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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It’s Official

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 file to run, there won’t be an election at all. Generally I believe elections are very healthy for the community as they promote a solid dialog about the issues, but we won’t know for sure for a few weeks. You can keep track of all candidates who filed at the San Mateo County Elections Office website.

In any case, I am preparing for a campaign this fall. Please note I will not be asking anyone for donations! However, I do ask for your endorsement. If you would like me to put your name down on my list of endorsers, please let me know. I am working on launching my campaign web site, and if there is indeed an election, I will list endorsers there.

Obviously I will keep everyone informed as the filing period comes to a close and the campaign kicks off in earnest. You can always check out updates on my blog. Despite the difficult financial circumstances in which we find ourselves, I am very optimistic about the future of our school district and what we can accomplish over the next four years. Thank you again for your support!

July 19th, 2011 | Category: Communications, Community | Leave a comment

Why SCEF is so successful

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 this is approaching 10% of the entire school district budget. It’s unimaginable what this school district would be like without SCEF.

I did a bit of digging through all of the old annual reports since my kids have been students here, and the chart below shows a remarkable growth curve. From raising under $300,000 in the 2003/2004 school year to over $2 million today, SCEF has seen a 31% compound annual growth rate.

Growth in SCEF fundraising

Growth in SCEF fundraising

I attribute this success to a number of factors:

  • Strong leadership — All of the SCEF Presidents that I have seen — Carrie Du Bois, Laura Neish, April Carlson, Kendra Lerner, Jennifer Webb, Sallie Gasparini, and Jennifer Kaufman — as well as all of the other SCEF board members throughout the years have been passionate leaders and have worked tirelessly to make the organization successful.
  • A passionate group of parents – the number of total volunteer hours is absolutely incredible. It has just become part of the culture of this school community to volunteer, and it pays off. In addition, teachers and other District employees understand how critical the role of SCEF is, so they also support the foundation immensely.
  • The financial crisis – no doubt that the continued financial woes at the state level and the continuing budget cuts have galvanized many parents and other community members to do whatever they could to support our schools. In addition to passing parcel taxes (which we did), the most direct way that people were able to help was by supporting SCEF.
  • Emulating what worked elsewhere — About seven years ago, this community made a strategic shift to make SCEF the central fundraiser for all seven schools, and PTAs agreed to reduce their role in fundraising (for those of us who were around back then, you may remember that each PTA use to have a “direct ask” of its parents). Back then we looked at other communities like Menlo Park where a singular foundation became the focus of it’s fundraising efforts. Although there was some initial concerns among parents to reduce site-based fundraising, the incredible growth of SCEF proved it to be the right decision, as the total amount raised went up seven-fold in as many years. We are now the model for many other communities in the Bay Area who look to San Carlos in how to structure its fundraising.

It is the last point which is very important to reiterate. Notwithstanding the “grand bargain” that was made seven years ago to severely curtail site-based funding, we are starting to slip back into old habits. This is due to both turnover of parents who no longer have the context for the original decision as well as the financial crisis which clearly fueled a commendable desire for parents to do whatever they could to raise money, including at the site level. In some schools, site-based fundraising has really stepped up in the last couple of years, but in many ways I think this is counterproductive to our larger goals, because the bottom line is that centralized fundraising is more effective and more efficient. Take for example, the annual fundraising dinner that happens in Town every June. I helped start that event with the Avenir Restaurant Group about five years ago when I was on the SCEF Board. This partnership between SCEF and this amazing local business was accomplished because the restaurant wasn’t any longer being hit up for money by seven different schools, but rather could work with one entity to strategically develop a partnership that was beneficial to both sides. Now Avenir’s contribution to our schools dwarfs whatever they would have given had they just written a check to each school. It’s interesting to note that the money raised by that one night at Town exceeds more than half the total amount raised by some school PTAs for an entire year!

