Helping Shape
Mohave County Students Futures
With Expertise and Leadership
VOTE JAMES BARBER
COUNTY SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT
Campaigning to Improve Mohave County Schools through :
- Increased Parental Control
- Providing Support for Home Schoolers
- Posting Grade Level Curriculum
- Posting School District Overall Performance Data
- Posting School Grade Level Performance Data
- Posting School District Budgets / Policies
- Consolidating Services to lower District Operating Costs
Education is the only thing another person cannot take from you once you have earned it!
Support My Campaign
Running for office is expensive. Yard signs, campaign materials, and voter information. I am making of promise that I will make a difference in the education of Mohave County students. As a down payment of my promise, with a donation of $10.00 or more, you will receive an electronic copy of my math book, Visual Math Basics. This is the book I wrote for my wife while I deployed in Kuwait in 2005-2006. It all started with Lesson 51 – Order of Operations.
Policy Overview
01
Parental Control
Parental Involvement and Control of children’s education is one of the keys to improving classroom outcomes. Parents should have the final say in what optional curriculum is available for their child. And not one child is the “property” of a school district.
02
Support for Home Schoolers
Home Schoolers are County residents. And parents who decide to home school their children will not become second class students under my leadership. I will seek out tools, funding, and other support to ease the administrative burden of home schooling your child or children.
03
Posting Grade Level Curriculum
Posting of Curriculum in original and translated form is one of my core plans. I have worked with the State Standards and I feel that the standards are written above the level of the average parent and student. Newspapers are written at about 9th grade level, so should standards.
04
District Level Performance Data
Every year performance data is published and nice letter grade placards are available for public posting. My plan is to consolidate data and information and display the data for each district. The data will be broken down by district, school, grade, and subject. The public will be able to compare how the local districts are performing recently and over time.
05
District Level Budgets
Salaries, Money, and Budgets are taboo subjects and typically reduced to very short sentences that do not really explain the funding problems that district face. As an Analyst, I will work to post simplified budget descriptions to help Mohave County Residents in the district understand how and where their tax money is spent.
06
Consolidation of Services
Our County has very small districts to the two largest unified districts in Kingman and Lake Havasu. I will work with all districts to build priceworthy service, maintenance, and education contracts that are beneficial to all participating districts. Work with districts to help identify critical needs at the district and county levels and find resources to help solve those and other outstanding issues.