l-r) Johannis "Joe" Andrews, principal-superintendent for Goman Elementary School (Los Angeles County School District); Anthony Saba, principal Frazier Mountain High School; and Gretchen Skrotzki, principal of Frazier Park and El Tejon Schools. All are new faces in the mountain’s public schools.
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The first day of school at the El Tejon and Gorman school districts went smoothly Wednesday, Aug. 17—aside from a power outage in Pine Mountain that caused a two-hour delay in opening the Pine Mountain Learning Center school, and aside from a student being accidentally placed on the wrong bus by his mom.
Gorman School Superintendent Johannis “Joe” Andrews said when the fifth grader realized he’d been taken to the wrong place, “he just told the bus driver, ‘this is not my school.’”
Frazier Park School Secretary Denise O’Connell said, “The Gorman School principal was very nice and went out of his way to bring the student over to Frazier Park School himself.”
Many students arrived at Frazier Park School to brand new classrooms. The first phase of the 2005 school bond building project is completed. Fourth and fifth graders who had previously attended El Tejon, a middle school, are attending Frazier Park School this year. An after school program partnership with the Boys & Girls Club at the school will begin immediately. Parents are advised to inquire about applications.
Clean Sweep
Katie Kleier has been on the job as superintendent of the El Tejon Unified School District for one year. With a nearly clean sweep, she has replaced almost all the administrative personnel in the district in this first year. At the August 10 meeting of the board of trustees, she proudly introduced her brand new, energetic team of site administrators and a young technology coordinator to the conference room crowded with members of the public. Among those attending were parents, teachers and a number of teachers’ aides and other classified staff who have lost their jobs due to budget cuts.
The board voted to appoint a new trusteeto fill the seat of Cathy Wallace, who resigned.
Applicants are asked in a district ad in the August 19 issue of The Mountain Enterprise [see page 9] to send a letter to the district. Public interviews will take place on August 31 at 6:30 p.m.
–By P. Hedlund and G. Meyer
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This is part of the August 19, 2011 online edition of The Mountain Enterprise.
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