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My View: Dunning Attacks District Elections but Ignores Montgomery and Achievement Gap in Doing So

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 29, 2019
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My View: Dunning Attacks District Elections but Ignores Montgomery and Achievement Gap in Doing So

Columnist Bob Dunning continues to lament the school board decision to transition to district elections – ...

Columnist Bob Dunning continues to lament the school board decision to transition to district elections – and while there are certainly aspects of it that deserve questioning, at this point it’s a don ...

June 29, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Board Approves State Letter on Ethnic Studies, Pushes Further

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 21, 2019
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Board Approves State Letter on Ethnic Studies, Pushes Further

Community groups have been pushing for changes to the district’s ethnic studies policies for the last few ...

Community groups have been pushing for changes to the district’s ethnic studies policies for the last few months. On Thursday, the school board unanimously approved a letter being sent to Senator Con ...

June 21, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: District Elections Coming, Like Them or Not – Here’s Why That Could Be a Good Thing

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 20, 2019
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Commentary: District Elections Coming, Like Them or Not – Here’s Why That Could Be a Good Thing

A certain columnist believes that if Davis citizens had been given a chance to vote on district elections ...

A certain columnist believes that if Davis citizens had been given a chance to vote on district elections for school board they would have rejected it with 80 percent of the vote. While I tend to agr ...

June 20, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: Why Wait for the State on Ethnic Studies?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 18, 2019
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Commentary: Why Wait for the State on Ethnic Studies?

The school board this week has a letter asking for Senator Connie Leyva and Assemblymember Jose Medina to ...

The school board this week has a letter asking for Senator Connie Leyva and Assemblymember Jose Medina to support AB 331, “which will add a course of ethnic studies to be a high school graduation requ ...

June 18, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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School Board Drafts Letter in Support of Statewide Bill Making Ethnic Studies a Graduation Requirement

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 16, 2019
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School Board Drafts Letter in Support of Statewide Bill Making Ethnic Studies a Graduation Requirement

While community members have pushed for DJUSD to implement its own local ethnic studies program for the i ...

While community members have pushed for DJUSD to implement its own local ethnic studies program for the immediate implementation, the board is slated to take action in support of AB 331, which “which ...

June 16, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Proponents Continue to Push for Ethnic Studies

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 07, 2019
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Proponents Continue to Push for Ethnic Studies

Another group of community members came forward Thursday night during public comment, pushing for the DJU ...

Another group of community members came forward Thursday night during public comment, pushing for the DJUSD School Board to adopt a resolution by July that would create a Cultural Awareness and Ethnic ...

June 07, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Letter: Call for Ethnic Studies in Davis Schools

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: May 29, 2019
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Letter: Call for Ethnic Studies in Davis Schools

At a recent Davis school board meeting, over 20 students, teachers and parents called for Davis Joint Uni ...

At a recent Davis school board meeting, over 20 students, teachers and parents called for Davis Joint Unified School District to join neighboring Woodland Joint Unified and thirty other California sch ...

May 29, 2019
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Parents, Students and Community Leaders Come Before the Board Pushing for Ethnic Studies

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: May 17, 2019
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Parents, Students and Community Leaders Come Before the Board Pushing for Ethnic Studies

Two weeks ago, Melissa Moreno spoke to the Davis School Board about the need for ethnic studies during th ...

Two weeks ago, Melissa Moreno spoke to the Davis School Board about the need for ethnic studies during their discussion of the LCAP (Local Control and Accountability Plan). At the time, both the boar ...

May 17, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Concern Raised about Lack of Ethnic Studies at DJUSD

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: May 09, 2019
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Concern Raised about Lack of Ethnic Studies at DJUSD

Last week Melissa Moreno, speaking as a parent and community member, was watching the DJUSD discussion of ...

Last week Melissa Moreno, speaking as a parent and community member, was watching the DJUSD discussion of the LCAP (Local Control and Accountability Plan). She became concerned when a slide placed “e ...

May 09, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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LCAP Plan Called Out for Lack of Addressing Latino Students, Ethnic Studies

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: May 03, 2019
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LCAP Plan Called Out for Lack of Addressing Latino Students, Ethnic Studies

During public comment on Thursday during the Davis School Board meeting, Melissa Moreno, elected to the Y ...

During public comment on Thursday during the Davis School Board meeting, Melissa Moreno, elected to the Yolo County Board of Education (but speaking , as a parent and community member, not in her offi ...

May 03, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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2018 in Review: Women of Color Win in Davis

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 02, 2019
| (1) Comment

2018 in Review: Women of Color Win in Davis

Back in August, the Vanguard ran a story featuring then Mayor Pro Tem Gloria Partida and candidates Cindy ...

