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Seattle is a great city.

We deserve great schools.

My candidacy in under 2 minutes

Want to know what I stand for, why I am running, and what I will focus on as a School Board Director? Watch this video to find out.

I’m running because every Seattle kid deserves a great school.

We need change

Declining enrollment, budget shortfalls, stagnant test scores. It’s time to try something new.

The Seattle School Board and District are failing our kids.

They need to be held accountable.

The Seattle Public Schools have a $1.2B budget (yes, that’s a b, as in billion). That averages to roughly $30k per student. And yet the District and Board have:

  • Provided no meaningful response to the death of a student by gun violence at Ingraham High School;

  • Kept schools closed to full-time, in-person learning during the pandemic for over 400 days while other districts and schools found a way to safely provide in-person education;

  • Overseen a decline in education outcomes for the students they claim to prioritize, those furthest from educational justice;

  • Accepted an exodus of families from public to private and passed it off as “declining birth rate”;

  • Adopted a budget that will lead to closing neighborhood schools.

Seattle kids deserve better.

Parents and Voters: We failed to ask tough questions last time.

Let’s start now.

The Seattle School Board is the primary mechanism by which Seattle parents and voters (the people who pay for Seattle Public Schools) can demand better. The School Board is there to provide oversight, accountability, and common sense. But the School Board will only do that if we demand they do. We haven’t been doing that.

Whomever you choose as your next School Board Directors, you should ask these 5 simple questions and demand 5 simple answers:

  1. What are you doing to prevent gun violence in my kid’s school?

  2. Are you going to close schools?

  3. How are you going to actually make things better for the kids furthest from educational justice?

  4. What are you going to do to reverse the private school flight, which is an existential threat to our school system?

  5. What tough question are you going to ask the District?