Moving Escondido Schools Forward
School Choice
Every young person has the right to a high-quality public education that is adequately preparing them for life after high school. Children learn and thrive in different environments and public education must provide educational options for families. Parents and guardians deserve to feel empowered and respected as a partner in their child’s education. The pandemic created profound unintended consequences, and families are still experiencing the many challenges from this disruption in their child’s educational journey. Escondido Union High School District offers school choice, and as a Board Member, Christi is committed to ensuring those choices for families remain a priority and continue to adapt to meet the needs of the students and their families.
Empowering Teachers
Teachers deserve to feel empowered and supported to foster a safe and nurturing learning environment for students. Our students are faced with unprecedented challenges and pressures. Teachers are trying to balance the social-emotional needs of students as well as helping them achieve their educational goals. Teachers have adapted to meet the intense needs of students, which often interfere with their ability to focus on their core content area, ultimately impacting a student’s opportunity to receive a rigorous education. These pressures are not sustainable for our teachers. Within the district, Christi has advocated for more resources for students and families to address non-academic needs, such as behavioral or physical health, nutritional or basic needs, so that teachers can focus on the academic needs of all students.
Post Graduate Pathways
Schools have an incredible responsibility to prepare students for college, career, and life. For students of the Escondido Union High School District, there will be multiple pathways to success. As a district, it is our responsibility to understand and cultivate the goals of each student, and their family, so we can support opportunities for college preparedness, experiential learning, and career technical education. EUHSD offers multiple award-winning career pathways that translate into hands-on experience and good-paying jobs for our students. In partnership with a regional philanthropic organization, Christi secured multi-year funding to expand access and tuition support for EUHSD graduates to pursue allied healthcare careers. She will continue to advocate for additional funding to ensure these diverse opportunities are provided for our students to explore different career pathways.
