Honoring Our Volunteers
Brenda Stafford-Aguirre of Anna Kirchgater Elementary School
Brenda Stafford-Aguirre was recognized as an Education Partner at the June 1, 2010 meeting of the Elk Grove Unified School District Board of Education.
Attending and volunteering at Anna Kirchgater Elementary School has proved to be a family affair in Stafford-Aguirre's family. Stafford-Aguirre is a proud alumna of Kirchgater and is following in her mother's footsteps. Stafford-Aguirre is Kirchgater's current PTC President. Her mother, Peggy Stafford, was also PTC President. Stafford was a part of the first group of students to attend Kirchgater in 1957.
Stafford-Aguirre is also Kirchgater's representative to the Superintendent's Parent Advisory Committee and a School Site Council member.
Stafford-Aguirre has eagerly represented and mobilized the parent community at Kirchgater. She can be seen around campus working on school event flyers, setting up meeting agendas and devising ways to support and recognize students and staff members. Stafford-Aguirre is known as one of the "Voices of Kirchgater" by making regular Ad Hoc phone messages to the parent community, urging their participation in PTC activities and keeping the community updated on the many events at Kirchgater.
Stafford-Aguirre is the mother of one son, Brenden - a 4th grade student at Kirchgater.
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Upcoming Furlough Days for elementary schools
Please be aware of these upcoming furlough days:
- June 23-24 for students on Tracks A, B and C at year-round elementary schools
The last day of school for students on Tracks A, B and C at year-round elementary schools will be Tuesday, June 22nd. For more information on furlough days, please click here. |
EGUSD elementary schools help break jump roping world record
Students from seven Elk Grove Unified elementary schools joined students at elementary, middle and high schools, as well as colleges and universities throughout California in an effort to break the Guinness World Record for the "Most People Skipping Rope" (multiple locations) in February.
Students at Raymond Case, Cosumnes River, Elitha Donner, Ellen Feickert, Franklin, Roy Herburger and James McKee elementary schools learned in late May that they had broken the old record with over 70,880 participants from 294 venues.
The Guinness World Record effort was organized by the California Association for Health, Physical Education Recreation and Dance (CAHPERD), in partnership with Jamba Juice, the American Heart Association and California Governor's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports.
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James Rutter Middle School receives $5,500 grant from Laura Bush Foundation
James Rutter Middle School has been selected to receive a $5,500 grant for their library from the Laura Bush Foundation for America's Libraries. Rutter Middle School was one of 188 schools selected from across the country to receive grants to expand, update and diversify their school libraries. Founded in 2002, the Laura Bush Foundation for America's Libraries has awarded more than $7.3 million to 1,433 schools in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Marshall Islands and the Northern Mariana Islands. In addition to these yearly grants, the Foundation has also awarded more than $5.7 million to school libraries in the Gulf Coast region to rebuild their library book collections that were lost or destroyed by hurricanes or storms. For more information about the grant program or the Laura Bush Foundation, click here. |
eguNews
takes a vacation!
eguNews will be taking a break this summer. We'll see you on August 2 to help kick off the new school year!
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Welcome to eguNews, an EGUSD email newsletter published every two weeks. If you have questions about eguNews, you can email communication@egusd.net or call (916) 686-7732.
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Furlough Days for 2010-2011 School Year On June 2, 2010 the Elk Grove Education Association (EGEA) informed the Elk Grove Unified School District that its members ratified a two-year collective bargaining agreement with the district.
The agreement includes concessions that total about $23 million for each year. As part of the agreement, the teacher's association negotiated approximately $13 million in position restorations for each year. The remaining $10 million will assist the district with its $60.5 million state funding shortfall for 2010-2011 and again in 2011-2012.
The agreement provides for the restoration of approximately 210 certificated positions including Elementary and Secondary Teachers, Secondary Counselors (29 already rescinded with 37 more restored), Secondary Librarians, 1 position per high school for 9th grade Class Size Reduction, some Adult Education and ROP Teachers and the continuation of secondary adjunct duty stipends.
The concessions are for the 2010-2011 and 2011-2012 school year. The concessions for each year include: 9 furlough days (5 instructional days plus 4 pre-service or professional development days); a suspension of the lottery checks; a column salary movement freeze; a salary reduction of about $4 million for the EGEA unit; a 10 percent athletic stipend reduction; an increase in health benefits co-payments and the elimination of dual coverage for spouses.
The superintendent, associate superintendent, administrators and other members of EGTEAMS, as well as ATU and PSWA, have agreed to take concessions equivalent to those taken by EGEA members. EGUSD also continues its ongoing negotiations with all other employee associations.
The school calendar has been adjusted to reflect the furlough days. To view the new calendar click "here." Copies of the calendar will be distributed through school sites.
