At the end of my term in November, 2016, my husband and I planned to move back to our home in

Oregon. Since my election in 2012, I have felt that my mission was to support the District, Staff and our

students with wisdom, caring, and using my experience to make the best decisions for our children. For

the first two years of my term, the Board, the Superintendent, and Antioch staff created and implemented

progressive policies and programs that enhanced and enriched our students’ education and their lives.

We improved school culture, relationships, and academics through PBIS, Restorative Justice, the African

American Male Initiative, and by working closely with community advocacy groups such as Parents

Connected. We expanded the very successful linked learning and academies that have become renowned

throughout the State as model programs. We recognized and awarded teachers who have demonstrated

excellence in special ceremonies at Board meetings. We made our schools safer by hiring and training

more effective security personnel and hiring a professional security company, Strategic Threat

Management. We wholeheartedly embraced LCAP and its requirements to demonstrate our successes by

stringent metrics and outcomes. We enjoyed a special alliance with AEA and CSEA. The principals and

school site administrators we hired during those two years have proven to be outstanding and very

effective.

November, 2014 proved to be the beginning of a new and unfortunate direction that the Board has taken.

Individual staff members have been criticized and scrutinized. Proposed programs by school sites and

District personnel have been rejected time after time which resulted, in some cases, in employees not

being paid in a timely manner. The low morale and apprehensive atmosphere in the District office is

palpable. The calling of multiple special Board meetings sent a disconcerting message to staff and

community.

I have come to the conclusion that this Board will continue on its negative course and I, as a minority of

one, have no power to pull us out of this morass.

I am, therefore, submitting my resignation as Trustee of the Antioch Unified School Board of Education

effective this evening, Wednesday, September 23, 2015.