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| What a difference a difference makes! |
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Platform
1. Building Academic Achievement:
Students of all backgrounds learn best when in cooperative, safe and
smaller learning environments.
2. Smart Planning:
Community driven policy for program placement and student assignment.
No more school closures without a plan!
3. Responsible Budgeting:
Establish an open budget process that ensures resources meant for the
schools actually reach the classroom.
4. Respect for All School Workers:
Teachers, paraprofessionals, nurses, librarians, counselors and other school
workers are the backbone our public schools. We must respect their work and
compensate them fairly.
1. Building Academic Achievement:
Students of all backgrounds learn best when in cooperative, safe and
smaller learning environments.
- Small quality schools and smaller specialized learning communities within big
comprehensive schools with rigorous programs that are sought after by students
& families. - Supporting the learning and growth of our Special Education Students.
- Developing vocational education/apprenticeship programs in cooperation with
organized labor. - Developing internship programs in cooperation with city departments.
- Meaningful Arts education and opportunities for all SFUSD students
- Supporting quality unique school programs in San Francisco (e.g. environmental
ed., special ed., out-door learning, vocational ed., creative arts, social justice,
etc.)
2. Smart Planning:
Community driven policy for program placement and student assignment.
No more school closures without a plan!
- Comprehensive student assignment process that meets the need for families and
diversity as well as addresses under-enrollment and over-enrollment. - Developing a plan with communities to determine how school programs are
placed, expanded or phased out only when necessary. - Anticipate growth and loss of student enrollment and plan with communities.
- Finding creative and alternative humane solutions to address problems.
- Developing a program placement process that include community throughout the
process. - Create and support parents organization or PTA's at every school.
- Increase parent involvement and shared decision making.
- Building stronger parent-teacher relations.
3. Responsible Budgeting:
Establish an open budget process that ensures resources meant for the
schools actually reach the classroom.
- Independent Audit of District finances (bi-annually).
- Ensuring that money reaches the classroom.
- Equity for schools with greatest needs.
- Increase fundraising efforts and district support for schools fundraising efforts.
- Advocating for a funding stream for our schools that partners with our citizenry
and electorate along with encouraging philanthropic support. - Pursing state and federal monies are students are entitled to.
- Sunshine and accurate accounting.
- No more unchecked expense accounts for administration or board members.
- Comply with the law and reduce lawsuits litigation against the district for not
complying with special education requirements.
4. Respect for All School Workers:
Teachers, paraprofessionals, nurses, librarians, counselors and other school
workers are the backbone our public schools. We must respect their work and
compensate them fairly.
- Recruitment and retention of quality educators.
- Academic Freedom!
- Increase paraprofessionals and other learning support workers in the classrooms.
- Respect and fair pay for all school workers.
- Education, professional development and housing support for school workers.
- Protect school workers at Charter Schools (let’s start talking–really talking)!.
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