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Antelope Valley Union High School District The Antelope Valley Union High School District (A.V.U.H.S.D.) is located in the Antelope Valley area of California, in northern Los Angeles County. The district includes eight public high schools, one trade school, and two continuation high schools in the cities of Palmdale officials are considering building a new smaller high school in the Rancho Vista area that would focus on preparing students for college. The board of trustees board of trustees Politics The posse of thugs who oversee an institution's administration. See Board of directors. voted unanimously 5-0 last week to give administrators the green light to work out details for the new high school, as yet unnamed, which would hold about 1,000 students instead of the 2,100 to 3,000 students of the existing high schools. ``Nothing is finalized See finalization. . We have a direction. Then as we go farther with it we'll figure out the details, such as qualifications,'' said trustee Kevin Carney. ``Basically it will be an honors type of academy for kids that are in International Baccalaureate or honors programs.'' The Rancho Vista school, planned at Rancho Vista Boulevard and Montellano Avenue on 25 acres the high school board approved buying last month from developer Gregg Anderson, is only one phase of the district's master plan, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Community Relations 1. The relationship between military and civilian communities. 2. Those public affairs programs that address issues of interest to the general public, business, academia, veterans, Service organizations, military-related associations, and other non-news media entities. Coordinator Linda Solcich. Solcich said that the district's immediate concern is to build a high school on Avenue S in east Palmdale. That school, to be named Mountain View High School, would be built before the college-prep school at Rancho Vista, Solcich said. But there is one catch to that: it probably requires local voters to pass a school bond, officials said. The school board is scheduled to discuss at a June 23 special meeting whether to call a bond election, the amount of which has not been decided. ``The need is there,'' Carney said. ``Right now we could fill up two new high schools.''If a bond measure passes, Mountain View High School would be the first school built. The district also owns land for schools in east Lancaster and in Leona Valley. |
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