The People's Vanguard of Davis urges the Davis Joint Unified School Board to do everything possible to keep Valley Oak Elementary School open.The current Davis Joint Unified School Board has done some ...

Last night, the Davis Joint Unified School Board met for nearly four hours listening to more information from the Task Force, representatives of the Davis OPEN group, and the general public. In the en ...

Tonight it is possible that the community might know what the Davis Joint Unified Board has in store for Valley Oak Elementary School. It's also possible that when the night is finished we will not kn ...

Sunday's editorial by the Davis Enterprise, illustrates a fundamental problem with the reporting of the Enterprise--it fundamentally fails to hold public establishment officials accountable for their ...

When the Best Uses of Schools Task Force issued their report, one of their key assumption and rationales for reduces the number of elementary schools to eight was falling enrollment. They used not onl ...

David Murphy's Settlement AnnouncementThe Davis Enterprise reported last night that "recently resigned" Superintendent David Murphy will continue to receive his salary until mid 2008 (when his contrac ...

Dunning yesterday in his column suggested that the "town owes Murphy a standing ovation."He suggests first:"like most superintendents, David Murphy had his supporters and his detractors … it comes wit ...

The Davis Joint Unified School District moved very quickly to replace the “retiring” Superintendent David Murphy. The school board hired J. Richard Whitmore of Lafeyette, California as interim superin ...

ACLU Becomes Involved in Valley Oak Closure ControversyIn a letter to the Davis Unified School Board on March 1, 2007, the ACLU Northern California Division expressed concern about the impact of the c ...

Last week, the "Best Uses of Schools Advisory Task Force" delivered its final report that recommended the closing of Valley Oak Elementary School.While the group spent an admirable amount of time and ...

On Thursday evening, Davis Joint Unified School District Superintendent David Murphy announced his retirement.Reading from a prepared statement:“Since February 1, when I turned 60, my wife Robbie and ...

The Best Use of Schools Advisory Task Force has voted by a 6-1 margin to recommend the closure of Valley Oak Elementary. A full report will be drafted and presented to the Davis School Board at the Ma ...

The Davis Enterprise reported last night that most of the school task force members are leaning toward closing a Davis elementary school due to declining enrollment. Valley Oak Elementary would be the ...

Thursday's school board meeting brought a heated discussed as the District unveiled new projections. The projections show around a 400 student drop from 2006 to 2016 with around 200 of those being in ...

Closing Valley Oak School will Disadvantage Children Already DisadvantagedUndoubtedly, one of my favorite columns to read in the Enterprise comes from Jann Murray-Garcia and Jonathan London.Dr. Murray ...

I always encourage people to send me new ideas for stories, and I'm very thankful for this one. Frankly I have not paid much attention to the proposed closure of Valley Oak School. I assumed it was me ...