Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Board of Education will consider plan to broadcast proceedings next fall.
Looks like starting next school year, Los Gatos Union School District trustee meetings may be televised or broadcast via Internet adding more transparency to local education issues. By a unanimous vote, trustees Tuesday evening voted to consider the plan, which would begin meeting transmission in the 2012-13 school year. Trustees could formally adopt the plan during their June 5 meeting. LGUSD Director of Technology, Assessment and Accountability Maggi Reser presented three plan options that included publishing meeting recordings to the district podcast server using current setup, contracting with a video broadcast service to record and broadcast the meetings and pursuing a volunteer organization for the task. Trustees are following the …
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Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Los Gatos Union School District Board of Trustees to consider broadcasting future meetings.
The Los Gatos Union School District Board of Trustees will meet at 5 p.m. Tuesday, May 8 at the R. J. Fisher Middle School cafeteria, 19195 Fisher Ave. The meeting will cover items which were on the May 1 agenda, but were not discussed due to the large number of public comments provided by parents and teachers regarding the proposed relocation of Lexington Elementary School students, according to Superintendent Diana Abbati. This is what you can expect: After the regular board meeting, at 6:30 p.m., the board will convene a workshop focusing on information about charter schools. This agenda item will be presented by Janet Mueller, the district's attorney and is for informational purposes only. Abbati will oversee a question-and-answer …
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Los Gatos Union School District trustees heard from District staff and parents about the costs and effects of moving Lexington students to Fisher.
After lengthy public comment and discussion about geological hazards, Los Gatos Union School District trustees voted Tuesday evening to relocate Lexington Elementary School students to R.J. Fisher Middle in the fall. Trustees, however, said they would revisit the matter at their May 15 meeting. LGUSD Assistant Superintendent of Business Services Leslie Paulides called the move an interim housing solution for the approximate 170 students that currently attend Lexington and who will move to Fisher Middle School at the start of the 2012-13 school year. Paulides, LGUSD consultants Melinda Lum from HMC Architects and Rick Kramer from Kramer Project Development provided cost options for the interim housing. Paulides asked trustees to provide …
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Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Los Gatos Union School District trustees meet at 6 p.m., Tuesday, May 1.
The Los Gatos Union School District Board of Education meets at 6 p.m., tonight, Tuesday, May 1 in the R. J. Fisher Middle School cafeteria, 19195 Fisher Ave. to discuss the following issues:
Thursday, April 26, 2012
With more transparency and accessibility in mind, trustees are looking into taking their meetings live and transmitting them via Internet.
Los Gatos Union School District trustees will consider during their May 1 meeting broadcasting their meetings to the public. Maggie Reser, the district’s director of technology, assessment and accountability, and the district’s technician, John Keating, will present three options to trustees about ways in which the public can listen in and/or watch future meetings. These options are: According to a staff report, using the district’s technology department to record the meetings would allow the board to use existing equipment and setup at no additional cost. This option, which is currently in use, also grants the district control of the process. The downside of this option, according to the report, would be that for now, only audio is …
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
An en-masse 'test drive' from Lexington School to Fisher Middle School is planned early Tuesday morning.
This morning, at 7:50 a.m., a group of Lexington Elementary School parents will participate in a "test drive" of the new route that their children will be asked to navigate to get to their new location at Fisher Middle School next August. The drive, however, won't be done happily, as the parents will be protesting an April 10 vote by Los Gatos Union School District trustees to discontinue investing in Lexington's reconstruction project. According to parent Jeff Herr, the group will leave Lexington to come down Highway 17 and enter Los Gatos at the Highway 9 exit. From there, they will turn right to Los Gatos Boulevard, then left and head to Roberts Road where they will turn left and drive to the district office parking lot, which is next …
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Los Gatos Patch welcomes your letters to the editor. Please send your missives to sheila.sanchez@patch.com.
The decision to close Lexington Elementary School seems to be based on fear rather than fact. The geo-technical consultant tells the Los Gatos Union School District Board of Education that he has never worked on a project this difficult before and that he cannot guarantee geotechnical approval from the California Geological Survey (CGS) to rebuild. The board hears this and votes to close Lexington permanently. If one reads the latest letter, dated March 27, 2012, from CGS to the geo consultant, it is easy to see that the consultant is in over his head. CGS asks for a large number of corrections to be made because the consultant has misinterpreted the data and CGS asks for clarifications of other data presented. The school board should get …
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
April 10 decision by the Los Gatos Union School District Board of Trustees to close Lexington violates the rights the Mountain community, students.
I live in the Los Gatos Mountains and I am really concerned about the decision made April 10, 2012 by the Board of Education of the Los Gatos Union School District. I'm reaching out to you to help us save Lexington Elementary School, which has served our community for 150 years. The board does not have any clear plan for the future of these students other than a one-year perspective. The housing the board is providing us has so many issues that violate the right of our kids: Lack of space, play area, restroom, library, lunchroom, parking area and much more. I deeply believe there is someone out there who can help our kids, the kids that have a love for their community, and the first-graders who cried together when they heard they are …
Sunday, April 8, 2012
Group, whose organizers remain unknown to most education officials, create a website to raise awareness about budget and enrollment growth issues.
Fed up with increasing class sizes, budget cuts and approved housing development in the town, a group of concerned parents with children attending schools in Los Gatos Union School District will be making its voice heard at Tuesday’s board of trustees meeting at 6:30 p.m. at Fisher Middle School. The parents have taken their activism to the next level by starting a grassroots movement called, Los Gatos Acts, and have created a website under the url http://lgacts.com to dig deep into the issues facing the district. According to the website, LGACTS is concerned about the educational future of all children attending the LGUSD. "Los Gatos is an amazing community in the heart of Silicon Valley. Our town draws families from all over the country …
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Please attend the LGEF board meeting tonight, Wednesday, March 21, at Louise Van Meter Elementary School's multi-purpose room.
Dear parents and community members, Due to space considerations, we have changed the location of our Los Gatos Education Foundation Board meeting, 7-8:45 p.m., tonight, Wednesday, March 21, to Louise Van Meter Elementary School's multi-purpose room, 16445 Los Gatos Blvd. As of March 19, donations received for LGEF's 2011-12 annual fundraising campaign are just over $900,000. While we are well ahead of last year's efforts, we still remain short of our total goal of $1,000,000. Given the Los Gatos Union School District budget cuts, it is more important than ever for LGEF to reach its goal. Improving education isn't really a "gift," it is an investment in the future of your child. If you haven't given, it isn't too late! Your investment now …
Anonymous
6:49 pm on Tuesday, May 8, 2012
The board doesn't care about the kids, the Lex community or the traffic problems that will be caused by the moving of the kids to town. They only care about getting sued. more ›