NEW POLICY ON NAMING OF SCHOOLS PEOPLE CAN BE HONORED.Byline: Karen Maeshiro Staff Writer LANCASTER - After hashing Creating hash totals or hash tables. See hash total and hash table. hashing - hash coding over it for five meetings, the 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 board adopted a new policy on how to name its schools - prompted by controversy over the naming of Knight High School and R. Rex Parris Continuation High School A continuation high school is an alternative to a comprehensive high school primarily for students who are considered at-risk of not graduating at the normal pace. The requirements to graduate are the same but the scheduling is more flexible to allow students to earn their credits . Trustees approved the policy after deleting a proposed provision that a school could be named after a person only after he or she had been dead for a year. ``I felt that, and others agreed, a person can be dead or alive and make contributions worthy of naming a school after them,'' trustee Jim Lott said. At Wednesday's meeting, the board voted 3-1 to adopt the policy, with trustee Calvin Robinson dissenting. Robinson had opposed allowing schools to be named for living individuals. Under the policy, an advisory committee will review suggested names and make recommendations to the board. After the board decides on a school name, there will be a six-month review period for community members to offer input and challenge the name before it is finalized See finalization. . Lott said the policy allows for a way to change the name of a new school named after a person if some damaging information surfaces about the individual. ``If it's named after a person, and we find something that they did that would interfere with the integrity of the name, the policy indicates for the committee to reconvene reconvene Verb to gather together again after an interval: we reconvene tomorrow Verb 1. reconvene - meet again; "The bill will be considered when the Legislature reconvenes next Fall" and recommend renaming the school,'' Lott said. The policy also states that a school can have a commercial developer or company for its namesake name·sake n. One that is named after another. [From the phrase for the name's sake.] namesake Noun only when such an entity provides a substantial contribution to the development of the school, such as land. The district also can pick names that reflect or recognize events or properties of historical note and the cultural or economic heritage of the community. The new policy is intended to help put an end to controversies like what arose after trustees in 2000 changed an existing policy to name schools after state Sen. W.J. ``Pete'' Knight, a retired test pilot and Palmdale mayor, and after Lancaster attorney R. Rex Parris, officials said. The previous policy called for naming schools after geographic areas. Knight High School, now under construction, was to be called Mountain View. At a Feb. 5 board meeting, Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley Teachers Association President Gary Roberts Gary Roberts is the name of:
However, board members said changing the name would be disruptive and unfair to Knight, who they said should be honored for his work as a test pilot. The district's eighth comprehensive high school is expected to open in 2007 in east Lancaster. It is expected to be called Eastside High. A ninth high school is being planned, but no site has been chosen and construction is four or five years away. |
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