Educational Excellence

Thriving students are the heart of our education mission. I’ll work to enhance academic programs, support extracurricular activities, and allocate resources to ensure every student reaches their full potential.

This includes a thorough review of our district’s homework policies. It’s important we prepare our middle school students for high school.

Partnering with Parents

Students thrive when parents are involved and when there is trust between schools and parents.

I am committed to empowering parents to actively participate in their children's education and advancing policies that promote transparency, communication, and collaboration between schools and parents.

Positive School Environment

A common concern shared by both teachers and parents are classroom disruptions. That is why I am committed to advancing policies that will help improve behavior, reduce classroom distractions, address bullying, and ultimately improve the well-being of all students.

I’m proud to have championed RCSD’s recently approved cell-phone policy and will continue to take bold steps to improve the school environment.

Fiscal Sustainability

With my 20+ years of business experience and as a Certified Public Accountant, I will advocate for responsible budgeting, seeking innovative solutions to maximize resources while maintaining educational excellence.

I’m proud RCSD is in good fiscal shape as California schools face uncertainty in state funding. I will continue to support fiscally sustainable budgets for our district.

Attendance

When students are at school, they learn. Additionally, attendance is tied to school funding.

When I took office in 2022, 26% of RCSD students were chronically absent. After directing staff to make improving attendance a key priority, RCSD’s chronic absenteeism rate improved to 10% today, bucking state trends. This not only helped student outcomes, but will bring our district approximately $4 million in additional funding per year that will help fund vital programs and retain quality teachers.

I will continue to support our “Every Day Matters” campaign and the hard work of our staff to further improve attendance.

School Safety

Keeping our schools safe is a top priority. That is why I proudly voted to support enhanced safety measures to protect our students and staff.

I will continue to support measures and evaluate new ways to keep everyone at school safe, including traffic safety in our parking lots, in front of our schools, and at vulnerable intersections children use to walk or ride to school.

Responsible Growth

West Roseville is rapidly expanding. While that growth is outside the control of the school board, how a school board manages building new schools and attendance boundaries is.

Increasing enrollment capacity for the district is critical for responsible growth and stable attendance boundaries. I will also work with staff to improve enrollment stability for families currently enrolled at a school site.

Additionally, as the district builds several schools over the next few years, I will advocate we do so without increasing local taxes.

Special Education

As an older brother of a severely disabled sibling, a son to an instructional aide, and a father of a child who had an IEP for much of his time in school, I understand the unique challenges families with children with exceptional needs face. I am committed to be the voice on the board for those families.

Additionally, I strongly support Placer County’s Deaf Education Program transitioning to RCSD. I will work hard to make sure the program thrives.