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good Mayor can’t sit back and be silent

It’s an issue that touches us all,
and impacts our children, our economy and our
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future as a city.
Mike Rawlings

“ My parents were both teachers, and my son will start
teaching next year, so for me, education is personal. It
changed my life, and it can change the lives of so many of
our Dallas families if we can just get it right.
Some people think that reducing crime will grow our city.
Well, our crime has gone down over the past few years and
people are still moving to the suburbs. I think they are
leaving for better schools. Our parents shouldn’t be forced
to choose between sending their children to an academically
unacceptable school or moving to the suburbs.
Fact is, we cannot be a great city without great public schools,
and stronger schools will build stronger neighborhoods.
That’s why, as Mayor, I will implement a comprehensive
and sustainable plan to help improve our public schools.
We must be accountable as leaders, and as a community, for
helping educate our schoolchildren – because it’s an issue
that touches us all.
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Mike Rawlings.
A sustainable plan to help public schools.
Leveraging private resources. As Mayor,
Mike will create an umbrella group – one point
of entry and dispatch – for the dozens of
non-profit groups that want to help education.
By organizing and leveraging these private and
non-profit resources, we can provide the funding
and human capital for big advances – like
working to promote neighborhood and parental
involvement, providing new technologies for
the classroom that may be cut in the upcoming
state budget, and helping support arts and
athletics that suffer from Dallas ISD cuts.
Impacting policy. As Mayor, Mike will
create an Urban Mayors Task Force, calling
on the Mayors of Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston
and San Antonio to lobby Washington and
Improving communications. As Mayor,
Mike will initiate regular meetings and
exchanges between City and Dallas ISD
Austin for public school funding in our leadership to communicate and collaborate
urban areas that need help the most. These on how best to leverage resources. One example
areas represent more than 50% of the state’s is consolidating Dallas ISD Police and the
population, and already use their collective Dallas Police to improve efficiency and put more
firepower to lobby for critical transportation dollars into classrooms. And, Mike will work
dollars – we should be doing the same for to hold all parties accountable to a measurable
our schools. metric of success that demonstrates progress
and rebuilds faith in our public school system.
Organizing an Education Army. Mike
will use the Mayor’s office as a bully pulpit to
recruit and engage a volunteer force to support
our schools. We can start by engaging the more
than 300,000 seniors living in Dallas, many of
whom are looking for volunteer activities and
a way to give back to the community. From
staffing reading programs, to initiating PTA
chapters in schools that don’t have them
organized, to helping with tutoring and
help, and Mike will lead to identify, organize
and put it to work for schools.
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A comprehensive plan that includes No plan for education. Will “push us all to find
a Mayors Task Force, recruiting an innovative partnerships,”
Education Army of volunteers, and will participate in
engaging communities, creating existing programs. Will
an Educational Alliance to leverage also “promote worldwide
non-profit help and raising private our educational assets and
funding to fill in gaps left by push for new ones.”
budget cuts.

“ I’ve known Mike for a long time. He’s an action-oriented leader who can make
a real difference on the issue of improving public education.
”
Tom Luce
Former Assistant Secretary of Education
CEO, National Math & Science Initiative

“ Education is the key to erasing the boundaries that divide us. Under Mike’s
leadership, we must embrace this challenge as a community.
”
Dr. Frederick D. Haynes III
Former Trustee, Dallas Achieves Commission

“ Mike has a thoughtful plan that can help our schools. If you care about our
schools, then I urge you to support Mike for Mayor.
”
Dr. Mike Moses
Former Dallas ISD Superintendent

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