OCCUPATIONAL BACKGROUND: Teacher: 6 Years

Small Business: 20 Years

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND:

Western Washington University, B.S., Education & Communication

Portland State University

Western Oregon University

Western Washington University, M.A., Education & Technology

PRIOR GOVERNMENTAL EXPERIENCE:

Director, Salem Keizer School Board 1999-2003

McNary High School Site Council

21st Century High School Task Force

High School Educational Specifications

Youth Compact

I have been honored to serve the community on the Salem Keizer School Board for the last four years. In these difficult times we must keep the well being of the children at the very top of our priorities and we must keep clearly in focus several key fundamentals.

1. Parents must be integrally involved in decisions involving their individual child’s education. Every decision that is made by our schools must respect, honor and support the parent as the primary educator and role model in their child’s life.

2. Core educational values must be supported and funded first. In our tight financial situation the community must look to fund the core educational priorities before all else. At the very center is the need for every student to read and to read well. Yet, we cannot be blind to the correlation between academic achievement and student involvement in co-curricular activities that in many cases give meaning to an individual child’s educational experience.

3. We must be fiscally tough minded. Schools are not a business and we are not turning out “products” but are educating children. Still, most aspects of school operation can and must be run in the most business like fashion possible. Every monetary decision must stand alone based upon its own fiscal merits. Proper stewardship of the public funds is an honor of trust and must be uninfluenced by personal and private interests.

ENDORSED BY:

State Representative Vic Backlund

State Representative Billy Dalto

State Senator Jackie Winters

David B. Bauer

Lore Christopher

Janet McIntire

Randy Stockdale

Violet Wilson