Tuesday, February 24, 2009
IMPORTANT MEETING WE ALL NEED TO ATTEND!
Today is the District Board Meeting and we all need to attend. Alot is said in big numbers! Please come help up save our school and also fight for CSR. We know budget cuts our inevitable because of the economy, but help us be sure the District is making the cuts that will least affect our children and teachers! We need your help. Come fight with us! Please be at the district office on 3rd street at 5PM today! Thank you!
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The meeting is on third street. Try to be there by 5pm.
ReplyDeleteAnother important point is that kindergarten registration begins March 2nd. Those of us with children beginning kindergarten in August need to register early and show the district that our school does have the numbers to remain open!
ReplyDeleteThank you Katie. You are awesome.
ReplyDeleteSAVE DUNLAP ELEMENTARY
Attention Parents, Homeowners, and Taxpayers!
Help us fight to save Dunlap! The proposal to close Dunlap Elementary affects us all regardless of whether or not you have children at the school. Our property value will plummet if Dunlap is abandoned, and it will become a cesspool covered in graffiti and filled with vagrants and troublemakers. Don’t let the school district punish taxpayers for the district’s inability to manage our money!
The school district is spending $200,000 a year to lease turf for the high school football field and yet they can’t afford to keep Dunlap open. Contact the school board and tell them to get their priorities straight!
All of your phone calls, emails, and letters are working – the school board has taken Dunlap off the chopping block for now, but they are going to decide the fate of the school at a later date. They are trying to wear us down, but we will not stop fighting. Contact your elected board members today. Tell them that closing Dunlap is not an option!
Offer the school board other cost cutting options such as:
-Cuts at the district level
-Furlough days for district employees
-Across the board salary cuts
-Eliminate TOAs (Teachers On Assignment)
-Eliminate administrator cell phones
-Delay the adoption of new textbooks
-Reconstruct school boundaries to make all schools smaller and thus eliminating the need for assistant principals
-Eliminate home to school transportation – on the district website it is said that this alone would save $860,000
Don’t be fooled by the district’s claim that Dunlap is not cost efficient or that it doesn’t have enough students. This year the district sent a third of Dunlap’s students to fill the brand new multi-million dollar Chapman Heights Elementary. That is why Dunlap is the smallest school in the district and why it costs more per student to operate. Tell the district to bring our students back to Dunlap and to stop fudging the numbers.
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Please contact the school district and the school board members before the next board meeting. Don’t let them jeopardize our quality of life just because they can’t manage our tax dollars!
Yucaipa Calimesa Joint Unified School District – 797-0174
12797 3rd St.
Yucaipa CA
92399
Superintendent Sherry Kendrick – 797-0174 ext.101
Sherry_Kendrick@ycjusd.k12.ca.us
School Board Members:
Sue Brown 797-2199
Sue_Brown@ycjusd.k12.ca.us
Chuck Christie 790-1123
Chuck_Christie@ycjusd.k12.ca.us
Patricia Ingram 797-0535
Patricia_Ingram@ycjusd.k12.ca.us
Jane Smith 790-1684
Jane_Smith@ycjusd.k12.ca.us
Jim Taylor 831-7651
Jim_Taylor@ycjusd.k12.ca.us
NEXT BOARD MEETING MARCH 10TH AT 6:30pm AT THE DISTRICT OFFICE - COME AND SUPPORT YOUR COMMUNITY!
We will always keep you informed here on the latest Save Dunlap News.
www.dunlapschool.blogspot.com email us at savedunlapeleschool@msn.com see how you can help.
I heard from a neighbor today that the real reason the district wants to close Dunlap is because the city wants to put low income housing down the street including housing for sex offenders. They are unable to do this with a school so close and so that is why they are trying to close Dunlap. Has anyone else heard about this?
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