This weekend, a Stanford professor of education and sociology wrote a provocative editorial entitled, "No Rich Child Left Behind."  Except, of course, it was neither provocative nor particularly surpr ...

While the beginning of the Strategic Plan discussion came from the wrong impetus - the examination of reconfiguration - it nevertheless presents this community with an amazing opportunity.  The reconf ...

On Thursday night the school district made the formal decision to pull back on the idea of reconfiguration - moving the ninth grade to Davis High School - and instead embarked on a broader concept of ...

At tonight's DJUSD School Board meeting, the board for the first time will receive the staff report on its reconfiguration findings.  As the staff report notes, the discussion is not intended to make ...

The Brown Act is at once both scourge and savior in local government.  It is our savior in that it prevents public officials from making their policy decisions behind closed doors and away from the ey ...

By Gina Daleiden and Tim Taylor Davis has a long-standing reputation as a community that truly values its children and its schools.  We all want the best educational opportunities for our students, an ...

Two weeks ago, the Vanguard covered a story in which several members of the Davis community claimed that their names and identifying information were unlawfully misappropriated to purport support for ...

A new DJUSD Parent Group was formed on Facebook and already has over 200 likes.  The parent who created it explained, "I am a parent in the district (and) my main objective of creating this page is so ...

In a strange case of identity fraud, a group called Davis Excel created a petition on Change.org, a website that allows people to form online petitions in order to bring about social change.  The grou ...

Since 2010, Local Districts Have Complete Control Over Local GATE Programs - Proponents of maintaining the current district GATE program have been erroneously citing state law, that effectively no lon ...

The Davis community continues to weigh in on the issue of GATE, engaging in a spirited and at times contentious debate through letters to the editor and public comment. Over the past week alone, a num ...

Debate over the GATE program remains contentious, and on Thursday night a number of defenders of the program spoke at public comment. Eric Hays, a local resident with two children in the school distri ...

On Thursday afternoon, the Vanguard received a letter from the Holmes Junior High PTA, stating that they have learned that the Davis Joint Unified School District's Board of Trustees intends to move t ...

The Davis Joint Unified School Board met in closed session on Thursday evening to decide the fate of two district employees.  School Board President Sheila Allen announced at the beginning of open ses ...

by Holmes Jr. High PTA Holmes PTA opposes 9th grade reconfiguration at this time and voted at our last board meeting on 2/28 against this change. We strongly believe that the process is being moved fo ...

The Vanguard reported on Sunday on a report from the Davis Enterprise that Davis High Principal Jacqui Moore told the paper she will not be returning as principal in the fall, citing "philosophical di ...

The Davis Enterprise reports this morning that Davis High Principal Jacqui Moore told the paper she will not be returning as principal in the fall, citing "philosophical differences" between herself a ...

Thanks to the brilliant Martin Luther King Day speech by Sujatha Baliga two weeks ago, many in this community got introduced to restorative justice processes.  The use of restorative justice is actual ...

By Sanne Fettinger If you drive your child to school, you decrease your child's ability to learn the rest of the school day. On the contrary, when children walk or bike to school, instead of being dri ...

In just over two weeks, the Davis Vanguard will host its first ever official candidate's forum at Harper Junior High Multipurpose room.  The doors open at 6:30 and the forum begins at 7. In advance of ...