For a long time I have stayed relatively quiet on the issue of GATE/AIM. There have been a variety of rea ...
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My View: Social Justice and AIM
My View: Social Justice and AIM
For a long time I have stayed relatively quiet on the issue of GATE/AIM. There have been a variety of reasons for that, but after watching the discussion on Thursday night, things have changed. The de ...
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Are AIM Students Being Overidentified? School Board Grapples with AIM Identification Issue
Are AIM Students Being Overidentified? School Board Grapples with AIM Identification Issue
While there were a number of procedural issues asked about the presentations on Tuesday night regarding t ...
While there were a number of procedural issues asked about the presentations on Tuesday night regarding the district AIM program, much of the hard questions focused particularly on the identification ...
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Monday Morning Thoughts: How Fernandes Became President of SB; Innovation Park Calculations
Monday Morning Thoughts: How Fernandes Became President of SB; Innovation Park Calculations
Normally the nomination and election of officers is about as interesting as watching paint dry. However, ...
Normally the nomination and election of officers is about as interesting as watching paint dry. However, as we saw back in 2011 with the city council, when there is the lack of a clear script and an o ...
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Monday Morning Thoughts: New School Board Takes Shape, And the Week Ahead
Monday Morning Thoughts: New School Board Takes Shape, And the Week Ahead
Last week we saw the election of three new school board members: Madhavi Sunder, Barbara Archer and Tom A ...
Last week we saw the election of three new school board members: Madhavi Sunder, Barbara Archer and Tom Adams. Coupled with the May appointment and October re-appointment of Alan Fernandes, 80 percent ...
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My View: Why Does Granda Get a Free Ride?
My View: Why Does Granda Get a Free Ride?
It was supposed to be a "make nice" comment by the editor of the local paper in their weekly column “Chee ...
It was supposed to be a "make nice" comment by the editor of the local paper in their weekly column “Cheers and Jeers,” but they wrote: “And CHEERS to the seven candidates for the Davis Board of Educa ...
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No Surprise in School Race: Sunder, Archer and Adams Cruise to Victory
No Surprise in School Race: Sunder, Archer and Adams Cruise to Victory
Tom Adams and Barbara Archer were elected to the school board on Tuesday There was really no surprise i ...
Tom Adams and Barbara Archer were elected to the school board on Tuesday There was really no surprise in the school board race; the only question coming in was whether Tom Adams or Bob Poppenga woul ...
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Analysis: In a Way the Community Never Moved On From Peterson…
Analysis: In a Way the Community Never Moved On From Peterson…
It was March 18, and the Davis School Board had just voted 3-1 to uphold the district’s decision on not r ...
It was March 18, and the Davis School Board had just voted 3-1 to uphold the district’s decision on not renewing volleyball coach Julie Crawford’s VSA (variable service agreement). At the time, Board ...
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Monday Morning Thoughts: The School Board Race, Nancy Peterson and Jose Granda
Monday Morning Thoughts: The School Board Race, Nancy Peterson and Jose Granda
A week from tomorrow (Tuesday) the voters will get their official say in who the next three school board ...
A week from tomorrow (Tuesday) the voters will get their official say in who the next three school board members are, joining Susan Lovenburg and the appointed Alan Fernandes. The view has not changed ...
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Granda Responds to Peterson Question
Granda Responds to Peterson Question
By Jose J. Granda What is the biggest lesson we should take away from the Peterson scandal from last wint ...
By Jose J. Granda What is the biggest lesson we should take away from the Peterson scandal from last winter and what steps would you take as a school board member to prevent its recurrence in the futu ...
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School Board Candidate Question #5: Nancy Peterson Aftermath
School Board Candidate Question #5: Nancy Peterson Aftermath
This is the final of five questions to the school board candidates. Question #5: What is the biggest less ...
This is the final of five questions to the school board candidates. Question #5: What is the biggest lesson we should take away from the Peterson scandal from last winter and what steps would you take ...
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Vanguard Analysis: The Race for Third for School Board?
Vanguard Analysis: The Race for Third for School Board?
A few weeks ago, we handicapped the school board race and argued that Madhavi Sunder and Barbara Archer w ...
A few weeks ago, we handicapped the school board race and argued that Madhavi Sunder and Barbara Archer were the prohibitive front runners. We don’t have available polling data so we make use of a bun ...
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Sunday Commentary II: Stop Looking at Volunteer Record When Evaluating School Board Candidates
Sunday Commentary II: Stop Looking at Volunteer Record When Evaluating School Board Candidates
We should have learned our lessons by now, but it doesn’t seem that we have. On October 7, 2012, the Ente ...
We should have learned our lessons by now, but it doesn’t seem that we have. On October 7, 2012, the Enterprise wrote, “Peterson is the perfect blend of experience and heart. She has demonstrated thro ...
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Enterprise Also Endorses Archer, Adams, Sunder for DJUSD School Board
Enterprise Also Endorses Archer, Adams, Sunder for DJUSD School Board
The Sacramento Bee and Davis Enterprise apparently agree on which three candidates should lead the DJUSD ...
The Sacramento Bee and Davis Enterprise apparently agree on which three candidates should lead the DJUSD School District. Yesterday we learned that the Bee had endorsed Tom Adams, Barbara Archer, and ...
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Bee Endorses Three For School Board
Bee Endorses Three For School Board
A few weeks ago, the Vanguard analyzed the school board race and concluded that at that time it was essen ...
A few weeks ago, the Vanguard analyzed the school board race and concluded that at that time it was essentially a race for third. Nothing has happened to change that view and the question will become, ...
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Vanguard School Board Question #2: Common Core
Vanguard School Board Question #2: Common Core
In the second of five weekly questions, the Vanguard asked: What do you know of Common Core? How is Comm ...
In the second of five weekly questions, the Vanguard asked: What do you know of Common Core? How is Common Core being implemented in Davis? What do you think should be done to further implement Comm ...
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Meet the School Board Candidates (Video)
Meet the School Board Candidates (Video)
Thanks to Davis Media Access who invited each of the seven candidates for school board for the three four ...
Thanks to Davis Media Access who invited each of the seven candidates for school board for the three four year seats to make statements up to five minutes in length. Tom Adams Barbara Archer Jose Gran ...
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School Board Candidates on the Achievement Gap
School Board Candidates on the Achievement Gap
At the school board candidates' forum last week, candidates were given an insufficient amount of time to ...
At the school board candidates' forum last week, candidates were given an insufficient amount of time to respond to our question on the achievement gap, so we have asked it as the first of five weekly ...
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DJUSD Forum Addresses Transparency, LGBT Issues and DHS Starting Time
DJUSD Forum Addresses Transparency, LGBT Issues and DHS Starting Time
We are rolling out more of the responses from Wednesday’s forum. We apologize for the delay, but the site ...
We are rolling out more of the responses from Wednesday’s forum. We apologize for the delay, but the site transfer along with the length of the candidate’s forum has made this a much slower process th ...
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Should the School District Allow the Parcel Taxes to Expire?
Should the School District Allow the Parcel Taxes to Expire?
On Wednesday, the school board candidates were asked to weigh in on the parcel tax and whether it should ...
On Wednesday, the school board candidates were asked to weigh in on the parcel tax and whether it should be allowed to expire or whether they would support renewal. Specifically they were asked: “Give ...
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Analysis: A Game Changer For the School Board
Analysis: A Game Changer For the School Board
For years, it seemed, the school board was about one thing – holding off the economic collapse just long ...
For years, it seemed, the school board was about one thing – holding off the economic collapse just long enough, through community charity and fundraising drives from the Davis Schools Foundation, alo ...
| by David Greenwald