By Dr. David J. Peterson, superintendent of the Scottsdale Unified School District The 2014-15 school year is off to a career readiness for all age groups, great start. It is hard to believe that we and we had the privilege of having are already done with our first month Robert Franek, author of “The 379 of school. During the first few days of Best Colleges” and a highly sought school, I was able to visit every school -after speaker, as the keynote speaker. in the Scottsdale Unified I am pleased to announce School District (SUSD). that for 21 consecutive Great things are going on years, our finance in our classrooms—thank department has been you all for a positive start awarded the certificate of to the new school year. achievement for Excellence Additionally, members of in Financial Reporting my leadership team visited by the Association of campuses to help ensure School Business Officials an excellent beginning. It (ASBO) International for David J. Peterson, is great to see everyone Dr. superintendent of its comprehensive annual working together on behalf Scottsdale Unified financial report (CAFR). School District. of students. We are very pleased and I want to thank the parents who honored to receive this recognition. attended SUSD’s third annual Parent Daniel O’Brien and our entire business University Project (PUP) on Saturday, office staff did an outstanding job Sept. 13. It was wonderful to see preparing the CAFR. so many people come together to Our success is due in great part to celebrate and collaborate to better our our community support. SUSD will community as a whole. Parents learned have two items on the Nov. 4 ballot, about the resources available for a renewal of 15 percent maintenance families and how to better understand and operations (M&O) override, as what their children do at school each well as the sale of real property. Factual day, as well as who to contact at school information about the 15 percent when questions arise. Best of all, they M&O override is available at www. met other families who have similar susd.org and on all school websites. needs. SUSD is always striving to do all PUP successfully demonstrated we can for our students, teachers and how a stronger community helps staff. Thank you for supporting all that everyone succeed. This year’s PUP we do. Here’s to an exciting school workshops focused on college and year.
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about those issues,” she said, referring to bullying and harassment. There are other health issues for parents contemplating a cellphone for a child. Fejt mentioned radiation, though it has not been proven to affect health, as another consideration in younger children with cells. In addition, holding up a cellphone with a shoulder, as well as continual texting can result in wrist, elbow, shoulder, thumb and finger pain. Besides the safety and health issues, parents should be aware of plan charges and usage of the cellphones and monitor how they are being used. Sharing the cellphone plan can result in overages that teens and kids are not aware of. “It’s a privilege to have that phone,” Fejt said. “If they do something, that privilege does get taken away.” Cardon Children’s Medical Center is part of the Banner Health system. For more information visit www. bannerhealth.com.
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