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Guest Writer, Karyn Malchus

March 14, 2007

West Ranch HS Update

Next Important Meeting: April 11, 2007

First Regional Board Planning Meeting for Castaic High

320 Temple Street (Hall of Records - Rm. 150)

LA, CA 90012

Time: 9am

**More Details To Follow**

Overview of Hart Board Meeting March 7th

The Hart District met on March 7th. On the agenda was the matter of "Intradistrict Transfers From Impacted Schools." Steve Samsone (Castaic School Board Member) presented the Board with a four-point proposal to amend their February 21st decision. The proposal included numbers from incoming Castaic students that were surveyed with regard to voluntarily attending Valencia High School. It included some projected numbers of students from West Ranch High that may want to "open enroll" at another school. It contained implementing a widespread campaign to get additional West Ranch students to "open enroll" at other schools, therefore making spots available to Castaic students. The theory was that with all these amendments in place there might enough room to house some or all of the Castaic students at West Ranch. The Castaic Board also offered to fundraise to help with the expense of putting a "few" portables on the West Ranch campus. The main thrust was to let the incoming Castaic freshman choose where they want to go to school: Valencia or West Ranch. The Superintendent, Jamie Castellanos, stood up and stated that these suggestions would just not be possible to implement. He said there was not enough manpower, nor time, to make these accommodations. In addition, he stressed that the district has to work with real numbers - not surveys or projections.

Outcome: There will be no "open enrollment" policy. Any student looking to go to a school outside his/her boundary will have to go through the Intradistrict Transfer Policy that is currently in place. However, the Board unanimously agreed to encourage all administrators to give special priority to Castaic students. It was also stated that students who would like to get into schools currently under capacity - Hart High and Golden Valley - would very likely be accepted. The Board reiterated that schools at or above capacity would be near impossible to get into.

The Board has experienced much grief over this decision. Many have had tons of hate mail. Some have been verbally attacked in public. Whether they made mistakes in the past or not they are the only people who can help us. Please write to them in support! (click here for board members' e-mail addresses).

We desperately need to help facilitate the building of Castaic High School. We know that unless Castaic High gets under way within the year we will all suffer. Please, don't alienate the Castaic community. Some of you have already experienced their pain (many people have been diverted from neighborhood elementary schools - and some on more than one occasion). It is time to clean the slate and get down to ensuring that our children get to go to their neighborhood Jr. High and High School!

I will do my best to keep you updated. I will be speaking with Ray Pearl (VP of SunCal) to get all the details on this Regional Planning Meeting. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Sincerely,

Karyn Malchus

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