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March 2012 Newsletter

Posted on 13 March 2012

REALITY CHECK #2: TEACHERS (SECOND OF THREE PART SERIES) Clarification from last month’s Newsletter: Ensuring quality classroom instruction is NOTdependent on parents bringing issues forward. Our Administrators do NOT need parents to bring issues forward in order for Administrators to take action to address issues and concerns with classroom instruction. My intent was to explain [...] Continue Reading

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2012 Newletters

Febuary 2012 Newsletter

Posted on 06 February 2012

REALITY CHECK #1: TEACHERS (FIRST OF THREE PART SERIES) Occasionally, I receive complaints about our teachers from parents. I wanted to share my perspective on this subject and outline the process to follow if you have a teaching performance issue with a teacher. Here are my thoughts regarding teachers: Teachers want to do a good [...] Continue Reading

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2012 Newletters

January 2012 Newsletter

Posted on 13 January 2012

DISTRICT AUDITS: On Tuesday, January 10, the Board of Education conducted a study session to review the final audits for the 2010-2011 fiscal year covering our General Funds, Measure E (Fiscal and Performance) Internal Audit Report, and Associated Student Body (ASB) Report.  Later that same evening at our regularly scheduled board meeting, the Board of [...] Continue Reading

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2011 Newsletters

December 2011 Newsletter

Posted on 14 December 2011

INSTALLATION SPEECH AS PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION I want to thank my colleagues for this honor and I pledge to not let you down. How did we go from being a light house district in the 1970′s to being just a good public school system at the turn of the Century. Many people [...] Continue Reading

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2011 Newsletters

November 2011 Newsletter

Posted on 14 November 2011

6.6+ MILLION REASONS TO READ On Wednesday, November 2, 2011, the Board of Education approved settlement Agreement # 2011-2012-524. The terms of the settlement included a confidentiality clause that precludes me from speaking publicly about the terms of the agreement, but I can report that this settlement is the largest in the history of BHUSD [...] Continue Reading

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2011 Newsletters

October 2011 Newsletter

Posted on 09 October 2011

  MTA UPDATE As I have been walking and talking to neighbors and friends all over our city, a common set of questions continues to be surfaced around how much money is being spent from the Measure E bond funds on legal costs regarding the MTA. Unfortunately, a lot of misinformation regarding what the District [...] Continue Reading

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2011 Newsletters

September 2011 Newsletter

Posted on 09 September 2011

WELCOME BACK AND HOPE YOU HAD A GREAT START TO THE 2011-2012 SCHOOL YEAR! Information & Changes for the 2011-2012 School Year This was my fourth summer as a member of the Board of Education and I can report to you that we do not take the summers off. Your staff and Board of Education [...] Continue Reading

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2011 Newsletters

August 2011 Newsletter

Posted on 09 August 2011

BOND UPDATE: MEASURE E $334 MILLION On August 3, 2011, the Board of Education participated in a Bond Finance Study Session at the District Office. During this study session, the board was presented with data from Keygent Advisors regarding a potential problem with the schedule for bond sales initially proposed by George K. Baum and [...] Continue Reading

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