Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Nearly 30 team members qualified for the upcoming meet during last week's city conference finals.
Several members of Coronado High School's boys and girls swim teams will compete Thursday in the preliminary rounds of the Division II CIF Championships. Qualifying for the event, to be held at Del Norte High School in 4S Ranch, took place May 11 at City Conference Championships at La Jolla High School where 27 Islander athletes' times were strong enough to move them to the CIF meet. Both teams finished in second place in La Jolla. The finals are set for Saturday. In a statement coaches Dave Hughes and Randall Burgess called the La Jolla event “a significantly successful afternoon.” Some of the highlights:
Gov. Jerry Brown again calls for support of November initiatives to ease California budget deficit.
Gov. Jerry Brown says K-12 schools and both state university systems will suffer even more cuts and force tuition increases if California voters don’t approve a quarter-cent bump in the state’s sales tax rate to 7.5 percent and boost the income tax rate for people making more than $250,000 a year. His critics say the projected $16 billion state budget deficit can be erased without voter-approved tax hikes in November. Whose arguments do you buy?
Leaders continue to build local campus budgets based on austere projections.
Gov. Jerry Brown's revised state budget proposal changed nothing for school leaders, Coronado's superintendent said. “The revise offered nothing new,” Jeffrey Felix wrote in an email. “The budget is dependent on new money via taxes. Our budget is based on the tax initiatives failing, as required by state regulations. “We will wait until the governor's January proposal to form a clearer budget picture,” he concluded. School officials have been waiting for the altered budget, known as the “May revise” to judge the impact of lower-than-expected state revenues on funding for education. Leaders from other districts also said the document changes little about the prospects for campuses as the state's budget picture dims. “Nothing has improved …
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
The magazine based its evaluation on data from the 2009 academic year.
San Marcos High School was ranked third in the state and 11th in the nation in U.S. News & World Report's annual high school survey, which also listed Coronado High among the top schools. Coronado was 94th in the state and 484th nationally. The weekly news magazine based its results on a survey of 577 high schools in California and nearly 22,000 nationwide. Most of the survey data came from the 2009-10 academic year. Ten San Diego Unified School District schools were included in the rankings of nation's top 1,800 schools. The Preuss School at UC San Diego, a charter school dedicated to students from minority and low-income families, was rated eighth in the state and 44th in the nation. Other highly ranked San Diego County high schools …
Monday, May 7, 2012
The funds will come from the state government.
The San Diego County Office of Education will receive $22,500 in state funds to enforce tobacco-free school policies and collect data on the prevalence of tobacco use and other behaviors that put students' health at risk. More than $410,000 in Tobacco Use Prevention Education dollars from the state Department of Education went to 30 districts across California. The winners in TUPE competitive bidding demonstrated the greatest tobacco-use prevention efforts, and proposed programs that will likely be effective, said state Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson. "Schools can help our kids learn to avoid dangerous behaviors -- including tobacco use—early," Torlakson said. TUPE is a three-year, $16.5 million competitive state grant…
Friday, May 4, 2012
Youngster was up to date on immunizations, county reports.
Update, 2:40 p.m. Friday: The Coronado school district reports that the child is no longer contagious, so has returned to ECDC. Richard Erhard, assistant superintendent, said that the child's illness was confirmed Monday and reported to the school by the family. ECDC, which serves youngsters between the ages of 3 and 6, informed county health officials. The school sent letters home with all students, made a nurse available for questions from parents and specially cleaned the affected youngster's regular classroom. County health guidelines for campuses dealing with illnesses such as whooping cought do not require such cleanings or nurse availability. “We went beyond what the guidelines asked us to follow,” Erhard said. For reasons of …
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Body of Chargers legend, 18-year NFL veteran linebacker, found at his Oceanside home.
Updated at 2 p.m. Wednesday. Former San Diego Chargers star Junior Seau died of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound at his beachfront North County home Wednesday, authorities reported. According to Police Chief Frank McCoy, Seau's girlfriend found him at about 9:35 a.m. with a gunshot wound to the chest. Medics tried in vain to revive 43-year-old Seau before pronouncing him dead at the scene. "This case at this point is being investigated as a suicide," the chief said outside the home. "A handgun was found near the body." Authorities said they did not find a suicide note and are not releasing the name of the girlfriend. The San Diego County Medical Examiner's Office said it expects to complete an examination in the case Thursday. …
Thursday, April 26, 2012
The competition aired live on the county education channel, ITV.
Update, 5:50 p.m. Thursday: Coronado High's team fell to the Olympian High team from Chula Vista, in a semi-final match where the students said they were outpaced on math and science questions. “They were outbuzzing us a little bit,” said team captain Will Funk. One of the team's coaches, Mayor Casey Tanaka, said that while CHS has been represented for several years, this is the first time a team from the school has notched a win in the Academic League playoffs (and they scored two). In doing so, they deposed last year's champ, La Jolla High, a point of pride for them. They maintained their good spirits, despite the defeat. “We pride ourselves on that,” junior Wright Smith said. The spotlight will fall on competition of a different …
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
A total of 78 percent reported driving while using a cell phone, according to DMV; only 12 percent said they never text on the road.
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Tuesday, April 24
It's no surprise that cell phone calls and texting distract drivers, but it is surprising that the distracting driving is on the rise, despite authorities' best efforts. According to the California Department of Motor Vehicles, phoning and driving increases the risk of crashes four-fold, with hands free and handheld devices equally dangerous. Texting increases this risk eight to 16 times. California Highway Patrol Assistant Chief Robert Clark said a new study highlights the high prevalence of distracted driving those of college-age, including texting while driving. “The demonstration of misplaced confidence in their own and others’ ability to multitask may lead to opportunities for us to educate and employ some risk abatement strategies,” …
Monday, April 23, 2012
Whitney DeSantis' love of school became her passion, then her career. The school board is set to approve her hiring this week.
Life has come full circle for Whitney DeSantis. When she was 8 years old, she would put on a pair of glasses – not because she needed corrective lenses, but to look studious – and read to her stuffed animals. Now she has been tapped to be the new principal for Village Elementary, replacing Deeba Zaher, who will retire at the end of this term. DeSantis will be introduced to the district's board at their 4:30 p.m. meeting Thursday. Unlike many educators in waiting, DeSantis explored other career paths before settling on her first love. As a stage struck teen she studied voice in her native Virginia for one year, then earned an associates degree at Tidewater Community College. Then she married a naval officer, Robert, became a civil servant …
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9:41 am on Thursday, May 17, 2012
yes - that is correct...the funds would have evaporated in bureaucracy... it makes more sense to put the monies directly back into the economy that it effected than to create more bureaucratic waste.... ....seems to me that the payoffs should have went back to the people it directly effected anyway more ›