Los Altos School District — Raynor is just a Comp for Hillview?
Consideration of Raynor in Sunnyvale as a 10th site makes Hillview in Los Altos look like a bargain. A helpful reader, David Roode, found a City of Sunnyvale document about the RFP for Raynor. This post is an UPDATE to ”LASD still plans to send BCS to Sunnyvale” and corrects and expands on [...]
Los Altos School District still plans to send BCS to Sunnyvale
Raynor School vs. Bowman School. Neither is a real option for permanently locating our BCS high-performing public school asset. At the January 28 Los Altos School District board meeting, a lot of time was spent on positioning its draft of a Preliminary Prop 39 Facilities offer for BCS to appear within socially acceptable norms of civility. [...]
LASD to Vote for Prop 39 Preliminary Offer Tonight – Low Ball Opener
[Update Jan. 30 - THE OFFER. The LASD board reduced the Preliminary offer at tonight's special board meeting. Now there will be no new portables at Egan. The board says it will write a hard cap on permitted enrollment at BCS on Egan into the lease. The total cost of portables to LASD is now estimated [...]
Bullis Charter School Ken Moore Agrees to Egan-Blach split
Bullis Charter School’ s board president Ken Moore has agreed in principle to accept LASD’s Prop 39 split-campus offer plan, and to give up the request for Covington. He made the announcement at a 50 person luncheon event at Hillview Center. He would like to see Prop 39 planning committees from each side getting together in [...]
LASD Egan and Blach Schools – Before and After Bullis Charter School
The BCS board seems to be studying the Blach 2005 temporary camp as a guide for LASD on how to layout portables in the Prop 39 2013-14 offer. And also what territory should be allocated to BCS for student play space. As LASD and BCS go through their Prop 39 Facilities 2013-2014 request and offer dance, [...]
LASD Superintendent Task Force – Deliverable is an Approach, not a Plan
The LASD Superintendent Task Force is looking like nothing more than a sequel to Pablo Luther’s facility committee study from 2011, before he was elected to the Board. Clearly being on one of these facility committees is a way to advance to the Board of Trustees! [Kidding. Ok, actually Luther was on finance too. Seriously, let's remember [...]
Bullis Charter School Board – a former Obama administration appointee
Obama administration veteran joins BCS Board, LASD prepares its Prop 39 offer to put more burden on Blach, BCS parents crowd LASD meeting to denounce out-of-district school sites
LASD Los Altos Superintendent’s Task Force – Where School Size Policy Comes From
The LASD Superintendent’s Task Force took a deep dive into capacity of our school sites vs. their current loading how attendance areas are determined the rationale for current school size policy At this Jan. 8 meeting, there was an interesting presentation on “capacity” at the different LASD schools. By capacity, LASD Business Manager Randy Kenyon [...]
LASD Task Force Wades into the Demographer’s Report
Tidbit’s from the Demographer’s report…the forecasts have not been off by so much…LASD’s Gardner school has 10% out of district students…80% of BCS student would attend regular LASD schools if the charter were gone…Mountain View area of LASD has enough students to fill an entire school!
Bullis Charter School facilities at Blach Junior High
UPDATE: Jan. 5, 2013 Has BCS actually occupied Blach this year? A reader says the location of the 6 foot fences in the photos below are temporary and related to turf maintenance. A check of a July 18, 2012 Patch article shows that the fences I saw are in fact not located at the boundaries of [...]
