Alice Sarkisian Wessen

PUSD SCHOOL CONSOLIDATION STUDY COMMITTEE TO HOLD COMMUNITY FORUMS List of Schools will be Narrowed from Seven to Five this Saturday

Please feel free to share
Alice

From Ken Roberts:

Dear Council members, due to the anticipated community attendance, Our meetings on Friday night, October 1 (5 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.) and Saturday morning, October 2^nd (9 a.m. – 1 p.m.) will be held in the McKinley School auditorium. Parking is available across the street in the Ad Building lot off of Oak Knoll.

There will be two community meetings during the week of October 4^th. Monday October 4^th will be at Eliot Middle School from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. A second meeting will be at Wilson Middle School on Friday Ocober 8^th from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Translation services will be available at all meetings, Child care will also be available.

Please let you constituents know as best as possible of these changes. We are coming down to the decision point, which on Saturday, October 2^nd the committee is tasked with narrowing down the school that would be recommended for closure.

Regarding the two Community Input Meetings – the format that is proposed is as follows: (Subject to some modification)

• Station Circulation

o   Audience members will go to 4 stations: (30 minutes)

§  Station 1 – Map of existing attendance boundaries (large poster board)

§  Station 2 – Foundational documents (Board item closing schools, press release, charge, criteria, committee membership)

§  Station 3 – Committee process (large poster board)

§  Station 4 – Preliminary Recommendation (handout)

• Presentation

o   District Staff will provide a brief overview of School Consolidation Needs (5 minutes)

o   Committee Members will provide a presentation outlining the preliminary recommendations (10 minutes)

• Public Comments

o   Audience Members will have a chance to offer comments after filling out a speaker card (1 hour, 15 minutes)

o   Participants will also be able to provide written comments at the meeting for consideration and will also be reminded of the e-mail address where comments can later be sent

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.

Regards;

Ken Roberts

Vice Chair PSUD School Consolidation Committee &

Altadena Town Council

 

---

 

----- Forwarded Message ---- From: Communications PUSD <communications@pusd.us> To: Communications PUSD <communications@pusd.us> Sent: Tue, September 28, 2010 9:25:41 AM Subject: 09-28-10 SCHOOL CONSOLIDATION STUDY COMMITTEE TO HOLD COMMUNITY FORUMS NEWS RELEASE   For Immediate Release                                                                                  September 28, 2010 Media Contact:   Binti Harvey                             (626) 396-3606                                     SCHOOL CONSOLIDATION STUDY COMMITTEE TO HOLD COMMUNITY FORUMS List of Schools will be Narrowed from Seven to Five this Saturday   Pasadena, CA – The Pasadena Unified School District (PUSD) School Consolidation Study Committee (Committee) will convene two community forums next week to offer community members the opportunity to learn more about school closures and possible program moves.  Community Forums are scheduled for Monday, October 4, 2010 at the Eliot Middle School Auditorium from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., and Friday, October 8, 2010 at the Wilson Middle School Auditorium from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. The Committee will meet this week on Friday October 1 from 5:00 to 8:30 p.m., and Saturday October 2 from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., both at McKinley. The Committee, composed of 21 stakeholders representing Altadena, Pasadena and Sierra Madre, parent groups, collective bargaining units, school site administration, and other community groups, has held four meetings since September 11 to explore options for school consolidation and closure to narrow the budget deficit. In response to an unprecedented $30 million loss of funding over the past three years, and the prospect of sustained enrollment declines in the foreseeable future, the Board of Education approved school consolidation to help decrease expenditures and generate ongoing revenue to support instructional priorities. The three-year budget adopted in June identified the closure of a minimum of three schools in 2011-12 to reduce operating expenses associated with excess capacity on school campuses.  The Board of Education established the School Consolidation Study Committee to assist the Superintendent in developing a recommendation regarding school consolidation and closure.  Over the past several weeks, the Committee has reviewed a broad range of information including: a list of sixteen sites recommended for consideration by the asset management report, academic achievement, special educational programs, transportation, and neighborhood impacts.  The Committee will make final recommendations in a report to Superintendent Diaz in October.  Following his review of the Committee report, the Superintendent is tentatively scheduled to make a recommendation to the Board of Education at its meeting on November 23, 2010.  Members of the public may obtain additional information about the school consolidation and closure process, including meeting summaries and documents, at www.pusd.us.

PUSD ANNUAL STATE OF SCHOOLS & TOWN HALL IS SEPTEMBER 21

NEWS ADVISORY

MEDIA Contact: Binti Harvey                                                                        For Immediate Release                                                  (626) 396-3606                                                       September 16, 2010

 

PUSD ANNUAL STATE OF SCHOOLS & TOWN HALL IS SEPTEMBER 21

Live Broadcast of Event Invites Viewer Questions via Social Media

 

Pasadena, CA – This year’s annual Pasadena Unified School District (PUSD) State of the Schools address by School Board President Bob Harrison will be broadcast live on television and streamed on the internet, and will feature an interactive town hall that invites viewer questions and comments via email, texts, Facebook and Twitter.

 

This year’s move to broadcast the annual speech, which is required by city charter to be delivered each September, was made to broaden participation by parents, students and community members, and continues the robust conversation about public schools that began with last spring’s Strategic Planning forums. 

 

Parent, community, and school groups will host viewing parties in different parts of the district, including schools, private homes, cafés, community organizations, and churches. Groups hosting viewing parties include Latino Heritage, Invest in PUSD Kids, Victory Bible Church, Day One, Flintridge Foundation, Blair IB School, and Jackson Elementary School.   PUSD will also host a viewing party for employees and the public in the Board Room.

 

The speech will be broadcast from the Crawford Family Forums at Southern California Public Radio studios in Pasadena.

 

            Subject:                                  State of Schools Town Hall Forum Broadcast

            Date/Time:                             Tuesday, September 21, 2010

                                                            6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.

 

PUSD Viewing Party

5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.

                                                            351 S. Hudson Avenue

                                                            Board Room, 2^nd Floor

                                                            Translation services available

 

            Three ways to watch:          

1.    KLRN-TV – English broadcast (Channel 95 on Charter Communications in Pasadena and Altadena)

2.    Arroyo Channel – Spanish simulcast (Charter’s channel 32)

3.    On the web at http://goPUSD.com/townhall.

 

            Viewers can send in questions and comments in four ways:

1.    Email                communications@pusd.us

2.    SMS (text):     Send “PUSD [your message]” to 41411

3.    Facebook        www.facebook.com/PasadenaUnifiedSchoolDistrict

4.    Twitter             tag your tweets with #StateofSchools

 

# # #

 

For the latest news and information about the Pasadena Unified School District, including Board of Education Meeting Highlights, watch KLRN-TV or go to www.pusd.us.