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Daniel Kelly, MD
85,371 votes
20.97%
- Occupation: Pediatrician
- Parent of children enrolled in SFUSD since 1984
- Elected San Francisco Board of Education 1990, 1994, 1998
- Led Class-size Reduction effort
- Strengthened curriculum, support services, and funding for Arts, and classroom supplies
- Exposed mis-magement and mis-spending by prior leadership. Worked to recruit new Superintendent and institute fiscal responsibility
- Led the resistance to school privitization
Priorities:
- Reduce Achievement gaps by providing rich, challenging education at all schools and by garaunteeing parent choice in enrollment
- Extend Class Size reduction to upper grades
- Modernize all facilities, including the replacement of all 'temporary' structures with permanent ones.
Sarah Lipson
74,109 votes
18.21%
- Occupation: School Teacher/ Mother
- San Francisco Public School Teacher
- Master's Degree in Early Childhood Education
- Mentor with at risk youth
- Teacher spokesperson for The Center For Commercial Free Public Education
- Substitute Principal
- Parent of 10 month old daughter
Priorities:
- Eliminate "High-Stakes" testing and replace with authentic forms of assessment
- Create Parent Advisory Council that works directly with the Board of Education
- Provide high quality pre-kindergarten education for all children
Eddie Chin
72,604 votes
17.84%
- Occupation: Incumbent/parent/teacher
- Graduated San Francisco public schools
- Attended City College of San Francisco
- Bachelor Degree, Education, San Francisco State
- Law Degree, San Francisco University
Priorities:
- Recruit, retain and distribute quality teachers
- Rebuild, remodel and update facilities
- Raise performance standards of all students
Daniel Guillory
67,774 votes
16.65%
- Occupation: Small Businessperson/Educator
Priorities:
- Accountability for Board Finances and Student Performance
- Increase Parental and Community Involvement
- Advocate for Teacher Support
James Calloway
44,218 votes
10.86%
- Occupation: Educator/College Professor
- Degrees - AA, BA, MA, and Ed.D
- Credentials: Standard Secondary Teaching Credential, Education Administration Credential,& Community College Credential
- 30 Yrs. experience: Teacher, Counselor, Head Counselor, Assistant Principal, Principal & College Professor
- Education Committee, Chair, SF NAACP
- Education Committee, SF Juvenile Justice Commission
- SFUSD African American Achievement Task Force, Member, & Treasurer, Bayview-Hunter's Point Multi-Purpose Senior Center
Priorities:
- A specified and individualized excellent educational program for all students.
- Excellent educational leaders at every school.
- A qualified and excellent teacher in every classroom.
Whitney Leigh
22,851 votes
5.61%
- Occupation: Attorney
- Stanford Law Graduate
- Former Juvenile Public Defender
- Member, San Francisco Juvenile Justice Advisory Committee
Priorities:
- Closing the educatonal opportunity gap for low income students, students of color, and students with special educational needs.
- Discontinuance of the overuse of norm-based "high stakes" tests, which are inacurrate and harmful.
- Improving the responsiveness of the board of education to the needs and concerns of parents, students and teachers.
Alexandra Pastine
12,527 votes
3.08%
- Occupation: Manager, Contract Consultant
- MBA, University of California, Berkeley, December 2002
- BS Mechanical Engineering
Priorities:
- Facilities - Proper Oversight and Enforcement of our public contracts to ensure safety, allocate space efficiently, and ultimately free up resources.
- Resources - Effective and Efficient policy allowing more dollars to go directly to schools for educational and extra-curricular needs.
- School Equality - Long term stategy to ensure that all of our schools provide an equal opportunity to all of our children.
Bill Doherty
(Deceased)
11,277 votes
2.77%
Jason Jones
9,512 votes
2.34%
Attila J. Gabor
5,780 votes
1.42%
- Occupation: Shared Governance Coordinator
Priorities:
- More Fiscal Accountability
- More Community Outreach and Interaction with the Parents
- More Supportive and Safer Learning and Working Enviroment
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