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CITY COUNCIL | CITYWIDE | BOROUGH PRESIDENT | DISTRICT ATTORNEY | DISTRICT LEADER | SPECIAL ELECTION CANDIDATE QUESTIONNAIRE 2013

The following materials are required in order for Local 372 to consider your candidacy: 1. A completed candidate questionnaire. 2. A one pager outlining your political platform. All materials are due by 10am on Monday, August 19, via e-mail to mdavids@local372.org We will be conducting interviews on August 20 and August 21, beginning at 4:00pm. Please note: This questionnaire and all materials submitted are the property of Local 372. You will receive a confirmation via email when all your materials are received with your interview time. Should you have any questions, call Mona Davids at (646) 481-5760.

CANDIDATE INFORMATION Full Name: Address: Personal Phone: Work Phone: Personal Email: Office Sought: Campaign Information From which major party are you seeking a nomination? Full Name of Campaign Committee: Campaign HQ Address: HQ Phone: HQ Fax: Campaign Manager Name: Campaign Managers Cell: Campaign Managers Email:

ADDITIONAL CANDIDATE INFORMATION Endorsements List here the unions and organizations (community, civic, media, and issue groups) that have endorsed you. Candidate Experience Please explain any activities and/or experiences that demonstrate your commitment to your community, parental involvement, labor and the trade union movement.

What experience do you have to demonstrate you are the best person to represent the district office you seek? Did you attend NYC Public Schools? Do you have children in the NYC Public School System?

Campaign Information Please offer a brief description of the district and the race? Who are your opponents? How many votes will you need to win? Who are your constituents? How strong is your community base?

Fundraising How much money have you raised thus far for your campaign? How much money do you intend to raise?

QUESTIONS Circle Your Yes or No Answer

Family & Student Support: Parent Coordinators and School Aides are an integral part of our school communities providing support to families and our special needs students. Would you support providing dedicated funding for these positions? Would you support redefining the position of parent coordinator so that parents have substantive input into their job description, hiring, evaluation? Yes Yes No No

Parent Coordinators: Although an integral part of supporting parents and increasing parental involvement in schools, Parent Coordinators are the only school employees without their own contract, seniority and retention provisions, and paid summers off. Would you support Parent Coordinators having their own contract with the same basic provisions as all other school employees? Yes No

Safety: Do you support legislation (A3757/S0122) that elevates an intentional assault upon a school crossing guard to the class D felony of assault in the second degree?

Yes

No

Transportation: Do you support legislation (A8060 /S5848) that protects the Employee Protection Provision (EPP) for school bus drivers?

Yes

No

Benefits: What is your position on preserving the current level of health and retirement benefits for public employees? Yes Do you think City employees should be required to contribute more for these benefits? No

Contracts: What role would you, as an elected official, play in lobbying and advocating for new contracts for Local 372 members?

Yes

No

Professional Development: If elected would you support city funding for professional development for Local 372 members? Student Nutrition: The Breakfast in the Classroom initiative takes the traditional school breakfast approach and improves it with one key ingredient: the classroom. Breakfast becomes available to everyone no matter their income level and its served after the opening bell. This makes it easier for all children to easily participate. The approach is simple. Children eat together in the classroom, usually the homeroom, at the start of the school day. They enjoy nutritionally wellbalanced foods like breakfast wraps, yogurt, or fruit served directly in their classroom or grabbed from a cart in the hallway. Students then eat breakfast while the teacher takes attendance, collects homework or teaches a short lesson plan. In about 10 minutes, the meal is over and the school day continues. And so do the benefits of the breakfast in the classroom. Studies show that children who eat breakfast at the start of their school day have higher math and reading scores. They have sharper memory and show faster speed on cognitive tests. They have broader vocabularies. Would you support Breakfast in the Classroom in Public Schools?

Yes

No

Yes

No

Special Education: Estimates are that 25%and of special needs students do not receive their mandated services. Will you provide independent monitoring to determine whether students are receiving all their mandated services?

Yes

No

Mayoral Control: Only 22 % of voters say they want mayoral control, and 68% say that the Mayor should share power. Do you support legislation (A0792/S1406) to reform the Panel for Educational Policy to include more community and parent input? Yes No

Educational Policy Input: Do you support legislation (A5313/S1411) that requires the NYS Board of Regents hold at least 2 public meetings a year in New York city and requires announcements of the time, date, location and agenda thereof? (Presently, they do not meet in NYC at all)

Yes

No

Elect CECs directly: Would you support a change in the State Education law so that all district public school parents have the right to vote for Community Educational Council members?

Yes

No

Facilities: The City has underinvested in school facilities, resulting in most of our students attending schools in overcrowded and substandard conditions. The new seats in the capital plan are far less than needed just to keep up with future enrollment growth. Yes Will you support a capital plan that will provide the space necessary to eliminate overcrowding and allow for smaller classes, as well as devote sufficient funds for maintenance and repair? No

Charter co-locations: How would you address the inequities related to charters vs. public schools? More specifically, would you support requiring co-located charters to pay rent and the cost of services that are now provided free of charge, which are worth about $90M per year?

Yes

No

School safety: Would you supporting removing the school safety officers from the jurisdiction of the police and put them under the authority of school communities?

Yes

No

Chancellor Selection: Do you support requiring the NYC Schools Chancellor have an educational background with a Masters Degree in Education? Do you support conducting a national, transparent, search for the NYC Schools Chancellor?

Yes

No

Yes

No

Please Sign and Date this Questionnaire. Scan and email to Mona Davids at mdavids@local372.org Candidate Name (Print): _________________________________

Candidate Signature: ____________________________________

Date:_______________