SUPPORTED adding direct, systematic phonics instruction and staff development as an appropriate methodology if needed for K-4 reading instruction (1/25/1996)

OPPOSED a $600,000 cut in high school athletic programs (2/8/1996)

OPPOSED reducing or eliminating Planetaria, 4th grade strings, reading teachers, G/T teachers (2/22/1996)

OPPOSED increasing pupil-teacher ratios (2/22/1996)

SUPPORTED requiring teachers looking at “Learning Logs” to respond to content, spelling, grammar and non-technical vocabulary (3/4/1996)

SPONSORED making Family Life Education films accessible to parents by showing them over Channel 21 before approval by the School Board (3/14/1996)

SUPPORTED  requiring staff to look for Family Life Education videos supporting the role of parents (4/11/1996)

SPONSORED summer reading program requiring each student above fifth grade to read at least one book over the summer (5/9/1996)

SUPPORTED decreasing class size (5/22/1997)

SUPPORTED keeping elementary instructional music within the school day and not as an after-school program (5/22/1997)

SUPPORTED providing parents with a copy of the Standards of Learning for their child’s grade (7/10/1997)

SUPPORTED allowing Middle School teachers to include homework and study effort as a component of final grade (10/23/1997)

SUPPORTED capping high school classes for SOL courses at 28 students (2/12/1998)

SUPPORTED staff training in systematic and explicit phonics instruction (5/278/1998)

SUPPORTED providing teachers with more options by adding an additional basal reading textbook (12/3/1998)

SUPPORTED providing reading instruction software at an expanded number of elementary schools (6/17/1999)

OPPOSED increasing class size (5/24/2001)

SUPPORTED requiring that any validation studies on textbooks be provided to the FCPS textbook review committees (7/12/2001)

SPONSORED adding a criteria that elementary math textbooks should develop computational skills and exhibit those skills without the use of calculators (7/12/2001)

SUPPORTED providing teachers with more options by adding an additional basal math textbooks (12/6/2001)

SUPPORTED increasing available slots for Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (12/6/2001)

SUPPORTED funding the successful Applied Behavioral Analysis program for students with Autism (5/23/2002)

SUPPORTED retaining the student class cap in high school SOL end of course tests (5/23/2002)

SUPPORTED retaining full funding for Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate testing (5/23/2002)

SUPPORTED creating a target to intensify English language instruction for non-English speaking students (6/6/2002)

SPONSORED creation of Thomas Jefferson High School prep courses (2/13/2003).

SUPPORTED restoring cap on high school SOL core courses and reducing class size (5/22/2003).

SUPPORTED restoring partial funding for Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate testing (7/24/2003)