Pinehurst and Its Fate
At the Board meeting last night, the fate of the Pinehurst program was discussed. There was an Intro item on the agenda to end the program. Before I left the meeting, I was handed a sheet that outlined the idea of AS-1 and Indian Heritage joining together. It's a pretty thoughtful piece of work that would co-join the goals of both programs. (They want to be at Lincoln for the interim and them move to W-P; that part confuses me because they want to be K-8 and that wouldn't work at that location.) The Indian Heritage High school would be part of Ingraham which has the largest number of Native American students in the north end. They would then move to the new Lincoln High (or again at W-P but it won't fit). I think this could have legs but it would take more than one Director to get any traction. Ron English ran through the issues - that Pinehurst costs $8k per student compared to $5k at larger schools. They could put Pinehurst at Va...