Closing Achievement Gap Remains Board Priority
By Nicholas von Wettberg At the recent Vanguard School Board Candidates Forum, one of the questions…
Is DJUSD Out of Compliance with Special Ed Laws?
Editor’s note: the following was submitted as an open letter to the DJUSD School Board. According to…
Are We Doing Enough for Preschool in Davis?
By Nicholas von Wettberg Davis Joint Unified School District (DJUSD) Superintendent Dr. John Bowes welcomed a guest…
Board to Hear Presentation on Preschool Programs
By Nicholas von Wettberg Picking up where they left off in June, the Davis School Board will…
Board Hears YouthTruth Survey Update
By Nicholas von Wettberg The YouthTruth Student Survey, and its role in climate assessment, was the subject…
Board To Hear Climate Update, YouthTruth Results
By Nicholas von Wettberg Results of the YouthTruth Student Survey, a climate assessment given to Davis Joint…
Commentary: Disappointing Failure to Provide Boost to Preschool Programs
In the end, not only did the preschool tax fall short of the four votes needed to…
Commentary: Options Exist If Supervisors Don’t Put Preschool Measure on the Ballot
Today may be decision day for the county Board of Supervisors on a half to quarter-cent sales…
Economic Development Series: Impact of Public Schools on a Community’s Economic Development
By Bob Poppenga The relationship between public schools and local economic development is often overlooked in community…
Sunday Commentary II: Is the District’s AIM Revamp a Failure?
One of the big debates that occurred on Thursday night at the school board meeting is the…
School Board Doesn’t Increase Number of AIM Strands
After lengthy discussion by the school board in the face of parent complaints on the elimination of…
Why Has Aim Program Become a Pariah in the District?
By Steve Kelleher I am wondering why the AIM program has become such a pariah in the…
Parents Protest Termination of AIM at NDE; Threaten to Pull out of State Testing
(The following is a reader-submitted letter) To the Board of Trustees and the Acting Superintendent of DJUSD…
Board to Hear Update on CTE/STEA2M Objectives
By Nicholas von Wettberg With the end of the school year fast approaching, another crop of high…
Monday Morning Thoughts II: Does Anyone Really Care (About AIM)?
When the issue of AIM came back last winter and spring, I really didn’t have a dog…
Sunday Commentary: Biggest Fears Realized on AIM, Just Four Latinos and One Black Identified Under New Guidelines
For those fearing that the changes to the AIM program would result in the exclusion of blacks…
Board Responds To Later Start Plan Update
By Nicholas von Wettberg The Davis Joint Unified School District (DJUSD) moved one step closer to implementing…
School Board Pushes Forward Later Start Plan
By Nicholas von Wettberg Moments after holding its annual reorganization meeting, with an election of officers, the…
School Board To Hear Status Report On Later Start Program
By Nicholas von Wettberg After a month-long break, the Davis Joint Unified School District (DJUSD) School Board…
GATE/AIM: Education Standards and Growing Gaps
by Jeff Boone Before I get too deep in this contentious and impassioned topic, I will admit…
