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Santa Clara County, CA November 4, 2014 Election
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Academic Excellence

By Tom Bundros

Candidate for Board Member; Gilroy Unified School District

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Boards are responsible to create the conditions that will enable students to meet more rigorous knowledge and performance standards. I am passionately committed to help drive continuous improvement in the quality and breadth of education offered by our schools.
Academic performance for all students is my highest priority. No Child Left Behind (NCLB) expects school to execute against a steep year-to-year road map of improvement. Although Gilroy Unified is improving, we are not accelerating fast enough to meet NCLB requirements; we have a few schools in "Program Improvement" and more could join them unless we make significant/revolutionary improvement in our academic programs and students are motivated to take full advantage of them.

Thanks in part to NCLB, we now have the capability to track how well individual students are doing from year to year, and the commonalities that distinguish which schools are working and which are not are becoming evident. I will lead the Board in identifying successful models and best practices, and insure they are applied at each of our schools.

High performing schools require high performing principals. The Governance team must set high, measurable goals to establish a culture of high achievement, and principals must be held accountable to achieve them.

High quality instruction requires high quality teachers. I will lead GUSD to understand the characteristics of great teachers and insure we have effective programs to identify and recruit them.

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