- Loving husband and parent of two girls in the district.
- School Site Council at two schools in the district over the last six years.
- 21 years of corporate learning experience - instructional design, classroom delivery, and learning implementation.
- Charitable to schools through volunteering, chaperoning field trips and financial contributions to PTO’ and schools.
- Active volunteer in the community through Little League and Past President of Foothill Girls Softball League
Rescue Union School District - Board Member
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Dan Anzini
Parent / Learning and Banking Manager
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- Responsibly lead our district out of the pandemic...
- Explore creative strategies to update our aging facilities,...
- Ensure our talented teachers, classified staff, and...
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Sheila Fruge
Parent and Business Owner
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- Communication: Improve school board public engagement...
- Innovation: Clean energy facilities upgrades, streamlined...
- Equity: Closing the digital divide, access to food,...
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Lori Hebert, Director Bay Area BlendEd ConsortiumMary Cary Leitherer, Former Board Chair, Coloma Lotus Fire District, Former El Dorado County Grand Jury MemberMonica Newton, Credentialed Elementary School Teacher and El Dorado Hills MomChristopher Romero, Founder CEO of Making Meals MatterElena Jennison, El Dorado Hills Mom of Three
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Rebecca Weinstein-Hamilton
Attorney
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El Dorado County Democratic PartyFelicity Carlson, Director, Cameron Park Community Services District
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My Top 3 Priorities
- Responsibly lead our district out of the pandemic and return to normal soon. We must take steps to close the gap in student learning that has occurred over the last year.
- Explore creative strategies to update our aging facilities, technology, and infrastructure, while being responsible with taxpayer dollars.
- Ensure our talented teachers, classified staff, and district employees have the tools and resources they need to deliver a first class education for our students.
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- Rescue Union Federation of Teachers
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Business Owner/Parent
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My Top 3 Priorities
- Communication: Improve school board public engagement and district communications, mental health support, safety plans, transparency and accountability
- Innovation: Clean energy facilities upgrades, streamlined technology suite, hands on service and project based learning, maker spaces, inclusive evidence-based curriculum design
- Equity: Closing the digital divide, access to food, clothing and mental health resources, improve PBIS and support for special needs, gifted, foster, ESL, and other minority groups
Experience
Education
Evergreen State College — Bachelor of Arts, Business Administration (2000)
Biography
As a member of a bi-racial minority family, I'll bring a unique perspective and representation into the board room.
My professional background is in technology marketing and entrepreneurship. Our family legacy is one of service. My father is a veteran and retired nurse. My father in law served in three wars and finished his career as a Chicago police detective. We have several family members who have served in medicine, fire departments and the military. We respect and appreciate all the public servants in our town. We like to serve our community and model participatory citizenship for our boys.
Community Service Exerience
- Rescue Union School District LCAP Parent Advisory Committee Member
- El Dorado County SELPA's Community Advisory Committee, facilitated a well attended parent training
- Host family for Rescue Union School District's Chinese exchange student program
- George Hall Elementary school site council member
- Blue Heart International, helped a home makeover for a sex trafficking survivor
- Wrightslaw special education law and advocacy training
- Analytics chair for Women In Consulting
- Adjunct Instructor at UC Berkeley Extension
- Mentor at Hult International Business School
- Taproot foundation service projects: Curry Senior Center in San Francisco, The Wellness Community (Cancer Support) in Walnut Creek
- Mediator for the Palo Alo City Mediator Program
- YMCA before/after school staff
- Americorps, served full time for one year as an elementary school facilitator
Qualifications
- Planned and managed large corporate budgets
- Worked with diverse team members from around the world
- Managed cross functional stakeholder engagement at a Fortune 500
- Organized high visibility collaborative events such as a Consumer Electronics Show product launch and a Palo Alto City Art Walk
- Experienced with large scale technology systems: CRMs, CMS's, database integrations, project and portfolio management, and scrum methodology
- Online marketing and measurement
Who supports this candidate?
Individuals (5)
- Lori Hebert, Director Bay Area BlendEd Consortium
- Mary Cary Leitherer, Former Board Chair, Coloma Lotus Fire District, Former El Dorado County Grand Jury Member
- Monica Newton, Credentialed Elementary School Teacher and El Dorado Hills Mom
- Christopher Romero, Founder CEO of Making Meals Matter
- Elena Jennison, El Dorado Hills Mom of Three
Political Beliefs
Political Philosophy
I support diverse perspectives, civic engagement, parent, child and teacher choice. As a board member I will be responsive to staff, caregiver and child requests.
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Candidate Experience
Sheila Fruge Introduction — October 23, 2020
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Accountant/Caregiver
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Attorney / Grandmother
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My Top 3 Priorities
- Ensure the a uniform plan for providing for the education of all pupils while protecting the health and safety of teachers, pupils and staff during the pandemic.
- Ensuring that the district's budget appropriately covers the requirements of special needs students.
- Ensuring open lines of communication for parents and teachers with board members.
Experience
Experience
Profession:Attorney
Paralegal, Columbia Pictures Business Affairs (1986–1992)
Production Assistant, Warner Brothers Television "Night Court" (1984–1985)
Production Associate, Sony Pictures Television "Days of Our Lives" (1983–1984)
Secretary, NBC (1980–1983)
Education
Glendale University College of Law — Juris Doctor (J.D), Law (1992)
Pasadena City College — A.A., Telecommunications (1979)
University of Santa Clara — N/A, History (1966)
Biography
I am the oldest of eight children. I married young and raised three children. After a divorce, I started work in the entertainment business, watching the attorneys I worked with and realized I could do that work, so I went to law school at night while working full-time. After passing the bar, I remarried and started a tiny law practice just as the 1994 earthquake hit, and by luck had some of the first resulting cases, which kept me going for 10 years. In 2001, my husband was about ready to retire, so we moved to El Dorado Hills to be near our grandchildren and my new job in a Folsom law firm. I retired 10 years later to spend more time with my husband, who, unfortunately passed away the next year. I have split my time with my grandchildren, and a couple great children, working part time from my home office and some traveling.
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Featured Endorsements
- El Dorado County Democratic Party
- Felicity Carlson, Director, Cameron Park Community Services District
Political Beliefs
Political Philosophy
I was raised by a Catholic mother and an agnostic Jewish father. My father and his family were refugees from Russia who truly appreciated being in America and becoming citizens. I was raised a Catholic and was educated in Catholic school where we were taught the importance of caring for the poor and marginalized. That philosophy stuck, and I realized that it was the democratic party that most closely matched the principles I believed in, and, despite being disappointed with the behavior of some politicians in the Party, I have never regretted my decision. I believe that the job of government is to support the welfare of all the people. That means the government needs to support and be guided by health experts, climate science. I firmly believe that we must all have empathy for the downtrodden, the ill, the poor and those on the margins.
