We can no longer settle for the status quo in our district.
WE CAN DO BETTER
My Priorities
Improving education and empowering our educators.
Any Child in a school district with the Statistics you see below matters to me even if its not my child. We must invest in our children to prepare them for Global Economic competition by giving them the best education. Here is our district’s current statistics: Overall District Rank: Bottom 50% Graduation Rate: 76% (bottom 50% in MD) Math Proficiency: 8% Reading Proficiency: 24% Overall State Rank in Education: 23rd position out of 25th. If elected, I will prioritize improving our educational facilities and fight for better pay for our teachers. I will fight for:
- Better training for teachers and more specialists in special education
- Creating more after school programs and trade schools that can nurture a student’s future career
- Establishing 100 more schools to reduce overcrowding.
- Bring back retired teachers to mentor younger and inexperienced teachers. Creating a mentorship program between retired educators to train less experienced teachers
- Hiring more bus drivers
Safer and thriving neighborhoods
Our district currently ranks the 2nd highest in crime. If elected, I will fight for a brighter community by:
- Addressing and reducing homelessness
- Open more mental health facilities.
- Knocking down all abandoned buildings in the district for economic planning and creating more commercial spaces
- Adding more active streetlights
- Keeping our inner cities and neighborhood clean and free of trash and debris
- Hire 300 more fire fighters and pay them more.