Your Voice in Education

The "Wrigley 4 Education" campaign is built around 4 basic priorities:

 1-Quality Education:

• This campaign is about helping to assure a quality education for all our children, assuring that our children can attend safe, effective, and technology-supported schools.
• We must assure that the Board’s decision to implement Grade Reconfiguration of grades 6^th -8^th and 9^th -12^th is implemented with caution addressing the concerns of parents and teachers.
• We need to provide additional educational choices for our families and students, and improve the facilities in which our students learn.
• We must attract and retain qualified school staff, with salaries that are competitive with those in comparable professions and involve all District staff in the decision-making process, drawing upon their various areas of expertise and knowledge.

2-Balanced Curriculum:

• We need to support families with an educational system built on the foundation of strong Character Education.
• We need to provide quality educational opportunities for students that are college-bound, and for those students who desire a Career and Technical Education (CTE). - but not at the expense or loss of the arts / sports.
• We must assure that the proposed Differential Diplomas address the needs of all students.
• We must offer advanced learning opportunities at every school and grade-level.
• We need to enhance our Special Education and Gifted programs.
•  We need to provide families an opportunity to choose where to best meet their children’s individualized needs: whether within their neighborhood schools, or in separate specialized programs.

3-Parent and Community Involvement:

• We must give voters a voice on the School Board, and an opportunity to have their voices heard. We need to assure local control and clear representation of the interests and preferences of the various precincts.
• We need to support strong Parent-Teacher-Student Associations and School Community Councils that are partners in developing quality education systems for our children. We need to foster and support volunteerism.
• We need an open Board and administration that listens to parents, teachers and students, taking into consideration the voters’ concerns and issues in their decisions.
• We need to support and encourage parent involvement in their children’s education - to encourage community engagement and better use of our neighborhood schools.

4-Financial Responsibility:

• We must closely monitor the expenditures of the School Bond Funds to assure they are spent on projects as promised in a financially responsible manner.
• We must maximize our tax dollars by developing partnerships with business, government and educational entities to assure no duplication of services.
• We need to be fiscally conservative in our use of public funds, assuring that each dollar is spent most effectively.
• We must live within our budget limitations, with an appropriate-sized District Administration.
• We need to explore new and innovative ways to fund our many school capital improvement needs.