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Great thanks, in advance, to the United Mt. Diablo Athletic Foundation (“UMDAF”) for hosting the second annual 5K Run and Walk to benefit District high school sports. Athletics are just one of many victims of the state’s budget cuts. UMDAF stepped up to the plate to ensure our students are not denied the invaluable experience of team sports. Studies confirm that students who participate in organized school sports are less likely to experiment with dangerous behaviors, including drugs and alcohol. Please support UMDAF to achieve their goal of raising $50,000 from this event.Sunday, October 109:00 a.m.Newhall Park, ConcordFood. Fun. Entertainment. Support a great cause – support our student athletic programs. Log on to http://www.unitedmtdiabloathletics.org/ to sign up and/or get additional information.Regardless of your ability to run or not, please come out and show your support for student athletes district-wide. These kids need our support. Stop by for a few minutes and drop a check off for a great cause. If you can't make it to the event, please click on the link in this post and follow the links to donate to the cause. Ask your friends to do the same. A little will go a long way. I'll see you on Sunday.postCount('5K');
On Your Mark, Get Set, Go… To the Second Annual 5K Run to Benefit MDUSD Sports
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The California Legislature closed this year's regular session with no State budget. Despite the fact that Legislators voted on two budgets, one put forth by the Democrats and one put forth by the Republicans, neither option garnered the 2/3rds majority that is necessary to move it forward to the Governor. There is rumor that more meetings regarding the budget will continue beyond the regular session of the Legislature, but there are no meetings scheduled yet. Those meetings are likely to be held in private, so we as citizens will not have to opportunity to provide the oversight necessary to ensure that law makers are doing the right thing.Tongue In Cheek Section-On a much brighter note, the Legislature did take decisive action on a bill that is extremely important to the future of our State. The Senate voted 20-14 to defeat AB 1998 which would have banned the use of plastic grocery bags throughout the State. I'm glad that the Legislature was able to get to the business of which bags grocery stores use to pack up our groceries. postCount('state budget 090110');
Still No State Budget
In an announcement on August 24, 2010, it was confirmed that four MDUSD schools will receive a combined $14.8 million in School Improvement Grants (SIG). The MDUSD was originally shut out of the competition due to rule changes after grant applications were submitted, despite the fact that the scoring of our grant applications were higher, in some cases significantly higher, than other districts who had applied for the same grant money. The four schools slated to receive grant money are Bel Air Elementary, Shore Acres Elementary, Rio Vista Elementary, and Glenbrook Middle School. This grant money, along with the plans put in place to ensure success at these schools, will play a key role in the success of our students. The fact that these four schools submitted grants that were scored so highly is a testament to the great work that was done putting together plans for success.Now the catch. It also appears that our district, these schools, and most importantly, the kids that attend these schools, will not receive the grant money and start to feel the benefits of the grants until the Legislature and the Governor pass a budget. We were supposed to have a budget in June. It is now almost September and still there is no sign of a budget in sight. 2008 was the worst budget adoption date which was September 23, second was 2003 when a budget was adopted on September 9.Establishing the State budget is the most basic responsibility of our State Legislature and Governor and they can't or won't compromise and get that job done. California is one of only three states that require a 2/3rds majority to pass a budget. That means that 14 Senators can block all of the work of the Legislature and the Governor. Only Arkansas and Rhode Island have a requirement similar to the California 2/3rds majority rule and even those two States allow education spending and education budgets to continue while the overall budget is worked on. Along with the SIG money that will be tied up, the Federal Jobs money may be tied up as well, which will keep our school district from making necessary decisions about expenditures that will help our students.We need a change in California. We need to abandon minority rule in the State Legislature and establish real budget process reforms in the State of California. It's bad enough that the cuts to education in the State of California over the last several years are worse than cuts made during the great depression. It is inexcusable that during a time of the most sever cuts in history, our Legislature won't do their job. We are on the verge of having to make even more cuts and impacting our kids even more severely, if we had a State budget and the money that has already been promised, we might be able to avoid a great number of those further cuts.There are