Guest Commentary: Time For Change On Board
By Katherine Unger While I voted for Trustee Susan Lovenburg previously, I have been disappointed with many…
Letter: Deeply Concerned by AIM/GATE Test Debacle
by Shun “Sean” Yao I am deeply troubled and frustrated by the recent AIM-test debacle. On 9/27,…
Analysis: Lovenburg and Fernandes Sweep Major Endorsements
In Sunday’s paper, the Davis Enterprise endorses incumbents Alan Fernandes and Susan Lovenburg. This follows the endorsement…
Monday Morning Thoughts: Mounting Costs of OCR Investigation, Silence by the Board
Two years ago, one of the key moments of the Nancy Peterson saga was the revelation that…
District Has Spent Over $17 Thousand on Response to Office for Civil Rights Investigation
The Vanguard has learned that the Davis Joint Unified School District has $17,363.07 in legal fees pertaining…
Monday Morning Thoughts I: Elk Grove Shows Us One Path Forward on AIM
In January, the Elk Grove Unified School District site had a blog entry that read, “New EGUSD…
Sunday Commentary: The Narrative is Part of the Problem with AIM
The Vanguard reported on Friday and Saturday that the OCR (Office for Civil Rights) was looking into…
Office For Civil Rights Opens Investigation into Whether AIM Program is Discriminatory
One of the biggest complaints about the changes to the AIM program was the drastic reduction in…
My View: Were AIM Opponents Intimidated by Audience Applause?
Two weeks ago, AIM parents, angry and frustrated by decisions made by the district – and perhaps…
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…
Board Policies Are Squeezing the Life out of AIM
by Debbie Nichols-Poulos This spring, only 82 students qualified for the fourth-grade AIM program, almost half of…
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…
Monday Morning Thoughts: Discovering Talented Black and Hispanic Students
The numbers came back bleak, from the standpoint of the new AIM program being able to identify…
My View: Will Anger and Discontent Pose a True Threat to the Parcel Tax?
With the release of the final numbers of the AIM program, the reduction of the program to…
AIM Numbers Continue to Shrink, Lottery Instituted
The final AIM numbers are in, according to a brief presentation on Thursday night by interim superintendent…
Tom Adams on AIM and the Achievement Gap
In the aftermath of the implementation of AIM reforms enacted in November, with a recent update showing…
Fernandes and Archer Discuss AIM Reform and Achievement Gap
In the aftermath of the implementation of AIM reforms enacted in November, with a recent update showing…
Lovenburg Talks about AIM Reform and the Achievement Gap
In the aftermath of the implementation of AIM reforms enacted in November, with a recent update showing…
