Los Altos Town Crier - LASD schedules two meetings for community input

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at Wednesday, 31 October 2012 20:10by James Sweeney

There are families who moved to Los Altos for the neighborhood schools. They should not have their local school given to a charter school that in effect is a quasi private institution that limits enrolment to only some students, who may not be local neighborhood residents. I see nothing wrong with sharing facilities with the current schools, but think it would be awful for public school kids to be ejected from their home school to allow a charter school to take over. Charter schools have their place to experiment with new ways of teaching and structuring education, but good public schools for neighborhood kids should be a first preference. The way things seem to work in Los Altos, from what I have heard, is the charter school is not really fairly open to all and requires parent funding beyond the reach of some families. Let's keep the current public schools where they are. There may be other facilities not in use that could be available for Bullis, if not limit enrolment as is.

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Written by Traci Newell - Staff Writer/tracin@latc.com
Wednesday, 31 October 2012

Los Altos School District administrators and board trustees have scheduled two meetings to solicit community input on their ongoing negotiations with Bullis Charter School over facilities. Under Proposition 39, the school district is required annually to provide “reasonably equivalent” facilities for in-district charter school students. Currently Bullis Charter School students share space with district students at Egan Junior High and Blach Intermediate schools. The district has scheduled meetings 7 p.m. Monday and Dec. 3 to gather feedback from the community on the 2013-2014 facilities offer to the charter school. The meetings will take place in Covington School’s multipurpose room, 201 Covington Ave. Bullis Charter School officials are scheduled to release their enrollment projections by Thursday – in time for the first community meeting. Mark Goines, president of the Los Altos School District Board of Trustees, outlined a working agenda for Monday’s meeting that includes a district presentation on the charter school’s enrollment numbers, presentations from charter school board members, a presentation on “broad-brush” facilities scenarios and public input. At the Dec. 3 meeting, the district board plans to present additional facilities possibilities based on community input and continue to solicit feedback for its preliminary offer to the charter school, due by Feb. 1. 1 Comment 1"Ph.D. education" at Wednesday, 31 October 2012 20:10by James Sweeney There are families who moved to Los Altos for the neighborhood schools. They should not have their local school given to a charter school that in effect is a quasi private institution that limits enrolment to only some students, who may not be local neighborhood residents. I see nothing wrong with sharing facilities with the current schools, but think it would be awful for public school kids to be ejected from their home school to allow a charter school to take over. Charter schools have their place to experiment with new ways of teaching and structuring education, but good public schools for neighborhood kids should be a first preference. The way things seem to work in Los Altos, from what I have heard, is the charter school is not really fairly open to all and requires parent funding beyond the reach of some families. Let's keep the current public schools where they are. There may be other facilities not in use that could be available for Bullis, if not limit enrolment as is. Post Comment Email (will not be published) Name Title Comment remaining characters Post We reserve the right to use comments submitted on our site in whole or in part. We will not publish comments that contain inappropriate content, advertising or website links to inappropriate content.