The two winning candidates will join the five-member board. Here are their policy platforms
Shana Hazan, 41, is a San Diego native who graduated from Scripps Ranch High School. Her daughter attends Franklin Elementary in Kensington, where Hazan is a founding member of the school foundation and a member of the school site council.
To accomplish that, Hazan said, the district needs to collect detailed data that shows who is struggling the most academically and mentally, then coming up with a plan with community members to deploy spending to serve those students.
Higa said his top three priorities are student mental health, safe schools and fiscally responsible leadership. He said he was one of many principals who had to beg for funding, even though Cherokee Point received more federal aid as a Title I school. He remembers having to choose between offering music, P.E. and art for students, as Cherokee did not have a private foundation like schools in high-income neighborhoods did to pay for those programs.
He’s a parent with two children who attend Torrey Pines Elementary, where Petterson sits on the school’s site governance team. “This is not like, ‘Hey, you had 70 anti-mask protesters and you didn’t change your masking policy,’” Petterson said. “I’m talking about giving the community and parents and students and teachers a genuine sense that they are actively engaged in helping to guide the evolution of our school system.”
Wisconsin native Becca Williams, 32, moved to San Diego in 2019 after living in Washington, D.C. and Texas. She lives in Pacific Beach and has two boys who are not yet old enough to attend San Diego Unified.
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