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Elementary school students win bikes for perfect attendance
The end of the school year represents an exciting time for the No Excuses - Go to School Attendance Campaign. Graduating high school seniors had a chance to win $20,000 to purchase a car from the Elk Grove Auto Mall for having perfect attendance. Middle and high school students had a shot to win a new iPod for having perfect attendance.
Not to be forgotten, elementary school students also have an opportunity to win an end-of-the-year grand prize for having perfect attendance. Each of Elk Grove Unified's 39 elementary schools awarded one new bicycle and helmet to one student who obtained perfect attendance for at least one calendar month throughout the school year. Students had the chance to earn entries in a drawing for each month they achieved perfect attendance. At the end of the year, one student was selected from amongst the entries at each school site to win the bicycle and helmet.
The following students were the recipient of a new bicycle and helmet at their schools: Sam Anoskey (Adreani), Austin Francis (Batey), Victoria Garcia(Beitzel), Emma Daniels (Butler), Yvette Lupercio (Carroll), Destiny Nash (Case), Marta Gutierrez (Castello), Brenna Myers (Cosumnes River), Madison Jemes (Dillard), Jonathan Kim (Donner), Ryan Ramsay (Ehrhardt), Madison Farinha (Elk Grove), Edmund Lin (Elliott Ranch), Nahele Tongo (Feickert), Dounia Klaffa (Fite), Pavel Tatar (Florin), Lindzy Woods (Foulks Ranch), Benito Quintero (Franklin), Zoe Penick (Hein), Hong Chao (Herburger), Austin Stone (Jackson), Arnold Lam (Kennedy), Natalie Flores (Kirchgater), Sandy Vang (Leimbach), Jose Olea (Mack), Javier Aguila (Markofer), Morgan Peak (McKee), Jamari Smart (Morse), Ryan McGovern (Pleasant Grove), Jett Lee (Prairie), Mandy Lu (Reese), Luis Montes (Reith), Tommy Hamm (Sierra Enterprise), Anh "Andy" Doan (Sims), Demetrius Sakaris (Stone Lake), Cristina Empedrad (Sunrise), Sophia Smith (Tsukamoto), Isabelle Goodheart (Union House) and Issac Bernal (West).
For more information about the No Excuses - Go to School Attendance Campaign, click here.
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Sixth Grade Student Leads Classmates in Anti-Bullying Campaign
Herman Leimbach Elementary 6th grader Kailuh Menefee delivered a powerful message to her fellow students. Stop bullying. Her message was a part of an after-school assembly that Kailuh created and then presented on June 16 to the after school programs at Leimbach Elementary.
Earlier this year, Kailuh was assigned the task of writing an essay about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s message and how it could affect the decisions she makes in her life. As part of her essay, Kailuh wrote, "In the fifth grade I'd look out the window of my dark room and see myself in a town of vacant buildings. I was in pain. I thought people wouldn't like me for myself. To mask the hurt I went around ridiculing people and telling them they were ugly. Now, I realize because of the bullying I've done I was on my own."
After submitting her essay to her teacher, Steve Webb, she decided to take the assignment one step further. Kailuh decided to take her message to her fellow students. With the encouragement of both Mr. Webb and teacher Erica Swift, Kailuh designed an assembly to help her peers understand more about bullying and inspire them to stand up to bullies and resist becoming bullies themselves.
"I was excited when Kailuh asked me to assist her in putting together the assembly," Swift said. "This assembly is an example of how students can serve as good role models and leaders for their peers. She is an impressive young lady. Her message was well received by the students and will hopefully have a lasting impact on them."
The assembly was presented to the two after school programs at Herman Leimbach, Sacramento START and ASES. Kailuh's goal is to help students understand different types of bullying, the causes of bullying and inspire students to make positive choices in how they treat others and react to those who treat them badly. The assembly included a presentation by Kailuh, skits performed by students and a presentation by Kevin Bracy, a motivational speaker from Life Changers International.
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New Transportation Fees
at Elk Grove Unified
The Elk Grove Unified School District Transportation Department has
released new transportation fees for the 2010/2011 school year.
An "Early Bird" discount will be offered for those who return bus pass
applications by July 1, 2010 for students on Tracks B, C and D and July 30,
2010 for students on Track A, traditional and modified traditional
schedules. An annual round-trip pass is
$225. An annual one-way pass would be
$125.
For applications received after the early bird deadlines, the cost is
$250 for a round-trip pass and $150 for a one-way pass.
A multi student discount is also available. An annual round-trip pass for the second or
third students in a family is $180. If a
family has four or more children, these children will ride for free.
Single-ride ticket booklets of 20 tickets are available for $40. Single-ride tickets can be used on a
space-available basis.
For more information, visit the Transportation Department website. The new bus pass application is
available on the EGUSD website.
Note: Cosumnes
River Elementary School's temporary transportation fee waiver expired at the
end of the 2009/2010 school year. Cosumnes River students will be required to pay for transportation for
the 2010/2011 school year.
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