About this site

I am currently a Governing Board Member of the San Carlos School District, elected November 2007 and again in November 2011. I created this site to keep in touch with folks who want to know more about what is happening in the District and what it's like to be a Trustee.

Please note that ANY OPINION EXPRESSED HERE IS PURELY PERSONAL AND DOES NOT NECESSARILY REFLECT OFFICIAL POSITIONS OR POLICY OF THE SAN CARLOS SCHOOL DISTRICT NOR THE OPINION OF ANY OF MY COLLEAGUES ON THE BOARD.

I encourage everyone to visit the District web site as well as attend School Board meetings.

Note that I reserve the right to edit, reject, or delete posts based on spelling, grammar, readability, or my judgment of what is appropriate discourse.

 

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Welcome to Our New Board Members

Last night we finished a process that we kicked off last month to appoint two new school board members from the vacancies created by Carrie Du Bois and Mark Olbert who each successfully ran for other political positions in the middle of their school board term. We had seven applicants for the appointments who [...]

Suing Your Brother

Although in many ways this is the perfect illustration of “inside baseball” and something that I’m sure most San Carlans were not aware of, the San Carlos School District was involved — along with the Sequoia Union High School District and the San Mateo County Community College District, in a lawsuit against the San Carlos [...]

Going the Appointment Route

Last night was the first meeting of the new board, which is now only three members, Beth Hunkapiller, new Board member Adam Rak, and myself. Two seats were vacated as both Carrie Du Bois and Mark Olbert won election to other positions in the middle of their terms. The board had the option [...]

Filling Two Vacancies

There were two important e-mails from the Superintendent this week regarding the next steps to fill the two school board vacancies left by Mark Olbert and Carrie Du Bois. Please take a look, and I encourage everyone to attend both these forums and the regular school board meetings on November 17th and December 8th.

As [...]

Victory, and Next Steps…

Although the election isn’t officially “certified” for a few weeks, the results are in. Thank you to all San Carlans for your overwhelming support for my candidacy. The final results from last night are:

SETH A. ROSENBLATT – 2,628 (40.9%)
ADAM RAK – 2,377 (37.0%)
PETER TZIFAS – 1,418 (22.1%)

Congratulations to my soon to be [...]

Do you Want to be Board Member? (Redux)

Also on the agenda for last Thursday’s board meeting was a discussion about the process for filling potential board vacancies after the November 8th election. Although the current board — by definition — wouldn’t be the one actually making any decisions on this matter, it seemed prudent to get some preliminary information to inform [...]

Facilities Push Continues

At Thursday night’s Board Meeting, the Superintendent recommended — and the Board agreed — to proceed on multiple parallel paths with regard to master facility planning and overall relief of our capacity/traffic/safety issues at the school district. Although these are all interrelated without any individual path guaranteed success, it was generally agreed that we [...]

Money for Safe Routes

One of the joint projects between the San Carlos School District and the City of San Carlos is “Safe Routes to Schools,” a multi-pronged effort to make it easier and safer for kids to get to school. As we have discussed many times in the past, our general capacity problem along with the fact [...]

Creative Thinking on New School Site

Last night, the Superintendent presented to the school board some of the ideas that he and his staff have been working on with regard to options for a new school site (or two). As we have discussed multiple times, the district has a space problem. In many ways we are the victims of [...]

Rallying the Troops

It’s hard to attract a lot of folks to an event on a Monday night, in the rain, to discuss education finance. But this Monday night almost 200 people attended the Educate Me! event we held at Mustang Hall. Hosted by Educate Our State, a parent-led advocacy group, the night was about making [...]