Created a Safe Return to Classrooms

• Reopened schools during COVID-19 returning students safely to classrooms.

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• Provided Stringent Health and Safety Protocols including upgrades to air filtration systems, free weekly COVID testing and robust contact tracing. Last year, the District administered over 330,000 free COVID tests. 

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• Boldly passed a COVID-19 vaccine mandate requiring students 12+, employees, contractors, volunteers and visitors to get vaccinated.This action resulted in a 87%+ vaccination rate. 

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Invested in Classrooms

• Prepared for students to return by lowering class size, hiring more counselors/lowered caseloads and adding more campus security personnel. 

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• Set aside millions for investments into career and technical education pathways, equity-related initiatives and technology upgrades.

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• Saved Older Adult Education from the chopping block. 

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• Hired a new superintendent of schools.

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• Embarked on a new strategic planning process to close our opportunity and achievement gaps once and for all. 

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• Approved a Director of Student Recruitment and Retention to tackle attendance and enrollment challenges.
   

Strong Fiscal Management

True to my word, I said that I would bring creative thinking forward to solve fiscal challenges. I:

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• Rewrote all charter school policies requiring stricter criteria for new schools that want to open here and take our students, and setting a higher bar for petition renewals.

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• Created a 7-11 committee to consider income-generating ideas for unused/unusable properties.

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• Hired a governmental relations expert providing the WCCUSD its own seat at "Sacramento table," fighting directly for what our students, teachers and employees need and deserve.

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• Performed my fiduciary duty to try to keep the district out of County Office of Education fiscal oversight. I voted against fiscal decisions that destabilized the district’s finances. I am not afraid to make the tough choices to preserve our fiscal solvency.