She has an AA in science from Diablo Valley College and has completed course work at Los Medanos College, Sacramento State, and University of Maryland.
Her background includes being a former PTA officer and fund raiser coordinator; founder of Eagle Reader, a reading program for at-risk elementary pupils; membership on boards that advocated for school issues in Tracy, Calif.; United Way; Howard County Infill Committee member; past member, Howard County Schools Citizen Committee; Howard County Route 40 task force, and four-time president of the St. John's Community Association.
- The most urgent problem facing our district is how we are spending an outrageously high budget. I want to help educate the public about our exploding budget. There should be much less of a gap between teacher pay and administrative pay.
- We should be able to stop busing our children all over our supposed 'green' county. We need to develop student/parent/teacher partnerships through neighborhood schools with core feeder systems. Every homeowner should know which school core system their house is in. Our redistricting policies are inane and disrupt our neighborhoods. A crucial sense of community is lost by busing. Green" county, my eye! We can never be a "green" county as long as we are setting a poor example for our children ecologically, every day, as we bus them all over the district.
- The greatest need facing the school system is the ability to give every student an excellent education, in a safe environment, whether that be by closing the achievement gap, getting help for at-risk students as early as kindergarten, setting up vocational training programs, challenging our very brightest children, putting sports back in middle schools, or starting an International Baccalaureate program for our most advanced high school students.
- Some of our schools are decrepit and without new technology. We need magnet schools and an International Baccalaureate program. Every child deserves the best education we can give them. To compete in a global market we must improve our math/science/technology component at every school, not just our new ones, and at every age level.
- We shouldn't have any low performing schools as long as we back the teachers on proper discipline and work with the parents of the children. I was able to set up "at risk" reading programs for elementary children in California for $100 a school. They involved parent/teacher partnerships!
- I also see a need for a more open relationship between the citizens and the school board. Because of my experience here and in other parts of the country, as a city and community leader for the past dozen years, I will bring a different perspective to this school board. I have participated in other school systems and can bring some fresh ideas to a very closed, static board. Voters should elect me because I will address all of the politically incorrect issues that no one ever dares to bring up.
Compiled from reports published by the Washington Post, the Baltimore Sun and the League of Women Voters.
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