First, we must congratulate the current SCEF leadership and all of its volunteers for another amazing year and for helping ensure we can deliver the quality education that we have come to expect in San Carlos. In particular, I want to thank Sallie and Jennifer for their hard work over the last two years. Secondly, we must pledge our continued support to SCEF and its incoming leadership team for 2011-2012. But lastly, and perhaps most importantly, we should re-commit ourselves to the pact we made seven years ago and ask PTAs to significantly restrict (or eliminate) fundraising at each site. (Perhaps even the traditional “fun runs” and similar events can just become SCEF fundraisers.) PTAs would rather be free to focus on their real mission, and partcularly spend time and effort on advocacy to help change the broken state structural education finance system. Although I appreciate that this will make many parents nervous and feel some loss of “control” over the money that returns to their site, history has proven that by worrying less about our relative slice of the pie will actually make the entire pie grow so much more as to make the argument moot.

July 1st, 2011 | Category: Community, Finances, Reflections | Leave a comment

New Vice Principal at Tierra Linda

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 teacher at Central Middle School. Ms. Rossi has expertise in program development, student discipline, and instructional methodology. She is very excited to join the TL staff, and is already fast-becoming a valued member of the TL community.

Ms. Rossi has a wealth of experience and expertise that she brings to our school community. Since 2009, while serving as a Special Education teacher, she has led the redesign of the CMS Special Education program. She has been an active member of the School Site Council and the PTA, and she has provided much valued professional development to the teachers.

Ms. Rossi has also taught at the high school level and has served as a research consultant. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of San Diego, a Masters of Education degree from Notre Dame de Namur, and she is currently working on her doctorate at the University of San Francisco.

I look forward to introducing Ms. Rossi to our parent community as soon as school starts up again in the fall. I know you will be as impressed with her as I have been.

Regards,

John Nazar, Principal
Tierra Linda Middle School

We wish a warm welcome to Ms. Rossi, and we look forward to seeing you around campus!

July 1st, 2011 | Category: Community | Leave a comment

When Traditions are Just Dumb

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 with developing a comprehensive wellness policy, which most consider long overdue. They researched and reviewed numerous school policies, reviewed the most modern practices, and received input from principals, school staff, School Site Councils, and Site PTAs.

The Wellness Policy and associate administrative regulations are meant to cover a broad range of topics, including children’s emotional, social, and physical well being. However, our discussion on Thursday centered around the areas of food and nutrition policies. Of course everyone believes we should promote good nutrition and nutritional education, but there was quite a bit of disagreement on the Board as to how prescriptive our policies should be here. The Wellness Committee actually recommened implementing some very specific and prescriptive rules, with which I agree wholeheartedly.

There is this tradition in this town (like many others) where parents (and sometimes teachers) bring in treats for the whole class, especially around birthdays and other celebrations. Some of these celebrations are a bit out of control, and of course in any given school year there could be one birthday a week in any given class! The volume of cookies, cupcakes, candy, and other junk that we give our kids is just staggering. Each teacher handles these situations in a different way, but it’s pretty hard to say no to a well-meaning, involved parent who brings in 24 cupcakes for the entire class to celebrate their child’s birthday.

At our Board meeting, I outlined what I believe our core principles and values should be in such a wellness policy:

  • We take care of children when they are in our custody — that means feeding them well, etc.
  • Parents don’t have the right to implicitly or explicitly make food choices for children other than their own
  • Food shouldn’t be a reward for behavior at all
  • Staff needs unambiguous guidelines/policies to enforce all of the above

Fortunately, on the third point above (using food as a reward), there was universal agreement among the Board members that this should not be allowed. And we have also dealt with some of the institutional issues such as consolidating our hot lunch program to one which will give healthy, environmentally friendly lunch choices for all students. But the area of controversy seems to the use case of the parent (or a teacher) bringing in sweets for an entire class, often to celebrate a birthday or some other occasion.

