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Contact one of the SAC City DAC Parent Leaders  Wanda Yanez SCUSD District Advisory Council Chair
email: Wanda.Yanez@EDD.ca.gov The mother of a 3rd grader, Wanda Yanez is a leader at Theodore Judah, her child’s school. Wanda, who is of Puerto Rican heritage, moved to
Sacramento with her husband in 1985. She works for the California Employment Development Department as an Associate Government Program
Analyst. At Theodore Judah Elementary, Wanda is a member of the School Site Council, Parent Teachers Association (PTA) and is the Chair of the
Career Day Committee. Prior to her election as DAC Chairperson, Wanda served as DAC’s Secretary. While in that capacity, she represented DAC at the 2008 State Title I Conference in Los Angeles and at the Appleseed/Kellogg’s Convening Session on Title I held in Washington D.C. in October 2008. As Chairperson, Wanda is committed to providing leadership to assure that parent involvement becomes an essential strategy for improving our children's academic success and to work with School Site Councils to promote parent involvement in their schools.
Joe Sison Joe Sison was raised in the Philippines until the age of seven. After living several years in Los Angeles and on the East Coast, he came to Sacramento in 1995, A father of two children at Phoebe Hearst Elementary School. Joe has served as School Site Council Chair for
the past two years. Professionally, Joe is an Associate Clinical Professor at UC Davis School of Medicine and has been the Medical Director for
Sacramento County Child & Family Mental Health since 1996. He is also
the Medical Director of a large private psychiatric hospital in Sacramento; past president for the Central California Psychiatric Society and a committee member on the Children's Health Committee of the Sierra Sacramento Medical Society. Joe has been a member of the DAC for
three years. As Vice-Chair, he is particularly committed to the improvement of services and programs for students with special needs in
the district.
John Gross SCUSD District Advisory Council Parlimentarian John Gross was raised in a small town in Tennessee. As an adult, he
moved to Smyrna, Tennessee where he worked at Nissan Motors maintaining robots used to assemble cars. In 1997, John moved to Sacramento with his wife and three children. His youngest child attends Bowling Green Charter School where John is a member of the School Site Council and has volunteered numerous hours to help the school staff and the children.
John understands the needs of low income children. He knows, frompersonal experience, what it means to go to school hungry, not to have
electricity at home, not to have lunch money, to be worried about conflicts in the home, and to be a victim of discrimination. In John’s home town very few children stayed in school past the third grade. John is committed to assuring that all children be given the opportunity to learn and receive a decent education.
Sara Bisler SCUSD District Advisory Council Secretary Sara Bisler, a native of Sacramento, is a bank manager and the mother of four. Three of her children attend David Lubin Elementary School and
one is now in middle school. One of her children is in the Gifted and Talented Education Program (GATE) and another is receiving special
educational services. At David Lubin Elementary School, she served as Vice President of the Parent Teacher Group (PTG) and has been a member
of the School Site Council for the past two years. Sara believes that parents have much to contribute to the improvement of our schools and as DAC Secretary, she is committed to assuring that parents have a voice on the important issues facing the school district.
DISTRICT ADVISORY COMMITTEE (DAC) ELECTS NEW OFFICERS
By Manuel Guillot, Director of Parent Support Services The District Citizens’ Title I and State Compensatory Programs Advisory Committee, better known as the District Advisory Committee or DAC, elected a new slate of officers for the 2008-2010 term. The election took place during a well attended DAC General Meeting held at the Serna Center on Tuesday, November 18, 2008. DAC is comprised mostly of parents, and also includes principals, teachers and school staff members. The primary purpose of DAC is to involve parents in the planning, development and evaluation of Title I and State Compensatory Education (SCE) programs and services in the district. At the meeting, candidates for each office were given the opportunity to speak about their experience, their position on the issues and if elected, what improvements they would bring to the DAC. Although over 50 parents, teachers, principals, and community members were in attendance, only the School Site Council Representative for each school was allowed to vote. The winning candidates are: Wanda Yanez for Chairperson; Joe Sison for Vice Chairperson; Sara Bisler for Secretary; and John Gross for Parliamentarian. “The District Advisory Committee is becoming an increasingly important means of parent and community involvement in compensatory education in the district” Wanda Yanez,
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“The District Advisory Committee is becoming an increasingly important means of parent and community involvement in compensatory education in the district, said Wanda Yanez, the newly elected Chairperson. “DAC members are optimistic about the direction DAC is taking as seen in the substantive work of the committees, better attendance, and of the importance of the issues being discussed.”
Added Joe Sisson, newly elected Vice Chairperson, “the school district is showing that they are committed to the right of the community to share in the educational decision-making process by earnestly seeking the advice of
the Committee.”
DAC meets once a month at the Serna Center community rooms from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. For more information about DAC and its meetings, please go to our web site at www.scusd.edu and click on the Parents and Community section in the home page or call Parent Support Services at 643-7912. | |
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