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Chandler, Mesa schools’ money requests head to voters BY JORDAN HOUSTON AND KEVIN REAGAN Tribune Staff Writers
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esa and Chandler registered voters will be getting ballots this week for all-mail voting on their school districts’ request for more money. The Chandler Unified School District is asking voters this year to approve a $290-million bond – the largest in the district’s history. Meanwhile, Mesa Public Schools is hoping voters will approve increasing its override to
15 percent after they turned down an identical request last November. Because this is an all-mail election, all registered voters will receive a ballot regardless of whether they are on the early-voter registry. Tomorrow, Oct. 7, is the last day to register to vote and only those voters living within each district’s boundaries can cast a ballot. Voters can drop off their ballots at drop boxes or mail them in by Oct. 30. Those who want to vote in person can go to a ballot replacement center on Election Day. For locations of
boxes and centers, go to recorder.maricopa. gov/pollingplace/ Chandler, Arizona’s second-largest school district, says it needs the bond money to accommodate the 3,000 extra students projected to come to the district within the next decade. The district’s already in the process of building another high school near Gilbert and Ocotillo roads, which may be funded in part
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Mesa, ASU work together to make new teachers
COMMUNITY ........ 13 Chandler Goldendoodle is a worldwide hit.
BUSINESS .................18 Hotel planned in longdeprived Mesa district.
SPORTS .................... 21 New state rankings put Chandler High on top.
COMMUNITY ............... 13 BUSINESS ...................... 18 OPINION ...................... 20 SPORTS ......................... 21 GETOUT.........................24 CLASSIFIED....................28
BY JORDAN HOUSTON Tribune Staff Writer
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group of Washington Elementary first-graders sit cross-legged on a colorful rug in classroom C4 as Natalie Lenzen, an Arizona State University student teacher perched on a chair in front of them, gives them a lesson about addends. Radiating kindness and patience, she instructs her “friends” to head back to their desks for guided practice. The students whisper excitedly among themselves as they march to their seats with their hands tucked behind their backs – forming their “ducktails.” Lenzen praises their good behavior. Angelia Adams, Lenzen’s lead teacher, calls several students to the back of the room to work one-on-one. These are the students who need a little extra help. After class, Adams gives Lenzen feedback on her teaching style. Lenzen then switches over to the classroom next door and teaches the same word lesson again – only this time, with Adams’ feedback in mind. Lenzen swaps classroom with her ASU
A/C APPROACHING 9 YEARS OLD?
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Kaetlin Van Berkum, a student at Arizona State’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, works with Washington Elementary students Bennet Coulter and Heart Davis as part of a program between Mesa Public Schools and the university. (Kimberly Carrillo/Tribune Staff Photographer)
counterpart, Kaetlin Van Berkum, who will now teach there as Adams observes her. Both Lenzen and Van Berkum are part of the new Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College
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