Seth Rosenblatt - San Carlos School Board » Community http://rosenblatt.org/blog Reflections and musings on education and other local issues Wed, 01 Feb 2012 04:58:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Welcome to Our New Board Members http://rosenblatt.org/blog/2012/01/13/welcome-to-our-new-board-members/ http://rosenblatt.org/blog/2012/01/13/welcome-to-our-new-board-members/#comments Fri, 13 Jan 2012 19:38:56 +0000 Seth http://rosenblatt.org/blog/?p=851 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 [...]]]> http://rosenblatt.org/blog/2012/01/13/welcome-to-our-new-board-members/feed/ 0 Suing Your Brother http://rosenblatt.org/blog/2011/12/16/suing-your-brother/ http://rosenblatt.org/blog/2011/12/16/suing-your-brother/#comments Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:29:48 +0000 Seth http://rosenblatt.org/blog/?p=836 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 [...]]]> http://rosenblatt.org/blog/2011/12/16/suing-your-brother/feed/ 0 Going the Appointment Route http://rosenblatt.org/blog/2011/12/16/going-the-appointment-route/ http://rosenblatt.org/blog/2011/12/16/going-the-appointment-route/#comments Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:15:15 +0000 Seth http://rosenblatt.org/blog/?p=829 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 [...]]]> http://rosenblatt.org/blog/2011/12/16/going-the-appointment-route/feed/ 0 Filling Two Vacancies http://rosenblatt.org/blog/2011/11/13/filling-two-vacancies/ http://rosenblatt.org/blog/2011/11/13/filling-two-vacancies/#comments Sun, 13 Nov 2011 15:11:46 +0000 Seth http://rosenblatt.org/blog/?p=810 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 [...]]]> http://rosenblatt.org/blog/2011/11/13/filling-two-vacancies/feed/ 0 Victory, and Next Steps… http://rosenblatt.org/blog/2011/11/09/victory-and-next-steps/ http://rosenblatt.org/blog/2011/11/09/victory-and-next-steps/#comments Wed, 09 Nov 2011 15:47:22 +0000 Seth http://rosenblatt.org/blog/?p=797 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 [...]]]> http://rosenblatt.org/blog/2011/11/09/victory-and-next-steps/feed/ 3 Do you Want to be Board Member? (Redux) http://rosenblatt.org/blog/2011/10/30/do-you-want-to-be-board-member-redux/ http://rosenblatt.org/blog/2011/10/30/do-you-want-to-be-board-member-redux/#comments Sun, 30 Oct 2011 16:10:09 +0000 Seth http://rosenblatt.org/blog/?p=786 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 [...]]]> http://rosenblatt.org/blog/2011/10/30/do-you-want-to-be-board-member-redux/feed/ 0 Facilities Push Continues http://rosenblatt.org/blog/2011/10/30/facilities-push-continues/ http://rosenblatt.org/blog/2011/10/30/facilities-push-continues/#comments Sun, 30 Oct 2011 15:32:37 +0000 Seth http://rosenblatt.org/blog/?p=781 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 [...]]]> http://rosenblatt.org/blog/2011/10/30/facilities-push-continues/feed/ 0 Money for Safe Routes http://rosenblatt.org/blog/2011/10/21/money-for-safe-routes/ http://rosenblatt.org/blog/2011/10/21/money-for-safe-routes/#comments Sat, 22 Oct 2011 02:21:23 +0000 Seth http://rosenblatt.org/blog/?p=777 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 [...]]]> http://rosenblatt.org/blog/2011/10/21/money-for-safe-routes/feed/ 1 Creative Thinking on New School Site http://rosenblatt.org/blog/2011/10/14/creative-thinking-on-new-school-site/ http://rosenblatt.org/blog/2011/10/14/creative-thinking-on-new-school-site/#comments Fri, 14 Oct 2011 17:23:18 +0000 Seth http://rosenblatt.org/blog/?p=765 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 [...]]]> http://rosenblatt.org/blog/2011/10/14/creative-thinking-on-new-school-site/feed/ 0 Rallying the Troops http://rosenblatt.org/blog/2011/10/05/rallying-the-troops/ http://rosenblatt.org/blog/2011/10/05/rallying-the-troops/#comments Wed, 05 Oct 2011 22:10:30 +0000 Seth http://rosenblatt.org/blog/?p=757 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 [...]]]> http://rosenblatt.org/blog/2011/10/05/rallying-the-troops/feed/ 0