BCS too exclusive to sustain
Regarding the article “County warns BCS over enrollment disparities” (Town Crier, May 12), I have two questions:
1. Why has it taken so long for Bullis Charter School’s failure to adequately enroll certain underrepresented student groups to be questioned by the Santa Clara County Board of Education when it has been a “given” for years to anyone paying attention?
2. How can BCS possibly feign surprise when they have consistently allowed the situation to exist and be sustained?
This could possibly be viewed with a bit of candor if it hadn’t impacted the excellent Los Altos public schools so deeply. BCS has often been referred to as a private school funded by the public schools.
SD County Office of Education offers local districts lessons on equity
A poster on the San Dieguito Academy High School campus during the GSA’s Love Lunch in February 2020.
(Celeste Barnette)
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Diversity, equity and inclusion have become a priority for many school districts this past year. To address those issues, local districts have turned to partnerships with the San Diego County Office of Education’s equity department over the last month, work has begun in the Del Mar and San Dieguito Union High School Districts.
But what does that really mean?
“The biggest piece is really about building community. It’s about seeing each other’s humanity, having empathy for the other person whoever they may be,” said Fabiola Bagula, senior director of SDCOE’s equity department. “It’s the commitment that every student receives what they need to develop their full academic and social potential.”
According to CPS spokesperson Michelle Baumstark, the district works hand and hand with Cooperative Strategies, a company that specializes in redistricting.
Right now, the focus is on Parkade Elementary. The vote has been postponed two times due to the pandemic. Tonightâs vote is only about Phase 1 â provided relief for Parkade Elementary School which is overcapacity. The change to Parkadeâs attendance area would go into effect this coming school year, Baumstark said. The overcapacity that you re seeing at Parkade Elementary School affects between 80 and 100 families and that particular change will go into effect for this fall.
The board will also listen to recommendations and look at guiding principles for all other attendance areas. There are four possible scenarios, and each brings its own changes to the current zoning.
COLUMBIA â The Columbia Public School Board of Education voted to provide redistricting for Parkade Elementary School and Alpha Hart Lewis Elementary School during its monthly meeting Monday night.Â
The vote goes into effect in the coming 2021-2022 school year and is part of Phase 1. The school board clarified that the decision does not affect rising fifth graders â they can choose to stay at their elementary school next year, but bus transportation is not guaranteed.
CPS spokesperson Michelle Baumstark said previously that Parkade Elementary School is seeing overcapacity. During Monday s meeting a representative said the redistricting would affect approximately 100 families.
The meeting also addressed Phase 3, the last in the plan, and presented the four scenarios that could occur with each.
Sam Whitehead, Molly Samuel, Johnny Kauffman, and Martha Dalton contributed to this report.
Gov. Brian Kemp had until Monday, 40 days since the close of the 2021 General Assembly session, to decide whether to sign or veto the bills the legislature passed. The most controversial bill of the session, the state’s new election law, was signed within an hour of its passage in March, but the legislature was busy passing other bills this year as well.
Kemp vetoed one bill that would have created a “chief labor officer” within the Department of Labor who would have reported to the state legislature. This was a hot-button issue during the legislative session as a backlog of unemployment claims frustrated jobless Georgians and the lawmakers they appealed to for help.