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DAWN'S PLATFORM

When I am re-elected to the school board, I will continue

the vital work I have already started, fighting for:

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New Buildings for Our Students

Continuing to lobby for a new George Wythe H.S. and

a new Elementary School on a feasible site i.e. Ruffin Road 

 

Real Accountability

Ensuring an open and transparent budget process, improved school accreditation, 

and following through on our DREAMS4RPS strategic plan

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Real Quality Schools

Continuing to support policies that ensure a high quality education,

improved graduation rates, and increase funding for athletics, arts & humanities

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Our Children First

  • Quality Educational Experiences

  • Reach Every Child Where They Are

  • Fiscal Responsibility

  • Real Educational Choices in College Readiness & Vocational Education

Experience That Matters

  • Continue & enhance the work that I started during my 2009-2013 & 2017-2021 tenure. I have been part of an effective team working towards moving RPS forward; served as School Board Chair, Vice Chair, & Finance Committee Chairperson.

  • Built state of the art educational facilities and learning tools - Cardinal (Greene), Henry L. Marsh (George Mason), Broad Rock & Oak Grove/Bellemeade Elementary Schools, River City (Elkardt) & Martin Luther King Middle Schools, Huguenot High School​

  • Earned 100% Full Accreditation

  • Fiscal responsibility, reinstated internal auditor (2019) and increased with a functional audit plan  

  • Early Childhood Center opened & district-wide focused on Early Prevention 

  • Approved 2012 district–wide rezoning plan for elementary schools; Athletic Turnaround Initiative; supported Higher Achievement program at Boushall Middle School; Organized 2010 Back to School Supplies Give-Away held at George Wythe High School for RPS Students

  • Helped secure an additional $18M for our Operational Budget and $19M for Capital Improvement Project (CIP) building maintenance. (FY2019)

Community Engagement​

  • Healthy Family Initiatives

  • Partnership with churches                                             (i.e. after school programs)

  • Business & Community Partnership

    • Potential partnership with J. Sargeant Reynolds to build new vocational learning center (2020)

Advocate for Change

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I will continue to ADVOCATE putting resources toward...

  • Reducing classroom size

  • Maintaining our facilities & building new ones

  • Improving student transportation

  • Continuing to improve Arts & Athletic Improvement in all areas

  • Securing competitive salaries for teachers

  • Supporting faculty and staff 

  • Continuing to improve graduation rates (Secondary Success Center)

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I'll be the VOICE of the people...

  • Advocating to maintain our fiscal due diligence to maximize the use of our resources for the benefit of the most important stakeholders of all, OUR CHILDREN

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I will LEAD by example ...

  • Helping to identify the public’s expectations of the RPS School Board

  • Supporting, promoting, and sustaining initiatives that will improve RPS

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