Four years ago, following the Nancy Peterson saga, there were three open school board seats, but a total ...
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Why Only Four Candidates for School Board?
Monday Morning Thoughts: Why Only Four Candidates for School Board?
Four years ago, following the Nancy Peterson saga, there were three open school board seats, but a total of seven candidates vying for those seats. That doesn’t even include the two-year seat when Al ...
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Commentary: Why I Applied for the School Board and a Whole Lot More
Commentary: Why I Applied for the School Board and a Whole Lot More
Thursday will definitely go down as one of the stranger days since I have been covering the news in Davis ...
Thursday will definitely go down as one of the stranger days since I have been covering the news in Davis starting in July 2006. The upshot: we have a race for school board (sort of), a new appointee ...
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Monday Morning Thoughts: What the School Board Race Looks Like after the Archer Surprise
Monday Morning Thoughts: What the School Board Race Looks Like after the Archer Surprise
Many were surprised to learn that Barbara Archer has decided not to seek reelection for the school board ...
Many were surprised to learn that Barbara Archer has decided not to seek reelection for the school board seat she first won in 2014. In an interview with the local paper, she did not offer much in th ...
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Three School Board Candidates File for November Election; Barbara Archer Does Not File
Three School Board Candidates File for November Election; Barbara Archer Does Not File
The biggest surprise on Friday was that Barbara Archer, who was elected to the school board in 2014, did ...
The biggest surprise on Friday was that Barbara Archer, who was elected to the school board in 2014, did not file papers for re-election by the 5 pm deadline on Friday. That means there are two open ...
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Adams to Run for Re-Election
Adams to Run for Re-Election
Tom Adams has filed paperwork to run for a second term on the DJUSD School Board. He was first elected t ...
Tom Adams has filed paperwork to run for a second term on the DJUSD School Board. He was first elected to the board in November 2014, and has worked for the California Department of Education in Sacr ...
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Give the Voters a Clean Choice for School Board
Monday Morning Thoughts: Give the Voters a Clean Choice for School Board
A comment by School Board Member Bob Poppenga has triggered some conversation. On Thursday, as the board ...
A comment by School Board Member Bob Poppenga has triggered some conversation. On Thursday, as the board was deciding on a process to select a replacement trustee for Madhavi Sunder, Mr. Poppenga sta ...
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School Board to Accept Applications for Replacement to Sunder
School Board to Accept Applications for Replacement to Sunder
On Thursday, the school board met for a total of 25 minutes, half of which was to figure out how to fill ...
On Thursday, the school board met for a total of 25 minutes, half of which was to figure out how to fill a vacancy. Given the timing of Madhavi Sunder’s resignation, the board could not by law leave ...
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Commentary: Big Question for the School Board is What They Will Do About Vacant Seat
Commentary: Big Question for the School Board is What They Will Do About Vacant Seat
A school board seat has become vacant as the result of Madhavi Sunder departing for a position at Georget ...
A school board seat has become vacant as the result of Madhavi Sunder departing for a position at Georgetown Law School and forgoing the final five or six months of her four-year term. The seat is sc ...
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School Board Re-Evaluates Discipline Policy in Wake of Student Walk Out and Pending Actions Scheduled for the 20th
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 ...
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School Board Focuses on Parcel Tax to Reduce Compensation Gap
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 ...
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Commentary: Can We Bridge the AIM Divide?
Commentary: Can We Bridge the AIM Divide?
One of the reasons the Vanguard spent three articles in an attempt to unpack the AIM meeting is because, ...
One of the reasons the Vanguard spent three articles in an attempt to unpack the AIM meeting is because, if you simply look at the end results – the motions that were passed and the votes – you essent ...
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Board Passes a Series of Motions on AIM
Board Passes a Series of Motions on AIM
This is the third part of our coverage of Thursday evening’s school board discussion on AIM. School Supe ...
This is the third part of our coverage of Thursday evening’s school board discussion on AIM. School Superintendent John Bowes made a lengthy presentation (captured here) laying out his analysis of AI ...
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Sunday Commentary: School Board Shows No Urgency to Fix AIM Shortcoming
Sunday Commentary: School Board Shows No Urgency to Fix AIM Shortcoming
A year ago, when the first round of AIM (Alternative Instructional Model) testing results came out, they ...
A year ago, when the first round of AIM (Alternative Instructional Model) testing results came out, they showed that very few black and Hispanic students had qualified for the AIM program. Madhavi Su ...
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District Has Spent Over $17 Thousand on Response to Office for Civil Rights Investigation
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 ...
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Sunday Commentary: The Narrative is Part of the Problem with AIM
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 ...
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Office For Civil Rights Opens Investigation into Whether AIM Program is Discriminatory
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 ...
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Board Split Over Amount for School Parcel Tax
Board Split Over Amount for School Parcel Tax
By Nicholas von Wettberg Davis voters can expect to see a revised school parcel tax on the November gener ...
By Nicholas von Wettberg Davis voters can expect to see a revised school parcel tax on the November general election ballot. Residents have relied on supplemental funding to assist their schools for t ...
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My View: Let’s Make Great Schools, the Case for a Higher Parcel Tax
My View: Let’s Make Great Schools, the Case for a Higher Parcel Tax
Yesterday I found myself at an IEP (Individualized Education Program) for my nephew, whom we have raised ...
Yesterday I found myself at an IEP (Individualized Education Program) for my nephew, whom we have raised since birth, at Marguerite Montgomery Elementary School. Eight people were in the room – sever ...
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Heavy-Handed Approach on Applause at School Board Meetings?
Monday Morning Thoughts: Heavy-Handed Approach on Applause at School Board Meetings?
The school board subcommittee has made quick work on a recommendation to limit audience applause at schoo ...
The school board subcommittee has made quick work on a recommendation to limit audience applause at school board meetings. They recommend adding the following language to public comment direction: “I ...
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My View: Were AIM Opponents Intimidated by Audience Applause?
My View: Were AIM Opponents Intimidated by Audience Applause?
Two weeks ago, AIM parents, angry and frustrated by decisions made by the district – and perhaps with the ...
Two weeks ago, AIM parents, angry and frustrated by decisions made by the district – and perhaps with the poor communication by the administration regarding the placement of the AIM program, its remov ...
| by David Greenwald