Dear Friends,

I am honored your support has given me the opportunity to serve my beloved community, Cambridge, as a member of the School Committee for another term. I look forward to working with our new superintendent and our new School Committee, which will welcome two new members, Manikka Bowman and Emily Dexter, in January. I want to thank Fran Cronin for her service this term.

Throughout the campaign, you contributed in many different ways, giving sound advice and encouragement, organizing house parties and coffees, making phone …

I am running for the Cambridge School Committee because of my experience as a public school
parent and community activist.

I want every child and family to have the experience my family had—to have both strengths and difficulties met with appropriate support.  As a parent representative on the School Council, I learned many families had a different experience.  King Open stated that it was social justice school and we all struggled to make that a reality.

As a social worker, I view the whole child in the whole …

Dear Friends,

I am honored that your support has given me the opportunity to serve my beloved community, Cambridge, as a member of the School Committee. As I said in my closing statement at our final School Committee Candidate Forum, I know what a difference a quality education makes to an individual’s life and to our community as a whole. Public education has had difficulty living up to its promise for many years; I want to help it reach its promise in Cambridge.

Throughout the campaign, you …

Do I support classes that have distinct levels of challenge at CRLS? Yes. Does this mean I am happy with the student demographics in these distinct level classes? No. I understand this is a question that leads to the question of why someone would support distinct challenges at the high school level and then not support distinct levels of challenge in the middle schools. It appears to be a contradiction.

Our district needs policy on mathematics education in the grades 6 to 8. For many years, …

I am running for School Committee because public education is the great equalizer in our society and all children have a right to a high quality public school experience. As a member of the Cambridge School Committee, I will view my work through the lens of three key values: Equity, Access, and Excellence.

Equity:  I am committed to social justice in the Cambridge Public Schools, and I believe that all children should have the supports they need to succeed in school and beyond.
Access:  I am a …