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MLK Speaker Calls Davis a City Full of Contradictions, Critiques Race Relations
Dr. Mariama Gray, an assistant professor in the Educational Leadership Department at Cal State East Bay, was the keynote speaker at MLK Day 2018. Speaker: The city’s outward affluence masks a...
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My View: Let’s Not Pretend Like Teacher Health Benefits Are Not Subpar
A Dunning column from earlier this week noted with sympathy teachers’ efforts to lobby the district with regard to pay and compensation. However, he offers: “While my sympathies in this battle lie...
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District to Evaluate Feasibility of Parcel Tax on Thursday
The school district commissioned a poll to determine interest in a parcel tax for employee compensation. The district will use the results of the $27,000 poll to determine whether they should go...
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Commentary: Both City and School District Should Be Concerned with Parcel Tax...
The Davis School District is looking toward a Parcel Tax as a way to fund increases to teacher compensation. They are looking at potentially a $198 parcel tax measure for the fall to achieve it. The...
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Let’s Settle Now
By Dianna Huculak (Editor’s Note: Dianna Huculak, the DTA President read the following statement last night at the Davis Joint Unified School Board Meeting). The Davis Teachers Association is pleased...
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School Board Sees Disproportionality in Montgomery Program
“This is about race, this is about opting out of a school, and this is about segregation.” The DJUSD School Board on Thursday heard a presentation that highlighted the disproportionality in...
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My View: Teacher Lack of Support for Parcel Tax Perplexing
The numbers seem pretty clear, the teachers have been working hard for the last several months to rally the community to the idea that there is a compensation gap in the district. That teachers are...
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Threat to Harper Turns Out to Be a Hoax
On Friday, DJUSD sent out a notice to parents of Harper Junior High students that there was a threat received via the STOPit app. The threat claimed that there would be a school shooting at Harper...
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Analysis: Teachers Seek Equal Solution to Unequal Pay Gap
The teacher compensation gap is real and many teachers, particularly the younger and least experienced teachers, are really disadvantaged by it. But the district’s data show that this gap is not...
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Commentary: DJUSD Needs to Be Careful about Adding Police to Campus
Last Thursday’s discussion on school safety seemed to foreshadow the threat that emerged late in the day on Friday. Fortunately it turned out that the threat to shoot students at Harper Junior High...
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My View: Fear Itself – Why Davis Should Not Install Metal Detectors at Its...
Columnist Bob Dunning, discussing the potential threat at Harper this week, noted that while most of us – myself included – believed that the threat was most likely a hoax, “The Parkland shooting is a...
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District to Examine Discipline Policies after Complaints Following Student...
Cindy Pickett was one of the parents and community members who spoke out against the district’s disciplining of students who walked out with an unexcused absence. It was a story that drew attention...
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My View: We Have Failed Montgomery, Montgomery Has Not Failed Us
Late on Thursday evening, the DJUSD School Board moved forward with proposed changes that would phase out the English-only program at Marguerite Montgomery Elementary, and leave in its wake the...
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LA Unified Encouraged Students to Participate in the 17-Minute Program, DJUSD...
Statement by Board Trustee Madhavi Sunder (Madhavi Sunder, Board Trustee, made the following statement at March 15, 2018 Davis School Board Meeting). I would like to request that the Board address the...
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Board to Look at Discipline Policies Stemming from Student Walk Out
Signs outside of the school at Parkland, the site of a February 14 massacre that left 17 students dead. DJUSD attracted regional attention when the Sacramento Bee back in mid-March ran a story, “This...
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Board Set to Approve Agreement with DTA on a New Contract
Back in March, the Davis Teachers Association and DJUSD agreed to a contract settlement signed by Deputy Superintendent Matt Best and DTA Lead Negotiator Heather Wade on March 6. The agreements...
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School Board Re-Evaluates Discipline Policy in Wake of Student Walk Out and...
Sunder Questions Whether District May Not Be Consistent with Case Law for Student Protests While the district passed a couple of motions to educate the students and the community on the types of...
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Teacher Support for Interim DHS Principal Forces District to Postpone New Hire
Thursday’s DJUSD Board meeting got off to a late start as more than 70 Davis High School Teachers and others showed up during closed session to protest an outside hire of a new principal for DHS. Ten...
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Students and Parents Call for Bilingual Education at Harper
Lito Hanson spoke to the school board last Thursday, flanked by about eight of his 6th grade classmates at Montgomery Elementary. They called on the district to provide a continuation of their...
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Sunday Commentary: District in Hot Water over DHS Principal Hire
Two weeks ago, the DJUSD School Board delayed approving the decision on the hiring of a new principal at Davis High after 70 teachers showed up at a closed session meeting to protest the selection by...
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