Two New School Closures Announced

The District’s Facilities Goals Committee met on February 20, 2008 to review the Board revised school closure criteria data and have reached a decision to recommend closing University Elementary and Meadows Elementary in fall 2009.

Please refer to the CVUSD website for more detailed information.

Back to the Drawing Board

The Conejo Valley School District has chosen to do the right thing.  At the February 5th board meeting the board voted to throw out the results of the original Primary Criteria analysis and start the scoring process all over again.  After over four hours of public comment from our active community, the board made a bold decision and the school closure process will now have the opportunity for an open and thorough review.

Congratulations to everyone who has worked so hard to realize this outcome.  Now the hard work begins.  Many parents still believe that school closure in any form is not necessary.  We will continue to engage in this process to ensure that any analysis is fair and accurate and to express that we believe that all schools should remain open.

Click here to read the article in the Ventura County Star.

Letters to the Editor

Please note that the links to the Acorn for January 31st are links to Letters to the Editor from the following authors:

Paul Kessler

Jo Anne Cobasko

Karen Cabelli

We do not condone any remarks that are negative or seek to discriminate against any student population or school.  Any such remarks will be removed from this site.  Our goal and purpose is to keep ALL schools in the Conejo Valley open.

Do the RIGHT thing.

For ALL students.

Today AND tomorrow.

Read The Call for Action

A document entitled "Call for Action" has been posted to savecvschools.org.  Download it here.

savecvschools.org is now online!

The website is now active at http://www.savecvschools.org/.  You can view this blog, download the raw data files from the district and get actively involved in the parent response.  Thank you for taking the time to visit.

Next School Board Meeting

The community is urged to attend and lend support at the upcoming School Board Meeting Tueday, Feb. 5 at 6:00 p.m. held in the TOHS PAC. Among the topic of school closure, the expenditure of fiber optic high-speed internet (now including a Verizon bid) will be voted on. Dorothy Beaubien does not believe that these two topics relate (see article) . . . but how can they not? School closure is due to lack of students which equates to lack of funds thereby putting us in crisis mode here, so why spend funds that should otherwise go to support and save our schools?