What I will bring to the Solano Board of Education - Area 2

The breadth and depth of my service to students, teachers and citizens of this county allow me to bring an experienced outlook and balanced viewpoint to the County Board of Education. My vision is to have more supportive outreach programs for the county school districts. Each and every student deserves the best resources and programs that we can provide for them.

If elected, my goal will be to make education a more successful benefit to all students in this county, and to provide insight for education to self-correct. I seek solutions for old problems that frustrate parents and students!

Education Matters

• BA in English from the University of Michigan.
• Masters in Library Science from U.C. Berkeley.
• California Clear General Secondary Credential (7-12).
• School Library Administration (K-12).

33 Years Experience in Education

• School Librarian 1969-1992, and Classroom Teacher 9-12 Science 1992-2006
• An elected trustee of Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District from 1979-1987. I represented Solano County on the California School Board Association’s General Assembly as a Director in Area 3 (Napa, Solano, and Sonoma).
• Supervised student teachers completing their final step in classroom experience through Touro and Chapman credential programs.
• 20 years participation on the Solano County Library Advisory Council. We achieved the first tax appropriation to support funding for increased services and materials for the Solano County Library System.
• Field-tested Spanish reading materials in Solano County (Dixon) developed by the Bay Area Bilingual Education League, funded by Title VII through Berkeley Unified School District.
• Carol has always seen the library as the primary resource for self improvement. Her work includes being a public information specialist in Solano libraries as well as promoting the library to be the heart of the school curriculum within public education.

Valuing Advocacy & Participation

Carol is Secretary of the Laura E. Settle Scholarship Foundation which annually provides 30 teacher credential recipients at each CSU and UC campus with $4,000 on behalf of California Retired Teachers Association. She supervises distribution within Northern Geographic Areas. The fund has nearly $3,000,000 in assets to support needy and deserving candidates.

Carol was Co-President of CalRTA Div. 24 and continues to serve on Executive Board. Our members provide Teacher Grants to all school districts in Solano County... and support the repeal of Social Security offset known as WEP/GPO HR 82.

She continues to substitute in order to comprehend OJT classroom challenges and also see improvements. Specifically, good solutions to difficult management issues are important to her and a lesson well learned!

She actively advocates to enhance the protection of STRS pensions and to promote their welfare through national/state legislation. She works closely with the state chair of the Government Relations Committee and the Legislative Advocate, Jennifer Baker. Carol attends yearly meetings with legislators in either Washington DC or Sacramento. The Committee focuses on four areas of concern to retired teachers in this state:

• CalSTRS Retirement
• Social Security and Federal Issues
• Health Care/Healthy Aging
• Public Education Funding.

Throughout her public career she has been active in many organizations including Nature Conservancy, Sierra Club, Meals on Wheels, Friends of Solano County Library, Solano County Reading Association and the SF Symphony. She supports Solano Land Trust and contributes to many charities along with adopting a family without a home.

Interview on Solano County