Budget should allocate resources to schools equitably as opposed to equally, so students with greater needs get a greater share.

What she says about:

New teachers contract: Growing cost of retiree health care needs to be addressed. Contract needs to hold teachers more accountable for student growth or decline. Should include a baseline number of teachers of different races and ethnicities.

Superintendent Kriner Cash’s performance: He is doing a “phenomenal” job and School Board should extend his contract by making him an offer “he cannot refuse.” However, would like him to do more to address the civil rights complaint urging that more black and Hispanic students be admitted to City Honors.

Backing: District Parent Coordinating Council

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Candidate: Kathy Evans-Brown

Age: 64

Occupation: Project coordinator for Buffalo Urban League; adjunct instructor at Empire State College conducting student evaluations