Foundation, Children's Defense Fund, and more (15 years)
  • Peninsula College Fund, Executive Director (2012-14)
  • Current PAUSD parent
  • Active school and community volunteer
  • Palo Alto Community Fund, Board Member
  • Yale University (BA), Harvard Law School (JD)
Priorities:
  • Outstanding teaching that inspires every student (improved writing instruction, innovative teaching, earlier world language instruction)
  • Continuous learning and improvement (professional development, evaluation)
  • Clear and transparent communication with the community (collaborative, open and student-centered dialogue)
Gina D. Dalma Click here for more information about this candidate 5077 votes 14.00%
  • Occupation: Education Officer/Parent
  • Senior Program Officer, Education, Silicon Valley Community Foundation
  • Director of Innovation, Silicon Valley Education Foundation
  • Senior Economist, LECG
  • Masters in Economics, University fo London
  • Masters in International Policies, Stanford University
  • American Leadership Forum Fellow
Priorities:
  • Support Student Success: Align policies and funding to enable all our students to be part of a 21st century learning environment.
  • Create a Learning Institution: Position ourselves for continuous improvement across the district by leveraging our community and its leading research
  • Build a Healthy Community: Develop policies and programs that guarantee a safe and nurturing environment for our students and educators.
Jay Blas Jacob Cabrera Click here for more information about this candidate 998 votes 2.75%
  • Occupation: Community Volunteer
  • BA Environmental Studies and Biology, UCSC
  • Elected Internal Vice Chair UCSC Student Government
  • Elected Chair Student Committee On Committees UCSC Student Government
  • Graduate Gunn High School, PAUSD
Priorities:
  • Listen to and Collaborate with Community Members to Develop Priorities
  • Physical Saftey and Phycological Wellbeing of our Students
  • Feasibility study to insitute computer coding as a requirment for public schools in Silicon Valley

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