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Mike Rawlings on Education

Public-private partnerships are critical to public schools

Let families know they can depend on our public schools

Create regular, measureable metrics to monitor the progress we are making and it needs to be reported back to the community on a regular basis. We must rebuild faith in the system and in the schools. We can do this by marketing our efforts, reporting our successes and letting our families know that we've got our priorities straight and that they can depend on our public schoo

Lobby for public school funding and initiatives

• Bring together urban mayors of Texas to lobby for public school funding and initiatives.
• Bring together the mayors of the cities who are part of Dallas Independent School District (DISD) to leverage relationships, ideas and best practices.
• Public-Private Partnership.
• DISD Education Army.
• Recruit, train & engage a volunteer force.
• DISD & City Council Briefings: Improve communication between DISD and the City. One simple example is the DISD Police: is there a way that we can provide public safety for DISD through the Dallas Police Dept in a more cost efficient manner and free up those DISD funds to go back into our schools?
• Measure & Report Successes.