Back in August, the Vanguard ran a story featuring then Mayor Pro Tem Gloria Partida and candidates Cindy Pickett (DJUSD School Board) and Melissa Moreno (Yolo County Board of Education) as three pote ...

January 02, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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The Year of the Woman of Color in Davis

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 27, 2018
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The Year of the Woman of Color in Davis

Back in June, when Gloria Partida became the first Latina elected to the Davis City Council, she not only ...

Back in June, when Gloria Partida became the first Latina elected to the Davis City Council, she not only won, but finished first and in two years will be the Mayor of Davis. In acknowledging the “his ...

August 27, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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My View: Adding School Resource Officers on Campus Not a Good Idea

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 07, 2018
| (9) Comments

My View: Adding School Resource Officers on Campus Not a Good Idea

The parcel tax proposal puts many in this community into a quandary. On the one hand, the school distric ...

The parcel tax proposal puts many in this community into a quandary. On the one hand, the school district is disadvantaged by LCFF (Local Control Funding Formula) funding which has in part, even with ...

July 07, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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School Board Re-Evaluates Discipline Policy in Wake of Student Walk Out and Pending Actions Scheduled for the 20th

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 06, 2018
| (22) Comments

School Board Re-Evaluates Discipline Policy in Wake of Student Walk Out and Pending Actions Scheduled for the 20th

Sunder Questions Whether District May Not Be Consistent with Case Law for Student Protests While the dist ...

Sunder Questions Whether District May Not Be Consistent with Case Law for Student Protests While the district passed a couple of motions to educate the students and the community on the types of actio ...

April 06, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Board to Look at Discipline Policies Stemming from Student Walk Out

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 04, 2018
| (22) Comments

Board to Look at Discipline Policies Stemming from Student Walk Out

DJUSD attracted regional attention when the Sacramento Bee back in mid-March ran a story, “This district ...

DJUSD attracted regional attention when the Sacramento Bee back in mid-March ran a story, “This district in a liberal California city marked down the names of student protesters.” Board member Madhavi ...

April 04, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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LA Unified Encouraged Students to Participate in the 17-Minute Program, DJUSD Threatened to Punish Theirs

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: March 18, 2018
| (26) Comments

LA Unified Encouraged Students to Participate in the 17-Minute Program, DJUSD Threatened to Punish Theirs

Statement by Board Trustee Madhavi Sunder (Madhavi Sunder, Board Trustee, made the following statement at ...

Statement by Board Trustee Madhavi Sunder (Madhavi Sunder, Board Trustee, made the following statement at March 15, 2018 Davis School Board Meeting). I would like to request that the Board address the ...

March 18, 2018
| by Vanguard Administrator

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My View: We Have Failed Montgomery, Montgomery Has Not Failed Us

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 17, 2018
| (30) Comments

My View: We Have Failed Montgomery, Montgomery Has Not Failed Us

Late on Thursday evening, the DJUSD School Board moved forward with proposed changes that would phase out ...

Late on Thursday evening, the DJUSD School Board moved forward with proposed changes that would phase out the English-only program at Marguerite Montgomery Elementary, and leave in its wake the Two-wa ...

March 17, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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District to Examine Discipline Policies after Complaints Following Student Walk Out

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 16, 2018
| (21) Comments

District to Examine Discipline Policies after Complaints Following Student Walk Out

It was a story that drew attention across the community and across the region, as the Bee ran the headlin ...

It was a story that drew attention across the community and across the region, as the Bee ran the headline: “This district in a liberal California city marked down the names of student protesters.” Th ...

March 16, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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My View: Fear Itself – Why Davis Should Not Install Metal Detectors at Its Schools

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 10, 2018
| (50) Comments

My View: Fear Itself – Why Davis Should Not Install Metal Detectors at Its Schools

Columnist Bob Dunning, discussing the potential threat at Harper this week, noted that while most of us – ...

Columnist Bob Dunning, discussing the potential threat at Harper this week, noted that while most of us – myself included – believed that the threat was most likely a hoax, “The Parkland shooting is a ...

March 10, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: DJUSD Needs to Be Careful about Adding Police to Campus

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 07, 2018
| (25) Comments

Commentary: DJUSD Needs to Be Careful about Adding Police to Campus

Last Thursday’s discussion on school safety seemed to foreshadow the threat that emerged late in the day ...

Last Thursday’s discussion on school safety seemed to foreshadow the threat that emerged late in the day on Friday. Fortunately it turned out that the threat to shoot students at Harper Junior High w ...

March 07, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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