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21-399: High Schools: Charter Schools: Other Schools: The SUHSD Board of Trustees are elected by 5 districts, each representing a different geographic area served by the district. The trustees include: In 2018, former Vice Principal Jennifer Cho of Carlmont High School was investigated by the district for inappropriate relationships with male students. During this investigation, spurred by

42-617: A Change.org petition signed by thousands of Carlmont High School students, Cho was placed on administrative leave before being relocated elsewhere in the district. On August 3, 2020, the Sequoia District Teachers Association announced a vote of no-confidence in Sequoia Union High School District Superintendent Mary Streshly's leadership, and asked for her removal from office. In the letter, teachers Streshly of mishandling

63-528: A better education; for two years, up to 200 students lived with families in Palo Alto or Los Altos in order to attend school there, in a covert program called the "Sneak-out". By 1970 enrollment had fallen to 781, 64% black. In 1968, A sit in was organized a group name "Students for Higher Education". In the sit in, they called for classes in Black history and certain teachers deemed as "racist" to be fired. The sit in

84-605: A rapid increase in the percentage of African American students during the 1960s; both the Congress of Racial Equality and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People expressed concern about de facto segregation. Starting in 1965, a group called Mothers for Equal Education demonstrated for the school to be closed and East Palo Alto students sent to majority-white schools, believing that that would give them

105-608: A student is legally required to attend the closest school to their home, the predominantly African-American, Hispanic and Pacific Islander students were forced by the District to be bused to other high schools in the Sequoia High School District, including Carlmont, which had a predominantly Caucasian population at the time. In 2020, the Sequoia Union High School District discussed in a closed meeting

126-592: A teacher at Carlmont in the 1990s. In the film, the school was named Parkmont. Most of her students were African-Americans and Hispanics bused in to Carlmont from East Palo Alto, a town at the opposite end of the school district from Carlmont. With the closure of Ravenswood High School in East Palo Alto in the late 1970s, instead of the school district complying with the Brown v. Board of Education (1954) and Mendez v. Westminster (1947), 2 US Supreme Court rulings that

147-494: A violation of their legal rights. In October that year, the district announced that it would make it easier for East Palo Alto students to attend Menlo-Atherton. In 1976, students published a book celebrating the school. The 1995 play Circle in the Dirt by Cherríe Moraga examines mid-1990s gentrification in East Palo Alto and parts of the play recount the closure of Ravenswood and the long-lasting cultural impact of that closure on

168-484: Is a public high school in Belmont , California , United States serving grades 9–12 as part of the Sequoia Union High School District . Carlmont is a California Distinguished School . Carlmont was founded in 1952 as "a school within a school" at Sequoia High School , with four hundred fifty freshman and sophomore students. Its name derives from the campus straddling the two adjacent cities of San Carlos and Belmont (thus

189-578: The portmanteau of San Carl os + Bel mont ). Because this hilly area is referred to as "the highlands", the school team was named "The Scots", and the mascot is a kilted Scottish highland warrior, named Carl Monty. The Carlmont campus was built on 42 acres (17 ha) at a cost of about $ 2.5 million. Carlmont students come from Belmont, San Carlos , Redwood City , Redwood Shores , and East Palo Alto . The novel My Posse Don't Do Homework by LouAnne Johnson and subsequent movie adaptation Dangerous Minds (1995) were based upon her experience as

210-463: The district's Covid-19 response. Along with this, it cited her inability to make and communicate plans and her dismissal of racial tensions in the district. The resolution and accompanying letter received 344 out of the 500 members votes. Also in August, a second letter signed by District and Menlo-Atherton administrators additionally called for removal. In September 2020, Streshly resigned from her post and

231-565: The district's high schools, Menlo-Atherton High School in Atherton , is also closer to East Palo Alto. In July 2013 the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area, working with the law firm of Bingham McCutchen, submitted a report to the district school board asserting that bussing the East Palo Alto students to such schools as Carlmont rather than to Menlo-Atherton was

