Seeking Ethics Workshop Volunteers

The Hanford Joint Union High School District is seeking local business leaders and other community volunteers to serve as Table Leaders for the annual HJUHSD Senior Ethics Workshops.

More than 60 volunteers are needed each day to help guide small groups of students through discussions of real-world values, ethics and decision-making.

The workshops will be from 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. April 29, May 1 and May 2 at Koinonia Hall, Hanford.

To register as a Table Leader for 1, 2, or all 3 of the workshops, complete the online registration at: http://goo.gl/X4wATv

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Parents, students, staff and community members are invited to the first HJUHSD Local Control Accountability Plan (LCAP) Meeting March 13

Parents and community members are invited to share their ideas about local educational priorities at the Hanford Joint Union High School District’s first Local Control Accountability Plan (LCAP) meeting:

6:30 p.m. 

Thursday, March 13 

Hanford West High School Cafeteria

The LCAP is part of a revolutionary change in the way the State of California allocates funding to local school districts. Under the new Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF), state funding for schools is designed to be more flexible, allowing for more local control over academic spending priorities.

Full implementation of the new state funding formula will take several years, but school districts all over the state are beginning the process now with the development of their Local Control Accountability Plans (LCAP).

With input from local families and community members, HJUHSD will create a three-year LCAP that will be adopted by the Board of Trustees by June 30, 2014. The LCAP will be based on local student needs and will serve as a roadmap of academic priorities, driving the District’s annual spending plans. It will identify annual academic goals and specific actions for implementing those goals and will identify methods of measuring student progress based on performance indicators set by the State.

This first planning meeting will be an opportunity for parents and other stakeholders to learn more about the LCFF and LCAP process and how to be a part of it. Parents, students, staff and other community members are a vital requirement of the development of the LCAP. HJUHSD needs input from all of its stakeholders as to what academic goals would be the most effective in helping all of our students meet the State priorities.

In addition to this initial informational meeting, community members will be invited to provide input in a series of future meetings, AND the District has created an online survey that all school stakeholders are invited to complete. The results of the survey and other community input will be shared via the HJUHSD Website, as will the final LCAP that will be presented to the Board for approval.

Take the HJUHSD LCFF/LCAP Survey now

Additional information about the LCFF and LCAP is also available on the California Department of Education Website: Local Control Funding Formula and at the HJUHSD LCAP FAQ

 For more information about LCFF or LCAP or about the March 13 LCAP Meeting, please contact: Bobby Peters, Coordinator of Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment at bpeters@hjuhsd.org

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10th graders to take High School Exit Exam March 18-19

All HJUHSD 10th graders will take the California High School Exit Exam (CAHSEE) March 18 and 19.

The CAHSEE is a state-mandated graduation requirement for all students. This test is of high importance to all 10th grade students. They should be on time and give their best effort. Please make sure your students are in school on those days and schedule any appointments after school.

Students who do not pass one or both parts of the exam in 10th grade will have the opportunity to retake the parts not passed in grades 11 and 12.

For more information about the CAHSEE, you can visit the California Department of Education's website at: http://www.cde.ca.gov/ta/tg/hs/.

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