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My platform is literacy, student and staff safety, and a trade learned by 12th grade. Instrution totally online, and schools used as center for special needs. Academics first, everything else second. What role do you think standardized tests should play in your school district?

What, if anything, would you keep the same? A vital one. What are your top priorities around special education in your district? Re-open the Oakman Center. Within 10 days of becoming a candidate, candidates must form a candidate committee. Following the creation of the committee, candidates have an additional 10 days to register the committee with the school district filing official by filing a statement of organization.

Sixteen of the 63 candidates filed campaign finance statements by October 30, The remaining candidates had not filed their reports or qualified for exemption from reporting. See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection. John Telford did not complete Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey. What are the top 3 priorities you hope to accomplish during your tenure? Whether DPS' present state-engendered decline was caused by administrative bumbling or by corporate design, my overweening goal, either way, is to ensure that our city's imperiled public education recovers and thrives, and that we not become in effect another all-charter New Orleans; thus, my three top priorities are interdependent: They are that a all DPS children will be safe in school and safe going to and from school, that b all DPS children will have learned to read by the beginning of the Third Grade and that Career and Technical Education CTE will be enhanced, not curtailed, and that c the fifteen pirated and failing "Educational Achievement" Authority EAA schools will be returned immediately to DPS aegis and all DPS schools will be freed post haste from the disenfranchising state control that since has woefully mismanaged them and continues--sans any educators-- to oversee them financially.

What do you think the role of the school board is? What is your vision for student well-being and success? My vision for school well-being and success is a Detroit school district which ensures that all third-graders read at or above grade level, that all current secondary students get remediated in reading as needed in order to enable them to read at or above grade level, that all students become free of economically hampering poor grammar and non-standard dialects spoken and written, that they become highly literate including computer-literate , that they are civically knowledgeable as well as being well prepared for the workaday world upon graduation, and that they learn and internalize fair and ethical values.

What experience do you have that prepares you for this role? I have also written several education-oriented books and more than a thousand newspaper columns, I have hosted several local radio and television shows, I have been unafraid to take righteous and at times unpopular pedagogical stances particularly on behalf of minorities , and I have been resultantly afforded some ongoing and copious publicity and given a number of education-related and human-rights-related awards throughout my career.

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