Here is an article written after families showing up with their signs to save Dunlap Elementary on Saturday! Thank you April White and all the families and friends that are fighting to save our school. Do not forget we will be picketing Monday February 9th at the Corner of Oak Glen Road and Yucaipa Blvd.... Bring your family and friends and be sure to make your own signs too.... come help us in the fight to save Dunlap Elementary School!
http://blogs.sbsun.com/yucaipanow/ This is the article written by Bob Otto. Thank you Bob.
Sunday, February 8, 2009
Friday, February 6, 2009
PLEASE ATTEND AND MAKE A DIFFERENCE!!!!!!
SATURDAY FEB. 7TH @ 9AM THE SUN NEWSPAPER WILL BE TAKING A PHOTO OF THE PARENTS AND CONCERNED CITIZENS. Please bring your protest posters. Thank your SUN YUCAIPA NOW. Someone cares!
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
IMPORTANT MEETING THAT WE ALL NEED TO ATTEND!
Next YCJUSD Board meetings is at the district office on 3rd street in Yucaipa at 6:30pm Feb. 10th, 2009. Come and let your voice be heard. The more people at this meeting the more impact it will have. Bring a chair and get ready to be part of a great cause! Lets not just talk about what someone else should do but what we all can do. Be active in the solution.
THOUGHTS FROM ONE OF THE MANY PARENTS CONCERNED ABOUT DUNLAP CLOSING
To whom it may concern,
Due to ridiculous budget cuts in excess of $500,000 just for this year. The school board of Yucaipa & Calimesa are proposing to close Dunlap Elementary. This school has been serving the town of Yucaipa for 50 years. It holds some great experienced teachers that have even taught some of the parents. Now because they built a new school for the more well to do people of Chapman Heights they are closing Dunlap in Dunlap acres. The only school in this neighborhood. In closing Dunlap they will force our children to attend schools in surrounding area. Therefore overcrowding these surrounding schools. Making a situation where all students will lose. They will also propose forcing these great experienced teachers of Dunlap into early retirement. They will lay off 22 teachers and an additional 20 more making this a total of 40. There is a significant economic status difference in the families of Dunlap and Chapman Heights. This I am afraid will compromise our student academic and social growth. The board has kept this a secret so that we could not come up with ways to resolve these issues at hand. I feel we have been railroaded by the school board. Today we will be attending the school board meeting to ask for more time and an alternative solution. Our kids should able to attend a school in their own neighborhood with peer of families like their own. It wasn’t enough to take away their principal and office staff now it is their school. My three children have and do attend this famed school . My 1st grader reads at a 3rd grade level and my 5th grade at a 7th grade level. We have bright students with good testing scores. This is not a broken school but the opposite. What Dunlap teacher are doing is working. Working for the futures of our children. Throwing them in this desperate solutions will diminish our hopes for a better future for our children . I call on the help of our communities to come to our aid. We need to come together and help the future of the children of the United States. Next years proposed budget cuts will be 1 million dollars for this district alone.
April White
Due to ridiculous budget cuts in excess of $500,000 just for this year. The school board of Yucaipa & Calimesa are proposing to close Dunlap Elementary. This school has been serving the town of Yucaipa for 50 years. It holds some great experienced teachers that have even taught some of the parents. Now because they built a new school for the more well to do people of Chapman Heights they are closing Dunlap in Dunlap acres. The only school in this neighborhood. In closing Dunlap they will force our children to attend schools in surrounding area. Therefore overcrowding these surrounding schools. Making a situation where all students will lose. They will also propose forcing these great experienced teachers of Dunlap into early retirement. They will lay off 22 teachers and an additional 20 more making this a total of 40. There is a significant economic status difference in the families of Dunlap and Chapman Heights. This I am afraid will compromise our student academic and social growth. The board has kept this a secret so that we could not come up with ways to resolve these issues at hand. I feel we have been railroaded by the school board. Today we will be attending the school board meeting to ask for more time and an alternative solution. Our kids should able to attend a school in their own neighborhood with peer of families like their own. It wasn’t enough to take away their principal and office staff now it is their school. My three children have and do attend this famed school . My 1st grader reads at a 3rd grade level and my 5th grade at a 7th grade level. We have bright students with good testing scores. This is not a broken school but the opposite. What Dunlap teacher are doing is working. Working for the futures of our children. Throwing them in this desperate solutions will diminish our hopes for a better future for our children . I call on the help of our communities to come to our aid. We need to come together and help the future of the children of the United States. Next years proposed budget cuts will be 1 million dollars for this district alone.
April White
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
HELP US SAVE OUR SCHOOL!
Closing Dunlap School will result in overcrowding of the other schools in the district. More traffic congestion surrounding the adjecent schools such as Chapman Heights Elementary and Valley Elementary. It will also bring the property value down for the Dunlap Acres area. Let the YCJSD School Board know that you disapprove. A united community makes a better community. Dunlap has served our community for over 50 years. Let's work together to do what is right. We will be walking around with petitions all week at different schools. Please email us at savedunlapschool@msn.com if you would like to join this fight to save our school. We will also be picketing Monday February 9th at 4:30pm. We will meet at the intersection of Yucaipa Blvd and Oak Glen Road. Please make your own signs and come make a difference with us.
ANOTHER WAY TO HELP MAKE A DIFFERENCE
Concern over school budgets? Write or call our State government and help them make better decisions for our children and their future!
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-CA) Website: gov.ca.gov
Sacramento Office:California 95814Phone: (916) 445-2841Fax: (916) 445-4633
Los Angeles Office:
300 South Spring Street, Suite 167Los Angeles, California 90013Phone: (213) 897-0322Fax: (213) 897-0319
Sen. Robert Dutton Website: http://ca.nea.capwiz.com/webreturn/?url=http://www.senate.ca.gov%2Fdutton
Sacramento Office:5094 State Capitol,California 95814Phone: (916) 651-4031Fax: (916) 327-2272
Rancho Cucamonga Office: (more district offices)
8577 Haven Avenue, Suite 210Rancho Cucamonga, California 91730Phone: (909) 466-4180Fax: (909) 466-4185
Asm. Paul Cook (R-CA 65th District) Website: republican.assembly.ca.gov/member/65/
Sacramento Office:5164 State Capitol,California 94249-0065Phone: (916) 319-2065Fax: (916) 319-2165
Yucaipa Office: (more district offices)
34932 Yucaipa BoulevardYucaipa, California 92399Phone: (909) 790-4196Fax: (909) 790-0479
Sacramento Office:California 95814Phone: (916) 445-2841Fax: (916) 445-4633
Los Angeles Office:
300 South Spring Street, Suite 167Los Angeles, California 90013Phone: (213) 897-0322Fax: (213) 897-0319
Sen. Robert Dutton Website: http://ca.nea.capwiz.com/webreturn/?url=http://www.senate.ca.gov%2Fdutton
Sacramento Office:5094 State Capitol,California 95814Phone: (916) 651-4031Fax: (916) 327-2272
Rancho Cucamonga Office: (more district offices)
8577 Haven Avenue, Suite 210Rancho Cucamonga, California 91730Phone: (909) 466-4180Fax: (909) 466-4185
Asm. Paul Cook (R-CA 65th District) Website: republican.assembly.ca.gov/member/65/
Sacramento Office:5164 State Capitol,California 94249-0065Phone: (916) 319-2065Fax: (916) 319-2165
Yucaipa Office: (more district offices)
34932 Yucaipa BoulevardYucaipa, California 92399Phone: (909) 790-4196Fax: (909) 790-0479
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