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Sunday Commentary: District in Hot Water over DHS Principal Hire

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 29, 2018
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Sunday Commentary: District in Hot Water over DHS Principal Hire

Two weeks ago, the DJUSD School Board delayed approving the decision on the hiring of a new principal at ...

Two weeks ago, the DJUSD School Board delayed approving the decision on the hiring of a new principal at Davis High after 70 teachers showed up at a closed session meeting to protest the selection by ...

April 29, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Students and Parents Call for Bilingual Education at Harper

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 25, 2018
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Students and Parents Call for Bilingual Education at Harper

Lito Hanson spoke to the school board last Thursday, flanked by about eight of his 6th grade classmates a ...

Lito Hanson spoke to the school board last Thursday, flanked by about eight of his 6th grade classmates at Montgomery Elementary. They called on the district to provide a continuation of their two-wa ...

April 25, 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
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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
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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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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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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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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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Sunday Commentary: This Is Not an Issue (Just) about AIM, It Is about (Lack of) Transparency

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 03, 2017
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Sunday Commentary: This Is Not an Issue (Just) about AIM, It Is about (Lack of) Transparency

In many ways the current school board was elected in the wake of the Nancy Peterson scandal of 2014. Fou ...

In many ways the current school board was elected in the wake of the Nancy Peterson scandal of 2014. Four of the five board members were elected or, in the case of Alan Fernandes, appointed to the bo ...

September 03, 2017
| by David Greenwald

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Children of Privilege

Posted by Tia Will
|Date: April 09, 2017
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Children of Privilege

By Tia Will This is going to be a completely anecdotal story about myself and my children. I write it to ...

By Tia Will This is going to be a completely anecdotal story about myself and my children. I write it to illustrate a point about our society and our community. I start with full disclosure so that th ...

April 09, 2017
| by Tia Will

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Citrus Circuits Wins Competition and Advances

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: March 29, 2017
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Citrus Circuits Wins Competition and Advances

Written by the Citrus Circuits Students Citrus Circuits, the robotics team from Davis, California, recent ...

Written by the Citrus Circuits Students Citrus Circuits, the robotics team from Davis, California, recently won their eighth regional competition in a row at Sacramento Regional, hosted at UC Davis. C ...

March 29, 2017
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Commentary: Not Late Enough (Start)?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 22, 2017
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Commentary: Not Late Enough (Start)?

In the last few years, the Davis School District has been looking into ways to start classes later, follo ...

In the last few years, the Davis School District has been looking into ways to start classes later, following “an abundance of compelling research that supports the delaying of school start times.” Th ...

March 22, 2017
| by David Greenwald

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Parents Concerned about DJUSD Decision on AIM program at Pioneer School

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 21, 2017
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Parents Concerned about DJUSD Decision on AIM program at Pioneer School

In February, the Vanguard reported that DJUSD School Board Member Madhavi Sunder had requested a February ...

In February, the Vanguard reported that DJUSD School Board Member Madhavi Sunder had requested a February hearing for the AIM program, but was overruled on a 3-2 vote by her colleagues, with Bob Poppe ...

March 21, 2017
| by David Greenwald

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Student Center Provides Opportunities for Low Income and Special Needs Kids

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: October 27, 2016
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Student Center Provides Opportunities for Low Income and Special Needs Kids

by Madhavi Sunder (Editor's note: Board President Madhavi Sunder delivered these brief remarks on Tuesday ...

by Madhavi Sunder (Editor's note: Board President Madhavi Sunder delivered these brief remarks on Tuesday at the DHS Groundbreaking Ceremony) It is fitting that we break ground on a new All Student Ce ...

October 27, 2016
| by Vanguard Administrator

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School Board Hears Mental Health Services Update

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: October 23, 2016
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School Board Hears Mental Health Services Update

By Nicholas von Wettberg Working to ensure the social and emotional health of all students has become a p ...

By Nicholas von Wettberg Working to ensure the social and emotional health of all students has become a point of emphasis for the entire Davis Joint Unified School District (DJUSD). That was evident T ...

October 23, 2016
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Economic Development Series: Impact of Public Schools on a Community’s Economic Development

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: May 24, 2016
| (9) Comments

Economic Development Series: Impact of Public Schools on a Community’s Economic Development

By Bob Poppenga The relationship between public schools and local economic development is often overlooke ...

By Bob Poppenga The relationship between public schools and local economic development is often overlooked in community discussions. Without debating the pros and cons of economic development in Davi ...

May 24, 2016
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Davis 1000 Mentors for Youth Challenge

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: May 18, 2016
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Davis 1000 Mentors for Youth Challenge

By Michelle Millet As the number of children in Davis who live in poverty continues to grow, the need for ...

By Michelle Millet As the number of children in Davis who live in poverty continues to grow, the need for our community to step in and help support these kids and their families grows with it. The Dav ...

May 18, 2016
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Board Policies Are Squeezing the Life out of AIM

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: April 20, 2016
| (77) Comments

Board Policies Are Squeezing the Life out of AIM

by Debbie Nichols-Poulos This spring, only 82 students qualified for the fourth-grade AIM program, almost ...

by Debbie Nichols-Poulos This spring, only 82 students qualified for the fourth-grade AIM program, almost half of previous years. This lower number was due to the elimination of private testing and th ...

April 20, 2016
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Monday Morning Thoughts: Discovering Talented Black and Hispanic Students

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 11, 2016
| (13) Comments

Monday Morning Thoughts: Discovering Talented Black and Hispanic Students

The numbers came back bleak, from the standpoint of the new AIM program being able to identify blacks and ...

The numbers came back bleak, from the standpoint of the new AIM program being able to identify blacks and Hispanics, as just four of the 72 identified students were from those traditionally disadvanta ...

April 11, 2016
| by David Greenwald

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Board Addresses Achievement Gap at Latest Meeting

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: April 09, 2016
| (1) Comment

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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