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District Has Spent Over $17 Thousand on Response to Office for Civil Rights Investigation

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 03, 2016
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District Has Spent Over $17 Thousand on Response to Office for Civil Rights Investigation

The Vanguard has learned that the Davis Joint Unified School District has $17,363.07 in legal fees pertai ...

The Vanguard has learned that the Davis Joint Unified School District has $17,363.07 in legal fees pertaining to the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) of the U.S. Department of Education investigation reg ...

September 03, 2016
| by David Greenwald

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Board To Hear Climate Update, YouthTruth Results

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: August 16, 2016
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Board To Hear Climate Update, YouthTruth Results

By Nicholas von Wettberg Results of the YouthTruth Student Survey, a climate assessment given to Davis Jo ...

By Nicholas von Wettberg Results of the YouthTruth Student Survey, a climate assessment given to Davis Joint Unified School District (DJUSD) students, will be presented at the regular school board mee ...

August 16, 2016
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Monday Morning Thoughts I: Elk Grove Shows Us One Path Forward on AIM

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 08, 2016
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Monday Morning Thoughts I: Elk Grove Shows Us One Path Forward on AIM

In January, the Elk Grove Unified School District site had a blog entry that read, “New EGUSD eligibility ...

In January, the Elk Grove Unified School District site had a blog entry that read, “New EGUSD eligibility and selection criteria for Gifted and Talented Education (GATE), as well as for Honors and Adv ...

August 08, 2016
| by David Greenwald

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Sunday Commentary: The Narrative is Part of the Problem with AIM

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 07, 2016
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Sunday Commentary: The Narrative is Part of the Problem with AIM

The Vanguard reported on Friday and Saturday that the OCR (Office for Civil Rights) was looking into alle ...

The Vanguard reported on Friday and Saturday that the OCR (Office for Civil Rights) was looking into allegations that the school district is “discriminating against students on the basis of race /nati ...

August 07, 2016
| by David Greenwald

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Office For Civil Rights Opens Investigation into Whether AIM Program is Discriminatory

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 06, 2016
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Office For Civil Rights Opens Investigation into Whether AIM Program is Discriminatory

One of the biggest complaints about the changes to the AIM program was the drastic reduction in the parti ...

One of the biggest complaints about the changes to the AIM program was the drastic reduction in the participation, particularly by black and Hispanic students, in the new program compared to the old p ...

August 06, 2016
| by David Greenwald

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Board Hears Report on Achievement Gap at Junior High Level

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: May 09, 2016
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Board Hears Report on Achievement Gap at Junior High Level

By Nicholas von Wettberg When addressing ways of closing the student achievement gap, there is the cons ...

By Nicholas von Wettberg When addressing ways of closing the student achievement gap, there is the constant reminder that no singular program or curriculum exists, which would fix longtime dispariti ...

May 09, 2016
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Board Addresses Achievement Gap at Latest Meeting

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: April 09, 2016
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Board Addresses Achievement Gap at Latest Meeting

By Nicholas von Wettberg Under California’s current student-weighted educational funding policy ...

By Nicholas von Wettberg Under California’s current student-weighted educational funding policy, known as the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF), the Davis Joint Unified School District (D ...

April 09, 2016
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Sunder Discusses Achievement Gap

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: March 31, 2016
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Sunder Discusses Achievement Gap

By Madhavi Sunder Editor’s note: The Vanguard submitted questions to all five of the school board members ...

By Madhavi Sunder Editor’s note: The Vanguard submitted questions to all five of the school board members on the issue of AIM and also the Achievement Gap. Previously we had Susan Lovenburg and Alan ...

March 31, 2016
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Monday Morning Thoughts II: Is Race or Diversity a Red Herring?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 07, 2016
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Monday Morning Thoughts II: Is Race or Diversity a Red Herring?

The school district, in a way, has a conundrum. On the one hand, as they finally made clear to the commun ...

The school district, in a way, has a conundrum. On the one hand, as they finally made clear to the community, they expected that the changes enacted in November would reduce the size of the AIM progra ...

March 07, 2016
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: What Will New AIM Identification Process Mean For Diversity?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 12, 2015
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Commentary: What Will New AIM Identification Process Mean For Diversity?

Last Thursday, Tom Adams made the observation that the “single point of contention it seems at this point ...

Last Thursday, Tom Adams made the observation that the “single point of contention it seems at this point is – is it 96 or 98? To me that is the question.” To that point he added, “Keep in mind, this ...

