The votes are in and the new student council at Kelly Elementary school includes (from left to right): Grady McDermott, vice president; Allison DeGour, secretary; Ethan Emery, president; and Analisa Almaguer, treasurer. Given the chance, we’d swap these four out with the Carlsbad City Council immediately. No questions asked.
[Link: North County Times]
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Tonight, according to the North County Times, the “Trustees of Carlsbad Unified School District are expected to approve three high school design and construction contracts totaling more than $5 million.”
The contracts include: $4.28 million in design fees to the architectural firm Perkins + Will; $150,000 in preliminary construction planning to McCarthy Building Companies; $322,240 in preliminary construction planning to Douglas E. Barnhart, Inc.
This spending is all part of the the approved Proposition P that “authorized the district to sell $198 million in school construction bonds.” It’s nice to see money being spent on education, so go crazy with it.
[Link: North County Times]
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When we think of librarians we often think of quiet, bookish people behind a desk or computer screen. But Carlsbad’s Bonnie Biggs is not your standard librarian (or ex-librarian in this case). She recently retired from her job as the University of California San Marcos‘ tribal liaison, but the work she is most known for is reviving libraries on Indian reservations in Southern California, according to a story in the San Diego Union Tribune.
What she did revived libraries at Indian reservations across Southern California and led her to become a link between young tribal members and college. . . “She encouraged us to keep our libraries open, enlarge our collections,” said Patricia Dixon, a Pauma tribal member.
[Link: San Diego Union Tribune]
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Soil samples from the proposed site of Carlsbad Unified School District’s new $95.4 million high school on the Eastern Front have been sent off to be analyzed as part of the environmental study of the project, according to a story in the North County Times.
The study is designed to show how the proposed school would affect the land and its surrounding neighbors, said Walter Freeman, assistant superintendent of business services with the Carlsbad Unified School District. The study must also propose ways to minimize any effects, he said.
Even a group started to preserve the area doesn’t seem to have a problem with the land being used for a new school. Which is a good thing
Diane Nygaard, the president of a conservation group called Preserve Calavera, said her group had hoped the district would leave the land untouched, but that they aren’t fighting plans for the campus. “We would love to see it become part of the preservation area but clearly the school district needs it for (the) school,” said Nygaard, referring to a swath of open space along Calavera Creek from south Oceanside, through Carlsbad to Vista.
[Link: North County Times]
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Apparently someone threatened two Carlsbad schools on Friday and that required sending officers and dogs to two of Carlsbad’s schools.
Police were checking the campuses at Carlsbad High School and Valley Middle School at midday today, in response to a reported threat. . . Students at both schools were taking their lunch breaks on a normal schedule as police K-9 officers searched classrooms. Neither school was put into a lock-down situation.
According to the North County Times story, no future details were available.
[Link: North County Times]
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Carlsbad’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’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 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.
According to the North County Times 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 “create conversations among students on any topic.”
One look at the school’s staff showed us that Pacific Ridge is not messing around when it comes to educational horsepower. This school is serious.
[Links: North County TImes and Pacific Ridge School]
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Carlsbad’s new $6 million library complex located on Eureka Place just behind Holiday Park is coming along nicely according to a North County Times story.
Walking around the rough timber frames that mark what will become a $6 million library complex, Deputy Library Director Suzanne Smithson couldn’t stop smiling Friday morning. “This is the first time I’ve been in here in awhile. Pardon me if I seem a little excited,” she told several people as she gave them a tour of the long-planned Carlsbad City Library Learning Center.
For more on the library complex and the programs that will be housed there, read the rest of Barbara Henry’s story by clicking the link below.
[Link: North County Times]
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Jay Roach, the superintendent of the Carlsbad Unified School District is up for a raise when the CUSD board meets in regular session tomorrow night. If all goes well he’ll make $200,000 next year. That’s $10,000 more than he made last year.
“He has met all of his goals,” said board president Kelli Moors. State test scores continue to rise, and the number of students passing the California High School Exam and transferring to two- and four-year colleges is growing, Moors said. Roach also led the district through a campaign to pass a $198 million school construction and renovation bond last year, Moors said.
If we were on the board, we’d vote yes. But we’re even more in favor of raises for the teachers.
[Link: North County Times]
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For older Carlsbadistan residents yesterday was the day to begin letting out that annual sigh of relief as those pesky, smart aleck, trouble-making high school kids begin returning to class.
La Costa Canyon students started their new school year yesterday, but we’ll have to wait one more day before the Carlsbad Unified School District is back in session and the beaches, streets, and parking lots of The Village return to their pleasant peaceful non-summer status.
To us the summer seemed short and waveless. In fact, we’d have to say it was the shortest summer ever. And now as fall is creeping in, and the tourist season is almost over, we’re looking forward to two months of blue skies, warm water, and empty waves. Because there really is nothing better than September in Carlsbadistan.
[Link: North County Times]
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When Calavera Hills Middle School principal Eric Trogden left his job unexpectedly last week to pursue a career as a financial analyst the district decided to move assistant principal Catina Hancock into the job.
Hancock, 33, brings experience as a classroom teacher at Jefferson Elementary School and assistant principal at Calavera Hills Elementary School, Calavera Hills Middle School and Aviara Oaks Middle School to her leadership role as principal, said Torrie Norton, assistant superintendent of personnel.
Hancock was apparently in the running for the job of Magnolia Elementary, however, when Trogden left the trustees moved her up and found Ron Hess, a principal from Twentynine Palms, to come in off the desert and head Magnolia until it closes.
Magnolia’s new principal, comes to Carlsbad from the high desert community of Twentynine Palms, where he served four years as principal at Joshua Tree Elementary School in the Morongo Unified School District. The New York native, a 28-year veteran of education, served in schools in Virginia and Texas before moving to California five years ago. He worked in the Murrieta Unified School District as principal of Alta Murrieta Elementary School for a year before moving to the desert.
For more on this story, click the link.
[Link: North County Times]
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