In a guest opinion, local school district superintendents urge caution and emphasize the need for the entire community to participate in COVID-safe behaviors to protect school communities open for in-person instruction.
Whether our family chooses for our children to attend school in person or to attend the Portola Valley Virtual Academy, we do not find Edgenuity to be an acceptable or equitable source of instruction for two of the most critical subjects for our middle school children, the petition states. We ask the administrators and school board to reevaluate the virtual program available to the middle school community.
Poggi asked the district to provide a more open process and create a shorter period for the binding commitment, allowing a March pivot point for students to return to campus or switch to virtual learning.
Portola Valley Neighbors United, incorporated in January 2020 to help our local community preserve and enhance its small, rural open space character, and co-founded by council candidate Mary Hufty, has come out in opposition to the Stanford Wedge project, dubbed [Portola Terrace.
With state mandates that could require the town to build 200 to 300 new housing units in the next decade, the council has also been weighing the concept of adding housing while also preserving Portola Valley s treasured rural character and not creating more wildfire risk in the process. In November, council members Craig Hughes and John Richards penned a letter to the Association of Bay Area Governments following a council discussion on the state Regional Housing Needs Allocation process, stating that the town will remain highly susceptible to wildfires and that it would like to engage on the sensibleness of significant numbers of new homes in high-fire danger areas. They also said that, as the smallest
In March, voters failed to renew Measure P, a parcel tax that raised $1.2 million annually for the district. It expires on June 20, 2021. If there isn t a renewal before June, the district must make plans for spending reductions. Given the current state of the pandemic environment, most importantly not knowing when schools will be able to resume normal operations, and the possibility of additional staffing needed to maintain small cohorts, the administration recommends postponing further budget reductions, $500,000 of ongoing expenditure reductions until 2022-23, and an additional $500,000 in 2023-24, a staff report for the Dec. 17 school board meeting states.
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Anne Creevy, 85, a longtime educator in the Portola Valley School District, died on Sept. 27. Don Kepler, 87, longtime Menlo Park resident, died on Nov. 9. Susan Southworth, 73, editor at Stanford University s Hoover Institution and Menlo Park resident, died on Dec. 11.
Click on their names to read the full obituaries, leave remembrances or post photos. Go to Lasting Memories at almanacnews.com/obituaries to read more.
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