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EDUCATION

It is difficult to overstate the importance of the successful reform of our Buffalo public schools for Buffalo's future-- not to mention for the future of all of the children who are destined to be enrolled in them.  It must be considered top priority.

For decades, we have been experiencing in Buffalo, a mass exodus of families with school aged children, inflicting an enormous negative impact on our communities and, at the same time, creating fiscal hardship as a result of the depletion of our tax base.  As such, the problem is cyclical, in nature.  As our population shrinks, our tax burden grows, and our children suffer ever-diminishing educational resources.

Until we can figure out how to provide quality public education for all of our children, in every neighborhood, Buffalo will continue its decline.  

I strongly favor an educational model which incorporates:

EQUITY IN FUNDING
COMMUNITY SCHOOLS
PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT
MINIMIZATION OF BUSING

Community schools are the foundation for healthy communities.
They facilitate parental involvement, which is critical.
Busing is an inefficient use of human resources, tax dollars and an unnecessary use of natural resources.

EQUITY IN FUNDING

Our schools must not be dependent upon the indiscriminate allocation of state and federal grant money. 
We can't afford a system in which some schools are plush with state of the art facilities and others are utterly neglected.