November 12, 2015
| by David Greenwald

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School Board Prioritizes Achievement Gap During Retreat

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 27, 2015
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School Board Prioritizes Achievement Gap During Retreat

Late on Saturday afternoon, Superintendent Winfred Roberson sent an email to the Vanguard and the Enterpr ...

Late on Saturday afternoon, Superintendent Winfred Roberson sent an email to the Vanguard and the Enterprise, indicating, “We had a very positive and productive Board Retreat today.” He added, “The Bo ...

September 27, 2015
| by David Greenwald

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Diversity as a Guise for Inequality? Jann Murray-Garcia’s Take on GATE/AIM

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 02, 2015
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Diversity as a Guise for Inequality? Jann Murray-Garcia’s Take on GATE/AIM

Today in her column, Jann Murray-Garcia reemerges in the GATE/AIM debate, laying out a history of her con ...

Today in her column, Jann Murray-Garcia reemerges in the GATE/AIM debate, laying out a history of her concerns about the program. As we continue our evaluation and analysis of the program, Dr. Murray- ...

August 02, 2015
| by David Greenwald

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Mother Speaks to Council to Complain About Treatment of Daughter Based on Race

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 04, 2015
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Mother Speaks to Council to Complain About Treatment of Daughter Based on Race

During public comment at Tuesday’s city council meeting, a mother came forward to speak of her six-year-o ...

During public comment at Tuesday’s city council meeting, a mother came forward to speak of her six-year-old daughter’s treatment at Montgomery Elementary School. “Recently, just attending Davis School ...

March 04, 2015
| by David Greenwald

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Parenting Beyond Pink and Blue

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: January 30, 2015
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Parenting Beyond Pink and Blue

by Gloria Partida The parent engagement workshop “Parenting beyond Pink and Blue” at Cesar Chavez Element ...

by Gloria Partida The parent engagement workshop “Parenting beyond Pink and Blue” at Cesar Chavez Elementary on Wednesday January 28th hosted by the Cesar Chavez climate committee was very well attend ...

January 30, 2015
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Local Data Shows Same Racial Gap on Suspensions, Calls for Reform

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 12, 2014
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Local Data Shows Same Racial Gap on Suspensions, Calls for Reform

The national discourse on police stops has focused discussion on issues such as racial profiling and dist ...

The national discourse on police stops has focused discussion on issues such as racial profiling and distrust in the African-American community with law enforcement. But data that was released back in ...

December 12, 2014
| by David Greenwald

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Special Commentary: Unaddressed Problems For Children of Color in DJUSD

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 29, 2014
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Special Commentary: Unaddressed Problems For Children of Color in DJUSD

In the last week, the Vanguard asked the school board candidates to respond to a question on whether they ...

In the last week, the Vanguard asked the school board candidates to respond to a question on whether they believe there is an achievement gap and what concrete steps there are to address the achieveme ...

September 29, 2014
| by David Greenwald

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Moving Toward a Restorative Justice Approach in the Schools

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 22, 2014
| (8) Comments

Moving Toward a Restorative Justice Approach in the Schools

At the school candidate’s forum last week, when the issue came to climate issues and promoting health a ...

At the school candidate’s forum last week, when the issue came to climate issues and promoting health and well-being for the LGBT community, Bob Poppenga stated that the school district really needs ...

September 22, 2014
| by David Greenwald

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Hate Is Not a Davis Value

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: August 22, 2014
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Hate Is Not a Davis Value

by Gloria Partida and Madhavi Sunder In 1983, an Asian American Davis Senior High School student, Thong H ...

by Gloria Partida and Madhavi Sunder In 1983, an Asian American Davis Senior High School student, Thong H. Huynh, was stabbed to death in the science quad in a racially motivated attack. In 1992, 14-y ...

August 22, 2014
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Why We Named A Davis School After Fred Korematsu

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 28, 2014
| (4) Comments

Why We Named A Davis School After Fred Korematsu

by Madhavi Sunder This is a story about an effort I was privileged to participate in to use the opportuni ...

by Madhavi Sunder This is a story about an effort I was privileged to participate in to use the opportunity of naming a new elementary school in Davis, California, as a teaching moment. The passage of ...

June 28, 2014
| by David Greenwald

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Roots of Empathy

Posted by Matt Williams
|Date: March 02, 2014
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Roots of Empathy

by Matt Williams Last year we had a lively discussion here on the Vanguard about empathy . . . what it is ...

by Matt Williams Last year we had a lively discussion here on the Vanguard about empathy . . . what it is, and what its value is. At the time I published this Vanguard article as a follow-up to that ...

March 02, 2014
| by Matt Williams

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