CONEJO VALLEY UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT.Six candidates, including two incumbents, are vying for two seats on the Conejo Valley Unified School District Conejo Valley Unified School District or CVUSD is a school district in Ventura County. It serves Thousand Oaks, California and its subsections Newbury Park and Westlake Village. Board of Education on the Nov. 5 ballot. Trustees for the 28-school district will oversee an approximately $82 million budget and about 800 teachers. NAME: Dorothy Beaubien. AGE: 64. EDUCATION: Bachelor's degree in English and theater arts and masters in school administration. BACKGROUND: Retired teacher with 31 years experience, including 26 in the Conejo district at Newbury Park and Westlake high schools. Married for 37 years with two children and two grandchildren. Eight-year member of Conejo Valley Unified School District Board of Education. MAIN CAMPAIGN ISSUES: Stress academic excellence for all students while striving to provide a safe and secure learning environment. The 20-1 class reduction is a major boost for education, but to be able to continue to progress, we need to find ways to expand our facilities to accommodate children. OTHER ISSUES OF CONCERN: Our school district provides a superior education for all students. Nevertheless, we need to continue to maintain a zero-tolerance policy on gangs, weapons and drugs, to expand our school-to-work program, to expand our phonics reading program in some schools and to continue to encourage parent participation. SOUND BITE: ``During my eight years on the board, I've implemented positive change and advocated new ideas in technology, school choice, special education and adult school programs. I am proud of our distinguished schools, high test scores and low dropout (1) On magnetic media, a bit that has lost its strength due to a surface defect or recording malfunction. If the bit is in an audio or video file, it might be detected by the error correction circuitry and either corrected or not, but if not, it is often not noticed by the human rate. I have met the challenge; I am making the difference'' NAME: Dolores Dolores (or Delores) was a common given name (until the 1960s in the USA); it is cognate with the English word "dolorous" (meaning sorrowful) and equivalent in meaning. Didio. AGE: 63. EDUCATION: Bachelor's degree in Business Education from UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX . BACKGROUND: Governing board member, Conejo Valley Unified School District; office manager for husband's medical practice. MAIN CAMPAIGN ISSUES: The school board will be making important decisions about the future education of our children, decisions that will take them into the 21st century. We need and deserve experienced, qualified leadership to meet this challenge. OTHER ISSUES OF CONCERN: Class size-reduction implementation; maintaining the integrity of public schools; maintaining the integrity of the instructional program; and safe and well maintained schools. SOUND BITE: ``I will continue to be responsive and available to the students, parents, teachers and community, and I promise my only agenda will always be what is best for the education of our students.'' NAME: Paul F. Finman. AGE: 39. EDUCATION: Ph.D., Stanford University; bachelor's in physics, MIT MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology . BACKGROUND: Electrical engineer, technical director of local electronics equipment manufacturer. Parent of two elementary school-aged children. MAIN CAMPAIGN ISSUES: Incumbents Dorothy Beaubien and Dolores Didio are taking our district in the wrong direction. The Conejo district is slowly becoming the same as the New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. District and the Long Beach district due to Superintendent Jerry Gross's administrative expertise. OTHER ISSUES OF CONCERN: Incumbents Dorothy Beaubien and Dolores Didio are hostile to the flexibility and more demanding curriculum that computer technology allows. NetDay '96 was squandered squan·der tr.v. squan·dered, squan·der·ing, squan·ders 1. To spend wastefully or extravagantly; dissipate. See Synonyms at waste. 2. . It is frustrating for parents when school administrators act more as rulers than public servants. SOUND BITE: ``Please defeat incumbents Dorothy Beaubien and Dolores Didio. Please consider me as your public servant who will accommodate parents, teachers and taxpayers in every way possible.'' NAME: Debra L. Lorier. AGE: 42. BACKGROUND: Homemaker, businesswoman and mother of four children presently attending Conejo Valley public schools. Serves on the Westlake Elementary and Colina Middle School Colina Middle School is a public school located in Thousands Oaks, California, United States, part of the Conejo Valley Unified School District. The motto is "Work Hard, Make Friends, and Have Fun." The school mascot is the Colina Cougar. site councils, district advisory council representative for both schools and executive district advisory council representative. MAIN CAMPAIGN ISSUES: 1) Promote and implement proven academic, effective curriculum in English, math, science and reading. 