Iâm a father of two middle school boys at River Middle School and a stepdaughter who is in dual immersion at Pueblo Vista Elementary. Our family sees the value in both programs as some of the best things going for the Napa School District.
It is clear that these programs are in demand given the lotteries and wait lists to get into them. I know several parents who moved or commute from outside Napa city limits to have their kids attend these schools.
There are a number of reasons for this. River has developed a highly successful model of team teaching, effective integration of multiple subjects, project-based learning, and a commitment to social and emotional learning (SEL). Dual language immersion (DLI) at NVLA and Pueblo Vista is taking the blessing of a high population that can already understand and speak Spanish to better read and write in that language while helping the ones who donât leading to high fluency in two languages for all kids by 5th grade.
A week before the board of Napaâs public school system is expected to vote on shuttering two middle schools and replacing one with an English-Spanish language academy, parents and staff with the Harvest and River schools came out in virtual force Thursday night trying to head off any closures â even as district leaders warned failing to act could make a state takeover more likely. Howard Yune, Register
More than 100 people spoke up over the course of more than 5 ½ hours during a special online meeting of the Napa Valley Unified School District board, which began weighing potential shutdown of Harvest Middle School in southwest Napa and River Middle School on the cityâs north side after the 2021-22 year. A majority of the petitioners attacked the idea of eliminating either or both programs â the former teaching a dual-language immersion program in a heavily Latino neighborhood, the other devoted to social-emotional learning and close links between
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Pushback by parents concerned about the possible closure of Harvest Middle School â and about reducing access for disadvantaged and minority students â is leading advisers to the Napa school district to look at other ways of shrinking the footprint of a public school system pressured by falling attendance.
The task force charged with helping the Napa Valley Unified School District adjust its budget to a contracting student body is turning its attention to a host of options that would shutter one of four middle schools in the city of Napa before the 2022-23 academic year but keep open Harvest on Old Sonoma Road, which hosts a dual English-Spanish curriculum and a student body more than three-quarters Latino.
Will Harvest Middle School shut down in 2022, or will another Napa school close its doors instead? And where will Napa children receiving dual English-Spanish instruction go to class?
Leaders and advisers with the Napa Valley Unified School District this week have started grappling with those possibilities as the district laid out alternatives for boiling down its footprint, amid excess classroom capacity and an attendance decline that is expected to worsen budget woes during the decade.
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On Tuesday, a 50-member task force of teachers, administrators and parents started to weigh one plan that would eliminate one of the city of Napaâs four campuses for students in grades 6 to 8 starting with the 2022-23 academic year, against an alternative that would shut Harvest Middle School along with one elementary campus â but also channel hundreds of