Recent Poway USD News

Poway Unified Buffs Out $100M High School With Tech, Energy Amenities (opens .PDF, page 9)

BY JESSICA LONG To prepare students for future advances, a North County school district has embarked on building nothing less than a next-generation training ground rich in technology advances and energy- saving attributes. The $100 million project, Del Norte High School, expected to open in fall 2009, is under construction on a 62- acre site in 4S Ranch.

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RBHS Highlights Newsletter March 2007 (opens .PDF)

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Blurb about Los Pen co-principal Damen Lopez from Midwest Members Seminar 2007 Keynote Sessions

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Poway USD News

Supreme Court has declined to suspend a California high school dress code

March 2007 The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to suspend a dress code at a California high school that is at the center of a continuing legal fight over free speech and religious rights. Tyler Chase Harper (Chase), a Poway High School student, filed suit against Poway Unified School District in 2004, claiming his rights to freedom of speech and religion were violated when he was removed from class for wearing an anti-gay T-shirt.

Follow the above link to an excellently done article by Greg Moran and links to background on the case.

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Poway Unified School District is a coalition member in California

The man behind Character Counts!

Michael Josephson is the founder and president of the Josephson Institute, which he named for his parents after retiring from successful careers in business, law and education. He serves without salary and donates all fees and honoraria from his programs to the Institute, which is overseen by an independent, volunteer board of governors.

Recent Poway USD news

Dual-language classes double the learning.

Poway Unified School Districts Valley Elementary school students – and parents – responsive.

Valley principal Sue Smith said the program's popularity has resulted in waiting lists the past few years, with many families from throughout Poway Unified trying to get in. About a third of Valley's 700 students in kindergarten through fifth-grade are in the program.

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District sued over removal of banners

The removal of banners with the words “God” and “Creator” from a high school math teacher's classroom have led to a lawsuit against the Poway Unified School District.

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Voters may be asked to extend bond

Not all planned projects in the Poway Unified School District will be completed unless voters agree to extend the current $198 million bond.

PUSD News

Foreign Language Assistance Program Office of English Language Acquisition New Grants for FY 2007

CA— POWAY, Poway Unified School District, $150,000.

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2006 Summer Data Conference Longitudinal Data Systems Strand

Across all sessions within the Longitudinal Data Systems (LDS) strand, at the July NCES Summer Data Conference in Washington, DC, were several common themes with respect to what state and district speakers found to be the necessary ingredients in developing and implementing effective and sustainable data systems.

The Effective Use of Data to Improve Instruction - Molly Schaeffer Poway USD

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Survey: 2007 California School Technology Survey

STS Data Report for Poway Unified District

Recent PUSD News

Business Intelligence: Poway Unified School District, with 33,000 students, serves a suburban, middle- to upper-middle-class community about 20 minutes north of San Diego. Under Poway CTO Robert Gravina, the district has been using SAS data warehousing and analytics software for a little more than four years...

"A teacher can go in [to a data analytics tool] and say, 'I want to look at all the students in my class that are second-language learners, scored below the 50th percentile on the CST, have a MAP score of less than 220, and receive reduced lunches.'"
— Robert Gravina, Poway Unified School District

 

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PUSD News

Together Our 3 Dealerships Have Donated Over $285,000.00 To The Poway Unified School District Since 2000 Through Our Ongoing Donation Program.

Poway Unified School District contributes money to the Romney for Prez people... hmmmm

Rancho Bernardo High School Friends of the Library: As the “financial arm” of the RBHS library, our mission is to provide our Library with funds to purchase relevant up-to-date books, online databases and instructional resources for all Rancho Bernardo High School students

Recent PUSD news

Wachovia Securities' Extensive Remodeling Project Gets Under Way San Diego Business Journal - CA,USA School Upgrades: Twin Peaks Middle School has completed its modernization under the Poway Unified School District's Building for Success program. ...

Recent PUSD News

Thousands yet to pass high school exit exam
Delay likely to opening of Willow Grove School
Police may open office at Los Pen
STAR test scores show mixed results
PUSD schools to open with new bell schedules, construction
Cell phone, calculators, gadgets shaping education

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