Commentary: Painful Times Ahead for DJUSD
This is what we have come to–on Thursday night, the Davis School District, faced with a huge…
Hundreds of Students March To Save Their Schools
Around 300 people, primarily students from three different schools, gathered at the Community Park yesterday afternoon in…
Commentary: Wake Up Davis
There is a lesson to be learned from the budget crisis at the schools level and it…
Davis School Board Votes to Keep Three Junior Highs
After long discussion over the last several weeks, the Davis School Board voted by a 3-2 vote…
Superintendent Hammond Says He Doesn’t Want to Close Emerson
After over a hundred people spoke on Monday night at a jam packed Emerson Junior High Multipurpose…
Board Consensus is to Keep Emerson Open
For a group of school board members that were trying to avoid making a decision at midnight,…
BREAKING NEWS: Valley Oak Charter School Withdraws Appeal of DJUSD Denial
VOCS PLEDGES TO REFILE A PETITION WITH DJUSD FOR 2009-10 The Vanguard received a copy of a…
Hundreds of Students, Parents and Community Members March to Save Emerson Junior High
At Central Park yesterday, hundreds of students, parents, and community members marched throughout the park urging the…
Parents, Students and Community Members Mobilize To Save Emerson Junior High
The Vanguard made a brief stop on a busy day to Stonegate Country Club, where a group…
Commentary: On School Funding and Budget Crises–This is About Educating Your Kids
The pace at which events occur in this community is sometimes overwhelming and there are times it…
Vanguard Investigation Part III: The Grande Property Agreement
The Vanguard continues its multipart series of former DJUSD Deputy Superintendent Tahir Ahad, Total School Solutions, and…
Hundreds of Da Vinci Students Flood Chambers Hoping to Save Jobs of Their Teachers
One thing just about everyone agreed last night–no one had seen so many students at the Community…
County Board of Education Hears Valley Oak Charter Appeal
Yesterday the County Board of Education met up in its Woodland offices to hear the appeal of…
NEWS AND COMMENTARY: Valley Oak Charter School Appeal on the Agenda For Tonight And Continuing Budget Crisis At DJUSD
Valley Oak Charter School Hearing Tonight the Yolo County Office of Education has scheduled a public hearing…
Total School Solutions Wreaks Havoc for Waterford School District As Well
As we continue our series on the impact of former CBO Tahir Ahad and his prviate educational…
Vanguard Investigation Part II: Facilities Finance and Construction Irregularities
This is the second story in our continuing series of examining the tenure of former DJUSD Deputy…
VANGUARD INVESTIGATION Uncovers Evidence of Wrongdoing and Corruption in DJUSD Business Office Under Tahir Ahad
Yolo County District Attorney’s Office Looks into Allegations Background: On November 18, 2007 two former Davis Joint…
Fight For Valley Oak Goes to the County… And Beyond
As if Valley Oak did not have enough obstacles already, looking at the budget situation for the…
Commentary: Okay we get it, Don’t Cut Music
Yesterday I made a phone call to one of the school board members on an unrelated matter….
Commentary: DJUSD Cut of Climate Position Threatens To Set Back Efforts by Two Decades
SchoolsWithin the course of cutting $4 to $4.5 million from the school district’s budget, you know that the cuts are going to – for the most part -be deep and painful. In fact, that is one reason I have mostly avoided hitting this topic head-on. I have a full understanding that there are going to be painful cuts for all.
That being said, with proposals now on the table, I think we also have to think about the bigger picture and along those lines I have some concerns about some of the cuts.
