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LOWER LAKE, Calif. – With so many students graduating and coming to Carlé High School we have reorganized the student council.
The current student council is composed of two representatives from each advisory with the officers chosen by the council as a whole.
The student council members are Andrew Astorga, Destiny Blevins, Jason Conatser, Kayla Doyle, Ashton Legg, Brianna Legg, Kristen Melcher and Riley Nielsen. Congratulations to all the new members.
Our student of the week is Destiny Parlet. Destiny has worked hard since the day she arrived on our campus. She is an excellent student who takes her work and graduation very seriously.
We have a new tradition here at Carlé. Principal Strahl bought every student and staff at the school a shirt with our ESLRS on the back which spell out Carlé:
C – community;
A – achievement;
R – responsibility;
L – life long learning;
E – empowerment.
Every Friday we wear the shirts. Everyone who wears a shirt gets a special CHILY that gets put in a drawling for a special prize.
The special and unique Be Fresh program will complete its delicious events for this year. Our media class has designed plaques and mugs for the special people who have helped out.
Team leader Jacque Felber, when prompted for a quote, said: “Let thy food be thy medicine.”
Carlé just had a gold level trip to Scandia led by teachers Dan Maes and Alan Siegel. It was really fun!
It was also Mr. Maes' birthday and here is what he had to say: “Gold level was super! The students' behavior was excellent. The students had a great time and I had a wonderful 66th birthday.”
Kristin Melcher is a student at Carlé Continuation High School in Lower Lake, Calif.
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HIDDEN VALLEY LAKE, Calif. – Jean Goulart, owner of Bundle of Joy Preschool Childcare in Hidden Valley Lake, represented the Lake County community at the Early Learning Advocacy Day on Feb. 3 at the State Capitol.
The event included discussing Gov. Brown’s budget proposal regarding education and care for the youngest Californians with Assemblyman Bill Dodd and staff and state Sen. Mike McGuire’s staff.
Ten partner organizations with 110 colleagues were in attendance to hear special guest Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson of Senate District 19 and chair of the Legislative Woman’s Caucus, and the legislative and budget panel that included Christian Griffith, Assembly Budget Committee; Samantha Lui, Senate Budget Committee; and Virginia Early, Legislative Analyst’s Office.
Speaker-elect of the California State Assembly Anthony Rendon offered closing remarks.
"It was inspiring to be at a gathering of so many devoted to the needs of California’s working families, particularly infants and toddlers, and critically needed investment in California’s children to secure a prosperous future for our state,” Goulart said.
“Our children need more parents, providers, and organizations to speak for them and our shared future with letters/emails, petitions, and visits to the local legislative offices. I thank those that fight for early care and education at the capitol. Our state has many issues to fight for. We must always keep at the forefront tomorrow's future is today’s children. The future we are planning for demands early care and education now,” Goulart said.
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LOWER LAKE, Calif. – Carlé would like to welcome new students James Aitken, Ashton Legg, Triston Miller, Destiny Parlet and Stephani Utley – we hope Carlé is a great experience for you and you achieve your goals while at this school.
Our student of the week this week was Emily Simmons. Emily is an excellent student who is always hard working and thoughtful. Congratulations.
Carlé wants to give a big thanks to maintenance worker Sean Fielden for being our custodian. Sean did a great job and we will miss him. At the same time we would like to welcome back Gary Oakes to our staff.
Our media class made the staff members of Carlé mugs, plaques, key chains and mouse pads. We have taught our students to always show appreciation for those who take care of us like the Totes for Teens group and DJ’s pizza.
We realized that we hadn’t thank our own staff. With that in mind Sam Miller designed and produced mugs for Mr. Maes and Angie. Destiny Cypert handled a plaque for Maes.
Candice Safreno made our math teacher a going away mug and a mouse pad for super secretary Barbara. Cynthia Oakley made Principal Strahl a tie. Elliot Mckay made plaques for Olga, Mr. Schaerges and Angie. All of these beautiful things were given out during our outside bulletin.
Carlé would like thank Mr. Rich Mellott for subbing for math until we get a new math teacher. Jasmine made Rich a welcome mug and Elliot added a special keychain.
Mr. Maes has taken on our portfolio process for the graduating students. This celebration is our key senior project.
Maes has really upped the portfolio presentations quality do to a full dress rehearsal and the use of index cards. Students have been able to engage our audiences with eye contact and energy while showing off their unique graduation documents and creative samples of their work.
We will detail all students who have given their presentations this year along with a report on our special Friday where the whole school wore our new Carlé ESLR t-shirts and had drawings and breakfast provided by our principal in our next article.
Kristin Melcher is a student at Carlé Continuation High School in Lower Lake, Calif.
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California Attorney General Kamala Harris on Friday applauded the California Department of Education for its efforts to collect statewide data on students who are chronically absent.
The attorney general has made the fight against elementary school truancy and chronic absenteeism a top priority. She issued the first statewide report on California’s elementary school truancy crisis and sponsored legislation to address the issue.
“Until now, California was one of a handful of states that did not track student attendance. I applaud the California Department of Education for taking this monumental step toward addressing California’s elementary school truancy and chronic absence crisis,” Harris said.
“I have called for this data collection since 2013 and was proud to sponsor a legislative package in 2014 that aimed to modernize California’s attendance records system and establish the support that schools, parents and communities need to ensure our students are in school and on track from kindergarten through high school,” she said. “I look forward to working with our partners to build on this action and guarantee that every child has the opportunity to succeed.”
In 2013, Attorney General Harris issued the first statewide report, In School + On Track, on California’s elementary school truancy crisis, which made a direct link between public education and public safety.
Eighty-three percent of students who miss more than 10 percent of kindergarten and first grade cannot read at grade level by the end of third grad, which makes them four times more likely to drop out of high school.
Annually, dropouts cost California taxpayers an estimated $46.4 billion in incarceration, lost productivity and lost taxes.
The attorney general issued subsequent reports in 2014 and 2015, reporting on the state’s on-going elementary school truancy crisis and the progress that has been made to address the issue.
In School + On Track 2015 found that our state continues to face an attendance crisis, reporting that 230,000 students are chronically absent – missing more than 10 percent of the school year – and more than one in five are truant, having three or more unexcused absences.
In addition, the report highlighted stark disparities in attendance and discipline for vulnerable students, including students of color, low-income students, and students in foster care.
The report also highlighted the effects of chronic absenteeism in addressing issues such as unemployment, crime, economic development, public health and public safety.
Each of the attorney general’s reports stress the need to consistently and accurately track attendance data at the state level so that students do not fall through the cracks.
In 2014, Attorney General Harris sponsored legislation to help schools, parents and government leaders effectively intervene when children are chronically absent, and improve local school districts’ and counties’ ability to track attendance patterns.
The bills included efforts to assist school districts and county offices of education working with parents to address high truancy rates by giving them the tools to comply with attendance tracking requirements in the Local Control Funding Formula, and a proposal to modernize the way California collects and monitors student attendance data.
Two of the bills, AB 2141 (Hall, Bonta) and AB 1643 (Buchanan), were signed by the governor. AB 1866 (Bocanegra), which would have required the data collection announced on Friday, was vetoed.