Monthly Archives: January 2009

Palo Alto High Schools Plan Community Meetings

An email was sent to all PAUSD families inviting them to a preview of master facility plans for Gunn and Paly High Schools. Email is below PALO ALTO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT Message sent – 1/30/2009 PAUSD Community Meetings Feb. 2 & 3, 2009

Dear Parent/Guardian: Gunn and Palo Alto High Schools have been hard at work developing master facility plans for both sites. I want to extend an invitation to you to attend Community Meetings on Monday and Tuesday evenings next week. Please try to take advantage of this opportunity to actually see some of the plans and hear from the architects and others who have been involved in this exciting process! This invitation is intended to reach all parents, K-12. The decisions made in this master planning process will shape these learning environments for years to come. I hope you will make plans to attend. COMMUNITY MEETING DATES . . . Gunn High School Monday, February 2, 2009 @ 7:00 p.m. in the Gunn Library Palo Alto High School Tuesday, February 3, 2009 @ 6:30 p.m. in the Paly Library For more information on progress-to-date, please refer to the Gunn and Paly Websites. Thank you very much and enjoy your weekend! Sincerely, Kevin Skelly

Where’s My Fiber!

No I don’t need flax seed or bran muffins. I need super high-speed internet! Palo Alto has been dangling it in front of me for years and now, and just when it looked like it was coming to my living room, they pull the rug out from under me again. The latest plan called for a consortium of companies to extend the city fiber ring to homes and small businesses at no cost to the city. That was pre-financial-meltdown talk. Now they want the city to throw in with them. In the meantime I’m on hold with the cable company. Read more Palo Alto Online : Economic crisis stalls Palo Alto fiber project.

Register for Palo Alto Kindergarten by February 12

Addison Elementary school Principal John Lents sent out an email to parents asking them to invite parents of incoming kindergarten students to a series of orientations next week. His message and istructions is below: And finally, next week I host a new student/Kindergarten orientations, If you know of students in our attendance area who are eligible for kindergarten next year, please remind them to register at the school district office (25 Churchill Ave) by February 12, and to call the Addison school office (322-5935) to confirm their attendance at the orientation. This is an adult only orientation…students will be invited to another orientation later in the school year.

Got a Masters? Move to Palo Alto.

Lenders are asking for a lot lately, but they haven’t started looking for advanced degrees to get a loan. Despite that, almost half of Palo Alto’s residents have them, placing the city third on the list of most educated small towns behind Bethesda, Md. and Wellesley, Mass. Los Altos was fifth. See the Forbes rankings here. America’s Most Educated Small Towns – Forbes.com.