DAWN ADDIS is a City Councilmember, teacher, and mom, with a 20-year record of leadership in our Central Coast communities. Dawn is the Democratic Party endorsed candidate in this Assembly race.As a Morro Bay Councilmember, Dawn has worked to promote economic development, improve local infrastructure, and protect the things that make the Central Coast such a special place to live. Her long record of community involvement includes co-founding the Women’s March in San Luis Obispo (WMSLO), which drew a crowd of around 10,000 people in 2017 and has since grown into a successful nonprofit organization.
As a special education teacher in our Central Coast schools, I have seen the successes and the failures of our public education system. Our schools are underfunded and continuing to cut basic functions, including school nurses, libraries, and art and music programs. We know that early-childhood education, extra-curricular activities, and after-school programs play a critical role in improving outcomes for students, and I’ll fight to increase funding for these programs. California’s public higher education system through the CSU, UC and Community College systems are the best in the country, but they won’t stay that way if we don’t support them. I’ll work with our higher education leaders to lower costs for students.