Leadership magazine Nov/Dec 2014 V 44 No 2 | Seite 7

ACSA Executive Director

To our readers

Wesley Smith

Director of Communications
Naj Alikhan

Editor
Susan Davis

Equitable educational opportunities
lift students into positive life situations

Board of Directors

Dear Colleague:

President

In our quest to finally achieve equity for all students, I posit the following thoughts. We are not in the business of lifting students out of
poverty. We couldn’t do that with 10 times the resources allocated to
us by our lawmakers. The business we are in is providing an excellent
educational opportunity for as many students as we can with what we
have.

Randall Delling

President-Elect
Tom Armelino

Vice President
Ralph Porras

Vice President for Legislative Action
Lisa Gonzales

Past President
Marc Ecker

Directors
Eric Andrew, Mauricio Arellano, Randy Bangs,
Tammie Calzadillas, Katherine Castleberry,
Will Ector, Holly Edds, Lisette EstrellaHenderson, Rod Federwisch, Mary Grace,
Jeff Harris, Andrew Ishibashi, Darrien Johnson,
Peter Johnson, Linda Kaminski,
Heidi Lawler, Jon LeDoux, Rose Lock,
Robert Martinez, Cindy Petersen, Terri Rufert,
Edward Trimis, Craig Wheaton

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We maintain the goal of providing excellent educational opportunities so all our students can become whatever they dream. By lifting
the academic abilities of our students, we provide them the tools they need to lift themselves
into a great life situation.
Last year, Lisa Andrew was ACSA’s Valuing Diversity
state award winner. In her acceptance speech, she challenged us to act for higher levels of equality for all students.
As I heard her challenge, I struggled to understand what
that meant. I have always been a “personal responsibility
and pull your bootstraps up and get to work” kind of g