The city of Mountain View has given the Mountain View Whisman School District its terms for a new joint use agreement to share operations of school fields, with a year-end deadline for the school district to accept the offer.
Ladera residents are hopeful that the Las Lomitas Elementary School District will restore its access to play areas at Woodland School on weekday afternoons and evenings.
Trustees moved closer to a decision on moving Ojai Unified School District headquarters to the vacant Matilija Middle School campus, which was discussed at the nearly five-hour school board meeting
Mountain View Whisman board members showed interest in reaching a new deal for the joint operation of school fields, potentially keeping the chance for an agreement alive after it appeared on the brink of collapse.
“I think if the NAACP had engaged with us sooner on this, they would see what the district has been doing,” said the district's interim superintendent, Josh Jorn. “Unfortunately, it takes time for the trickle down effect for some of the practices, policies, procedures and professional developments that we’ve initiated to trickle down all the way to our student population, which is where this instance began.”