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

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 17, 2018
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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
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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
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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
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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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Analysis: Teachers Seek Equal Solution to Unequal Pay Gap

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 06, 2018
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Analysis: Teachers Seek Equal Solution to Unequal Pay Gap

The teacher compensation gap is real and many teachers, particularly the younger and least experienced t ...

The teacher compensation gap is real and many teachers, particularly the younger and least experienced teachers, are really disadvantaged by it. But the district’s data show that this gap is not uni ...

March 06, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Threat to Harper Turns Out to Be a Hoax

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 05, 2018
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Threat to Harper Turns Out to Be a Hoax

On Friday, DJUSD sent out a notice to parents of Harper Junior High students that there was a threat rece ...

On Friday, DJUSD sent out a notice to parents of Harper Junior High students that there was a threat received via the STOPit app. The threat claimed that there would be a school shooting at Harper Ju ...

March 05, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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My View: Teacher Lack of Support for Parcel Tax Perplexing

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 03, 2018
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My View: Teacher Lack of Support for Parcel Tax Perplexing

The numbers seem pretty clear, the teachers have been working hard for the last several months to rally t ...

The numbers seem pretty clear, the teachers have been working hard for the last several months to rally the community to the idea that there is a compensation gap in the district. That teachers are d ...

March 03, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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School Board Sees Disproportionality in Montgomery Program

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 02, 2018
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School Board Sees Disproportionality in Montgomery Program

“This is about race, this is about opting out of a school, and this is about segregation.” The DJUSD Scho ...

“This is about race, this is about opting out of a school, and this is about segregation.” The DJUSD School Board on Thursday heard a presentation that highlighted the disproportionality in the Englis ...

March 02, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Let’s Settle Now

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: March 02, 2018
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Let’s Settle Now

By Dianna Huculak (Editor's Note: Dianna Huculak, the DTA President read the following statement last nig ...

By Dianna Huculak (Editor's Note: Dianna Huculak, the DTA President read the following statement last night at the Davis Joint Unified School Board Meeting). The Davis Teachers Association is pleased ...

March 02, 2018
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Commentary: Both City and School District Should Be Concerned with Parcel Tax Poll

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 01, 2018
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Commentary: Both City and School District Should Be Concerned with Parcel Tax Poll

The Davis School District is looking toward a parcel tax as a way to fund increases to teacher compensati ...

The Davis School District is looking toward a parcel tax as a way to fund increases to teacher compensation. To achieve that, they are looking at potentially a $198 parcel tax measure for the fall. T ...

March 01, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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District to Evaluate Feasibility of Parcel Tax on Thursday

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: February 28, 2018
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District to Evaluate Feasibility of Parcel Tax on Thursday

The school district commissioned a poll to determine interest in a parcel tax for employee compensation. ...

The school district commissioned a poll to determine interest in a parcel tax for employee compensation. The district will use the results of the $27,000 poll to determine whether they should go forw ...

February 28, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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My View: Let’s Not Pretend Like Teacher Health Benefits Are Not Subpar

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 27, 2018
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My View: Let’s Not Pretend Like Teacher Health Benefits Are Not Subpar

A Dunning column from earlier this week noted with sympathy teachers' efforts to lobby the district with ...

A Dunning column from earlier this week noted with sympathy teachers' efforts to lobby the district with regard to pay and compensation. However, he offers: “While my sympathies in this battle lie squ ...

January 27, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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MLK Speaker Calls Davis a City Full of Contradictions, Critiques Race Relations

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 20, 2018
| (21) Comments

MLK Speaker Calls Davis a City Full of Contradictions, Critiques Race Relations

Speaker: The city’s outward affluence masks a surprising poverty This year’s keynote speaker at the Davis ...

Speaker: The city’s outward affluence masks a surprising poverty This year’s keynote speaker at the Davis MLK Day celebration held at the Varsity Theater was Dr. Mariama Gray, an assistant professor i ...

January 20, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: Schools and City Face the Cost of Deferring

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 19, 2018
| (43) Comments

Commentary: Schools and City Face the Cost of Deferring

The city council on Tuesday and the school board in the coming weeks and months will face a difficult cho ...

The city council on Tuesday and the school board in the coming weeks and months will face a difficult choice – do they ask the voters to help bail them out of past mistakes? No one wants to look at t ...

January 19, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Hundreds of Teachers Take to Streets to Demand Better Pay, Benefits

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 18, 2018
| (82) Comments

Hundreds of Teachers Take to Streets to Demand Better Pay, Benefits

Teachers took to the streets on Wednesday evening at three locations in Davis – Mace and Chiles, Covell a ...

Teachers took to the streets on Wednesday evening at three locations in Davis – Mace and Chiles, Covell and Pole Line, and 5th and B. Teachers have been pushing for pay increases to close a compensat ...

January 18, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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My View: The Bottom Line Is Davis Is Not Sustainable

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 30, 2017
| (60) Comments

My View: The Bottom Line Is Davis Is Not Sustainable

Over the years, those who have supported growth in Davis have always argued that Davis was going to chang ...

Over the years, those who have supported growth in Davis have always argued that Davis was going to change one way or another. Their argument was that trying to keep a community the same as it is wou ...

December 30, 2017
| by David Greenwald

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DTA President Speaks Out as Teachers Continue to Press Case to Close Wage Gap

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 28, 2017
| (16) Comments

DTA President Speaks Out as Teachers Continue to Press Case to Close Wage Gap

At the last school board meeting before the break, during her presentation to the school board, Davis Tea ...

At the last school board meeting before the break, during her presentation to the school board, Davis Teachers Association President Dianna Huculak read a letter from the Willet teachers: “Students ar ...

December 28, 2017
| by David Greenwald

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Monday Morning Thoughts: Board Prioritizing Closing Teacher Compensation Gap

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 20, 2017
| (34) Comments

Monday Morning Thoughts: Board Prioritizing Closing Teacher Compensation Gap

The school board had a good discussion last week on the prospects for closing the compensation gap. For ...

The school board had a good discussion last week on the prospects for closing the compensation gap. For those who want the board to go outside the box – I don’t see it. I think we are looking at an ...

November 20, 2017
| by David Greenwald

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School Board Focuses on Parcel Tax to Reduce Compensation Gap

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 19, 2017
| (25) Comments

School Board Focuses on Parcel Tax to Reduce Compensation Gap

The school board on Thursday night began to look at what it would take to make the district competitive i ...

The school board on Thursday night began to look at what it would take to make the district competitive in terms of teacher compensation. No one else has a revenue measure specific to raise compensat ...

November 19, 2017
| by David Greenwald

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Sunday Commentary: The Problem with Teacher Compensation is Severe, the Options Are Limited

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 08, 2017
| (76) Comments

Sunday Commentary: The Problem with Teacher Compensation is Severe, the Options Are Limited

The stories of the struggles of teachers are heartbreaking for anyone who listens. A bright young teacher ...

The stories of the struggles of teachers are heartbreaking for anyone who listens. A bright young teacher is getting married early so she can get on her fiance's health care plan from the Sacramento S ...

October 08, 2017
| by David Greenwald

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