To the NVUSD Board of Trustees, Dr. Rosanna Mucetti, and Dr. Barbara Nemko: I would like to apologize if what I said was misinterpreted in a negative connotation during my public comment at the April 22, 2021 NVUSD Board meeting regarding ânot wanting to see my kids at Camille Creek or Valley Oak.â
When I am referring to âmy kids,â this is in reference to the over 500 children of Napa Valley, St. Helena and beyond that, I see yearly as a developmental optometrist. My patients are my family. I will always advocate for our childrenâs educational, emotional, social, and physical well-being so we can help our children before they need to be enrolled in Valley Oak High School or Camille Creek Community School.
And sheâs hasnât yet.
Given abundant time, Addie said she will easily read two to three books a week. Before her in-person classes resumed at Redwood Middle School, she read two to three hours a day.
âI did all my homework in the morning, and then when I was done with that, I was reading. I pretty much was just reading with all my free time,â she said.
Addie Rode, a Napa eighth grader, discovered during the COVID-19 pandemic that she LOVES to readâso much that she launched small business on Etsy. She s also found a niche on Instagram and other social media with her book reviews, posts and book decor. Follow along.
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