Candidates
(Vote for 2)
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Gary L. Eberhart
36,675 votes
28.0%
- Occupation: Incumbent
- Engineering consultant
- Currently working on a BA in Business Mgt.
Priorities:
- Create and implement a comprehensive K-12 school to work curriculum
- Study enrollment district wide and begin to plan for a new high school in Bay Point
- Add kindergarten classrooms so we can get kindergarten down to 20 to 1 all day.
April P. Treece
27,760 votes
21.2%
- Occupation: Communications Consultant
- Small business owner for six years
- Worked for Fortune 500 company for 21 years as a public relations director
- BA in Communications
- Chair of the Contra Costa Council Education Task Force
- Active member of the Greater Concord Chamber of Commerce Education Roundtable
- Active member of the parent community--serving as president of my child's elementary school parent faculty club
Priorities:
- Public education is important and I can help this system implement a more comprehensive program of educational excellence.
- My leadership skills will help Mt. Diablo institute programs where all students will be prepared for success upon graduation.
- I am committed to educational excellence; believe in collaboration, communication, concensus and I have a track record of contribution to students.
Debra Mason
23,600 votes
18.0%
- Occupation: Program Coordinator
- After School Program Coordinator
- Library Technology Certificate
- Conflict Resolution Certificate
- Bay Point MAC (elected 1990-1996)
- Chair Bay Point Project Area Comm.
- Committee of Practitioners (CA Dept. of Ed.)
Priorities:
- Making students needs top priority.
- Responsiveness and sensitivity to parents and their concerns.
- Creative use of campuses beyond school hours.
Karl Kaste
20,621 votes
15.8%
- Occupation: Director, Information Technology
- Taxpayer advocate; co-founder of Concord Association of Taxpayers (CATs)
- Long-term parent volunteer: Law Works, Band Boosters, NetDay Coordinator, Odyssey of the Mind coach
Priorities:
- End the huge disparity between under-performing schools and high academic achievement schools in the district by focusing district resources there.
- Eliminate deficit budgeting by district (over $3M for 2000--2001), which resulted in district being put on probation last year; fiscal responsibility!
- Greater accountability to parents, students and taxpayers by the district trustees and school administration; respect parent ideas and parent choice.
Stewart D. Rine
17,376 votes
13.3%
- Occupation: Small Business Owner
Cliff Tveter
4,805 votes
3.7%
- Occupation: Farmers Insurance Agent
- Father of 5 boys and 1 girl
- 3 boys have earned their Eagle Scout Award
- 2 Life Scouts. One is doing his Eagle project at Childrens Hospital in Oakland.
- Spend quanity and quality time with my children
Priorities:
- Students at a minimum must be on grade level in Reading writing and Math.
- Parents must become an important assistant for the teacher to help educate the children
- Parents must set good examples in the home. The better the home the better the child.
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