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252-571: The lack of communication about Williams' resignation. Williams received a $ 299,000 severance package—the same package she would have received under her contract had she been fired. Following the board's actions, the M-A Chronicle , Menlo Atherton High School 's newspaper, published an editorial criticizing the board's secrecy on their website, machronicle.com , and as a guest opinion on the Almanac . Carlmont High School Carlmont High School

273-473: The new board was planning to fire Superintendent Dr. Darnise Williams. On Monday, December 12, 2022, the board heard public comment on the matter. They faced criticism from Sequoia District Teachers Association president Edith Salvatore for violating community trust. No community member expressed support for the board's actions. On Wednesday, December 14, 2022, the board announced Williams' resignation, confirming rumors. Many expressed their anger and frustration for

294-406: The possibility of firing former Vice Principal Jennifer Cho of Carlmont High School for inappropriate relationships with male students. The investigation of Cho's actions emerged from a Change.org petition launched by a former student, which had gained large traction among students and families of Carlmont High School. During the investigation, Cho was placed on administrative leave. In late May, Cho

315-467: The same zip code, is a completely different city in Santa Clara County . Ravenswood was part of the Sequoia Union High School District , which also serves the southern San Mateo County cities of Belmont , Redwood City , San Carlos , and Woodside . The school opened in 1958 with 629 students. By 1964 enrollment had risen to 1,285. However, white flight from the city of East Palo Alto led to

336-804: Was Captained by Charles Boulding (Student Body President) and Odia Chiles who later became Mayor of East Palo Alto. In 1968 the district had adopted a voluntary transfer program that essentially legalized the Sneak-out; in 1971 it introduced a voluntary busing program to reduce segregation in all its high schools, and also sought to make Ravenswood a magnet school, introducing an experimental curriculum including three- to six-week "mini-cycle" courses in subjects such as scuba diving , pottery, photography, golf, and mountaineering, and academic advisement and "houses" based on astrological signs . Enrollment briefly recovered but declined again, to 823 in 1974. Few parents were willing to bus their children to Ravenswood, and there

357-492: Was a public high school located in East Palo Alto , California , United States. Opened in 1958, it served the East Palo Alto area of San Mateo County until its closure in 1976. In 1958 its enrollment was 629 students. During the existence of Ravenswood, East Palo Alto was the low-income area in the shadow of its more affluent neighbors Menlo Park , Atherton and Palo Alto . The city of Palo Alto, while adjacent and sharing

378-474: Was demolished in 1995 to make room for the Gateway 101 Shopping Center. The closure of Ravenswood meant that the predominantly minority students of East Palo Alto were bused to other schools in the district, such as Carlmont High School in Belmont ; these were more distant than Palo Alto High School , which is in a different district and across the county line, and at the time were predominantly white. Another of

399-542: Was increasing racial tension in the district high schools, with race riots occurring at Ravenswood among others. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, East Palo Alto hosted Black Power summits, and local opinion changed as to the value of integrated education, with the leader of the Mothers, Gertrude Wilks, now advocating private black education as a refuge from racism. In 1976 the district closed Ravenswood High School because of low enrollment and financial constraints. The campus

420-569: Was removed from her position as Vice Principal of Carlmont High School and relocated elsewhere in the district. This incident followed Cho's previous investigation in 2017, when a former Carlmont coach reported her to the district and Child protective services after overhearing student athletes talking about inappropriate interactions with Cho in the locker room. Carlmont can be accessed by driving and Samtrans routes 60, 61, 62, 260, and 295. Pacific Islander Alaska Native Ravenswood High School (East Palo Alto) Ravenswood High School

441-555: Was succeeded by Crystal Leach, who served as interim superintendent for the remainder of the school year until the district hired Dr. Darnise Williams. On Friday, December 9, 2022, the Sequoia Union High School District called a special meeting and swore in two board members so they could participate in the private meeting that immediately followed. In that meeting they voted 4-1 to hire attorney Eugene Whitlock as their legal representative. This exasperated rumors that

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