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Longtime Goleta school board member Susan Epstein, pauses to takes a selfie with the large crowd at the March for Science event in De La Guerra Plaza in Santa Barbara in April 2017. She was emcee for the event. (Brooke Holland / Noozhawk file photo) By Joshua Molina, Noozhawk Staff Writer | @JECMolina
December 19, 2020
| 9:35 p.m.
Long before Susan Epstein was a Goleta Union School District board member, she was writing stories as a student journalist during her sophomore year of high school.
She wrote an award-winning investigative piece, an expose, as she recalls it, on a sudden proposal to eliminate electives at her school. It was in accordance with state law, Epstein s principal told her at the time. Showing early signs of her analytical style, Epstein deep-dived into the story, discovered it was a choice, not a mandate, to eliminate electives. She broke the story.
Chronic absenteeism poses a problem, and the district sees a drop in enrollment of more than 400 By Joshua Molina, Noozhawk Staff Writer | @JECMolina
December 15, 2020
| 10:24 p.m.
Elementary school students in the Santa Barbara Unified School District have experienced a 15% increase in reading test scores, but a drop of 8% in math test scores, according to data presented at Tuesday night s school board meeting.
Chronic absenteeism is also up at two schools, Cleveland Elementary and Harding University Partnership. At Harding, absenteeism jumped about 6% from the year prior.
At the junior high and high school levels, the number of students with three or more Ds or Fs has increased from the year prior.
Housing and Development Newsletter It took my life back to my childhood years, Alvarez said. People I had gone to elementary, junior high and high school with reached out when they heard I was running. Also, former co-workers, supervisors, teachers, my kids’ friends, their parents, my siblings and their friends, and current and former school board members whom work or have worked for, all embraced my candidacy and supported me. It was an overwhelming show of community support that surfaced my strong community ties.
She encourages other candidates in her situation in the future to be authentic and trust their intuition when deciding to run.