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[quote=Anonymous]Courtney Mooney here.

Feel free to check out my website:

www.Mooney4fccsb.com

You can read about my candidacy, what I have done over the past year with regards to our schools (I assure you it was well beyond signs), and feel free to ask me any questions you like.

Additionally, the FCNP is posting candidate responses to several questions posed by our Teachers Association rep. I believe it will be available online at FCNP pretty soon.

As a quick overview:

1) I’m in favor of debate, discussion, and asking tough questions in board meetings
2) I believe we need strong managerial and developmental oversight of the Superintendent role
3) I want to create better and more proactive/effective communication and availability from the board to both our community and school staff.
4) Our Teachers are great but are being pulled in far too many directions and have very little time to devote to their day-to-day responsibilities like lesson planning so I would like to revisit how we are asking them to prioritize their time as well as give them more outlets to provide feedback and assessment of their administrators and the Superintendent to create a more empowered and transparent environment for them and ensure our leaders are getting the tools they need to lead effectively.  
5) We need to ensure we are addressing learning loss and mental health for our kids
6) I would like to see more focus on mastery of material vs standardized test scores
7) We need to ensure our Math/Science/ STEM programs are where they need to be and strengthening those programs
8) I would like to see some focus on exposing students to technical and professional training… college isn’t for everyone!
9) The calendar, while I do understand the intent, is a huge burden time wise and financially on working families and disruptive to kids. I would like to re-examine that for the coming year. One possible solution beyond having standard federal holidays off is to use registration time as an opportunity for families to designate cultural and religious holidays they plan to miss school for so lesson and test planning can take those dates into consideration. Kids should not have to make up work on those days and absence should not be counted. It’s just an idea but we need to better balance the calendar, no question.

Please don’t hesitate to reach out to me via my website. I welcome your questions. [/quote]

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