Anthony Muhammad

League of Women Voters^®
of the District of Columbia

Question 1:
Age: 53
Occupation: Consultant
Education: Graduated from Ballou SHS, Associate Degree Business, UDC; Certificate, GW Neighborhood College, Community Leadership; Graduated from Armstrong Tonsorial Artist School

Qualifications for office sought: Truant Officer Anacostia SHS; Vocational School Teacher at New Technology University, Alexandria, Va.; Seven Term ANC; Board Member Architecture and Interior Design; Elected DC Delegate for President Obama; 45 year Resident of Washington DC; Thirty Year Religious Class Teacher.

Question 2 - What State Board of Education policies would you advocate? I would advocate the "Title One School Improvement Grants Recovery Act", to improve education in the District of Columbia. Ward 8 has the most low performing schools in the city. This is the report from The Center on Educational Policy, with I would advocate for.
Over the next three years, states will dedicate an unprecedented amount of federal funding to school improvement efforts at approximately 5,000 of the nation's lowest achieving schools.
The $100 billion for education appropriated by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), also known as the stimulus package, included an additional $3 billion for school improvement grants (SIGs) to help reform low-performing schools. This amount was in addition to the $546 million provided by the regular fiscal year 2009 appropriations bill for school improvement grants authorized by section 1003(g) of Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.1
This 2009 total of more than $3.5 billion for section 1003(g) SIGs represents a massive increase compared with the $491 million appropriated for fiscal year 2008 and the $125 million appropriated for fiscal year 2007 (U.S. Department of Education, 2010c). Following passage of ARRA, the U.S. Department of Education (ED) issued new guidance that changed the requirements for using school improvement grants under section 1003(g), including the ARRA SIG funds (ED, 2010a; 2010b). The guidance targets these grants on the most persistently low-achieving schools--a smaller and somewhat different pool of schools than those identified for improvement under the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). It also requires grantees to use one of four school improvement models: (1) transformation, which entails replacing the school principal and undertaking three other specific reforms; (2) turn around, which involves replacing many of the school staff; (3) restart, which means becoming a charter or privately managed school; and (4)
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Question 3 - What are the major challengers to implementing the common core standards of learning? Attendance will be a major challenges ahead as the District of Columbia implements the Common Core Standards of Learning.

Questions 4 - Should high school students be required to have a semester of DC history and government? Yes we should require that the students graduating from public schools in the District of Columbia have a semester of DC History and Government. The Common Core State Standards in reading and math. The survey found that states that have adopted the standards have plans for changing policies and programs, such as developing or adopting new assessments, modifying curriculum materials, and offering professional development for teachers, to ensure that the standards are fully implemented at the classroom level. But, many of these changes will not be fully in place until 2013 or later. So until fully implemented, keep what we have, the two class
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Questions 5 - Is there a role for the State Board of Education in making charter schools accountable? There is a role for The State Board of Education in holding Public Charter Schools accountable, make public schools better!

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