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PUSD sets May 22 meeting on Common Core Curriculum
RB/4S DIGEST Mr. Bronco contest
Rancho Bernardo High’s new Mr. Bronco will be crowned during the 7 p.m. Friday, April 26 contest in the RBHS Performing Arts Center, 13010 Paseo Lucido. Tickets are $5 for students and $7 for general admission. This year’s contestants are seniors Nicolas Ballecer, Trevor Berck, Elliot Chang, Kyle Coughlin, Michael Helson, Sean Hofmockel, Justin Lawrence, Cameron McKirdy, Brian Riley and Tyler Swanson.
BY EMILY SORENSEN The Poway Unified School District board will hold a special workshop on Wednesday, May 22 to discuss Common Core State Standards. The announcement was timely, as the April school board meeting, held Monday, included a presentation from the Citizens for Quality Education on concerns about Common Core State
Standards and the effect implementation might have on the district. The presentation, given by Steve Sar viel, Wayne Rounsavell, Jeannie Foulkrod, Mary Baker, Janeth Bartlett and Dan Wiberg, included a PowerPoint presentation and documentation on their concerns, which included the financial burden of implementation, lowering of PUSD’s standards, and concerns about the privacy of students
and parents. Sarviel said that Citizens for Quality Education was seeking to establish a transparent dialogue between the community and the board about Common Core State Standards, as well as make the board aware of concerns and questions the community had about implementation of the standards. Common Core State Standards, sometimes referred to as Common
Core Curriculum, was launched by leaders from all states to create common educational standards across all states. Most states have formally adopted Common Core State Standards, including California, which has given an adoption deadline to school districts of July 2015, except K-8 mathematics, which has a deadline of March 2014. Foulkrod said that the group See PUSD, Page A22
RB board bickers, elects new leaders BY ELIZABETH MARIE HIMCHAK
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Friends of the Rancho Bernardo Library will hold its spring book sale from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 2 and Friday, May 3; and 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday, May 4 in the library, 17110 Bernardo Center Drive.
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GOOD DIRTY FUN - Among the more than 270 participants in Sunday’s inaugural SoCal Mud Run were Lisa Rodriquez, Kim Loquist and Rebecca Pinkham, three women who have been friends since kindergarten. They came dressed in pink tutus. See more photos, and Sports Editor Michael Bower’s first-person account of the run, on page A21. Photo by Steve Logsdon
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A contentious first half-hour marked the beginning of Rancho Bernardo Planning Board’s meeting that ended three hours later with a non-eventful election of new leadership. Richard House, who as election chairman was to lead the seating of newly elected members and oversee officer elections, and outgoing chairwoman Teri Denlinger argued over whether the meeting and issues to be voted were to be conducted by the outgoing or incoming board. Things got so heated that at one point Denlinger threatened to have House removed from the premises. Fueling the situation was Secretary Robin Kaufman’s denial that she filed a Brown Act violation complaint against the board after last month’s meeting as Denlinger wrote on the April 18 agenda. Last month, in Denlinger’s absence, Kaufman served as acting chairwoman. During the meeting two residents were appointed to the board to fill vacant seats. The vote violated the state’s open meeting law since it was not an agenda item and the appointments were not time sensitive or urgent. “I never filed a formal or informal complaint,” Kaufman said, explaining she contacted Senior City Planner Brian Schoenfisch after the meeting to inquire if correct procedure had See BOARD, Page A22
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