2) Stop educational ``experimentation'' with programs yielding indeterminate and, in some cases, negative results. 3) Reclaim the facilities at Triunfo, Waverly and Horizon Hills to ease overcrowding overcrowding overcrowding of animal accommodation. Many countries now publish codes of practice which define what the appropriate volumetric allowances should be for each species of animal when they are housed indoors. Breaches of these codes is overcrowding. at the elementary level. 4) To promote the accurate measurement of student performance with educational assessment tools that are academic rather than psychological in nature. SOUND BITE: ``With the incumbents safely ensconced en·sconce tr.v. en·sconced, en·sconc·ing, en·sconc·es 1. To settle (oneself) securely or comfortably: She ensconced herself in an armchair. 2. within the ranks of the teacher's unions, decisions have been made with union agendas in mind, rather than the welfare of our children's education at heart. It's time for parents to reassert their collective voice and elect board members who truly represent their constituency.'' NAME: Elroi Reimnitz. AGE: 48. EDUCATION: Master's and doctorate degrees from Concordia Seminary in St. Louis. BACKGROUND: Minister of Redeemer Lutheran Church in Thousand Oaks since 1986 and adjunct professor of Trinity College in Newburgh, Ind., since 1993. Served as an instructor of the Lutheran University of Brazil for two years (1976-78) and as school superintendent of Trinity Lutheran School Trinity Lutheran School may refer to:
AYSO All Your Saturdays Occupied AYSO Alabama Youth Soccer Organization AYSO Albuquerque Youth Soccer Organization (Albuquerque, New Mexico) Region 42 in Newbury Park for the last 10 years. Member of Traffic and Transportation Advisory Commission, city of Thousand Oaks. MAIN CAMPAIGN ISSUES: Continue to reduce class size in order to meet the growing demands of overcrowding in our schools and generate additional financial resources for the classroom. OTHER ISSUES OF CONCERN: Improve the reading, writing and math of our students; offer teachers training in educational technology; provide every classroom with a computer; and zero tolerance The policy of applying laws or penalties to even minor infringements of a code in order to reinforce its overall importance and enhance deterrence. Since the 1980s the phrase zero tolerance has signified a philosophy toward illegal conduct that favors strict imposition of of crime and gang activity in our schools. SOUND BITE: ``I have two children enrolled in the Conejo schools. I need your help to keep our schools academically top-notch and safe for our children. I would appreciate your vote and support.'' NAME: Charles E. ``Chuck'' Rittenburg Sr. AGE: 45. EDUCATION: Bachelor of arts, United States Military Academy United States Military Academy, at West Point, N.Y.; for training young men and women to be officers in the U.S. army; founded and opened in 1802. The original act provided that the Corps of Engineers stationed at West Point should constitute a military academy, but , West Point; graduate studies toward a master's degree in criminal justice at George Washington University George Washington University, at Washington, D.C.; coeducational; chartered 1821 as Columbian College (one of the first nonsectarian colleges), opened 1822, became a university in 1873, renamed 1904. . BACKGROUND: Operations Research Engineer, Advanced Technology Development Center, Northrop Grumman Corp.; background as training engineer, doing computer-based and embedded training systems for Army Simnet, C-5, B-2 bomber, etc.; military instruction and school department head. MAIN CAMPAIGN ISSUES: 1) Failure of whole-language English concept and whole math concepts as documented by the California State Department of Education; 2) Failure of the school board to be accessible and responsive to input from parents, teachers, taxpayers. OTHER ISSUES OF CONCERN: We need to teach kids to read, write and do math before they can learn and understand contemporary and advanced technology. We need to televise tel·e·vise tr. & intr.v. tel·e·vised, tel·e·vis·ing, tel·e·vis·es To broadcast or be broadcast by television. [Back-formation from television. school board meetings - we're the only district in the East County which does not We need a quarterly open forum for citizens to exchange ideas with board members. SOUND BITE: ``We need fresh faces, fresh ideas and fresh leadership - not third- and fourth-term incumbents in whose administration's CVUSD CVUSD Chino Valley Unified School District (California) students attending CSU See DSU/CSU. 1. CSU - California State University. 2. CSU - Cleveland State University. 3. CSU - Channel Service Unit. required remediation in math 33 percent of the time and in English 25 percent. Let's give our kids the foundational basics they need to succeed in life, whether at college or in the workplace.'' CAPTION(S): 6 Photos Photo: (1) Dorothy Beaubien (2) Dolores Didio (3) Paul F inman (4) Debra Lorier (5) Elroi Reimnitz (6) Charles Rittenburg |
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