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Volunteer duo set to sell bond to voters

District proposition seeks $179 million

By Blanca Gonzalez

UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

December 30, 2007

There's no heat in the Proposition C campaign headquarters on Midland Road in Poway, but Lorene Joosten and Sabrina Butler make do with space heaters from home and an extra sweater or two.

Despite the chill, Joosten and Butler expect a warm response from voters Feb. 5 when residents decide on the Poway Unified School District's $179 million bond measure.

A survey conducted in September found that two-thirds of likely voters would support the bond, which would allow the district to finish school renovation projects that were supposed to be done using a $198 million bond measure approved in 2002. The district was unable to complete all of the projects planned for that money.

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Schools get alerts out in a hurry - Connect-ED is a Web-based mass notification service

 

Thousands notified with one phone call

By Blanca Gonzalez

UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

December 28, 2007

When a swastika and other graffiti were found on Westview High's campus this month, parents were alerted about it before students arrived home that afternoon.

Dawn Kastner, principal of Westview near Rancho Peñasquitos, notified thousands of parents with a single phone call using a communications system that allows educators to call or e-mail with important news or other announcements.

The days of notes to parents being sent home from school, often lost amid the clutter in students' backpacks, are long gone in Poway Unified and other school districts throughout San Diego County.

Connect-ED is a Web-based mass notification service that allows districts to send voice messages and e-mails en masse in minutes, a change from automatic dialing systems that require more equipment and could take hours to reach the same number of people.

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Preschoolers call high school home in Poway Unified

RANCHO PENASQUITOS – One of the most popular classes at Westview High School usually has a waiting list, and the children like it so much they sometimes cry when it's time to go home.

Marshall Lehew, an aide with Westview High School's full-day preschool program, chatted with a shy Sasha Greenhall recently.

Westview's preschoolers may not be learning calculus or economics like the teenagers in nearby classrooms, but amid the singing, drawing and playing in the sandbox, they are learning skills meant to prepare them for future success in education and life.

The Poway Unified School District is known as an academic powerhouse, serving about 32,000 students in kindergarten through 12th grade. What is less well-known is that the district also offers preschool programs at more than half its campuses.

 

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Government can't, shouldn't outlaw 'hate'

 

Government can't, shouldn't outlaw 'hate'
By: JIM TRAGESER - Staff Writer

If you have kids in the Poway Unified School District, you might want to simply assume there will be less money for instruction and classroom supplies in the years to come. Litigation is expensive, you see, and when you have a school board on a collision course with the U.S. Constitution, more litigation would seem pretty unavoidable.
Not that Poway is any stranger to being sued for stomping all over the rights of students who don't think the way the board majority thinks they should. The district has spent who knows how many tens of thousands of dollars (maybe more) defending itself in an ongoing lawsuit that arose when officials punished a student for wearing a T-shirt that read "Homosexuality is shameful."

North County Times - Jim Trageser's Flailing Against the Wind opinion column - Government can't, shouldn't outlaw 'hate'

Various Video Reports - FOX6 San Diego

 

Noose, Racial Slurs at Nearby High School
Noose, Racial Slurs at Nearby High School 11/28/07
A noose and racial slurs were found on campus at Rancho Bernardo High Scool, just weeks after a similar incident at Poway High School.

Racial Tension
Racial Tension 10/5/07
A noose was recently found in a boys' bathroom of the Poway High School. Plus, a brush fire burned dangerously close to homes in Kensington.

School Threat
School Threat 5/3/07
Sheriff's deputies will provide extra security at Poway High School after the school received a shooting threat. Eric Collins spoke with students, parents and administrators.

God in the Classroom
God in the Classroom 5/1/07
As Kristine Frazao reports, a Poway high school teacher has been ordered to take banners out of his classroom because they mentioned the word God.

Poway School Harassment Verdict
Poway School Harassment Verdict 6/8/05
The Poway Unified school district has yet to decide if they will appeal the verdict of a harassment case. It was filed by two gay former poway students. The jury awarded each of them over 100-thousand dollars. FOX 6's Andrea Nguyen has reaction to verdict.

Swastika Found at School - FOX6 San Diego

Swastika Found at School - FOX6 San Diego

 

God in the Classroom
God in the Classroom 5/1/07
As Kristine Frazao reports, a Poway high school teacher has been ordered to take banners out of his classroom because they mentioned the word God.

Swastika Found at School - FOX6 San Diego

Poway superintendent nominated for national honor

 

Don Phillips considers the district his classroom


POWAY ---- Nearly three decades have passed since Don Phillips stepped out of social studies and history classrooms and into school administration, but his conversations and everyday phrases are still colored with references to the Founding Fathers and world cultures.

The Poway Unified School District superintendent, who has been at the helm of the nearly 33,000-student district for six years, says that's because he still considers himself a teacher ---- he is just leading and learning from a much larger class of students.

"It's more interactive, more of a give and take," Phillips said, adding that his "students" these days are parents, teachers and community leaders. "It's been an opportunity to work with other people who care and who do want to do a better job of educating kids."
In the years since he joined the district in 2001 ---- after serving for 12 years as the superintendent of two suburban school districts in the Bay Area ---- that has meant tackling everything from updating aging facilities to improving student achievement at all levels.

Poway superintendent nominated for national honor North County Times - North San Diego and Southwest Riverside County News

People say the funniest things...

 

"California is a natural disaster theme park..."

