In Their Own Words: Tom Adams
The Vanguard will be publishing the comments of each of the five school board members on the…
My View: What is Best For Our Kids?
In yesterday’s column, I laid out my continued concern about making changes that are not based on…
Commentary: Does District Really Need to Cut AIM Program in Half?
There has been a lot made about process in the issue of AIM program changes. From the…
Sunday Commentary: Board Misses Chance to Forge Consensus on GATE/AIM
On Thursday, Board President Alan Fernandes pitched the idea of forming a board subcommittee that might be…
Board Majority Rejects Subcommittee on AIM
One of the ideas that has been floated about this summer is the idea of creating a…
District Moving to Modify Board Policy on Suspension and Expulsion
Under current Education Code, the law allows for home suspension for students in grades 4-12 who have…
Monday Morning Thoughts: Why Wasn’t 2014 School Board Election About GATE?
The supporters of the current GATE/AIM program have complained repeatedly that the proposal to change the GATE/AIM…
Part Two of Public Comment on GATE
On Friday, we had two reports on Thursday’s DJUSD School Board meeting. We presented the comments by…
Both Sides of AIM/GATE Debate Turn Out for Special July Meeting – Public Comment
Part Two – 45 Public Comments The public came out and expressed thanks and criticism to the…
Both Sides of AIM/GATE Debate Turn Out for Special July Meeting
Part One – Board Comments Civic engagement does not end when the school year ends, and, to…
Commentary: A Board Elected to Heal the Wounds Should Not Instead Divide the Community
It is perhaps easy to forget just how much the events of the winter of 2014 divided…
Monday Morning Thoughts: Differences of Opinion on Top Administrative Salaries, VSA
We are starting to see differentiation occurring among the school board members. It started with the June…
My View: Board Majority Dances on the Brink of Trouble with AIM Decisions
Last fall, every candidate for the school board vowed, in the aftermath of the volleyball scandal and…
Monday Morning Thoughts: More on the Brown Act, Board Views on GATE, And Why the Motion Passed
We have kept the focus on the GATE/AIM issue on the potential Brown Act violation. The Brown…
Analysis: Nonverbal Tests for AIM Identification of Minority and Disadvantaged Students
On Thursday night, the school district heard a critique of its use of TONI (Test of Nonverbal…
My View: Social Justice and AIM
For a long time I have stayed relatively quiet on the issue of GATE/AIM. There have been…
Are AIM Students Being Overidentified? School Board Grapples with AIM Identification Issue
While there were a number of procedural issues asked about the presentations on Tuesday night regarding the…
Monday Morning Thoughts: New School Board Takes Shape, And the Week Ahead
Last week we saw the election of three new school board members: Madhavi Sunder, Barbara Archer and…
No Surprise in School Race: Sunder, Archer and Adams Cruise to Victory
Tom Adams and Barbara Archer were elected to the school board on Tuesday There was really…
Analysis: In a Way the Community Never Moved On From Peterson…
It was March 18, and the Davis School Board had just voted 3-1 to uphold the district’s…
