- Occupation: Educator
- 2 term (2004-2012) School Board Trustee/President
- Former Chair, CCC Library Commission
- Turkey Peace Corps Volunteer (1968)
- Graduated School of Education, SUNY
- Founder, Antioch Music Foundation
- 2012 Antioch Citizen of the Year
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Top Priorities if Elected |
- Restore safety, calm, order and civility to school campuses
- Stop free fall of spending which has cut reserves from 31 million to 5 million
- Get our District out of sub-par academic ranking (10 plus points below STAR-Testing state averages on reading,math and science literacy)
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- SCHOOL CLIMATE
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Chaos and sound education don't coexist. Sadly, we pick up a newspaper or flick on the t.v. and repeatedly see Antioch schools featured, from a brutal fight at Dallas Ranch Middle School to mob scenes at the Deer Valley Shopping Plaza.
- STOP DEFICIT SPENDING
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When I left the Board in 2012 there was an ending fund balance of 31 million dollars. At the end of the 2014-12015 school year it will be 5 million, the state mandated minimum 3%.
- ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE
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Antioch scores ten points or more below the state average STAR-testing on reading, math and literacy. We now run with Pittsburg and Richmond. Granted, maybe going head to head with Orinda and Walnut Creek is dreaming a bit for now, but, for starters, how about us competing with Brentwood?
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