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GreenTown Spotlight: Friends of Deer Hollow Farm

Meet the Farm Babies at Deer Hollow Farm. On Saturday, May 19, from 10am-1pm, kids are invited to go nose-to-nose with the new lambs and kids, a cow, pigs, chickens, rabbits, ducks, sheep and goats.

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This blog post represents is a new series connecting GreenTown friends and family to other organizations doing work consistent with our mission.  This week we look at Friends of Deer Hollow Farm.

Friends of Deer Hollow Farm is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.  It works to preserve Deer Hollow Farm, located in Rancho San Antonio Park in Cupertino, as a working homestead and supports historical and environmental education programs for our community.  Approximately 100,000 people visit the Farm annually.  More than 5,000 children come on school field trips annually from 40 Bay Area Schools. Read more..

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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. They…Read 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.
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Mitch Caldwell April 11, 2013 at 11:36 pm
Maybe offering a magnet school could help with stability? It can balance out enrollment at other…Read 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?
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I saw you had a good discussion on the definition of a neighborhood school. But beyond the…Read 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.
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