Here is what your CFSD Students First candidates believe:
We believe in maintaining our District’s wide array of creative and engaging curriculum to include not just emphasis on reading, writing, math, and science, but also a strong emphasis on the performing and fine arts, physical education, career and technical education, whole and immersion language programs, robotics at every level, and Advanced Placement options.
We believe in the importance of addressing our students’ social and emotional learning needs because we know that kids who understand how to deal with stress, how to work with others and respect each other’s differences make better students, employees and humans.
We believe in respecting the expertise of teachers, educational leaders, and health and medical professionals. We believe in working with those professionals to build the most engaging and comprehensive curriculum possible and maintaining appropriate policies and procedures by which we operate our schools.
We believe in offering our 21st century curriculum and high-quality education to ALL students of ALL backgrounds, without exception.
We believe all of this, and our supporters do too. We know this because we’ve spent hours in group settings and one-on-one conversations with CFSD parents and community members, listening to their concerns and answering their questions.
Drawing a line in the sand
One thing we’ve heard over and over from our supporters is this: Why aren’t you being more direct in explaining the threat that your opponents pose to the district? And it’s true that we’ve spent more time explaining why to vote for us than why not to vote for our opponents, simply because there is so much good to celebrate when it comes to CFSD. But that’s all the more reason we need to speak up about the importance of protecting our district.
It’s time to call some of this stuff out
We don’t believe our opponent from 2 years ago has changed his spots. We don’t believe that he is suddenly an avid CFSD supporter or that he has left the following ideas behind from his failed campaign in 2022:
He campaigned on CFSD as a District that was failing its students (this is total bunk and you can read more about this here).
He campaigned on Social-Emotional Learning as “identity-based education” that attempts to politically or ideologically indoctrinate students, and he promised its demise.
We don’t believe he has disavowed the toxic ideas of the groups that endorsed him in 2022, which included:
Purple for Parents – an anti-parent, anti-student and anti-educator group that opposed the 2018 teacher-led Red for Ed movement;
Arizona Women of Action – a political action committee that proposes one-size-fits-all solutions for school districts, including a book ban.
In fact, this time around he’s welcomed the endorsement from Tom Horne, the controversial Arizona Superintendent of Schools who pledged in a personal appearance at a Moms For Liberty event to help elect as many “conservative” candidates that he can. If you’re unaware, Moms for Liberty has been designated by the Southern Poverty Law Center as an extremist group that is linked with groups like the Proud Boys.
We don’t believe he will ever apologize for his highly transphobic interview with Garret Lewis in the Spring of 2023 that included the bandying about of words like “pedophile” and “groomer” when referring to dedicated school administrators.
Furthermore, here’s what we know
We know both of our opponents for the 4-year board positions share the same values. They campaign together; they endorse each other on their websites; they do joint advertising promoting the same positions; and their political signs are literally joined together on our streets. This lock step approach to their campaigns confirms that she fully approves of what he stands for.
We know that both of these opponents are joined at the hip to the hateful anti-CFSD organization ironically titled “Save CFSD”, whose website is paid for by an LLC named the Center for Excellence in Public Schools. “Save CFSD” can’t find anything good to say about CFSD. Its organizer specializes in taking things out of context and morphing them into wild fabrications about the District and its leaders. Click here for a Tucson Agenda article that clearly ties our opponent to this organization and here for more about their crusade against CFSD.
Don’t be fooled by extremists labeling themselves as respectful and collaborative while they work to undo what makes CFSD great.
Keep Putting Students First
If you love CFSD…if you want CFSD to continue to put Students First…if you believe that CFSD has been faithfully stewarding ALL of its students to success in life beyond CFSD…if you reject innuendo, falsehoods, alternative facts and just plain baseless mudslinging, there really are only three choices for your votes:
Davoli and Logue for CFSD (4-year positions); and
Jackson for CFSD (2-year position)
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