Effectiveness of SRO program called into question
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Tri-Valley youth led a virtual community forum last week to discuss police presence on local school campuses and the future role of school resource officers (SROs).
The evening conversation on July 22 was organized by members of Genesis of the Tri-Valley, a community group focused on impacting structural racism through issue-based campaigns. They aim to end the school-to-prison pipeline, put a stop to youth incarceration completely and find alternate methods for when a student is having a mental health crisis. I don t believe there has ever been an assessment or evaluation of the school resource officer program since it began back in 2002, so there aren t any specifics on Pleasanton s program, Oscar Lopez, interim director of the Education Advocacy Clinic, said during the forum. The data from the Department of Justice I have reviewed has indicated that school resource officers actually do n
CSEA members will receive one-time cash payment, salary raise, more medical contributions
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Pleasanton Unified School District signed off on an agreement at a special Board of Trustees meeting on Tuesday that gives classified employees a one-time cash infusion on top of salary and medical benefit contribution increases.
Assistant superintendent of human resources Julio Hernandez called the months leading up to the board s unanimous adoption of the contract with the California School Employees Association (CSEA) a journey in negotiating. What is being presented today is a compensation piece so that we are able to start that process of processing all of the individual unit members salary screens, which is going to be quite a task, Hernandez said.
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by Dave, Downtown,
on May 17, 2021
Pleasanton board trustees will decide the fate of a popular PUSD Early Education Center this Thursday which also would cut support for teen moms.
Out of nowhere, axing Horizon Early Education Child Care is on Thursday s agenda for the 5 trustees. The board made up of Joan Laursen, Mark Miller, Steve Maher, Mary Jo Carreon, and Kelly Mokashi are asked to take away a popular child care option in downtown Pleasanton due to lack of funds . However, this is quite deceiving as Horizon has 17 families on the waitlist to get in and yet due to covid-19 restrictions, daycares are forced to limit their teacher-student radios. Just as these daycare teacher-student radios are set to loosen the board is asked to make a hasty vote to close this program before it has the chance to show it can be fully self funding.
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