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Connecting the dots: SCUSD seeks public input on how best to fund schools
January 20 (Â鶹ÊÓƵ): The state’s new Local Control Funding Formula is bringing sweeping changes to the ways schools are funded and how K-12 districts are held accountable for using state resources.
In general, LCFF has fewer funding restrictions that tie resources to certain programs. In exchange for this new flexibility, districts are required to develop accountability plans that detail how spending is aligned with California’s eight priorities for public education.
Fern Bacon gets high-tech media lab, thanks to SECC grant
Middle school schedules ribbon-cutting ceremony for Wednesday
Editor’s note: The following press release was written by students of Fern Bacon Middle School.
Â鶹ÊÓƵ, California – Fern Bacon Middle School is pleased to announce that it will hold a Grand Opening and Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony for its recently renovated media studio with the help of the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Education Cable Consortium’s media grant.
SCUSD workshops help parents understand new online tests
March 19, 2014 (Â鶹ÊÓƵ): Students across California are getting ready to participate in a trial run of the state’s new online assessment program which will eventually replace paper-and-pencil testing.
The new Smarter Balanced Assessments will be field tested in SCUSD schools beginning April 7. To help parents learn about the new tests, SCUSD is sponsoring a series of parent workshops that focus on the assessments and the learning standards to which they are tied.
District, teachers union to hold press conference on NCLB Waiver
April 8, 2014 (Â鶹ÊÓƵ): Â鶹ÊÓƵ City Unified School District and the Â鶹ÊÓƵ City Teachers Association (SCTA) will hold a joint press conference on Wednesday (April 9) on the future of the No Child Left Behind waiver at SCTA’s office in East Â鶹ÊÓƵ.
SCUSD Board President Patrick Kennedy and SCTA President Nikki Milevsky are scheduled to make a joint announcement.
WHAT: Joint SCUSD-SCTA Press Conference
WHEN: 3 p.m. on Wednesday, April 9
WHERE: SCTA, 5300 Elvas Ave., Â鶹ÊÓƵ, CA 95819
Neighbors asked to help protect schools over Spring Break
Arsonists, metal thieves, vandals prey on schools during the holidays
April 10, 2014 (Â鶹ÊÓƵ): Â鶹ÊÓƵ City Unified School District is asking the community for help in keeping its 75 schools safe and secure over Spring Break (April 12-20). School resumes on Monday, April 21.
Arson fires at two SCUSD playgrounds last summer cost the district $50,000 in insurance deductibles.
Students vie for $1 million at SCUSD Project Green event
Blue-ribbon panel of local experts will judge student proposals for making campuses more sustainable
April 15, 2014 (Â鶹ÊÓƵ): Twenty-five SCUSD student-led green teams will compete for $1 million in Measure Q money on Tuesday, April 22, at the 2014 Project Green Event, held this year at Isador Cohen Elementary School.
City, SCUSD to celebrate new Fruitridge traffic signal
May 6, 2014 (Â鶹ÊÓƵ): SCUSD and the City of Â鶹ÊÓƵ will celebrate the operation of a new traffic signal on Fruitridge Road on Friday, May 9, at a West Campus High School press conference.
The installation of the new light at Fruitridge and 58th Street culminates a joint effort by the two agencies launched after West Campus student Michelle Murigi, 16, was fatally hit by a car in the intersection. Subsequent to her death, five of Michelle’s friends and classmates started a petition to demand a traffic signal (www.facebook.com/58thAndFruitridge).
Ribbon-cutting for Rosemont’s new track and field on Wednesday
High-tech, $1.97 million project funded by Measure R bonds
May 12, 2014 (Â鶹ÊÓƵ): SCUSD will hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Wednesday to open Rosemont High School’s new $1.97 million track and field, a project funded by Measure R.
Made in the USA with recycled rubber, the sandwich-style track surface is free of harmful heavy metals and durable enough for world-class performance training and competition. The equivalent of 7,000 passenger tires was kept from landfills through the recycling process.
Trustees to visit Seattle in final phase of superintendent search
The Â鶹ÊÓƵ City Unified School District Board of Education will visit Seattle next week in the final phase of the process for appointing a permanent superintendent.
SCUSD Board expected to vote on next superintendent on Thursday
July 16, 2014 (Â鶹ÊÓƵ): The Â鶹ÊÓƵ City Unified School District Board of Education is expected to vote on SCUSD’s next superintendent at its meeting on Thursday (July 17).
The finalist candidate is not expected to attend the meeting on Thursday. A press conference with the new superintendent and SCUSD Board President Patrick Kennedy has been scheduled for 10 a.m. on Friday, July 18, at the Serna Center (5735 47th Ave.)