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PUSD Getting Ready to Welcome Student Assembly and Council Members

Our proposed structure prioritizes student voice, and will be one of the first of its kind in California. Student voices should be uplifted through a structure that allows all students to decide the best choice is for our own education. By giving students at each high school a platform to speak out, students will feel like the Board is listening to their opinions, and the Board can make decisions that would benefit PUSD’s larger student body. The goal of our structure is to improve students’ experiences at PUSD schools, and incentivize them to get involved with issues they feel passionate about. Gabrielle Trujillo

PUSD’s Student Think Tank has been working with district administrators and the Board of Education to create opportunities for student representatives from high school campuses to serve as Council members on PUSD’s Board of Education. Candidates from four high school campuses (Blair, Marshall, Muir, and PHS) have created videos about themselves to inform fellow students before they cast votes.

The videos are available on PUSD’s portal, pusd.us/studentassembly.

The videos will be available up until March 22 and ballots will be distributed at high school campuses between March 20-22. Newly elected assembly members will be announced on Monday, March 25, and student Assembly and Council members will be sworn in at the March 28 PUSD Board of Education meeting.

For more on how the student assembly was developed  click here to read a story from Student Think Tank member Gabrielle Trujillo.

Banner photo: After presenting at the Board of Education meeting, PUSD Student Think Tank members pose with district Board of Education members, district administrators including then-Superintendent Dr. Brian McDonald, and Ethnic Studies lead teachers; April 2022