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Westchester County, NY May 19, 2009 Election
 Smart Voter Elias S Gootzeit

Candidate for
Member, Board of Education; Mount Vernon City School District

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Biographical Highlights
  • Occupation: Attorney / Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW-R)
  • Incumbent Mount Vernon School Board Trustee
  • MSW Fordham University 1978/CSW since 1979
  • JD-Pace University-1993-Admitted to practice law in NYS February 1994
  • Past President AB Davis PTA
Top Priorities if Elected
  • Sound Basic Education under NYS Constitution requires ADEQUACY of Resources and Adequacy of Outcomes
  • NYS MUST COME UP with a finance system that recognizes the needs of children
  • NYS must come up with a financing system for schools that recognizes the inability of the tax base in Mount Vernon to pay for its school system
Position Papers
ADEQUACY
ADEQUACY, or the notion that school funding should be geared to minimum educational outcomes is a focus that requires a reliable, flexible cost model that WE MUST DEMAND from New York State in its design of a finance system that works for Mount Vernon children by affording them a sound basic education, while providing sufficient funding that recognizes the limited resources of Mount Vernon's tax base.
PROFILE: Barriers to Sound Basic Education in Mount Vernon
Despite the reinstatement of State-Aid to Schools for the City of Mount Vernon., devastating cuts to programs , services and staffing loom.
 
Campaign Contact Information
E-mail: ESGesq@aol.com


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