High School District to Discuss Replacing Dave Pine

The San Mateo Union High School District is meeting tonight at 7 p.m. in the Aragon High School Library, 900 Alameda De Las Pulgas, San Mateo. Here are some highlights from the agenda:

• Consideration of a process for filling the board seat vacated by Dave Pine, whose to the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors takes effect on May 24.
• Approval of contract with School Loop’s “On Track” program, which seeks to address the general problems of school reform implementation.
• An overview of the district’s “Program Improvement” plans for the upcoming school year will be presented.
• On the consent agenda, an approval of updated courses of study in English and other languages, as well as signing off on the “candidates for graduation, May/June 2011” from Aragon, Burlingame, Capuchino, Hillsdale, Mills, Peninsula and San Mateo high schools, as well as San Mateo Middle College High School.
• Report on a field trip by the Mills High School Trivia Team to the National High School Championship - National Academic Quiz Tournament in Atlanta, Georgia.
• A denial of claim against the district by Julie Habeeb, a Capuchino High School teacher, who filed a claim on April 19, 2011 for $289.29.

For more information, see the full meeting agenda here.