budget votes scheduled on August 31 in the legislature, but neither side is willing to approve the plan of the other. So far, there is no compromise in sight. The Legislature is scheduled to end this years' session on August 31. The Governor is scheduled to leave for a trade visit in Asia on September 9. Our Legislature and our Governor should forget everything else for now and they should be working 7 days a week on the budget until it is done. The budget debates should all be done in public and be televised. There should be no Democratic/Republican caucuses to discuss partisan budget solutions. Just like we on the School Board can't get together in private and discuss the budget that impacts your children, our Legislature needs to discuss the budget in public that impacts everyone in the State. The children in our State deserve better from their State Representatives. postCount('sig');
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I found this to be an interesting story given the level of blogging that occurs in our community. Here is a link to a recent LA Times story about anonymous blogging and the related increase in defamation lawsuits that are attributed to blogging. I think many of us are searching for ways that blogging can contribute to finding solutions. In our case with this blog, we have received hundreds of community inputs, some resulting in many actionable solutions to challenges that we face. Blogging as a communications mode is very cool and finding ways to gather all of the benefits from this mode of communications is something many of us think about. I'll reserve further comment other than to say that I found the story very interesting and I thought maybe it would spark a good discussion.postCount('bloggerlaw');
Blogger Beware: Postings Can lead to Lawsuits
Is it just me or did it seem like Summer just blew right past us? In less than one week students will once again fill the halls of the schools in our district, eager to learn in many cases, eager to see their friends in most cases, and upset that they are back in a few cases. As parents many of us have mixed feelings. Our little babies continue to grow and gain independence and this is all headed towards a day when they will leave the nest and venture out into the world. The start of school means that we will have to be more organized, wake up earlier, and we will need to fire the shuttle business back up once again to get kids to school and activities. We will once again have to supervise and help with homework and class projects, and there has never been a time where volunteering at school is more needed.In the Eberhart house we have one high school senior and one 2nd grader. The costs associated with getting our students through registration and signed up for everything that they want to be signed up for is pretty high this year. You couple those costs with the costs associated with classroom supplies, back packs, clothes, etc. and the number gets really high.I was at Mount Diablo Elementary yesterday and today and the place was busy, really busy. Staff members working hard to get the school and the classrooms prepared. The office was definitely suffering from the reduction of staff and for a school of that size not to have a vice principal, I just don't know how they are going to manage. Despite that, staff were answering phone calls, handling parents who came in with questions, and dealing with deliveries of supplies. They were doing what they had to do to ensure that students would have a positive experience when they arrive on August 25th. What was most impressive is that everyone seemed to know exactly what they needed to do and everyone had a smile on their face, at least part of the time. As a parent I left there thinking that our kids would be in good hands and I really appreciate that. I also stopped by the office at Clayton Valley High and saw a very similar picture. I was impressed. All over this district in every school the story is repeated. School staffs are preparing for students, stocking shelves, cleaning out dust, and decorating the walls of classrooms, turning bare classrooms into wonderful educational environments.I'd like to thank the staffs at each of our school sites for all that they are doing to get schools ready for students, despite very difficult financial times. We have made very deep cuts all over the district and our site staffs are having to pick up the slack where we have missing staff members due to layoff. For those of us who are parents and who are at school sites often, please take a moment to thank those people who are doing their best to take care of our children.I'd like to know how parents and staff members are feeling about the beginning of the school year. How have walk throughs been? Did it feel like the Summer was short? Did it cost a lot to get your student back to school? How does the campus look? What are your impressions of how this year will be? What are you going to do to make sure that your kids have a positive year?I just thought it would be nice to hear what others are dealing with.post
