{"id":1799,"date":"2016-09-29T20:19:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T20:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pft1603.org\/?p=1799"},"modified":"2016-09-29T20:29:32","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T20:29:32","slug":"election-season-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pft1603.org\/?p=1799","title":{"rendered":"Election Season 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Educator&#8217;s Choice Online Voter Guide is an excellent resource for this election season. Simply enter your address to find your polling place and California Federation of Teachers and PFT endorsed candidates that will appear on your ballot.<\/p>\n<p>Visit: http:\/\/www.cft.yourvoter.guide<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pft1603.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/cft-logo-e1475180292768.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1800\" src=\"http:\/\/pft1603.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/cft-logo-e1475180292768.png\" alt=\"cft-logo\" width=\"500\" height=\"152\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">YES ON 55<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pft1603.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/14433191_10205788938721933_1458348054585970900_n-e1475180518704.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1806\" src=\"http:\/\/pft1603.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/14433191_10205788938721933_1458348054585970900_n-e1475180518704.jpg\" alt=\"14433191_10205788938721933_1458348054585970900_n\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Karen Weinstein for Peralta College Trustee<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>Karen will champion:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Student Achievement, Success and Equity:\u00a0<\/strong> I\u2019ll advocate for increasing student services for our most vulnerable students, including early engagement, mentoring, tutoring, mental health and advising programs\u2014all of which help our students reach their goals and become prepared for College and Careers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Expanding High School and Peralta Partnerships:<\/strong>\u00a0 I\u2019ll work to expand college options to high school students, which allow high school students to begin their college work or career development while in high school so that when they graduate they are better prepared\u2014saving time and money on their way to a four-year degree or careers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Safe Campus sites free from sexual assault or harassment: \u00a0<\/strong>I\u2019ll continue my advocacy to ensure ALL students are safe while on campus.\u00a0 Sexual assault on college campuses is a growing issue, as 1 in 5 young women will be assaulted.\u00a0 It is an important issue for the LGBTQ community.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recruiting and retaining outstanding Faculty and College staff:\u00a0<\/strong> I am so honored to receive the endorsement of the Peralta Federation of Teachers, and will focus my efforts on retaining the teaching staff who are working so hard to prepare future generations of leaders.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Good governance is shared and transparent governance:\u00a0<\/strong> As a trustee, I will be a champion of community engagement, excelling in two way communication, and will work to represent all sectors. We must listen and bring to the District community concerns and ideas, while we inform the public of key issues at Peralta. Lastly, it is important, that trustees find a way to evaluate themselves and the Board&#8217;s functioning.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pft1603.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1812\" src=\"http:\/\/pft1603.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/logo-300x71.png\" alt=\"logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"71\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pft1603.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/logo-300x71.png 300w, https:\/\/pft1603.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/logo-1024x242.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Educator&#8217;s Choice Online Voter Guide is an excellent resource for this election season. Simply enter your address to find your polling place and California Federation of Teachers and PFT endorsed candidates that will appear on your ballot. Visit: http:\/\/www.cft.yourvoter.guide &nbsp; YES ON 55 &nbsp; Karen Weinstein for Peralta College Trustee Karen will champion: Student [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pft1603.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pft1603.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pft1603.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pft1603.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pft1603.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1799"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/pft1603.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1805,"href":"https:\/\/pft1603.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799\/revisions\/1805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pft1603.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pft1603.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pft1603.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}