Education’s Mission

• Produce good citizens who can become our future leaders
• Develop productive students who can become stakeholders in our nation’s economy
• Produce students who are confident they can do both upon graduation

Curriculum

• Emphasize the solid “3 Rs”
  • Reading is the ticket to knowledge
  • English is the ticket to success
  • Math is the ticket to financial security
• Provide each student with all his/her textbooks for the year
• Focus on assimilating ESL students into the American culture
• Teach above and beyond NCLB requirements.
• Develop students who can gain acceptance into Virginia’s college system
• Develop students with the confidence to enter the Virginia work force
• Assure that programs parents want are available
• Offer AP and IB programs to students who want them
• Assure that vocational programs are available to students who desire to take Work Force programs
• Assure that creative arts and music programs are available
• Enhance magnet programs
• Support use of technology as a teaching tool: for example, electronic field trips

Overcrowding

• Reduce the number of trailer classrooms
• Eliminate single-wide trailer classrooms
• Reduce student class size
• Set the goal of no more than 90% capacity for each school
• Require that all proffers address building or contributing to schools

Healthy Students

• Promote neighborhood schools so students can walk or ride bikes to school
• Require Gym Classes with exercise programs
• Make Nurses available all schools
• Serve nutritious and delicious lunches that students like
• Teach students that good habits lead to healthy lives

Security

• Assure physical safety
• Assure drug-free school zones
• Assure safety from bullies

Teachers & Staff

• Hire and retain good, qualified teachers
• Develop incentives to promote retention
• Support staff develop innovations such as distance learning
• Work with PWEA and other organizations to support teachers in the classroom

Truancy

• Work with the schools, local organizations such as CASA, and the local police to reduce truancy

 

Issues