A few of my colleagues thought we should just focus on better educating the community on healthy food choices, and that any regulations restricting such activity were “heavy handed.” I was frankly shocked by this point of view. I have heard some people – including Sarah Palin - view this as an issue of personal liberties of parents. In decrying an effort by Pennsylvania schools to have their kids eat more healthy, she asked if it should it be the government or the parents who should make the decision about what kids can eat at school. This argument has a fundamental fallacy — restricting these activities actually gives greater liberty and choices to parents! If a school district allows parents to bring in a classroom full of cupcakes for every child, that district is allowing that one parent to take away the choice of every other parent! When one parent brings in cupcakes for the entire class, it is the rare kid who is going to turn it down! The child is effectively a captive consumer, and one parent has essentially made the food choices for two dozen others without their consent! I would say the rights of those other parents to make choices about their own child certainly trump the right of one parent!

No one — including myself — is suggesting in any way that we “ban” these foods altogether and restrict the right of parents to bring food in for their OWN child. That is your choice and right as a parent. But particularly with childhood obesity quickly becoming one of the biggest public health crises facing this country, it is appalling that as a school district we would be comfortable allowing one parent to make these decisions for children other than their own. And in order to implement any policy effectively, teachers and principals need very clear rules — anything short of that will invite negotiations with parents on an ad hoc basis, not a position in which I want to place our staff.

We need to lead. We need to be bold. If traditions are dumb, we should smash them. Let’s not be on the wrong side of history — we’ll look back five years from now and laugh that we even had this debate — it will be obvious that these types of foods shouldn’t be allowed in school, and it will be so imbedded in our culture that we won’t imagine that we ever did it any other way. Let’s preserve the rights of parents to make healthy choices for their OWN kids and allow the district to take care of students while they are under our care. This is a long overdue — but healthy — change we can make in the culture now.

June 25th, 2011 | Category: Community, Reflections | Leave a comment

End of Year Update

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 note, my family reaches a milestone by no longer having an elementary school student.  Both our kids will be at Tierra Linda next year, but I do want to remark how wonderful our experience at Arundel has been over these last seven years, and I want to thank all of the teachers and staff there who made such a difference in my kids’ lives.

Public education in California has had a tough time of it ever since I joined the School Board four years ago. Budgets have been cut by the state every year, and this year we went on quite the roller coaster ride in terms of understanding where our financial position would land.  However, we have made it through all of this, albeit with painful cuts in some places, but remarkably better than many other districts.  This is largely due to three factors:

  • The continued growth and success of the San Carlos Educational Foundation, which is on target to meet its $2 million goal this year!
  • Our growing student enrollment (which secures more state funding, but brings in other challenges which I'll discuss below)
  • The proactive work and success around the launch of our "enterprise" programs and grant efforts, including our SMART-E program and support from groups like the Sequoia Healthcare District.

Superintendent Baker continues to demonstrate remarkable leadership, and we are lucky to have him at the helm of this district.  He works as hard as anyone, and he is tenaciously focused on continual improvement while also leading a culture of respect and professionalism.   This year he has focused a lot on building a culture of professional learning and development at all sites and has employed a Teacher Leadership Council to support grass roots efforts to enhance our curriculum.  Another big initiative he led this year was doing a re-alignment of some of the administrators' responsibilities, including consolidating responsibilities under a new Director of Curriculum, Instruction and Accountability, as well as moving a number of principal and vice principal positions to best leverage the skills of our staff.  By all measures, these moves have proven to be very successful, and I have only gotten positive feedback from parents on the changes.

One of the biggest events of the year was the passage of Measure A, the replacement for the expiring Measure D parcel tax.  Voters approved it by an overwhelming 81.5%, the highest voted parcel tax measure in the state!  Although this doesn't bring in additional money relative to what we've received in the past, it's passage ensures that we don't lose this vital revenue stream.  Thanks to everyone who volunteered or donated to the campaign and who voted for the measure. 

