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Friday, October 23, 2020

SACRAMENTO TEACHER LORI JOBLANSKI SAYS: CHANGE THE SCUSD BOARD 2020

 SACRAMENTO TEACHER LORI JOBLANSKI SAYS:  

CHANGE THE SCUSD BOARD 2020



Happy Friday. With just over a week until the election, I am asking Sacramento City voters to please use your people power to make fundamental change on the Sacramento City Unified School District Board, which I truly believe is the most dysfunctional and broken governing body in this city. We have four wonderful candidates who are prepared to make positive change for our entire Sac City Schools community. But first we must be honest that if we insist on returning incumbent board members to their positions the dysfunction will only metastasize.
Nothing will improve with the same people in charge who, among other things:
* falsely and repeatedly claim the district is about to run out of money while simultaneously amassing historically large budget surpluses,
* renege on labor contracts,
* sue their own teachers and later issue cease and desist orders against them,
* negligently lay-off hundreds of teachers, resulting in a severe staffing crisis,
* leave thousands of kids languishing for months in classes without credentialed teachers and lesson plans,
* neglect our most vulnerable students by failing to provide necessary Special Education and English Language Learning supports, services and teachers,
* fail to implement district-wide restorative justice programs as promised,
* refuse to negotiate distance learning plans in good faith with their teachers and support staff.
We must insist on better. That's the whole reason why we have elections, to hold folks accountable and make change when needed. And change is definitely needed. That starts by electing:

Lavinia Grace Phillips for School Board
Area 7: Oak Park, Hollywood Park, City Farms, Mangan Park #neighborsforgracie

Nailah4SCUSD
, Nailah Pope-Harden Area 4: Stockton, Fruitridge, Power Inn, Elder Creek, Franklin, Florin

Chinua Rhodes For School Board 2020
Area 5: South Sac, Meadowview

Thank you.

SACRAMENTO CITY UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT (SCUSD) TEACHER

Nailah4SCUSD
, Nailah Pope-Harden Area 4: Stockton, Fruitridge, Power Inn, Elder Creek, Franklin, Florin