Quick Facts
Current Position: Challenger
Candidate Status: Required signatures submitted: 100 (68 verified)
Website: www.luisaforschoolcommittee.org
From the Candidate
A Paraprofessional in Special Education. A Union Organizer. Fighting for the Schools Our Values Demand.
In a moment of escalating attacks on public education, Cambridge must become a national model of what truly progressive governance can achieve. I’m running to help build it.
My perspective is dual: as a paraprofessional at the Fletcher Maynard Academy, I saw our system’s inequities from the inside. As an Amherst College graduate and holder of a Master’s in Urban Policy and Planning, I learned how to design the solutions to fix them.
My platform is a direct response to national neglect: we will fully fund our schools by making large commercial properties and universities pay their fair share. This will generate over $137 million annually to hire more staff to improve educator-to-student ratios, pay staff living wages to recruit higher quality staff, and ensure every school has the mental health supports it needs.
I am fighting for:
- Tax Justice: Raising commercial tax rates to fund our schools without burdening residents.
- True Equity: Improving our school controlled choice system to end its segregating effects and replacing it with well-resourced neighborhood schools.
- Democratic Schools: Giving educators and parents real power over budgets and policies through participatory governance.
I’m asking for your vote to build a Cambridge that doesn’t just talk about its values, but resources them.
Learn more and get involved: www.luisaforschoolcommittee.org
This bio along with the headshot were provided by the candidate.
