Scott Folsom for LAUSD Board of Education 2013 Office #2

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Vote for Scott Folsom for School Board on March 5th Vote for the Kids and Parents and Educators of our Communities Vote for the Future

not the special interests.

Scott Folsom is a candidate for the LAUSD School Board in the March 5th, 2013 primary election technically the Board of Education of the City of Los Angeles, Board Seat #2 serving the communities of Northeast and East Los Angeles, Downtown, Chinatown, Little Tokyo, Koreatown. Pico Union and West Adams. Scott is a parent leader in LAUSD, focused on Student Health, Safety and Wellbeing: If kids are not healthy or if they do not feel safe if they are hungry or their parents do not feel that they are safe all the other benchmarks of test scores and achievement, API and AYP all the shiny new schools are meaningless. He is the editor and publisher of the influential blog and e-newsletter 4LAKids. He is past president of Los Angeles Tenth District PTA and represented PTA on the LAUSD Construction Bond Citizen's Oversight Committee and as BOC representative to the Board of Education Facilities Committee for ten years during the largest school construction and modernization program in history. Scott has recently returned to the BOC. In his service on the Oversight Committee he was instrumental in promoting Full Day Kindergarten, seismic upgrades, core facilities construction (cafeterias, libraries, gyms, playgrounds and auditoriums in addition to classrooms) and creating public/private community healthcare and recreation joint-use partnerships. He was a plaintiff in the lawsuit challenging the mayor of Los Angeles attempted takeover of LAUSD. Scott currently serves on the Board of Managers, Health Commission and Legislation Committee of the California State PTA. He serves on numerous LAUSD advisory and policy committees and has served as a PTA officer and school site / governance council member at three LAUSD schools. Mr. Folsom is currently Vice President-for Health & Parent Education of Tenth District PTA. He is past PTA President of Mount Washington Elementary School and Walter Reed Middle School (both California Distinguished Schools) as well as Highland Council PTA. He is a member of the board of directors of the Los Angeles Trust for Childrens Health, and serves on numerous childrens health advisory committees and task forces at the national, state and county level for various government agencies and nonprofit advocates. Scott is a past president of the Arroyo Seco Neighborhood Council and with Schools as Centers of Their Communities promises to foster greater and closer cooperation between schools and neighborhoods He is committed to early childhood education as a past board member of the Mount Washington Preschool & Childcare Centers, which operates nonprofit preschool programs in the LA Federal Building, LA City Hall and the Highland Park/Mt Washington community. Scott Folsom was 2009-10 Los Angeles County Parent Volunteer of the Year, 2008-09 UTLA/AFT (LAUSD Teachers Union) WHO Gold Award/Person-of-the Year and is the 2012 Association of California School Administrators Region XVI (LAUSD Administrators) Ferd Kiesel Memorial Distinguished Service Award recipient. These are honors he someday hopes to deserve! Mr. Folsom's first job out of college was as the LA office manager of a large international land development firm responsible for a number of redevelopment projects in Los Angeles - but left construction/land development to become a producer/production executive in television and motion pictures - with forays into advertising, corporate communications and educational film making. A product of LAUSD schools Scott attended Wonderland Avenue Elementary, Le Conte Junior High and Hollywood High Schools He lives in Mount Washington. Organizations are named for reference and information only Unless stated no endorsements are made or implied. Campaign Committee in Formation Desktop published / computer generated

If children are the first priority, everyone else cant have everything else they want. Children are not the Future. They are the Present Here+Now moving forward There can be no Special Agenda. Billionaires are entitled to their opinions but not to run public education. The only Special Interest is Children. Students are not data points. Test scores are not outcomes. Teachers are not education delivery laborers. Schools are not spreadsheets, Education is not a Business. This is not a race to anywhere. We measure success one child at a time, over time. Parents trust us with their most precious treasure. We cannot settle for Parent Involvement or Parent Engagement; we can settle for nothing less than Parent Partnership a true partnership with Parents and the Community in the Education of All Children Brown and Black and White and Asian; Gifted, Special Ed and English Learners; rich and poor; the student body president and the troublemaker on the bench outside the principals office. We We the People - you and I and every one of us - are LAUSD; these are Our Children.

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Scott Folsom is endorsed by United Teachers Los Angeles. UTLA represents over 35,000 School Nurses, Psychologists, Social Workers, Librarians and Classroom Teachers.
Scott Folsom For LAUSD School Board 2013 4121 Marmion Way #14 Los Angeles, CA 90065 smfolsom@aol.com 323.459.2711