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| WAMS Quad Improvements will be ready to greet students as they return for the 2009-10 school year. (Photo by Andrew Melkonian) |
Not all improvements are finished
By Andrew Melkonian
Sanger Herald
With the beginning of the school year right around the corner, students will be flocking back to their respective schools. It is a time in the year where students will experience many new and different changes. What happened the year before might be the same for the year ahead. The Sanger Unified School District has made some changes and alterations that will impact students’ lives this year and for years to come.
Superintendent of the Sanger Unified School District, Marcus Johnson, has said that, “It has been a pretty typical summer.” Many Sanger schools have had or are having some cosmetic upgrades and a few of those projects won’t be finished when school begins on August 20. The Washington Academic Middle School will be sporting a new quad area that will include a new amphitheater and looks be finished when school starts. Jefferson Elementary, Lincoln Elementary, John Wash Elementary, and Fairmont Elementary are having multi-purpose rooms built on each of their campuses. Johnson said that construction is moving well and the projects are about four to six months away from being finished.
Johnson did not have the same confidence when he talked about the renovation to the Powell building. The Powell building is the site to the Community Day School. The City of Sanger has been working on the building and Johnson is concerned that the City won’t finish by August, when school starts.
There have also been a few staff changes in the Sanger Unified School District. John Hannigan has moved from being the sixth-grade vice-principal at Washington Academic Middle School to become the new principal of Reagan Elementary. “This is a very exciting time for John,” said Johnson. Jamie Nino will take over Hannigan’s position at W.A.M.S. Former principal of Reagan Elementary, Matt Navo, will become the Director of Special Education for the Sanger Unified School District.
Otherwise, Sanger Unified has been on a “hiring freeze”. “We have been doing the same work, but with less people,” said Johnson. The school district has been able to avoid a large level of cuts that hurt programs that are suffering around the nation, like art, band, music, and P.E.
The district, however, won’t be able to put money in the sixth grade camping trip up to Sonora. This will mark the first year the summer camp trip will not happen. The District will not be able to supply transportation for school field trips. Field trips will depend on fundraising at the school site level. “We will provide as much as we can with the means that are available to us,” said Johnson. The school and district Science Fairs will go unchanged and Johnson expects Sanger schools to be a presence at the regional level.
There will be a menu change for the elementary schools this year. Students may soon be able to choose which lunch they will eat. There will be a hot and cold option available. This menu was first tried in summer school this year at Madison Elementary and Reagan Elementary. The district will wait until it hires a new director of nutrition to move forward with the meal choice option.
The 2009-2010 school year has a more optimistic outlook than the 2010-2011 school year, according to Johnson. “The 2010-2011 school year really scares me. Very serious cuts could happen and we’ve already cut dramatically.”
Superintendent of the Sanger Unified School District, Marcus Johnson, has said that, “It has been a pretty typical summer.” Many Sanger schools have had or are having some cosmetic upgrades and a few of those projects won’t be finished when school begins on August 20. The Washington Academic Middle School will be sporting a new quad area that will include a new amphitheater and looks be finished when school starts. Jefferson Elementary, Lincoln Elementary, John Wash Elementary, and Fairmont Elementary are having multi-purpose rooms built on each of their campuses. Johnson said that construction is moving well and the projects are about four to six months away from being finished.
Johnson did not have the same confidence when he talked about the renovation to the Powell building. The Powell building is the site to the Community Day School. The City of Sanger has been working on the building and Johnson is concerned that the City won’t finish by August, when school starts.
There have also been a few staff changes in the Sanger Unified School District. John Hannigan has moved from being the sixth-grade vice-principal at Washington Academic Middle School to become the new principal of Reagan Elementary. “This is a very exciting time for John,” said Johnson. Jamie Nino will take over Hannigan’s position at W.A.M.S. Former principal of Reagan Elementary, Matt Navo, will become the Director of Special Education for the Sanger Unified School District.
Otherwise, Sanger Unified has been on a “hiring freeze”. “We have been doing the same work, but with less people,” said Johnson. The school district has been able to avoid a large level of cuts that hurt programs that are suffering around the nation, like art, band, music, and P.E.
The district, however, won’t be able to put money in the sixth grade camping trip up to Sonora. This will mark the first year the summer camp trip will not happen. The District will not be able to supply transportation for school field trips. Field trips will depend on fundraising at the school site level. “We will provide as much as we can with the means that are available to us,” said Johnson. The school and district Science Fairs will go unchanged and Johnson expects Sanger schools to be a presence at the regional level.
There will be a menu change for the elementary schools this year. Students may soon be able to choose which lunch they will eat. There will be a hot and cold option available. This menu was first tried in summer school this year at Madison Elementary and Reagan Elementary. The district will wait until it hires a new director of nutrition to move forward with the meal choice option.
The 2009-2010 school year has a more optimistic outlook than the 2010-2011 school year, according to Johnson. “The 2010-2011 school year really scares me. Very serious cuts could happen and we’ve already cut dramatically.”
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