Antoinette Miranda

Education

The Whole Child approach to education means that “each child, in each school, in each community is healthy, safe, engaged, supported and challenged. This approach applies to learning, teaching, and community engagement. Learn more

The role of the State Board of Education, therefore, should be to insist that Department of Education staff provide guidance to legislators and the Governor about the relative fairness and equity of funding formulas under consideration by the General Assembly. Learn more

the State Board of Education should sponsor and require frequent evaluations of the impact of state funding formulas, spending on charter schools and taxation methods to determine the fairness, adequacy and efficiency of these policies as they affect local school districts, students and educators. Learn more

Accountability for All involves four essential principles: All schools, administrators, teachers and support staff must be highly qualified for their roles and meet high standards of performance. All schools and administrators must maintain high standards of fiscal accountability. Waste, fraud or abuse in management of public funds is unacceptable. All financial records of publicly funded schools must be public, transparent and subject to full audit and accountability. The legislators, policy makers, members of the state and local boards of education and their staff must maintain transparency and accountability in their policy, academic and fiscal operations and communications. The public, including the parents of students, has the right to hold these policy makers and staff accountable for fair and adequate school funding and polices that ensure opportunities for all students to realize their potential. Learn more