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Kindergarten and New Family Night is Thursday! From LASD HAPS ABOUT CAMPUS

Each week Los Altos Hills resident Laura Orella lets readers know what's going on in LASD elementary and middle schools. Today's post includes New Family Night.

 

They say the principal is your pal.

And on Thursday night, new families to the Los Altos School District are about to find out. Principals from district elementary schools will take the stage December 6 for the district's Kindergarten and New Family Information Night.

Principals Nancy Davis of Almond, Erin Green of Covington, Kimberly Attell of Loyola, Principal Cadwell of Gardner Bullis, Amy Romem of Oak, Ryan Haven of Santa Rita, and Wade Spenader of Springer will open up their school multipurpose rooms at 7 p.m. and play host to new families seeking information on our high performing schools.

Using multimedia presentations, the principals plan to outline the district's commitment to revolutionizing learning for all students, discuss the academic programs and how the families can get involved in their individual campuses to join in each neighborhood community. Parents will also get a full overview of the kindergarten programs.

After the multipurpose room overview, parents can tour the school and enjoy the kindergarten rooms and grounds. There Kindergarten teachers as well as parents will greet the newcomers and answer any questions.

So come one, come all to meet a new "pal."

Here's the breakdown of the evening at a glance:

Kindergarten & New Family
Information Night


Thursday, December 6, 7:00pm

Information night will be hosted at all neighborhood elementary schools: Almond, Covington, Gardner Bullis, Loyola, Oak, Santa Rita, Springer.

Principals will present information on:
• How LASD is revolutionizing learning for all students
• Elementary school programs & highlights
• Student Registration

For more information, contact your neighborhood school or the district office at (650) 947-1150 or visit http://www.lasdschools.org/District/4309-Kindergarten-Registration.html.

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Michael Uhler May 25, 2013 at 10:48 am
These are the special education numbers for LASD and BCS for the 2011-2012 school year, the mostRead More recent year that has complete data: LASD had 462 special education students in a total enrollment of 4,486, or 10.3%. Total education expense was $7,319,175, or $15,842 per special education student. Of this expense, they received $3,549,684 from the SELPA, so their expense was about twice the amount they received. BCS had 29 special education students in a total enrollment of 465, or 6.2%. Total education expense was $221,149, or $7,626 per special education student. Of this expense, they were allocated $295,126 from the SELPA, so their expense was completely paid for by the amount they received (they did not keep the excess - it was returned to the SELPA). Sources: CDE DataQuest, SCCOE, LASD
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.