December 17 Program

The speaker at Rotary San Jose East/Evergreen's meeting on December 19 was Dr. Hilaria Bauer. Dr. Bauer is the newly appointed superintendent of the Alum Rock Elementary School District. She spoke about the current state and future plans for the school district.

 

A dynamic speaker, Dr. Bauer gave us a little background about her youth in Mexico; about her work in the district; about Alum Rock ESD not benefiting from the federal "No Child Left Behind" program; about short and long term goals for raising expectations of success for students, families and teachers. She presented a well-organized structure for reaching goals and emphasized the need for universal early childhood education and English proficiency by the 3rd grade as markers for future success.