Top three reasons I am running for the School Board:

1.  To reverse the decision to close University and Meadows Elementary Schools.  

2.  To enhance safety, excellence and accountability to our district. 

3.  To change the vocational and college tracks in our district so that it becomes the envy of every other district in California. 

Scott Lamp Teacher's Union Interview Responses.pdf
Unified Association of Conejo Teachers (UACT) Questionaire given to all candidates.  You may want to ask the other candidates for their responses to these important questions.
Scott Lamp Responses to Mike Dunn's Questions.pdf
Some candidates refused to answer these questions.

The three top things I will accomplish if elected:

1. Reverse the decision to close schools.  Two of the three members who voted to close the schools are not seeking reelection.  Since two of the three remaining members supported keeping the schools open, I will vote with them and collaborate with other members to keep Meadows and University Elementary schools open.  To do this we will need to raise money and/or reduce spending further since we are in a current dire financial condition. We don't even have enough money to support high speed internet connections and other important staples at out schools. The decision to close schools continues to divide our community. Closing schools will not save us money in the long run and it may actually end up costing us more money.
2.   Unify our district by reaching out to the city council, teachers, parents, students, community members, and businesses.  Give these interested parties more access to information and resources.  Find ways of collecting information about their needs and wants.  I will strive to make it safer for children to walk to school, by increasing school guards and increasing police patrols.  I will work with parents to help watch our neighborhoods while children are going to and from school.  I will rid our schools of gangs, and enlist the help of parents and teachers to monitor our children between classes so that they are no longer just a face in the crowd, but someone who knows them.  We need to raise the bar at all of our schools.  We live in area that has the potential to be the best school district in the state.  Let's start to strive for that.  Hold all parties accountable to these high standards. Collect and dissemintate more data so that interested parties gain insight into our district challenges; together we can find solutions.  We have smart, dedicated people living in our community and we will need them to ahcieve this excellence.  When will we stop passing the buck to the next generation.  I don't like the fact that we are dealt this hand of reduced budgets in a time when our schools need to be brought up to the 21st century.  But we have to come together as a community and decide on a long-term strategy that will foster growth and excellence. 
3.   Raise up our lower performing schools so that all parents want to send their children to any of our elementary schools.  We need to bring up our middle and high schools so that we stop the exodus of students to other districts and local private schools.  Our schools need to be better at educating our children, so the parents who want to send their children to private schools are doing so for reasons that are not academic.  We should be judging our district, not by the best that we have, but by the poorest performing schools. We must raise these poorer performing schools up to the current level of our highest performing school.  Work on creating smaller, financially-stable schools that have logical tracks for all students.  We need to think of all the children.  I'm sure most of us want our children to attend college, but not all children will and not all want to do so at this stage in their life.  We need to have college-bound tracks that challenge students with more AP and Honors courses, eliminate the confusion and repair the reputation of college prep classes and have non-college bound tracks that give students the qualifications to attend a college if they choose to later, and also give them the vocational skills they need now.