An area which required a lot of time and effort this year was completing negotiations between the District and the San Carlos Charter Learning Center around our new working agreement as well as approving their revised charter to become a separate non-profit entity.  Although these changes were largely administrative and "inside baseball" in nature, it required an enormous amount of time to get it all done!  Even with these changes to the school's legal authority, responsibility, and liability, CLC continues to operate as before with minimal effect on the staff, students, or the overall programs offered.

Other notable updates from this year include the following:

  • We were able to update a number of outdated district policies, including those related to movies and multimedia, allergies, animals in classrooms, independent study, outside observation, fundraising and gifts, and we are close to completing new bullying/harassment and wellness policies.
  • After a bit of a slower start than expected, the SMART-E after-school, preschool, and camp programs began to expand and are getting great reviews from parents and kids.
  • We selected a new, district-wide hot lunch vendor to begin this Fall — the new program will focus on healthy choices and include environmentally-friendly packaging.
  • The District has been working with the city on improving some of the traffic, safety, and parking issues around some of the school sites — this is a work in progress (with quite a bit more to do), but there have been improvements in terms of curb painting, sign maintenance, enforcement, as well as education and encouragement for walking/biking to school.
  • SCSD has been proactive in launching professional development programs for all staff members to prepare for the Common Core Standards in English Language Arts and Mathematics that over 40 states will switch to in about three years.  Our team is very excited about these new standards, and there will be a lot of work in the coming years to prepare for them.

Of course, there is always so much more to do, and I have a few predictions on what we'll see this coming year.  I think two of the biggest themes for next year will likely be "21st Century Learning" and Facilities/Transportation.  We have talked for a while what a 21st century education looks like, but it would likely include figuring out better ways to incorporate technology (electronic textbooks, maybe?) as well as assessing students more consistently with our "whole child" mission.   The issues of facilities is a big one for us — it is clear that we need to plan for building a new school in the next few years and/or add significant capacity at some our existing sites.  Clearly this will be both an operational and financial challenge.

Other areas where you'll likely see updates this coming year include the following:

  • We're not out of the woods yet with regard to budget — there are still many uncertainties with respect to the state budget, so I predict we will continue to focus a lot of energy on managing our resources and this uncertainty.  And maybe — just maybe — there will be a chance to restore some of the programs and other investments that had to be trimmed back over the last four years.
  • We will likely change our policies regarding what fees are charged to students for many items, including band instruments, P.E. uniforms, school supplies, and perhaps others.  This is both in response to a landmark settlement of a lawsuit between the ACLU and the L.A. Unified School District as well as a realization that we are not providing all of the materials and support required as part of a free public education.
  • We will have a new Vice Principal at Tierra Linda, and I suspect that position will be filled shortly.
  • We have been in serious discussions with the San Carlos Children's Theater about a partnership to give them a permanent space while offering more programs to our student.  As you can imagine, this is a challenge given our facility constraints, but I believe we will find some creative solutions to create a win-win here.

Last, but certainly not least, this year will have a school board election.  Two seats will be open, one of them being mine (the other being Tom Quiggle's).  It's hard to believe it's been four years already!  This has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my life, and I have grown more passionate every year for the cause of promoting public education and the issues that face our children.  I have gotten more involved in regional and state activities around advocacy and education.  I am speaking at more events, including the California School Boards Association annual conference, and I have recently been elected President of the San Mateo County School Boards Association, which represents all of the school boards in the county and supports governance teams and advocates on behalf of our students.   California has a fundamentally broken education finance system, and I feel strongly about being part of the movement to change it.  It's a long uphill battle, but one worth fighting.

But the most rewarding part of being a school board members is serving this community — I get to personally witness our progress and success as well as the enormous contribution that everyone makes to ensure we deliver an exceptional education to all of our students, despite all of these structural problems we have inherited.  I would like to believe that I have brought dedication, engagement, energy, thoughtfulness, and good judgment to the role, and that all of this in some way helps to promote our progress.  Naturally, there's still a lot more that I'd like to do and believe that we can do together. 

