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Tustin district schools continue to provide the best education possible for our children.
Arroyo Elementary and Tustin Memorial were honored this year as national Blue Ribbon schools, the top award in the nation for schools. Recently, we learned that three other schools are finalists as California Distinguished Schools - Red Hill, Peter's Canyon and Hicks!
Foothill High School was named one of the Top 500 High Schools in the nation by the U.S. News and World Report - also known for its famous ratings of colleges. Since there are over 25,000 high schools in the United States, being one of the Top 500 is quite an honor!
Each of our three High Schools have also been recognized in the Newsweek / Washington Post rankings as among the top 1,000 high schools in the country!
Tustin High's Model United Nations (MUN) program continues to be a paragon of success, recently winning international recognition in competition in Italy, where the Tustin team won more gavel awards than any other team!
No wonder that 95% of our high school graduates go on to college! And last year's high school graduating class had a 100% pass rate on the California High School Exit Exam! EVERY student who had passed enough classes to graduate ALSO passed the CAHSEE!
I doubt that any other district of any significant size can match our record, as we provide our 20,000 students with the best education possible.
We are very grateful to our local voters for passing Measure G in 2002 with a 67% YES vote. We have now committed all of our funds, having reserved $25 million for implementing the first phases of the Tustin High Master Plans now being developed with community participation.
At Foothill High, we tore up the quad and replaced electrical, water, communications, and sewer infrastructure and created a re-designed quad for better student access throughout our campus. Construction work has already begun in preparation for the new Science Center.
Every one of our older schools in the bond area has been substantially repaired and made safer by the work done with Measure G money.
Still, we have a ways to go to bring our high school and middle school facilities up to the standards of similar communities. Our students deserve to not be shortchanged, particularly as we see the positive results of their hard work in preparing for their futures. I hope that we will be able to bring a proposal to voters later this year for the next steps of modernizing our high schools and removing remaining health and safety risks.
Congratulations to our Teachers of the Year! I hope you can join us at the dinner honoring them sponsored by the Tustin Public Schools Foundation to be held May 13th at the Irvine Marriott. Sponsor a teacher and take them to the dinner that night as your guest!
I am very pleased with what we have been able to accomplish these past six years I have served on the Tustin School Board. Click on the link to the left to read about some of these accomplishments.
I appreciate the opportunity to serve the families and students of the Tustin School District! Thanks to all of those who supported my re-election last year! It will be a pleasure to serve our community for another term.
Let us know how we can help your students soar to new heights!
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