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Priorities and Issues


Aimee's top priority as a member of the Prince George's County Board of Education is to ensure that every child in Prince George’s County receives an excellent public education.

This means that we must continue to strengthen proven programs like those at our magnet high schools and our Montessori and French Immersion programs, but we must also build academic excellence at every elementary, middle and high school. We must offer a rigorous curriculum and set high expectations for our students—Aimee knows our students can achieve. We must also have high expectations for every single person involved with the education of our students: school board members, administrators, teachers, staff and parents.


Aimee will engage parents and community members as partners in the success of our public schools. We must invite our parents and community members into our schools, welcome them when they arrive, and value their time. Currently, many parents find it difficult to communicate with the school system—whether they are trying to navigate the lottery process, voice their opinion to the Board of Education, engage in their child’s education, ask a question or make a suggestion. We must change this. Aimee will work to ensure that every employee of our school system sees him or herself as a parent liaison.

Aimee will ensure the school system leverages every possible dollar and resource for our children by working with businesses, non-profits and government agencies. She believes that by relying on the State and County for our funding, we are leaving money and resources on the table. We must reach out to local businesses, non-profits and community members, as well as work to qualify for additional government money to ensure that we are maximizing resources for our children. Aimee will use her extensive experience as a professional fundraiser at two local universities to make this happen.

Aimee will work to implement robust Career and Technical Education opportunities in the Prince George’s County Public School System. In June 2009, the state-mandated Prince George’s County Career and Technical Education Taskforce published their final report, including twelve findings and recommendations. Aimee will work to implement these findings and recommendations to ensure we are offering our students robust and varied opportunities. 

Across the country, traditional-age students who go to college full-time, straight from high school and graduate in four years, represent a minority of students in postsecondary education today. And at the same time, too many of our students are dropping out--or opting out by slacking off or skipping class--because they do not see the relevance of their academic course work. Career and Technical Education will give our students a sightline to their career success, and that career path will likely still include college courses, a college degree or other postsecondary education.

By educating our students (and their parents) about Career and Technical Education opportunities as early as elementary school, we can help make academic work—math and science, for example—relevant to more of our students. If we can tie specific course work to a good job and a good salary, Aimee believes we can significantly reduce the drop-out rate and help ensure the future success of every PGCPS graduate.

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