- Occupation: Pediatrician
 - Parent of children enrolled in SFUSD  since 1984
 - Elected San Francisco Board of Education  1990,  1994, 1998
 - Led Class-size Reduction effort
 - Strengthened curriculum, support services, and  funding for Arts, and classroom supplies
 - Exposed mis-magement and mis-spending by prior  leadership. Worked to recruit new Superintendent and institute fiscal  responsibility
 - Led the resistance to school privitization
  
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Top Priorities if Elected |   
- Reduce Achievement gaps by providing rich,  challenging education at all schools and by garaunteeing  parent  choice in enrollment
 - Extend Class Size reduction to upper grades
 - Modernize all facilities, including the  replacement of all 'temporary' structures with permanent ones.
  
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- United Educators of San Francisco
 - San Francisco Democratic  Central Comittee
 - Congreswoman Nancy Pelosi
  
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