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Do you support or oppose The Students Civil Rights Act (SB777) signed into law by Governor Schwarzenegger last October? Why or Why not? |
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What are the most pressing issues facing the school district? Please prioritize them. What, if anything, do you plan to do about them if you are elected to the position of governing board member? What specific promises will you make to the voters in order to be elected?
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3. California voters passed Proposition 227 back in 1998 to end the practice of educating students in their “home” language rather than English. Bilingual education has been a divisive issue for a number of years. When it comes to bilingual education, what do you favor and why?
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Is there a drop-out problem in our schools and what can we do about it if there is one? |
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Many public school officials say the way to improve our education system is for more parental involvement. How would you increase parent involvement in our schools? |
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Do you favor or oppose the expansion of charter schools within the school district? Why or why not? Do you favor or oppose the use of a voucher system within the public school system? Why or Why not? |
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Do you believe there is a place for celebrations of religious holidays and singing religious music in holiday programs? What would you support and allow, and what should be excluded from the school? Should the school be inclusive of every religion or try to neuter and or exclude as much religion as possible? |
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What can the District do to help curb gang violence and membership rates? Do you favor after school programs? If so, which ones? |
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When teaching science, should alternatives to evolution (such as Intelligent Design) be taught in public schools? Should individual instructors be given leeway to teach both points of view? Or should only the accepted theories of evolution be taught without mentioning the scientific objections to the theory? |
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Art, music and driver’s education programs in public schools have met with decreased funding over the years as a way to meet budget in the past several lean years? Are these programs necessary and/or effective or should the instruction be gained elsewhere? Or, now that budgets have recovered, should they be either reinstituted or returned to their previous levels? |
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With the state budget deficit, how would you handle the decrease in state funding? |
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Do you favor or oppose new taxes, fees or bonds? |
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Will you support or oppose homeschooling? |
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Who are your major supporters and endorsers? Have you served in elective office before? If so, where and when? |
