SCHOOL OFFICIALS PONDER SPLITTING UP CAMPUS.Byline: Karen Maeshiro Daily News Staff Writer Eastside Union School District officials are considering dividing Tierra Bonita Bonita (Spanish and Portuguese for "beautiful") is the name of:
Splitting the school in two will lessen less·en v. less·ened, less·en·ing, less·ens v.tr. 1. To make less; reduce. 2. Archaic To make little of; belittle. v.intr. To become less; decrease. congestion The condition of a network when there is not enough bandwidth to support the current traffic load. congestion - When the offered load of a data communication path exceeds the capacity. when parents are picking up and dropping off their children, and make administration easier, officials said. ``We've got 900 students and that's too much for one school and for one principal to oversee,'' said board member Ida Ward. ``They've done a good job so far, but it's burdensome.'' Under the plan, one campus would have kindergartners, fourth-graders and fifth-graders. The other would house first-, second-, and third-graders, said Superintendent Connie Webb. The start of school would be staggered about 45 minutes apart, with grades one through three proposed to start at 8 a.m. and the other grades beginning at 8:45 a.m. The exact times will be set after the board's Oct. 28 meeting, Webb said. Administrators acknowledge that one drawback DRAWBACK, com. law. An allowance made by the government to merchants on the reexportation of certain imported goods liable to duties, which, in some cases, consists of the whole; in others, of a part of the duties which had been paid upon the importation. is that parents who have children in grades at each school will be faced with different arrival and dismissal times. The school now has grades kindergarten kindergarten [Ger.,=garden of children], system of preschool education. Friedrich Froebel designed (1837) the kindergarten to provide an educational situation less formal than that of the elementary school but one in which children's creative play instincts would be through fourth grade but next year will add fifth-graders, who now go to Cole Middle School five miles away, Webb said. ``Our parents would like the fifth grade to be back. They think of them being closer to elementary school elementary school: see school. rather than middle school,'' Webb said. The plan was discussed by the board at its meeting Monday. The board is scheduled to vote on it at the Oct. 28 meeting. If approved, the plan would go into effect in the 1997-98 school year. The addition of a fifth grade will bring the school's enrollment to more than 1,100, Webb said. ``It's going to fill all the new classrooms being built. The school will be full,'' Webb said. ``By adding a second school and staggering start and end times, we hope to solve the traffic problems and provide a safe and caring environment.'' To help ease the space crunch (1) To process data. See number crunching. (2) To compress data. See data compression. 1. (jargon) crunch - To process, usually in a time-consuming or complicated way. , a second phase of construction at the school will add a dozen classrooms and four restrooms by the time school starts next year. The classrooms will be built using $1.9 million from the $3 billion state school bond construction measure approved by California voters in March. Tierra Bonita was opened in 1995 to accommodate youngsters living in the housing tracts that sprang up during the late 1980s in the district's territory in eastern Lancaster. 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 Tierra Bonita, the board changed the school's attendance boundaries in March 1995, shifting nearly 60 students to Eastside School. |
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