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• organized a group of Lee County parents who convinced the local school board to retain Advanced Placement classes in their high school, which the board had planned to eliminate
• changed the suspension policy in Lynchburg city schools from a mandatory 365-day suspension to offer appropriate alternative education and counseling
• received the endorsement of the Albemarle Education Association in our successful living wage campaign for Albemarle County Schools
• met with the field staff of the Virginia Education Association about their new efforts to gain adoption of living wage resolutions in school districts throughout the state
• included public school support issues in the tax reform campaign
• worked with the Independence Resource Center to do a survey of each school in Charlottesville in terms of accessibility; this led to the city maintenance department doing many improvements to the schools, with longer-term projects being worked into the capital improvements budget