The students of this community need safe and effective schools. Our community needs well-educated and productive future leaders.

John will work to:

• Increase student learning through accountability

• Increase classroom funding by reducing administrative costs

• Stop social promotion

• Stop grant driven decision making

•ACCOUNTABILITY •TRANSPARENCY •RESPONSIBILITY

• Board members have an obligation to forcefully remind the Superintendent they set the policy, not staff.

• The Board should never be expected to vote on an issue when there are documents involved that have not been given to them at least 96 hours in advance.

• The superintendent should be given a directive to spend no more than the average for TUSD's peer group on administration.

• The superintendent should be given a directive to spend no less than the average percentage of the budget for its peer group in the classroom.

• Failure to do this should be cause for firing including any administrator who violates Board policy.