Deloris Roach

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Deloris Roach

Democratic Party

Prior offices:

Emery Unified School District school board At-large

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Education

Bachelor's

University of California, Berkeley

Graduate

San Francisco State University

Personal

Profession

Business owner

Contact

Personal website

Deloris Roach was a nonpartisan candidate for an at-large seat on the Vacaville Board of Education in California. The seat was up for general election on November 4, 2014. Deloris Roach lost the general election on November 4, 2014.

Biography

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Deloris Roach is a resident of Solano County, California. Roach earned her B.A. in journalism from the University of California at Berkeley and her M.A. degree in communications from San Francisco State University. She owns and operates her own business.

Roach is a member of the Northern Solano Democratic Club and the Solano County Democratic Central Committee. She spent five years as a board member with the Emery Unified School District.

Elections

2014

See also: Vacaville Unified School District elections (2014)

The election in Vacaville featured four at-large seats up for general election on November 4, 2014. Incumbents Shelley Dally and Whit Whitman joined challenger Jeremy Jeffreys in winning three seats with four-year terms by defeating incumbent David McCallum and challengers Deloris Roach, Judith D. Ruggiero and Tracee Stacy. Jeffreys, Ruggiero and Stacy ran together as the "Classrooms First" candidate slate. Challenger Shawn Windham defeated incumbent Chris Flask for a seat with a two-year term.

Results

Vacaville Unified School District,
At-Large General Election, 4-year term, 2014

Party		Candidate	Vote %	Votes
	Nonpartisan	Whit Whitman Incumbent	16.4%	7,238
	Nonpartisan	Jeremy Jeffreys	15.5%	6,838
	Nonpartisan	Shelley Dally Incumbent	15.2%	6,712
	Nonpartisan	Tracee Stacy	13.7%	6,067
	Nonpartisan	David McCallum Incumbent	12.9%	5,717
	Nonpartisan	Deloris Roach	12.9%	5,709
	Nonpartisan	Judith D. Ruggiero	12.9%	5,704
	Nonpartisan	Write-in votes	0.4%	195
Total Votes				44,180
Source: Solano County Registrar of Voters, "Solano County Election: 2014 General," accessed January 2, 2015

Funding

Candidates had to file contribution reports within 24 hours of receiving an aggregate total of $1,000 or more from a single source. The first scheduled pre-election report filing deadline was October 6, 2014. If candidates raised or spent less than $1,000 during the 2013 and 2014 calendar years, they had to file Form 470 at that time. If candidates raised or spent more during that time, they had to file Form 460 by the pre-election report filing deadline.

Candidates required to file Form 460 also had to file a second pre-election report on October 23, 2014, and they had to file termination reports by December 31, 2014. If a termination report was not filed, candidates had to file a semi-annual report by February 2, 2015.

The Solano County Registrar of Voters does not publish and freely disclose school board candidate campaign finance reports.

Endorsements

Roach received endorsements from the Vacaville Teachers Association, the Solano County Democratic Party, State Assembly member Mariko Yamada (D-4), State Assembly member Jim Frazier (D-11), Solano County Board of Supervisors Member Linda Seifert, the Napa-Solano Labor Council, the Napa Solano Building and Construction Trades Council and Sheet Metal Workers Local Union #104.

Campaign themes

2014

Roach published her platform on her campaign website:

“	A quality education for every student is my number one priority. This means getting all students and teachers all the resources they need. I will work to: Make our traditional public schools every parent’s First Choice. The popularity of charter schools in our district indicates that many parents don’t have the confidence in our regular schools that they should. We need to work to give all of our public schools an exemplary learning experience and reputation. However, the present board’s recent approval of a private charter school (one not overseen by the school board) was a giveaway of taxpayer money that will cost us approximately $1.4 to $2.8 million dollars a year in lost revenue. I will never support this kind of decision. And you need to decide if you want to keep those who did when you vote this November. Ensure the new state standards are implemented in a way that benefits all students, and one that gives teachers the flexibility to choose the curriculum to help students meet the standards. The necessary technical resources – computers and internet access must also be readily available. The standards are state law and must be implemented. Ensure the Local Control and Accountability Plan is implemented to meet its goal of serving students who are English learners, poor or living in foster homes. Every child deserves a quality education. Early intervention is the key. The solutions listed in the plan must be fully executed. (For more on the plan visit the Vacaville Unified School District’s website at www.vacavilleusd.org .) Find innovative ways to help solve old problems – absenteeism; the “achievement gap;” and student drop-out rate. a. bsenteeism costs the district thousands of dollars each year. For example, at one school alone, during the 2012-13 school year, unexcused absences caused a loss of nearly $300,000. Chronic absenteeism is also a key indicator of a student’s likelihood of dropping out of school. b. The “achievement gap” can be helped if the Local Control and Accountability Plan is followed. c. Vacaville’s drop-out rate is higher than some of the other larger surrounding districts. Ensure equity among our schools, giving each student similar facilities and educational opportunities. Currently, this is not the case. Ensure our district remains financially solvent. It is currently in deficit spending of approximately 4.2 million. We need to go after any additional state money available to upgrade schools’ high speed internet capabilities. We should go after any state money we can find to reduce class size and every dime we can get under the Local Control Funding Formula to assist low-income schools/students. And, the district needs to do more long-range financial planning – two-year, five-year and even 10-year projections (this is doable even with the state’s year-to-year shaky funding possibilities). Finally, we should think innovatively and work with the private sector to find more sponsorship dollars – big-time grants, and in-kind assistance for public schools.	”
—Deloris Roach campaign website (2014)

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See also

• Vacaville Unified School District, California
• Vacaville Unified School District elections (2014)

External links

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• Vacaville Unified School District
• Campaign website
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