Genethia will stand for your kids
As recently as the 1970s, California’s K-12 public education system served as a model of excellence for the nation. Since then, we have faced great challenges: changes in funding and school finance; demographic shifts in K-12 student population; aging school facilities; creating and maintaining a high quality cadre of teachers and administrators; and shifting accountability systems.
In order to meet and master these challenges and to ensure that every child in the Los Angeles Unified School District obtains a complete and competitive education that will enable him or her to succeed in a global economy based on knowledge and innovation, Genethia Hudley-Hayes is promoting reforms around three key areas of focus:
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Ensure that the LAUSD School Board works effectively with all stakeholders to provide good governance of district fiscal and educational policy initiatives
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Empower teachers and administrators to deliver instruction that ensures success for all learners
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Promote sensible accountability measures which provide a holistic view of student and school success
Our Campaign Platform
Effective Governance
An effective school board plays an important watchdog role in keeping local schools on track, and setting policies that affect your child and your school. Effective school board members contribute their unique talents while collaborating and working as a team with other key stakeholders to ensure that the needs of the community are met. As the representative for District 1, Genethia Hudley-Hayes will work to:
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Drive the reform conversation through education, dialogue and interaction with teachers, administrators, parents and community members
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Provide appropriate support, management, and oversight for the superintendent in his role as the instructional and administrative leader of the Los Angeles Unified School District
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Support fiscally responsible policies that increase funding at the school level to enhance teaching and learning
Academic Success for All Learners
By the end of high school, most African-American and Hispanic students are years behind their peers, reading and doing math at an eighth grade level. In urban areas, half of students won’t graduate at all, closing the door to a college degree or a successful career pathway. Genethia Hudley-Hayes recognizes that the role of the school board is to empower teachers and administrators to create the conditions for high achievement for all students at every school campus. In order to ensure that all kids have access to a quality education, she will seek to foster:
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Detailed understanding of why the achievement gap persists at the systemic level, leading to a common set of goals, objectives and benchmarks that address and remediate these barriers to a quality education for all
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Strong support for instructional approaches that help students, teachers, and administrators increase classroom rigor in accordance with the new Common Core State Standards, intensely focusing on increasing literacy across the content areas for all students, including English language learners and students with identified special needs
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Encouragement for all models of schooling that produce successful results for students in District 1 and across LAUSD, including traditional public schools, charter public schools, Innovation Design schools, magnet schools, and other emerging models that provide parents with high quality choices of appropriate learning environments for their students
Sensible Accountability Measures
Although NCLB spurred a conversation about school performance around student achievement, unintended consequences have reinforced the wrong behaviors in attempting to strengthen public education. We have emphasized punishing failure over rewarding success and focused on absolute measures informed by pass-fail, one size fits all series of interventions rather than recognizing growth and progress. It is imperative for LAUSD to focus on an approach to school, teacher, administrator and student accountability that raises standards for all students, promotes better ways to assess teaching and learning, and ensures a complete, well-rounded education in our K-12 classrooms. Genethia Hudley-Hayes, as the District 1 representative, will seek to:
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Promote the “tight at the top, loose at the bottom” concept to ensure that school communities have clear and consistent shared goals for student success with increased autonomy for how to achieve those goals
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Create a blueprint at the board level for how to effectively measure annual student and school success using multiple lenses for assessing progress
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Mandate through policy initiatives that one measure of success for each school campus must be an increase in teacher, parent and community engagement as equal partners in the education reform conversation
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Require schools to submit specific plans for a safe student-centered campus where students, teachers, administrators, parents and other community members can promote a total focus on student learning
