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MVLA rolls out district office reorganization
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Michelle Bissonnette, left, and Perla Pasallo, right, are both long-time Los Altos High School educators who recently got appointed to new roles in the district office.
Two longtime Los Altos High School educators have been appointed to newly created district-level roles, as part of an administrative reorganization in the Mountain View Los Altos Union High School District.
LAHS Assistant Principal Perla Pasallo will become the director of student services and equity, while teacher Michelle Bissonnette will serve as community outreach specialist. Both start their new positions in July.
As director of student services and equity, Pasallo will oversee a range of areas focused on supporting students, including the special-education department, English Learner program, academic counselors and the district’s equity initiatives. According to Superintendent Nellie Meyer, the idea was to bring all the programs together
LAHS grad receives academic honors
Los Altos High School graduate
Kaitlyn Wong (Class of 2019) recently earned Academic All-Ivy honors for maintaining a 4.0 GPA since enrolling at Brown University in the fall of 2019. The sophomore plans to major in public health and biology.
Wong, a Los Altos native, is also a starter on the women’s volleyball team at Brown.
Local student earns chemistry doctorate
Francesca Anson, a Homestead High School graduate, earned a doctorate in chemistry from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in March.
Anson will be building on her dissertation research with a postdoctoral cancer research position at Rockefeller University in New York in June.