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Plus loyal dogs, block parties, Relay for Life, and a good, old-fashioned lemonade stand. p.s. Did the earth move for you?

 

 

June 9:

1. EmmySFTV @EmmySFTV

On stage now: Désirée Goyette and John Kessler + Foothill Repertory Dance Company. #emmysf

2. Fire Tracker @TheFireTracker2 Sheriff having to force entry on a house in Los Altos Hills. Medical emergency with two hostile dogs inside. Animal control not staffed.

3. Arnold Ambiel @ajambiel 

#losaltos at its best....block party season is here!pic.twitter.com/jLoPL89u

4. SV Transit Updates @svtransitupdts

  VTA's 22, 35 & 40 bus lines serve Moveable Feast @ 4800 ElCamino Real, Los Altos Sun. from 11am-2pm: on.fb.me/KTN8Xc

5. Urvi Nagrani @theurv

  Just finished 3.5 miles at relay for life in Los Altos, more this evening ....

6. Urvi Nagrani @theurv

Los Altans, at the corner of Pine and Los Altos are some kids doing a lemonade stand to raise money for charity - go help em out!

June 8

7. ♪ Mi®an∂a Mon†ijø ✪ @MiMiLoVeSODMG

Grad ❤ @ Homestead High School Stadium

8. WFM Los Altos @wfm_losaltos

Whole Foods Market Los Altos is a proud sponsor of the Los AltosRelay for Life Survivor Luncheon! Let's... 

June 7

9. Adam Levermore @lexigeek

#CongratsKal (@ Homestead High School Graduation Class Of2012) 

10. SF QuakeBot @earthquakesSF

A 1.5 magnitude earthquake occurred 3.11 mi S of Los Altos, CA.Details: http://eqbot.com/ePY Map: 

June 5:

11. Bullis Purissima @BullisBears

@Stanford given approval to improve Arastradero Trail in Los AltosHills: http://shar.es/q9ao5 #lah #news

12. Robin Daniels @robin_daniels @robertsimms welcoming an awesome group of CIOs in a Box tshirt. @BoxHQ

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Joan J. Strong May 22, 2013 at 11:21 am
Corrections: 1. Straw man attack: nobody is blaming BCS for district-wide growth. Nobody. 2. BCSRead More does not get "half the funding" of LASD. BCS gets about 6500 and LASD gets about 9500. The BCS program for typical children costs about twice as much as the comparable LASD program. BCS is simple an expensive hybrid public/private school, nothing more. 3. Mr. Roode pointed out that there are about 100 or so special ed. students at LASD (I cannot verify this but it seems very low). LASD calls out an annual expense of $7.5 million for special ed. meaning each of these students cost LASD $75,000, not $1,000 as he implied. 4. The law and the courts have ALREADY compelled LASD to give reasonably equivalent facilities and they have. BCS has a lower student/teacher ratio meaning that they have more classrooms for the same number of kids. This is not, legally speaking, LASD's problem. 5. Mr. Roode has yet to explain how the Covington campus could be 16 acres. Further, he continues to spread the fallacy that campuses ACREAGE is even remotely relevant to its student capacity. Campuses are limited by their location and traffic, not how many acres of grass there is in the back. 6. Were it not for BCS, we would have passed a bond in the last election, as the polling shows. BCS litigation has ripped our community apart and has left it with a mountain to climb when it comes to operating in a normal fashion.
L.A. Chung (Editor) May 22, 2013 at 10:37 am
@David R. I think Homestead uses EarthCare Recycling, based on its April 6 E-Waste collection dayRead More publicity (http://bit.ly/10mIV14) : www.earthcarerecycling.com "Recycle FREE your old electronic equipment - working or not! Anything with a plug or PC board inside. Also accepted are non-household batteries, VHS tapes and other media, and scrap metal. Visit www.earthcarerecycling.com for a list of accepted items. "
David R. May 21, 2013 at 10:26 pm
What kind of bins are there? Do you take used CDROMs? How about VHS tapes? Cables and wire?
David R. May 20, 2013 at 01:18 pm
I saw a public report that said most of the discussion related to carpooling and so forth, sinceRead More Blach is separated so much from the rest of the school. You know, things like dropping off both kids at Egan, and then a group of kids headed for Blach share a ride or vice versa. I don't see how any nonparents can really help with that.
mtnview_parent April 12, 2013 at 03:06 am
The only problem with the charter school is that they cause more problem than they solve. TheyRead More want to close Covington, then Blach. So, they don't provide flexibility at all. They keep going to court. This is a case were the remedy is worst than the disease. The original idea is that we have to be creative with the 10th site. Land is scarce, and most likely, we cannot provide the same facility than other school within the district. People are not happy about being moved from their school (with good reason I feel) Solution: provide an inspiring project. May be an immersion program, or a more academic program, or maybe a program to help english learner from K-3. If we don't innovate with a more flexible program, we might just need to redraw the boundaries every 5-7 years. Nobody can foresee the future, but you can build flexibility.
Mitch Caldwell April 11, 2013 at 11:36 pm
Maybe offering a magnet school could help with stability? It can balance out enrollment at otherRead More schools so that attendance boundaries do not have to be redrawn. Isn't the charter school doing that for the LASD district right now?
mtnview_parent April 11, 2013 at 10:36 pm
I saw you had a good discussion on the definition of a neighborhood school. But beyond theRead More definitions, I would like to ask why does palo Alto school District and Cupertino School district have a mix of neighborhood school and some choice school. Those are two high performing district right next to us. Can a choice school be an excellent way to stop the highly disruptive attendance boundary change ? People say I am for statu quo, that I am against change. I feel that family and children need stability, that is why we don't change spouse at the pace the BoT change the attendance boundary. People who want some stability at home (and their school) do make a reasonable request.