500 attend latest forum on proposed school cuts

November 2, 2018 Community/Education/Featured/Headline

500 attend latest forum on proposed school cuts

Five hundred Redwood City School District parents and staff filled the Gary Beban Gymnasium at Kennedy Middle School on Thursday… … Keep Reading

October 30, 2018 Education/Featured/Headline

24th Annual Preschool Preview Night set for Nov. 14

Local parents and guardians wanting information about preschools in our area are encouraged to attend the 24th Annual Preschool and… … Keep Reading

SCHOOL-BY-SCHOOL BREAKDOWN OF REORGANIZATION PROPOSALS Here is how the Redwood City School District reorganization will affect each of the district’s 16 schools, beginning next school year. Fair Oaks: School closes and students move to nearby Taft or have priority in transfer to any other school in the district. Taft: Absorbs students from Fair Oaks. The district will go ahead with the scheduled two-year Measure T modernization on the Taft campus, at the same time working with the community to develop an “innovative, academically rigorous program serving a culturally and socioeconomically diverse population.” Orion: The parent-participation program, one of the Schools of Choice magnets that draw students from throughout the district, moves to John Gill, sharing the site with the Mandarin Immersion program. The Allerton Street campus closes. Orion families who choose not to move with the parent-participation program have the option to attend their neighborhood school. John Gill: Ceases to become a neighborhood school. Current students have first priority to stay as part of the Orion parent-participation program or to move to another school. Adelante: Campus on Granger Way closes, and its Spanish Immersion program, another of the district magnets, moves to Selby Lane in Atherton to join 250 Spanish Immersion program students there. Adelante families who choose not to move have the option to attend their neighborhood school. Selby Lane: 460 students not in the immersion program have priority in moving to other schools. The preschool and transitional kindergarten programs at Selby Lane become Spanish Immersion. Hawes: School closes and students move to nearby Roosevelt, Henry Ford or Orion (John Gill) or have priority to other schools. Roosevelt, Garfield, Hoover, Kennedy, Clifford, Roy Cloud, McKinley Institute of Technology, North Star Academy and Henry Ford: Not affected except to absorb displaced students from Fair Oaks, Hawes, John Gill and Selby Lane, who will have priority to choose and attend any school in the district. No determination has been made on what will happen to the closed-school properties. The district office will close and move to a vacated school sometime in 2020, bringing in a potential revenue of $1.6 million a year. Other projects for the near future are a review of the K-8 vs. K-5/6-8 configuration and a study of the role of North Star Academy, the district’s accelerated-learning choice. The proposals are designed in part to take advantage of the most popular choice programs, including Roosevelt’s project-based learning, by giving them room to expand and possibly attract more students. All the proposals, Supt. John Baker said, “should promote racially and socioeconomically balanced schools and not further segregate our students.” The district has a marked east side-west side imbalance, and most of the district’s enrollment decline is happening on the east side. REDWOOD CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT DEMOGRAPHICS SCHOOL CAPACITY* ENROLLMENT * NON-WHITE PERCENTAGE** Kennedy (6-8) 1,680 706 82 Hoover (K-8) 1,470 681 98 Selby Lane (K-8) 1,290 740 95 Clifford (K-8) 1,110 558 55 Roosevelt (K-8) 1,110 581 80 Taft (K-5) 1,080 331 98 Garfield (K-8) 1,020 570 98 Roy Cloud (K-8) 990 718 37 Fair Oaks (K-5) 960 221 97 Henry Ford (K-5) 780 377 70 McKinley IT (6-8) 720 408 96 John Gill (K-5) 660 288 90 North Star (3-8) 630 536 51 Hawes (K-5) 570 301 98 Adelante (K-5) 550 464 76 Orion (K-5) 270 211 53 Total 14,890 7,691 80 *Redwood City School District figures from early fall 2018 **State Dept. of Education figures for 2017-18 Updated ethnic and socioeconomic makeup figures are soon to be posted on the district website.

October 26, 2018 Education/Featured/Headline

Parents dismayed at Hoover School Closure possibilities

By Bill Shilstone Closing all or part of Hoover Community School would cause transportation hardships, Latino community parents said Thursday… … Keep Reading

School-by-school breakdown of reorganization proposals

October 23, 2018 Education/Featured/Headline

Parents question school district about proposed cuts

By Bill Shilstone An audience of anxious and sometimes angry parents filled the McKinley Institute of Technology auditorium Monday night… … Keep Reading

October 18, 2018 Community/Education/Featured/Headline

Schaberg Branch Library’s new early learning play center

The Schaberg Branch Library at 2140 Euclid Ave. in Redwood City now has an Early Childhood Learning Center. The Early Childhood… … Keep Reading

October 17, 2018 Education/Featured/Headline

Redwood City schools prepare for deep cuts

Redwood City School District trustees and the public last night reviewed proposals ranging from closing or merging a half dozen… … Keep Reading

October 5, 2018 Education/Featured/Headline

North Star Academy named a National Blue Ribbon School

A Redwood City school was one of 349 in the nation — and one of 12 in California — to… … Keep Reading

September 25, 2018 A&E/Education/Featured/Headline

Cañada College Fashion Department set to host all-day outdoor shopping extravaganza

Cañada College is set this weekend to host its day-long outdoor shopping extravaganza and fashion show. Hosted by the Cañada… … Keep Reading

Electronic Arts CEO: 'shock and grief' after Jacksonville mass shooting

August 28, 2018 Education/Featured/Headline

Electronic Arts CEO: ‘shock and grief’ after Florida mass shooting

The chief executive of Redwood City-based Electronic Arts expressed “shock and grief” after a gunman killed two players and wounded… … Keep Reading

August 24, 2018 Community/Education/Featured/Headline

$3M state grant to boost student outcomes at Cañada College, College of San Mateo

Three million dollars. That’s what county community colleges have been awarded by the California Community Colleges Board of Governors grant… … Keep Reading

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