TOM TORLAKSON

ANALYSIS:

Tom Torlakson is a Democrat running in the 2010 election for Superintendent of Public Instruction. Torlakson was born in Daly City on July 19, 1949 and he ais a Vietnam veteran, serving in Guam, Vietnam being a Merchant Marine. He later moved on to his education and attended UC Berkeley as a History major. He has been an activist for fitness with help of his high school cross country team, then moving forward to being a fitness coach and starting “State Fitness Month” where fitness is the main focus and a healthier lifestyle. He also have a teaching background, being a teacher and taking part in the CA Federation of Teachers and CA Teachers Association.

POSITION AND PLATFORM:

Running for Superintendent of Public Instruction, Tom Torlakson has many ideas on what to implement on the state of California, looking back to all that he has done and connecting it all together. Torlakson plans to fund California schools to increase from our rank 47 out of 50 states of funding. Torlakson would also apply more security in schools to motivate parents to take their children to public schools that are close to their neighborhood. In this twenty-first century, Torlakson wants to ensure that the younger generations are up to speed with technology, having enough funding for learning and using a large amount of funding to modernize public schools. Coming from a fitness and healthy lifestyle background, Tom Torlakson plans to give better health care to the children, more fitness classes for public schools and granting better food to fit their healthy lifestyles. Not only does Tom Torlakson want to impact the lives of the younger generations and public schools but he demands that parents get more involved with their children and with the school system promoting parents to volunteer more at school and have more events where parents come together with their children. Tom Torlakson wants California to have the best high education and he plans to do so by rebuilding the education system.

SUPPORT AND OPPOSITION:

Tom Torlakson has many endorsers the main contributors being teachers, organizations around the state, organizations, state legislatures, city councilmen and officers (firefighters and policemen). There are many San Diego local groups and endorsers as well as many California contributors that are glad to be behind Tom Torlakson. For exact endorsers, please click endorsers.