Please let us know if you attend the rally before the meeting. Seeing photos from Twitter; looks like a good crowd at the rally. The West Seattle Blog is there reporting. I am going to attempt to live blog so you will see abbreviations, spelling/grammar errors, etc. I will clean it up but I think it is worth trying to do. I will be refreshing the page as I go. I am sad to see that apparently President Liza Rankin is not even going to allow 10 people over the regular 20 to testify. Just five. Also, right at the beginning, the Board has stuck in, after Board comments, a Progress Monitoring presentation. They could have put it at the end but they didn't. They think - in 45 minutes - they can do Superintendent comments, Board comments and this presentation. I doubt that public testimony will start on-time. Tone-deaf doesn't even cover it with Board leadership. To note, apparently the district scheduled the NE community meeting on closures on Rosh Hashanah which is October 2. I
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SRVUSD board meeting minutes
I liked the mention of low ratio of administrators to everyone else.
The district site references the state standards (they actually seem to follow them), and supporting texts look solid. They have texts for every subject and every grade, and no signs of fuzzy math.
http://www.srvusd.net/district/curriculumstandards
-wishful parent
“Steve has been an incredible leader for this district, and will be very hard to replace,”...
..."I will miss him."
Read more: Valley Sentinel - Steven Enoch will step down effective June 30th after four years as SRVUSD Superintendent
http://valleysentinel.com/view/full_story/18085184/article-Steven-Enoch-will-step-down-effective-June-30th-after-four-years-as-SRVUSD-Superintendent-?instance=article
How awesome would it be to have the Superintendent give a presentation to the Board about comments received from the public?
sped parent
Read the quote, just don't recall who it was.
Wonder if they were referring to Mr. Enoch?
-StepJ
“Some have said I should not leave because the work is not yet done. What we know is that this work is never done. I feel confident however, that the energy and commitment to prepare students for their future, not our past, is in our schools and classrooms, which is where it should be,” Enoch said
I like that. He won't think the SPS world doesn't revolve around JSCEE.
Valley Sentinel
Danville – The San Ramon Valley Unified School District Board of Education unanimously approved a recommendation to maintain existing class sizes in grades Kindergarten through 3rd grade at 26 students, while lowering class size in 9th grade English and Math classes from 28 to 26.
“I am very pleased that we are able to avoid increasing class sizes for the coming year and that our Board members agreed that this is the best decision for students and teachers,” said Superintendent Steven Enoch.
The recommendation from the district was made based on better-than-projected State revenues, continuing enrollment growth, and financial reserves.
Aiy yi yi, love those double negatives...
http://www.srvusd.net/solar