This Governor cares about education…

"Governor Schwarzenegger has long been an advocate of charter schools because of their ability to reach students and achieve results in unique and effective ways," said Dennis "Coach" Snyder, founder of the Escondido Charter School District*. "He has worked to support charter schools across the state as Governor. His plan to build for the future of California includes half a billion dollars to build more charter schools. I applaud Governor Schwarzenegger for his dedication to ensuring California‘s schools have the resources we need to educate our children."

This is one quote among many on the Governor’s commitment to education and highlighting his support from the rank and file, teachers, coaches, school board members, college trustees and superintendents from across the state in a recent Join Arnold news release.

If the voters of California only knew that the Governor had support for the rank and file in education  who want to mold impressionable minds with quality education and the other guy had big union support who just want to feed the beast, with more  money at any cost, the race at least among those who put education at the top of their list of issues, would be over.

On campaign tactics, i really like that some of the campaign resources are being used on these sorts of things–reaching out to a teachers and education leaders on the local level.

The team of education leaders supporting Governor Schwarzenegger includes:

Jim Aschwanden, career technical education advocate*
Frank E. Baxter, Alliance for College Ready Public Schools, chairman*
Marian Bergeson, former state of California secretary of education*
Tod Burnett, Ed.D., California Community Colleges, vice chancellor*
Yvonne Chan, State Board of Education, member*
Carol Chandler, California State University, trustee*
Ben Chavis, Ph.D., American Indian Public Charter School, director*
Kirk M. Clark, California Business Roundtable, vice president*
Susan Cuquet, Andros Karperos Middle School, 8th grade counselor*
Bill Evers, Santa Clara County Board of Education, trustee*
Rex Fortune, retired superintendent*
George Gowgani, Ph.D., California State University, trustee*
Benita Haley, California Board of Governor’s for Community College, chair of legislation*
Jerilyn Harris, State Teacher’s Retirement System, board member*
Randal Hernandez, California Community College Board of Governors, board member*
Daniel Hernandez, Inner-City Games now known as After School All-Stars, founder*
Lance Izumi, Pacific Research Institute, director of education studies*
Jim Kelly, Grossmont Union High School Board, president*
John G. Kenney, Commission on Teacher Credentialing, commissioner*
Gregory Krikorian, Five Star Education Coalition, president*
Jim Lanich, Ph.D., California Business for Education Excellence, president*
David Long, Ph.D., Riverside County Office of Education, superintendent of schools*
Jorge Lopez, Oakland Charter Academy, director*
Denise Lyon, Elk Grove Unified School District, teacher*
Sandra McBrayer, teacher of the year*
Peter Mehas, Ed.D., Fresno County Office of Education, superintendent of schools*
Adrienne Monroe, career technical education advocate*
Hugh Mooney, Galt Union High School District, teacher*
Ron Nehring, Grossmont Union High School District, board member*
Lillian T. Perry, Fontana Unified School District, teacher*
Mark Price, Alpine Union School District, trustee*
Dennis "Coach" Snyder, Escondido Charter School District, founder*
Fred Vanderhoof, Clovis Unified School District, teacher*
Karen Young, Sacramento City Unified School District, trustee*

*Titles for identification purposes only

This entry was posted on Tuesday, June 20th, 2006 at 12:00 am and is filed under Blog Posts.