- Sandra Supports Students
- Focus on strong academics for ALL students from our most advantaged to our most vulnerable
- Ensure that special needs students are receiving ALL services to which they are entitled and educate families about parental rights in exceptional student education
- Provide a more rigorous and diverse curriculum for ALL students by emphasizing Reading, Writing, Mathematics, Science and History
- Expand high quality foreign language programs for ALL students
- Remove the stigma of alternatives to traditional college pathways—ALL students should be encouraged to develop their gifts, whether the right fit is pursuing a traditional liberal arts education or seeking out a high paying technical job that allows entry into the workforce without huge debt
- Sandra Supports Parents
- Respect parental rights in education—all evidence points to the dramatic positive impact of parental involvement
- Provide curriculum transparency—parents should know what their children are learning
- Empower parents from every walk of life to provide the learning environment their children need—school choice should be a right, not a privilege
- Demand schools teach children how to learn, not what to think—there should be no promotion of extreme ideologies
- Sandra Supports Teachers
- Treat teachers with the dignity and respect afforded other professions—this must be reflected in better teacher salaries and improved benefits
- Do NOT tie teacher raises to taxpayer referendums—fair pay ought not rely on whether teacher salaries make the priority list of taxpayers who are already overburdened with inflation and rising costs of housing
- Require highly trained interventionists in ALL schools
- Provide adequate support—teachers cannot be responsible for everything in a school
- Sandra Believes in Accountability
- Listen to the voices of students, parents, and teachers—on issues from school safety to retention, from social justice to school closures, District 6 must be heard
- Insist on accountability for every dime spent in the largest budget ever passed by this school district—transparency is necessary