Andrew Leonard has served as trustee to the Sonoma County Board of Education since his appointment by the Board in December of 2015 and re-election in 2016.Community collaboration is a core tenet of Mr. Leonard's work, both as a SCOE Trustee and as a career educational strategist. Mr. Leonard's work with United Way of the Wine Country's Schools of Hope third grade literacy initiative; with First 5 Sonoma County as a community connector for early childhood education (ECE) initiatives; and with The LIME Foundation as a Vice President of Programs for education and health initiatives connects him directly to schools, students, and their success. His experience as an international instructor, teacher and tutor lend to this connectedness.
As a Sonoma County Office of Education Board Trustee, Mr. Leonard focuses on support networks for families of young children; early literacy; parent engagement; third grade literacy, life skills, college readiness, and career readiness. The Sonoma County Board of Education and the Sonoma County office of Education - with the integral help of community partners - have made strides in these areas in recent years. We must continue to support programs, policies and initiatives that help increase student success and subsequent independence as adults.
In 2019 and 2020, Trustee Leonard has advocated at the local, state, and national level for bolstered implementation of financial literacy and personal finance curriculum. Mr. Leonard finds it unacceptable that Governor Brown vetoed such a bill (AB 858) in 2017; further unacceptable that a subsequent bill (AB 1087) was held in suspension in the California state legislature in 2019. Help Mr. Leonard build a grassroots coalition to ensure students leave high school with fundamental skills in financial literacy.
Please support Andrew Leonard for re-election to the Sonoma County Board of Education (Area 3) in November, 2020. Your vote counts!
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