Transparency

The School Committee and district leadership have recognized community engagement as an area for clear improvement, including in the previous Superintendent’s evaluations.

Current District leadership has taken steps to improve. The School Committee itself needs to do the same.  

  • We need School Committee members with open minds and open doors. Cambridge’s elected and professional leadership has repeatedly shut the community out of decision-making and refused requests for public engagement. 

    • The most obvious example is the current Superintendent search. The School Committee voted to end the contract of former Superintendent Victoria Greer in May of 2024. It took the School Committee one full year to begin community engagement regarding the qualities sought in a new Superintendent.

    • That community engagement consists of a handful of mostly in-person “forums,” announced with almost no notice, compressed in a three-week period right at the end of the school year.

    • This is unacceptable. The choice of a Superintendent is the most important decision this School Committee will make. Community engagement and open discussion should have been a priority — not an afterthought.

  • Caregivers and educators – those closest to our students – will always have my ear and my voice.

    • If elected, I will commit to responding to all constituent emails within 5 business days. 

    • I will commit to visiting every Cambridge public school, and sitting in on classes at each level of school — elementary, upper, and high — within each two-year term. 

    • I will hold “office hours” which will be publicly posted, so that any Cantabrigian can speak with me one-on-one or in a group about any issues on their mind, large or small. 

    • I will fight to ensure that the CEA leadership - who speak on behalf of over a thousand educators across the district - will always have sufficient time at every School Committee meeting to present on behalf of their members. In fact, I see no reason that Cambridge educators should not have non-voting membership on the School Committee, as students do.