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PACIFICA SCHOOL DISTRICT EMPLOYEE HOUSING

News Story

"In coming months, HEART hopes to announce its efforts to aid the Pacifica School District with a proposal to build 45 school employee units on district land."

Kids Need to Get Shots Before School Starts

Press Release

San Mateo County Sustainability Classes & Webinars

Stay tuned here for details about the Sustainability Academy's new schedule of master classes and webinars. Meanwhile, follow the conversation on this topic at the Comments link below.

ThinkBridge Summer Camp 2017

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Support Our Public Schools

Pacifica School Volunteers

Science News in High Schools

Help your high school support science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) programs by getting the free Science News magazine. The "Science News in High Schools" program launched September 2015 as part of a larger commitment to create a more scientifically literate society. Science News, published since 1922, provides an approachable overview from all fields and applications of STEM. The magazine is written by experienced science journalists, many with Ph.D.s in scientific disciplines. Click Here for Info

Pacifica School Volunteers Want You

News Story

PSV always needs new volunteers to help Pacifica schoolchildren and schoolteachers.

Age Well/Drive Smart: 10% off Car Insurance

News Story

Many, if not most, auto insurance companies offer a 10 percent discount on annual premiums for several years to motorists who take this state-approved Age Well/Drive Smart program. I went to the three-hour Daly City seminar in 2014 and continue to receive a 10 percent annual discount from Farmers Insurance because of it. (P.S. It's okay to sleep through the seminar.)

Alan Wald

Back to School: Traffic Safety

Press Release

F-35s or 20 Years' Free College Education

"Mind-blowing fact of the day: The total cost of the U.S. military’s F-35 program, $1.45 trillion, could provide free college education to every student in the U.S. for 20 years. Oh, and by the way, the program has been a total disaster. Nine years into development, the F-35 fighter jets (the most expensive American weapons ever built) are still not ready for combat, and their software is so flawed that they may never be ready. Great." (Sources: Military Times, Motherboard; cited in The Hustle online, April 28)

Pacifica School District Parcel Tax: Vote YES on Measure D

 

 

Library Seeks Entrepreneurs

Press Release

Some College Graduates Think Judge Judy Is on the Supreme Court

American Idiocracy

@CNNPolitics: Nearly 10 percent of college graduates surveyed in a poll believe that Judith Sheindlin, aka "Judge Judy," serves on the U.S. Supreme Court.

Scholastic Recalls Racist Children's Book After Protests

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Survey: Safe Routes to School

All parents of schoolchildren in San Mateo County should fill out this survey on traffic safety funding:

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IMPORTANT QUESTIONS:

12. Do any of the following items concern or limit your child's ability to walk or bike to/from school?

13. Would you allow your child to walk/bike more often if this concern was addressed?

17. Is there anything you would like to change in the Safe Routes to School program at your school?

Safe Routes to School: Lighted Crosswalks

City Press Release

Coastside School District Test Scores Abysmally Low

According to the San Jose Mercury News, Pacifica school test results reveal that only 57 percent of Pacifica public school students met statewide standards in English. An even lower 50 percent passed the test in math. The new tests are based on Common Core State Standards. Low test scores also were reported at other Coastside school districts. Must be the salt air!

School Test Scores

Update: Is There a Picasso in Pacifica?

"If there is a Picasso in Pacifica, what is our responsibility to that kid?" asked S.F. school board member Rachel Norton in a front-page story in the San Francisco Chronicle, May 22. She was responding to a question about whether the school board should ban out-of-town kids from enrolling in the Ruth Asawa School of the Arts (SOTA), a high-demand public school in San Francisco.  (On May 26, the school board unanimously approved the ban.)

PHS Honors High School History Students

History Award

Dumb & Dumber, Part 3

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