CalWatch

Race issues dominate PUSD board meeting

 

SABRE SPRINGS -- A group of black parents and students asked trustees in the Poway Unified School District on Monday night to crack down on racial discrimination and hate with stronger discipline, accountability and a zero-tolerance policy for students and staff.
More than 50 people -- many representing the nonprofit minority community group Concerned Parents Alliance -- attended the board's monthly meeting Monday to discuss a proposed revision to Poway Unified's "Harassment and Hate Behavior" policy and raise awareness about racial discrimination in the district.

Their primary concern, they said, is that racial discrimination is not being dealt with seriously enough and that the consequences for such behavior need to be more clearly defined. Similar to the district's policies on alcohol and drug use or sexual harassment, parents said, there should be no question as to the penalties for discrimination.

Race issues dominate PUSD board meeting - North County Times

Swastika, foul graffiti scrawled on high school

 

A swastika and a profanity smeared in feces were discovered on a window at Westview High School yesterday, just days after Poway Unified trustees considered toughening policies aimed at curbing hate behavior.

A custodian found the graffiti at the student store on the campus near Rancho Peñasquitos. It was cleaned up before most students arrived for classes, district officials said.

Principal Dawn Kastner e-mailed Westview parents decrying the vandalism and asking for help to find who did it. She said police are investigating.

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Poway district strengthening harassment policy

 

December 11, 2007

The Poway Unified School District is toughening its policy on harassment and hate behavior after a series of incidents on campuses, including nooses being found at two high schools.

Superintendent Don Phillips said the recent “disturbing incidents” reflect racial harassment and intimidation against students. Phillips said that the district won't tolerate such behavior and that the policy revisions reflect the district's commitment to cultivating safe campuses.

The changes had a first reading at last night's school board meeting. They include more training for students and staff to promote tolerance and diversity and add “the presence of nooses” as a specific example of hate behavior.

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Poway trustees to discuss tolerance, finances - North County Times

 

SABRE SPRINGS - In the wake of three racially related incidents on Poway Unified School District's high school campuses in recent months, the district is looking to strengthen its stance against harassment and hate by promoting tolerance training and enforcement in a revised board policy, Superintendent Don Phillips said Friday.
The proposed "Harassment and Hate Behavior" policy will come before trustees for discussion during Monday night's board meeting.

Poway trustees to discuss tolerance, finances - North County Times

Del Sur school trying single-building design

 

Most malls are built for shopping, not learning.

But the future Del Sur Elementary is designed as a two-story, enclosed-mall-type school to serve the fast-growing area west of Rancho Bernardo.

It's now just a steel skeleton of a building amid an expanse of dirt. But by next fall, students will start classes at a $29.5 million campus that combines the old-fashioned “schoolhouse” concept with modern design for energy efficiency.

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Red Pills » Teacher Applicant

 

SHAfter being interviewed by the school administration, the teaching prospect said, “Let me see if I’ve got this right: You want me to go into that room with all those kids, correct their disruptive behavior, observe them for signs of abuse, monitor their dress habits, censor their T-shirt messages, and instill in them a love for learning. You want me to check their backpacks for weapons, wage war on drugs and sexually transmitted diseases, and raise their sense of self esteem and personal pride.

You want me to teach them patriotism and good citizenship, sportsmanship and fair play, and how to register to vote, balance a checkbook, and apply for a job. You want me to check their heads for lice, recognize signs of antisocial behavior, and make sure that they all pass the state exams.

You also want me to provide them with an equal education regardless of their handicaps, and communicate regularly with their parents in English and Spanish by letter, telephone, newsletter, and report card.

You want me to do all this with a piece of chalk, a blackboard, a bulletin board, a few books, a big smile, and a starting salary that qualifies me for food stamps. You want me to do all this and then you tell me……..

I can’t pray - or conceal carry?”

Red Pills » Teacher Applicant

WorldNetDaily: Homosexodus! Students flee forced 'gay' agenda

 

Parents in California have started reacting to the state's newly mandated homosexual indoctrination program by pulling their children out of classes, and state Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O'Connell is warning districts they'll lose money if that happens.

A spokeswoman for a ministry called Considering Homeschooling said she already has seen an overwhelming increase in requests for information about homeschooling.

As a result, spokeswoman Denise Kanter told WND that her group is sending out 5,000 DVD packages to churches around the state that include basic "how-to" information to provide parents a direction to turn when they choose to protect their children from the new school agenda.

The new law demands, "No teacher shall give instruction nor shall any school district sponsor any activity that promotes a discriminatory bias because of a characteristic [including perceived gender.]"

WorldNetDaily: Homosexodus! Students flee forced 'gay' agenda

SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Education -- Schools chief nominated for national award

 

POWAY – When Don Phillips graduated from a Palo Alto high school 40 years ago, he had no idea he would eventually return to lead the Bay Area school district a few decades later as superintendent.

Don Phillips

The teenager, photographed in his yearbook with light bulbs in his ears, could not know his destiny. But today, as superintendent of the Poway Unified School District, he knows the importance of preparing students for anything.

Some careers of the 21st century don't exist yet, but Phillips says he wants the Poway district to get students college-ready and primed for any possibility.

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Drive to replace instruments lost in flames in full swing - North County Times

 

POWAY -- A partnership between the Poway Unified School District, a North County music retailer and a longtime resident could bring song and sound back into the homes of dozens of student musicians who lost their instruments in last month's wildfires.
Organizers of the collection drive said Monday that they want to give students the opportunity to replace instruments that can cost several thousand dollars apiece.

Drive to replace instruments lost in flames in full swing - North County Times