VOTE FOR THE SAN JUAN TEAM OF MILES, LAUNEY, LUTTGEN!

By Larry Miles

The San Juan Team of Larry Miles, Rick Launey, and Lucinda Luttgen have worked as part of a thoughtful Board majority to bring progress, instructional growth, and financial stability to our school district.

1. Financial Integrity. Insisted on a fiscally sound budget and improved the District's financial status despite an incredibly adverse economic environment.

2. Instructional Achievement. Supported the development of a strategic educational plan for K-12 that is improving instructional achievement, addressing both the academic elite as well as the achievement gap.

3. Improved Schools. Developed bold, new successful programs like Encina College Preparatory High School and Jonas Salk High Tech Academy.

4. Career Technical Education. Led the fight for new career technical high school programs such as those featured at San Juan Career Technical High School.

5. Mesa Verde Improvements. Honored the promise of building a new gym and other facilities at Mesa Verde High School.

6. Improved Open Enrollment. Made open enrollment more user friendly and fair.

7. Increased the Arts. Increased the arts throughout the District, including increasing the number of elementary schools with instrumental music programs, re-instating strings programs in seven elementary schools.

8. Web Sites. Every school and teacher has a web site under the San Juan Umbrella, increasing communication to students and parents.

9. Improved Enrollment. Worked hard to improve enrollment, reducing the District's declining enrollment from over 1500 to less than 300 in four years.

10. Expanded IB Program. Expanded and supported the International Baccalaureate Program, especially at the middle school level.

11. Increased AVID. Significantly increased the participation in the highly successful and scholastically rigorous AVID program.

12. Established K-8 Schools. Instituted K-8 Elementary schools for parental choice, instructional improvement, and cost savings.

13. Restructured Facilities. Reduced the number of schools to match enrollment, and then reused those surplus facilities in constructive, cost-efficient ways.

14. Reinvigorated the District Foundation. Re-invigorated the San Juan Education Foundation.

15. Nationwide Model of Collaboration. Begun collaborative school based decision making implementing best practices and research based scholarship.

16. Used Data To Assess Students. Instituted Data Director to give teachers the tools to focus on specific student assessment.

17. School Modernization. Continued to modernize school facilities in a cost effective and efficient manner.

18. Teacher Quality. Supported efforts to recruit and maintain a quality teaching force.

19. Distinguished Schools. Achievement continues to increase with several distinguished schools and schools reaching the benchmark 800 API levels

20. Community Forums. Supported community forums to receive important community input.

21. Alternative Education. Began developing better alternative education programs to help disruptive students and reduce the drop-out rate.

22. Student Information System. Took steps to implement a new student information system which will also give parents greater online access to teachers and schools, and make the District's business and administrative functions more efficient.

23. Stressed Grantsmanship. Increased the numbers of grants that support many of our after school and extra programs, provide safe schools, and address safety issues. Increased grants and other funding sources such as Qualified Zone Academy Bonds ("QZAB"), to support increased use of instructional technology.

24. Increased Instructional Technology. Worked for the increased use of technology in the classroom to help students learn in the 21st century.

25. Healthy Kids. Responded to new laws regarding PE and nutrition in the schools to help make our kids healthier.

26. Preserved Athletics. Preserved high school athletics in the fact of tremendous financial stress, including supporting Booster efforts at all the high schools.

27. Saved Counselors. Supported efforts to increase high school counselors.

28. Character Programs. Encouraged programs that help support character and positive behavior in students.

29. ROTC. Supported and honored ROTC programs in the District.

30. Special Disabilities. Helped maintain a quality program for students with disabilities.

31. Improved Transportation. Maintained bus transportation for students while providing for the transition of an aged fleet to more economical and efficient buses, and honored dedicated drivers with decades of safe driving experience.

32. Cultural Awareness. Supported staff development to enhance cultural awareness in one of the most culturally diverse districts in the nation.

33. Labor Negotiations. Established an interest-based bargaining approach that helped the District reach contracts with all its employee unions in a fair, responsible manner.

34. Charter Schools. Provided charter and home school alternatives for the community by supporting both District charter schools and approving appropriate independent charter schools, while maintaining strict oversight as to their educational and financial strength.

35. Respectful Board. Modeled respect and civility in resolving contentious, complex, and difficult issues that came before the Board.

36. Superintendents. Worked collaboratively as part of a governance team and hired high quality Superintendents to lead the District.