Well when you forgive grades, cancel gate programs, and focus on becoming global citizens instead of strong students you’re going to fall off the radar…..oh and administrators raises before working teachers

It’s not our students, it’s not our teachers, it’s our board and district leadership.

But we will ADD TK classrooms at the most crowded elementary schools. That will certainly help improve teaching and learning.

It takes an enormous amount of time to complete the Distinguish Schools application, and the process involves not just site administrators but teachers and staff over a long period of time. While it would be nice to see some PUSD schools on this list, I for one would rather have these people involved with students and staff, building relationships that will last longer than the Distinguished Schools designation.

Unfortunately this article is not a surprise to me. Over the last few years many PUSD teachers and administrators have left for other districts…. most notably San Ramon….. which has 9 schools on the list by the way. PUSD (from top to bottom) is not the district it once was. There are still some great people in the district (both staff and administrators) but the district is not as solid as it once was.