For every school board election, the San Carlos Educational Foundation hosts a candidate forum for those running for school board. We colloquially refer to them as the “debates,” but they are really about giving an opportunity for the community to hear from each of the candidates, their background, their reasons for running for office, [...]
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I’m proud to be involved in organizing a fabulous event. I will be speaking there, but more importantly, you will hear from organizations such as Children Now and Educate Our State! who are building a growing movement and creating initiatives to fix our broken educational finance system. Many of you have seen my [...] Today I sent an e-mail out announcing a series of community forums as part of my campaign for re-election to the San Carlos School Board. I did these four years ago, and found them to be extremely valuable for both myself and the people attending. In an informal setting, we can discuss both [...] California parents, prospective parents, education professionals, and other caring citizens often wait anxiously for the one day each year that they found out how their school performed in the annual API (Academic Performance Index) reports. Today was that day. Once again, San Carlos schools performed exceptionally well (although due to a computer glitch, [...] Welcome back to school! This year started with a lot of excitement, promise and some ambitious goals — including kicking off a set of community conversations and learning on 21st Century Learning and Global Education as well developing plans to meet the growing facilities capacity needs of the district. However, there was one lingering issue [...] Friends and Supporters, Today I officially filed the paperwork to run for re-election to the San Carlos School Board. The filing period goes until August 12 (or potentially August 17), so there is no way to know who else may file. Two seats are up for election, so unless two or more other people [...] We just received news that the San Carlos Education Foundation has — once again — reached its fundraising goal for this year and — once again — reached an all-time high for money raised for San Carlos schools. SCEF raised over $2 million this year, a truly outstanding number, particularly when you realize that [...] The following e-mail was sent out today from John Nazar, principal of Tierra Linda Middle School: Dear Tierra Linda Parent Community, It gives me great pleasure to announce that at last night’s Board meeting, School Board Trustees approved the appointment of Tierra Linda Middle School’s new Assistant Principal. Please join me in welcoming Loraine Rossi, a former [...] Last Thursday night, the School Board discussed the new proposed Wellness Policy for the district. This was a product of an SCSD Wellness Committee formed nine months ago. The committee was comprised of school and district staff, a board trustee, parents and community members (including a pediatrician and dietician), and they were charged [...] Friends and Supporters, As has been my custom, I am sending an end-of-the-year update to summarize the happenings in the San Carlos School District. It has been a remarkable year in so many ways (and you may have read my periodic blog updates), but I will try to summarize most of it here. On a personal [...] |
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