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I have decided not to run for another term on the Mt. Diablo Unified School District Board of Education. To properly serve the school district, I believe a school board member must commit in excess of a thousand hours per year to school board service. In the past few years, I have committed that level of time. This commitment has kept me away from my family and my business. When I first joined the district, my son was in Kindergarten and my daughter in preschool. This year, they will be in fourth and fifth grade.As you can imagine, as someone who has been self-employed during the vast majority of my tenure, the financial impact of my service the school board exceeds several hundred thousands dollars.I have waited to the last minute to make my decision as I am greatly concerned about a change in the school board resulting in a loss of the gains we have made over the last four years. Despite the regular complaining on blogs and the Contra Costa Times attempts to create news where none exists, the district is in far better shape than it would have been if the status quo had continued. I believe new board members are not likely to be as available to the public or willing to share with constituents their thoughts.That said, I can leave the district knowing that at least for the next few years, Gary and Sherry will continue to advance the cause of the students of our district.This is a very challenging time for California school districts. The devastation of school budgets and the fact that we are essentially last in per pupil spending in the United States highlights those challenges. I am proud to leave behind a legacy that will provide significant general fund relief and allow the MDUSD to be more competitive with surrounding districts from a revenue perspective.For all of those who will post negative comments on the blog announcements of this fact, keep in mind that it is very easy to throw rocks. What is really hard is dedicating your time to actually make a difference.I look forward to my last few months on the board and I will continue to have a vested interest in this district as my children will be students in the district for years to come.I want to thank everyone who has supported me and who has worked hard to improve the district for our students.PaulpostCount('notrunning');
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Ygnacio Valley High School would like to invite you to meet our new principal, Bill Morones, on Thursday, August 5 from 7:00 - 8:00 in the YV library. Please stop and by and welcome Bill to the YVHS Community. postCount('yvhs');
Meet & Greet With Ygnacio Valley High School's New Principal
The poll has been released by the CUES Committee (Community United for Excellent Schools). I appreciate that the CUES Committee has agreed to make the poll results public. I'm not sure what all of the fuss was about relative to the poll, but I'm glad it is now available for the public to see. Click on the click and you can read it for yourselves.http://protectourlocalschools.org/postCount('poll');
CUES Committee Releases Full Poll Results
After reading yet another editorial penned by the CC Times on Friday, I thought it made sense to write a short explanation of where I stand regarding Measure C, which was passed with over 60% approval by the MDUSD community in June of this year.When a school district is paying off a previous general obligation bond and they need to pass another general obligation bond to continue to maintain and upgrade facilities, there are two methodologies that can be employed to pay off the new bond. The payments for the new bond can be added to the payments of the earlier bond, roughly doubling the amount that property owners pay until the first bond is paid off. The other methodology that can be used is to begin paying off the second bond once the first bond is fully paid off, which effectively keeps the payments the same, but increases the total amount of interest paid on the newest bond.When the Board was presented the language to place the measure on the ballot, our staff made a decision to bring to the Board the methodology that places the payments for the new bond at the end of the payments for the original bond. The Board approved placing the bond on the ballot in a unanimous vote of approval. For Board Members to now claim that didn't know that there were other payment methodologies only tells me that they did not adequately prepare themselves for a critical vote.The CC Times claims that the District has somehow miss led the voters, that we didn't fully inform the public. I disagree. When the Board approved the ballot measure to move forward, the CC Times asked us for the bond payoff information that would show how much the bond may cost voters to pay it off completely. We provided the Times the payoff information and the Times started informing the public of that amount. The Times wrote many articles, each of which contain the payoff number. The Times wrote an editorial blasting the bond measure, again stating what the payoff number was. Finally, the Times came out against the bond measure in the endorsement issues of the newspaper, again printing the payoff number. Along with the Times, there were two organized campaigns against the bond measure that also campaigned using the payoff number that the District provided well in advance of the vote. I can't believe that the voters of our district were unaware of the payoff number; I guess I believe that the voters