{"id":981,"date":"2007-09-03T07:58:36","date_gmt":"2007-09-03T14:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=981"},"modified":"2007-09-03T07:59:01","modified_gmt":"2007-09-03T14:59:01","slug":"pacific-ridge-school-opens-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=981","title":{"rendered":"Pacific Ridge School Opens Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/main-02.gif\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/main-02.gif','popup','width=725,height=139,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/main-02-tm.jpg\" height=\"81\" width=\"425\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Main 02\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Carlsbad&#8217;s new $12.5 million <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacificridge.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pacific Ridge School<\/a><\/strong> in the <strong>Bressi Ranch<\/strong> development opens Wednesday with a seventh and ninth grade class and 108 students.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Built on 7.3 acres in Carlsbad&#8217;s Bressi Ranch development, the secular, nonreligious school took two years to plan and build, said <strong>Ellen Mullady<\/strong>, the head of the school. The idea for the school came from two local families who wanted a better education for their children. They attracted other families, eventually raising $7.4 million in donated seed money to build the school.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nctimes.com\/articles\/2007\/09\/03\/news\/coastal\/2_03_329_2_07.txt\" target=\"_blank\">North County Times<\/a><\/em><\/strong> the classes at Pacific Ridge will be limited to 15 students. The classes will be taught around a large oval oak table so all the teachers and students can see each other during class and &#8220;create conversations among students on any topic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One look at the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacificridge.org\/staff.php\" target=\"_blank\">school&#8217;s staff<\/a><\/strong> showed us that Pacific Ridge is not messing around when it comes to educational horsepower. This school is serious.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Links: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nctimes.com\/articles\/2007\/09\/03\/news\/coastal\/2_03_329_2_07.txt\" target=\"_blank\">North County TImes<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacificridge.org\/staff.php\" target=\"_blank\">Pacific Ridge School<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carlsbad&#8217;s new $12.5 million Pacific Ridge School in the Bressi Ranch development opens Wednesday with a seventh and ninth grade class and 108 students. Built on 7.3 acres in Carlsbad&#8217;s Bressi Ranch development, the secular, nonreligious school took two years to plan and build, said Ellen Mullady, the head of the school. The idea for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,14,37,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}