Monthly Archives: February 2016

Facilities, enrollment updates, retirement plans on Kairos agenda – The Reporter

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By Richard Bammer

Kairos leaders will meet Monday to discuss facilities and enrollment updates, a retirement plan for school-support employees, and the process to evaluate the independent charter school’s executive director, Jared Austin.

Austin will lead the discussion on the facilities master plan for the 123 Elm St. campus, which was built in 1949 and still owned by the Vacaville Unified School District, which provides some financial and administrative oversight for a nominal annual fee from the Kairos budget.

Likewise, Austin will update the seven-member board on the school’s open enrollment process, already underway for the 2016-17 academic year.

via Facilities, enrollment updates, retirement plans on Kairos agenda.

Facilities, tax plans among topics of Fairfield, Suisun joint schools, cities sessions – Daily Republic

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By Daily Republic Staff

Leaders of two of the largest educational enterprises in Solano County will meet with their counterparts at two area cities next week to consider a wide range of topics.

Members of the City of Fairfield/Fairfield-Suisun School District/Solano Community College Joint Committee will gather at 5 p.m. Monday at the Sullivan Interagency Youth Services Center to discuss items of mutual concern, according to the agenda for the meeting.

via Facilities, tax plans among topics of Fairfield, Suisun joint schools, cities sessions.

Fairfield High accepts acts-of-kindness challenge – Daily Republic

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By Susan Hiland

The Great Kindness Challenge arrived this week at Fairfield High School – for the second year in a row.

Fairfield High students rose to the challenge – for the second year in a row – with an enthusiastic response among students, staff and administrators.

“Everybody got into the spirit and doing kind things for each other,” project coordinator Regina Williams said.

The week included donating socks, gloves and other clothing items for the homeless, something that was done in conjunction with Armijo High School students of the Skate for Change Club.

via Fairfield High accepts acts-of-kindness challenge.

Communication, relationships at heart of Solano College board retreat – Daily Republic

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By Bill Hicks

Solano Community College District trustees and their newly hired superintendent-president took steps Saturday during a board retreat to help correct conditions that had at one time threatened the college’s accreditation.

The session at the Hilton Garden Inn was guided by education consultant – and former Solano College president – Stan Arterberry.

via Communication, relationships at heart of Solano College board retreat.

VEX Robotics returns for more challenges – Daily Republic

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By Susan Hiland

The excitement of the participants of the VEX Robotics competition ran like electricity through the air of the gym at Grange Middle School on Saturday. The kids were having fun and it showed.

The VEX Robotics Competition, presented by the Robotics Education and Competition Foundation, is the ultimate science, technology, engineering and mathematics activity for middle school and high school students from ages 11 to 18.

An engineering challenge is presented each year in the form of a game. Students, with guidance from their teachers and mentors, use the VEX Robotics Design System to build innovative robots designed to score the most points possible in qualification matches, elimination matches and skills challenges, according to the website RobotEvents.com, which tracks the events.

via VEX Robotics returns for more challenges.

Green Valley students get glimpse into future – Daily Republic

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By Amy Maginnis-Honey

Talyssa Tucker wasn’t expecting to participate in a class Thursday at Armijo High School. She was one of 20 Green Valley Middle School students there to shadow students in the school’s International Baccalaureate program.

The eighth-grader, along with others in the room, heard a presentation in an honors English class on the Selma march and was given a handwritten index card with the name, and some background information on that person.

Armijo High students asked the person with the card on Mary Foster to read the details out loud. Tucker obliged with professionalism.

via Green Valley students get glimpse into future.

Meet set for Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention Commission – Daily Republic

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By Daily Republic Staff

The Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention Commission will meet from 3 to 4:30 p.m. Wednesday at the County Administration Center, 675 Texas St. in Conference Room 6003.

The commission meeting will feature two presentations, including “Bring your A game,” a youth mentorship project for local business owners, and “2B Successful,” a youth facilities restorative tutoring program that aims to help juvenile hall students earn their high school diplomas, according to a county press release.

via Meet set for Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention Commission.