Therefore, I am officially announcing my candidacy for re-election to the San Carlos School Board.  I will file the papers over the summer, and the election will be November 8, 2011.  I will naturally keep you all informed as the campaign kicks off, and you can read updates on my blog at www.rosenblatt.org.   Once again I wanted to thank you for your support of both me personally as well as our school district!

Best regards,
Seth

June 4th, 2011 | Category: Communications, Community, Education, Finances, Reflections | One comment

Elbow Room

At last Thursday’s Board meeting, we had a very important and overdue discussion about our facilities planning. As any parent in the District knows, our schools are crowded! We will have over 3,200 students next year in a set of campuses that were designed to hold something closer to 2,600 students.

The chart below shows the steady growth in enrollment we have experienced over the last decade:

Growth in San Carlos School District

Growth in San Carlos School District

Even in my four years on the board, enrollment has grown by approximately 14%! In many ways, we are the victims of our own success. Ask any local realtor, and they will tell you that the #1 reason why families move to San Carlos is because of the reputation of its public schools. In the scheme of problems to have, this is a high quality one to have. But it is a problem nonetheless. Squeezing in more and more students does impact the quality of our school campuses in many ways, including:

  • More crowded classrooms (although class size increases were also driven by budget constraints over the last three years)
  • More portables on campus which have become permanent
  • Fewer dedicated rooms for programs such as art, music, and science
  • Reduced playground and multi-space for school-wide activities, recess, lunch, assemblies, etc.
  • Safety and traffic issues around a number of the schools

Some campuses are more affected by some of the above than others, but in general we are impacted everywhere. Also, there is no reason to suspect that enrollment will go down anytime soon, and if anything it is likely to go up again. However, one of the points that came up in our meeting was that even if enrollment were to stay flat (or even go down a bit), we’d still need to add extra capacity somewhere in the District.

All Board members agreed that we need to kick off a facililties planning process to plan for our needs over the next decade. We also agreed that we need to figure out how to add capacity in the school district, whether it be by increasing capacity at existing schools or creating a new school. All things being equal, most board members preferred keeping smaller schools, which would imply the best course of action would be building a new school. Of course, in order to build a new school, we would need to (a) find and acquire appropriate land on which to place the school, and (b) get approval from the voters a bond measure to finance the purchase of the land and the building of the school. The Superintendent had already kicked off this process earlier in the year by creating a community Facilities Capacity Committee, and now our work will enter its next phase by starting this planning process in earnest as well as looking into specific opportunities for new building. Stay tuned!

May 31st, 2011 | Category: Community, Education, Finances | Leave a comment

Budget Roller Coaster May Be Ending It's Ride (for now)

It’s been quite the roller coaster ride this year in terms of the California state budget and its likely effect on education:

At last night’s board meeting, we were informed that the County is advising school districts to budget assuming a $349/ADA revenue reduction, which, including other federal and miscelaneous cuts, translates into roughly the original $1.3 million that we had used as a target earlier. If, on the chance that state taxes get extended, it’s possible we could recover that money, but we of course don’t if that would happen or when. Therefore, the School Board agreed to stay conservative and budget with those cuts.

Fortunately these cuts won’t make a giant impact on our district, due to two of our old friends — increased enrollment and SCEF. Based on our current enrollment numbers, we will have 70 more students next year — although this causes us problems in other areas such as facilities (more on that in a future post), it does give us more money from the state. Also, SCEF is poised to beat last year’s fundraising of $1.7 million. These two areas alone will likely generate enough revenue to cover half of that budget hole. Another quarter roughly will be covered by cuts at the District office level (including the reduction of one FTE), and the remaining quarter will be covered by some reductions in teaching staff (although none of those will change the programs offered or class sizes).

So, for now, it looks like we won’t be raising class sizes or cutting employees’ salaries. However, we have all learned to be very cautious, and we should prepare for another ride on this roller coaster next year. Hopefully that ride will be less of a screamer.