who voted to support the students of our district are better informed and would not vote on such an important measure without doing a little homework prior to casting their vote. I believe that people were informed prior to the vote and believe that people understood the importance of the vote and the importance of supporting our students.It was eluded to in the editorial on Friday that I would be in favor of conducting a re-vote on Measure C. I would not be in favor of such a move. Over 60% of the voters in our community approved Measure C and who am I to question their votes. What I have said is that if there was overwhelming support shown by the voters of our community to modify the Measure C payoff methodology so that payments for the new bond measure would begin immediately, I might entertain that. What would the obstacles be? Number one, a move like that would cost hundreds of thousands of general fund dollars and that money would have to be raised in a way that didn't impact students. Number two, overwhelming support would have to be shown to make the change. Currently there has been the Times that has criticized the current bond and a handful of vocal bloggers. I have not seen anything that even comes close to overwhelming support for modifying the measure.I think we all need to understand the facts that surround Measure C and here is information that I have asked our staff to come up with.Actual payoff information for the bond as it is now. The number that has bee
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As Gary mentioned in his post below, there is a fanatical, anonymous "Lone Ranger" harassing us about the poll results, Buttercupgate and other matters that have erupted from his/her imagination. Let's set the record straight on the matter of the poll results.1. The poll was conducted by EMC Research.2. EMC was not hired by me, Gary, any other board member or the district.3. EMC was hired by an independent committee of citizens from our community, formed for the purpose of supporting ballot measures that support the district.4. EMC is an expert in polling.5. EMC presented the conclusions it reached from the poll at a public board meeting.6. The board openly and publicly discussed the conclusions presented by EMC.7. EMC did not provide the underlying poll to Gary or to me (I don't believe the other board members received it either, I just have not checked with them).8. Anyone who wanted to had an opportunity to comment on the presentation at the board meeting.9. The powerpoint presented by EMC was available to anyone who asked for it.So, what is the big secret? That Gary and I did not independently assess the poll results? We did not audit and attempt to second guess the conclusions of the polling expert? I guess in the future, we should perform the actual polling ourselves. How dare we rely on an expert when we could just call hundreds of local community members and interview them ourselves.Let's keep in mind the purpose of the poll. The poll was to assess public support for a bond measure. The presentation by EMC was to provide us with conclusions showing whether or not a bond would be supported. The presentation made by EMC did that. As a side note, the poll results were right and the bond passed, but the purpose was to allow us some confidence that we were not wasting money on the election (not campaign, the election, which we have to pay the county for).So, SUCCESS! No conspiracy, no secrets, no hide the ball. The CCTimes has the presentation (and the reporter was most likely at the meeting as she usually is). For those of you who don't have it, CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD IT.As for complaints about Mr. Rolen's response to the CCTimes. I will agree that lawyers often speak in a manner foreign to non-lawyers, but there is nothing wrong with his response. The law provides exceptions for producing material and this is one of them. There is a typical process for disputes about public records act requests. When a request is denied, the burden is placed on the requesting party to provide a basis for release. When the request comes from a "sophisticated" entity, it is typical for the requesting entity to send a letter providing a legal basis for the release of the information. The CCTimes did not do this - they just took the initial letter and made some news out of it.I also find the CCTimes positions somewhat amusing - in her blog, Theresa Harrington says:"The district appears to want to have it both ways: it wants to claim voters chose a more costly option overall to fund the $348 million bond measure, but it doesn’t want to show the public any poll results that back up that claim."The clear implication from this and all of her reporting is that the community might have preferred the other tax rate - in other words, the vote on the ballot would have been HIGHER for the other tax rate. While she has absolutely zero evidence to support this position, from her best position, there would have been more yes votes. But the threshold for the bond is 55%. It passed. more than 55% of the community supported the bond the way it was put on the ballot.She also says:"If the board and Superintendent Steven Lawrence had been open and transparent about the
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