The annual update to the Claremont
Unified School District’s Local
Educational Agency (LEA) Plan
for February 2012 through February 2013
received approval by a 4-1 vote by the
CUSD Board of Education at last Thursday’s
board meeting.
CUSD will go forward with addressing 4 goals
identified by the California Department of Education
that includes English-Language Arts (ELA) and
Mathematics, English learners, highly qualified
teachers and high school graduates.
The Claremont Unified School District
Board of Education held a
brief discussion Thursday on how
the proceeds for the upcoming sale of the
district's property at 2080 N. Mountain
Avenue may be spent to address 3 top district
priorities.
The Claremont High School Theatre Renovation
Project, CUSD's Technology Status Update and the
facility, health and safety needs of the district were
noted as the areas of focus the district will look to address
at the completion of the sale.
Claremont McKenna College students
do not have to wait until
after college to become professional
consultants.
Founded in 2005 by CMC students, Mike Peel
and Danny Hayman, SOURCE is a student-run organization
where CMC students work as consultants
to local nonprofit organizations such as the
Claremont After School Program (CLASP), Uncommon
Good, Crossroads and the Claremont Museum
of Art.
The Claremont Unified School District Board
of Education will discuss options on how use capital
proceeds received through the sale of the district’s
2080 N. Mountain Avenue property during
this Thursday’s board meeting at 6:15 p.m.
“There is an economist, a priest
and a rabbi playing golf...” So
began comedian and economist
Ben Stein’s quirky anecdotes shedding
a humorous light amid a dark commentary
about the American economy presented to
a near full house at Scripps’ Garrison Theater
Thursday evening.
Mr. Stein was welcomed onto the Scripps campus as
part of the college’s annual Elizabeth Hubert Malott Public
Affairs Program.
Claremont's Best B.E.T. (Business and Education Together)
program has provided over $311,500 to develop
classroom programs that address advancement of educational
enterprise and promote student self-esteem, learning
and motivation.
In the wake of the SAT score scandal that recently came
to light at Claremont McKenna College, a further blow has
been struck to the college. In response to learning that the
CMC’s admission’s office has been reporting inflated SAT
scores for the past 6 years, Kiplinger’s magazine struck the
college from its list of “best values in education.”
George Hickman, one of the original Tuskegee Airmen, has dealt with war, racism and the Great Depression in the 1930s. Yet the war hero and educator had a single message for the students of Foothill Country Day School on Thursday-live your dream. "The one thing I want to let the kids know is that they can be what they want to be and they can do anything they have a yearning for," Mr. Hickman said. COURIER photo/Steven Felschundneff
Sumner Elementary School Principal
Frank D'Emilio updated the Claremont
Unified School District Board of Education
on how the school is progressing in addressing
3 priority areas for improvement for
the current school year.
Closing the achievement gap for Hispanic and socio-economically
disadvantaged students, increasing the level of proficiency
of students with disabilities and reducing the number of office
referrals as a result of negative behavior were the 3 areas of focus
during Mr. D'Emilio's report at the last school board meeting.
International analyses consistently rank
the United States at the very bottom of
the list when it comes to the quality of
education. The fields in which Americans
lag behind most are the so-called STEM
subjects: science, technology, education
and mathematics. What have educators
done to cause American students to fall so
far behind? “Nothing at all,” answered
David E. Drew at a book-signing at Huntley
Book Store on Thursday.
New York native Timothy Donnelly
and Arizona research scientist
Katherine Larson were named as
winners of this year’s Tufts Poetry Awards,
according to a Claremont Graduate University
press release on Wednesday.
The board voted 5-0 to move forward
with putting the former district office
at 2080 N. Mountain Ave. up
for sale. The sale will take place on February
28 during a public auction at the current
district office at 1 p.m.
The event marks the first major step the district has
taken with the property since the board approved a resolution
in July 2011 that ratified the Surplus Property Advisory
(7-11) Committee's recommendation to declare
the 4.35 acres of real property as surplus and authorize its
sale.
Laguna Beach consulting firm David Long & Associates will serve the Claremont Unified School District as the search firm working with the school board to find the next superintendent. "The one thing that I did find interesting [about David Long & Associates' presentation] was the aspect of being a good communicator,"Â said CUSD Board President Jeff Stark.