May 27th, 2011 | Category: Finances | Leave a comment

May Revise – Clear As Mud

Three weeks ago, I posted the Superintendent’s note which summarized our budget situation. At the time, the uncertainty over the state budget had estimates of cuts to school districts anywhere from $349/student to $825/student. This would translate to a need to cut another $1.3 mil – $2.6 mil from the San Carlos School District budget.

This week, Governor Brown came out with his “May Revise” budget, which is what school districts normally look toward upon which to base their budgeting. Reading the State budget makes reading Chaucer look like light weekend reading — it takes an army of experts to interpret its effect on school districts like ours.

So, we are still awaiting upon such grand interpretation of the budget, but here’s what it appears the May Revise is proposing:

  • No “additional” cuts to education, in fact there is some more money in the budget for K-12 education, but my understanding is that most of this money is just money that was previously scheduled to be “deferred” until after the fiscal year, so this is more of a cash flow timing issue than a real increase to the budget
  • The budget is still contingent upon some extension of existing taxes that expire this year. As you may recall, the Governor did not get 2/3 of the state legislature to agree to this for a June election, but he has effectively put the same proposal back into this revised budget. The legislature could extend the taxes on their own for a temporary period of time (with a 2/3 vote) and then bring back another vote to the electorate. We’ll have to wait and see.

All of this tells me that we don’t have a whole lot more information than we had a month or two ago, and we’re going to have to base our budget on a number knowing there is a great deal of uncertainty in it. For example, if we base our budget on the more “optimistic” scenario, and the Governor’s proposals do not pan out, then we could be looking at just making more severe cuts next year. Alternatively, we could be conservative and potentially make unnecessary cuts now. Cuts are definitely happening — it’s just a question of the magnitude of such cuts and their timing.

Again, we will wait on the analysis done by various groups which will help guide our decisions, but I wish I felt more confidence on the path we were are being led. We only have a few board meetings left before we need to finalize our budget, so we’ll be having some interesting discussions!

May 18th, 2011 | Category: Finances | 3 comments

Congrats to TL Music Program!

The Tierra Linda eighth grade band, jazz band, orchestra and the TL 6-8 grade chorus recently travled to Disneyland to compete in the Heritage Music Festival in Anaheim. This is annual trip where our students compete with about 2,000 kids from 30 different schools.

TL took home the biggest prize at the festival, called the “Festival Sweepstakes” award which goes to the school with the most “well-rounded” program! TL also received the “Instrumental Sweepstakes” trophy having the highest combined instrumental scores between band and orchestra. The orchestra won the “Highest Orchestra” trophy, and the TL music groups won these individual awards:

  • Orchestra – Gold – 1st Place
  • Band – Gold – 2nd Place
  • Jazz Band – Silver – 1st Place
  • Choir – Silver – 2nd Place

Congratulations to Mr. Murphy, Mrs. Snyder, and Mrs. Murphy, and all of the student musicians for your amazing accomplishment. We are all proud to have such an tremendous music program in this district!

May 17th, 2011 | Category: Education | Leave a comment

In Memory

I assume almost all San Carlans now know about the sudden passing of our Mayor, Omar Ahmad, last Tuesday. It was truly a tragic day on many fronts, and of course devastating for his family. Yesterday, the city held a public memorial service at Hiller Aviation Museum which attracted a very full house and was a moving service and tribute. The details were reported in most of the local papers, so I won’t repeat them here. But suffice is to say that Omar made a tremendous impact on all of the people that he knew, both personally and professionally.

Omar and I campaigned at the same time — he for City Council and I for School Board — in 2007. Although I didn’t know him before that time, I was immediately impressed with his energy, insight, and intelligence. We spent a fair bit of time together since then, and I know we was as dedicated as anyone to the service of our city.

The family has rquested that anyone who is interested make a donation in Omar’s name to the National Youth Science Foundation to support its National Youth Science Camp, in Omar’s memory.

I’ll miss you, Omar, as will our city.

May 14th, 2011 | Category: Community, Reflections | Leave a comment
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