Principal's Report: Our new Assistant Principal,
John Ralles, met with the administrative staff. Mr. Ralles
will be here officially May 21. Mr. Ralles has experience
and expertise with Digital High Schools, school reform
in general, staff development, and grant writing. We look
forward working with him.
The play, Mid Summer Night's Dream, was wonderful. Mrs.
Britton and the students did a great.job.To make future
plays even more successful, the district is putting a
new sound system in the auditorium.
Stanford 9 testing begins Wednesday for several days.
Students who score in the top ten percent of their class
will receive $1,000 scholarships from the state.
The school API money has finally been released. There
will be another meeting on Monday, May 21, to make final
plans on how to distribute this money. This is money for
the students/school. We would like show the students that
doing well on the tests pays off.
We will receive Title One funds next year. Charlie Noyes
will be the part time coordinator. We will get about $370,000,
of which, 5% must be staff development. After we are Stanforded,
Charlie will put out out a message to the faculty describing
the rules and regulations of how the funds can be spent.
Like everything else these days, literacy and math are
the emphasized areas.
Steven Vanover will be going to the Board of Education
to talk (brag?) about VHHS. A possible concern to bring
up would be the deplorable state of the big gym. It is
the oldest LAUSD high school gym in the city and not regulation
size.
Rose Marie Gerz, a resident of Irma St., bad some concerns
over our weed population. Due to the spring rains and
cancellation of herbicide spraying by the district, the
weeds are running rampant.
We brain stormed some ideas, but really didn't come to
any conclusions. Ideas: Clean Up Day on a Saturday, food,
fun, and clean up. Clubs assigned to different areas to
control the weeds. Adopt an area sign? Can we hire a private
company to clean up? Pay faculty to supervise a Saturday
clean up day? Students could work off detention. Pay clubs
to clean areas? Teachers could use weed control as a community
service project. Perhaps the concerned community members
could get together and clean up the weeds around the school?
We need a new sprinkler system along the front of the
school and in the senior lawn.
The dirt lot on Irma Street will be covered with asphalt
this summer. The whole area will be redone.
Leadership Report: Verdugo Day will be May 25
as planned. Each period will be 5 minutes shorter and
lunch will be extended by 15 minutes. This year the music
and dancing will be in the Rose Garden next to the booths
so music and food will be together. The booths will be
located along the outer edges of the lawn to allow more
space in the middle. The music will be similar to Homecoming
and Winter Ball, no profanity. Sexual dancing will not
be allowed.
Final's schedule approved by the council. Important that
grades are in on time. If the teachers want the proper
grade on the report card and in the student's records,
grades must be turned in on time and the verification
roster completed on Friday, June 22. Remember, Friday
is the last day of the school year this year.
The next meeting will be June 4. This might be the last
meeting of the year.
Attending this meeting were: Shala Baliizadah, Yvonne
Mojica, Dare Doolittle, Steve Vanover, Cheryl Dellepiane,
Mike Fahy, Rose Marie jerz, Fred Koegler, Jim Nelson,
Glenda Thomas, Hector Omelas, Mike Koons, Elayne Peru,
Richard Thomas, Pedro Gonzales, and yours truly, Charlie
Noyes.
