Kurt Endorsed by L.A. Times and Hon. Mike D. Antonovich VOTE March 8th, 2011! Kurt S. Lowry For LA Community College District, Board of Trustees, Seat #7!

Smart Voter Energy Blog Links Get Involved Kurt's Statement on LA City View Channel 35

School Administrator/Business Owner FOR Students, Faculty, Families, Businesses, and Taxpayers like Us! AGAINST Career Politicians, Lobbyists, and Incumbent Board Vote for Change on Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009! Dear Family and Friends, I have decided to run for the Los Angeles Community College District Board of Trustees, Seat #7 because I no longer accept the big-spending incumbent board members and their lobbyist friends whose monopoly over public education is driving up fees and property taxes while driving away students and Angelenos' quality of life. I am the only candidate in the race for seat #7 who actually works full-time in the field of public education. I am a full-time elementary school administrator and a former teacher who has worked in elementary, middle, high school, community college, and university levels of instruction and/or administration. I am a former part-time instructor at LA Pierce College, CSUN, and College of the Canyons. I own my own small business, KidVestments sm, whereby I teach kids and teenagers about money and investments basics, because our K-12 schools and our community colleges don't demand financial literacy. I served honorably for 10 years and one day in the United States Navy's Reserve as an Intelligence Specialist and a commissioned Public Affairs Officer, with highest rank of Lieutenant (O3). I will fight to cut the cost of college textbooks for students by ending sweetheart publisher deals and by ending "shrink-wrapped" textbook packaging refund games. I will fight to reduce student fees for all students. I will fight to increase course offerings, while working within existing budgets, so students can graduate with an A.A. A.S. degree or transfer within two years. Students should be able to choose to get out in the world, or be ready to transfer within two years, if courses are available and if students access them. I will resist asking taxpayers, families, and students to voluntarily tax themselves to pay for services that the city and state should already largely be providing to community colleges through existing sales and/or property tax revenues. In other words, city and state should already be appropriately funding our community colleges. I will demand 100% independent oversight and accountability for existing bonds, including for the recently passed 3.5 billion dollar bond, Measure J. I will put students, taxpayers, and families first in these dire economic times and I will use the office as a platform from which I can enhance the image of our community colleges as attractive, more affordable alternatives for the first two years of college. I will demand that the LACCD Board of Trustees seek ways to revive our vocational education programs and apprenticeships, and begin to partner with the private sector to develop a reciprocal pipeline of talent and skills to and from our community colleges to small and large businesses and other job sectors. I will ask voters to pass legislation to LIMIT campaign spending for city/municipal offices to the maximum annual salary amount of the office for which a candidate campaigns. I will HOLD MYSELF and my colleagues on the LACCD Board of Trustees accountable to the goal of ending cronyism and quid-pro-quos and political favors the moment I sit down as the newest member of the LACCD Board of Trustees, in Seat # 7! Dear Friends, every election matters as ideas have consequences on people and pocketbooks. I need your help to get out my winning message! Join my campaign and help me throw out the incumbent so he can start working for a living like you and me! I thank you for your interest and I ask for your support and vote on March 3rd! My Fellow Angelenos, we will win this election! Respectfully Yours, Kurt S. Lowry School Administrator, LAUSD