The one aggressive race this 12 months for the seven-member Alameda County Board of Training is within the Livermore Valley, the place Trustee Yvonne Cerrato, after 20 years on the board, opted to not search reelection.
Of the three candidates vying to interchange Cerrato in Space 7, Eric Dillie brings one of the best mixture of expertise and understanding of the tasks of the job.
The county Board of Training units coverage and approves the price range for the county Workplace of Training, which offers education for teen moms and college students within the juvenile justice system, instructor coaching packages and curriculum improvement and know-how help for districts.
The board hears appeals of pupil expulsions and interdistrict transfers. And, most often, county boards of training are the one appellate venue left for constitution faculties that will have been unjustifiably blocked by native faculty boards.
It’s that final function that drives a lot of the politics in elections for county board seats. And it’s what makes Dillie a wonderful candidate.
Dillie was a public faculty classroom instructor earlier than changing into a constitution faculty principal. He's now an administrator and teacher for the Dublin-based Key Instructional Group, a non-profit group that runs a mannequin constitution faculty in Hayward primarily for first-generation Mexican and Center Japanese immigrants and offers enterprise and administrative help for a community of comparable autonomous faculties.
Dillie understands what makes a great constitution faculty and acknowledges that there are additionally dangerous actors that don’t deserve approval. His data of the complexity of the constitution faculty utility course of will make him a powerful county faculty board trustee.
The opposite two candidates are Cheryl Prepare dinner-Kallio and Kate Dao.
Prepare dinner-Kallio is a retired instructor who served on the Pleasanton Metropolis Council from 2006-14 and ran unsuccessfully for mayor in 2012 and state Meeting in 2016. When describing her function if elected to the county board, Prepare dinner-Kallio incorrectly noticed the accountability to incorporate oversight of native faculty district funds, which is strictly the purview of the elected county superintendent of colleges.
Dao, the founder and head of a small Livermore personal faculty, appeared fuzzy about why she was working and unclear about a few of the tasks of the job.
Dillie is by far one of the best grounded within the function of the county Board of Training. Within the June 7 election, he deserves the vote of Livermore Valley residents.