PRIORITIZING STUDENTS AND EDUCATORS

• Restore funding to educators and classrooms to ensure that budget spending in the classrooms exceeds the 55% state minimum and does not slip below as it had for the past two years.
• Support efforts to restore and invest in school infrastructure over administration costs – our classrooms, cafeterias and labs should not be falling apart or neglected.
• Focusing bond spending on a "classrooms first" basis, putting classrooms, security and student spaces (bathrooms, cafeteria) ahead of parking lots and administration buildings.
• Improving trust between parents, educators and the school board through regular meetings, increased input and bridge building.
• Ensuring competitive compensation to attract and retain quality teachers and staff and reorienting administration organizations to lower administrative cost and increase efficiency.
• Focusing on ways to build employee morale and strengthening the partnership between labor and management.
• Greater budget transparency on expenses so that we see and can ensure accountability for how funds are spent.
• Adding regular opportunities for advisory committees to provide updates to Board at meetings.
• Working with Superintendent on communications and grant writer functions within the organization to improve communication and revenue opportunities.
• Procurement reform to ensure proper legal review and avoiding wasting money on outsourcing.
• Placing priority on evidence-based education practice and collaboration with parents and teachers.
• Improving the CCUSD-Culver City joint use agreement to maximize use of city facilities for education and to increase revenues.

EXCELLENCE

• Expand availability of A-G and other college readiness courses as less than 70% of Culver High School students graduate college ready.
• Expand and protect access to honors and AP programs and add funding in increased support for at-risk socio-economic groups (e.g. Black Students, English learners).
• Add more technology resources and classes to prepare for a 21st century workforce starting in elementary school through high school.
• Continue to preserve strong K-12 arts education funding.
• Oppose efforts to remove algebra from middle school curriculum.
• Support greater investment in Career Technical Education and open pathways for apprenticeships for students that want to pursue careers in building trades.
• Addition of teaching financial literacy and other life skills.

EQUITY

• Apply a fair distribution of resources and equitable treatment of all students to help them feel physically and psychologically safe and secure.
• Invest in programs to provide additional academic support to raise performance and increase access to honors and AP for economically disadvantaged, English learners and Black students.
• Expand investment in full time college counseling and mental health counseling resources for high school students.
• Establish programs to help first generation immigrant families, English learners and socio-economically challenged families navigate the school system to advocate for their children.
• Prioritize programs to support physically disabled, learning disabled and divergent students.
• Implement a comprehensive review of special education compliance to ensure responsive support for learning divergent, physically disabled and learning disabled students.
• Implement DEI and ethnic studies programs that comply with state guidelines, including enforcement of antisemitism and politicization guardrails.
• Ensuring that restorative justice programs provide options for students and protection for victims of bullying.
• Support training and intervention programs to address bias, antisemitism, homophobia, Islamophobia and racism that are productive for teachers, staff and students.
• Support implementation of the CCUSD Green New Deal strategic plan to increase solar, green spaces on campus and lowering our waste and carbon footprint.
• Expand and maintain safe and accessible public transit and bike access options for students.