Board Member — Alpine Union School District
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Glenn Dickie
- • Continue to add innovative curriculum to all our...
- • Provide professional growth opportunities for our...
- • Implement the best technologies available for curriculum...
Eric Wray
- To continue to increase student test scores.
- A balanced Budget
- Increase in School Safety
Louis Russo
- Make Alpine Union a Welcoming School
- Give our children a safe environment
- Raise our academic scores

Al Guerra
My Top 3 Priorities
- • Continue to add innovative curriculum to all our schools
- • Provide professional growth opportunities for our teachers and staff at no cost to them
- • Implement the best technologies available for curriculum and classroom learning
Experience
Experience
Who supports this candidate?
Featured Endorsements
- • Diane Jacobs, Supervisor San Diego County
- • The Republican Party of San Diego County
Questions & Answers
Questions from The League of Women Voters San Diego (4)
- One of the greatest challenges to schools is technology in the classrooms. The one place that has escaped the productivity miracle of technology for the last 30 plus years is education. We need to keep up the pace of implementing technology in our schools so we can continue to provide our students the best educational opportunities available.
- Another challenge is declining enrollment, a problem that plagues all East county schools. By continuing to add innovative curriculum, we expect to reverse the trend.
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School safety is an ongoing challenge and of utmost importance. I feel it is important for of us in Alpine to continue collaborating with our parents, community and local law enforcement, and to follow law enforcement's recommendations. I oppose armed guards on our school campuses, and do not equate the presence of guards with school safety, as some have proposed.
I see myself as a consensus builder. I may not agree with my peers on every issue but believe there is usually a workable solution, and it is my nature to find an agreeable resolution. I also believe it is ok to disagree and dissent on a vote. I value each individual's ideas and contributions and together our different viewpoints make a stronger community.
I think Charters are essential to education, because they are designed to offer different choices in education. Charters have more independence than public schools, which are highly regulated by the state. This allows them to offer specialized courses and approaches that public schools cannot. When parents and students have choices in selecting a school, they are more likely to be committed and involved in the education process. We took advantage of this option when my son chose to attend Steele Canyon High School.
No, parents want and should have choices in education.
Yes, I firmly believe in “Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports”. The premise explains its appeal:
"If a child doesn’t know how to read, we teach.
If a child doesn’t know how to swim, we teach.
If a child doesn’t know how to multiply, we teach.
If a child doesn’t know how to drive, we teach.
If a child doesn’t know how to behave, we… teach? …punish?
Why can’t we finish the last sentence as automatically as we do the others?” - Tom Herner (NASDE President)
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Eric Wray
My Top 3 Priorities
- To continue to increase student test scores.
- A balanced Budget
- Increase in School Safety
Experience
Experience
Education
Who supports this candidate?
Organizations (1)
- San Diego County Republican Party
Elected Officials (1)
- Diane Jacob, San Diego County Board of Supervisors

Louis Russo
My Top 3 Priorities
- Make Alpine Union a Welcoming School
- Give our children a safe environment
- Raise our academic scores
Experience
Experience
Education
Who supports this candidate?
Featured Endorsements
- California Republican Assembly
Organizations (1)
- Salt and Light Council
Questions & Answers
Questions from The League of Women Voters San Diego (4)
AUSD is losing students to the local Charter and neighboring districts due to extremely poor management. It is ranked below adjacent schools with the same student population. CHP threatened to close down the transportation system and it had to contract with another district to carry its students. It spent $1 million in lawsuits. It had administrators illegally changing grades.
They provide great competition for public schools and improve education for all.
No. See above.
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