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Yucaipa-Calimesa Joint Unified School District Considers Potential Bond Measure
In order to ensure that students continue to receive a high-quality 21st-century education, the Yucaipa-Calimesa Joint Unified School District (YCJUSD) Board of Education is considering placing a bond measure on the November ballot to support facility improvements at local schools.
Currently, YCJUSD is the largest district in the Inland Empire that has not placed a bond measure on a ballot within the last fifteen years. Other local districts have had success with bond measures, with passage rates for our area being 92 percent within the same time period. To pass, a bond measure would require a 55 percent yes vote. Passage would ensure classrooms, computer labs, and libraries are equipped with state-of-the-art technology to meet the increased learning and accountability demands placed on our students and teachers, replace aging portable classrooms, and support athletic, performing arts and upgrades to classroom facilities at Yucaipa High School. A successful bond measure would also fund much needed repairs and replacements to roofs, heating, electrical, water and plumbing systems.
If approved by voters, the bond measure would help fund upgrades and repairs to ensure students have the resources to be competitive in our 21st-century world. All funds raised by this potential measure would be used for local schools and could not be taken by Sacramento. No funds would be used to increase administrator or other employee salaries and benefits. An independent Citizens’ Oversight Committee would be established to ensure funds are spent in accordance with the bond measure requirements. Additional benefits include reduction of developer fees and retirement of current debt held by the District.
At this time, the Yucaipa-Calimesa Board of Education has not made any final decision about placing a bond measure on the November ballot. Consideration for conducting a local poll will be given by the Board at its next meeting, which is at 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, January 24, 2012, at 12797 Third Street, Yucaipa, in the Board Room. Please contact the District office at (909) 797-0174 with further questions.
Physical Fitness Testing--February through April
The principal mission of the Fitness testing program is to promote lifelong physical activity among youth. The program endorses a long-term view of physical education in which the promotion of lifelong habits of physical activity is the primary goal. Developing fitness and improving skills are important in physical education, but these objectives should be framed within a broader goal aimed at providing children with the knowledge, attitudes, and skills to be active for a lifetime.
Each spring, our school district is required by law (California Education Code Section 60800) to administer the state-designated Physical Fitness Test, Fitnessgram, to all students in grades five, seven, and nine during the annual assessment window beginning February 1 and ending April 30, 2012, this school year.
Fitnessgram is a comprehensive fitness assessment battery for youth. It includes a variety of health-related physical fitness tests designed to assess cardiovascular fitness, muscle strength, muscular endurance, flexibility, and body composition. Fitnessgram allows all children the opportunity to be successful in accomplishing objectives associated with good health and improved function.
Results from the Fitnessgram are reported to the State Department of Education and school, district, and county reports become available in mid to late summer. Information regarding your school’s Physical Fitness data is available in the School Accountability Report Card (SARC). Individual parent reports outlining your child’s results are mailed home during the summer.
About Our District
Yucaipa-Calimesa JUSD has been proudly serving students in Yucaipa and portions of Calimesa since 1911, when our first elementary school was opened on California Street as part of the newly formed Yucaipa Elementary School District. In 1963, the District reorganized as a Joint Unified School District and added instruction for the area’s secondary school students, who were previously served by a neighboring school district using a secondary school they built in the 1950's. That school, which is located on Sixth Street, is still in use today by our students.
YCJUSD students receive a high quality curriculum from some of the best teachers that the state has to offer. The district’s STAR test results regularly exceed those of the county of San Bernardino and, in many instances, those of the state as well. Each school has an active PTA/PTSA or PTSO, and area residents find that the collaboration among parents and school staff has a wonderful, open, small town feel to it. Students at all sites, including the adult school, follow the same calendar. The calendar for the current school year, including all holidays, vacation dates, and academic dates, is found under the "Calendars" tab on the left navigation bar on all of our web pages.
Textbooks, curriculum, and assessments across the district are consistent from school to school. This is helpful when students move between schools. Parents can be assured that there won’t be learning gaps for their students and that the education that children get at one site is as rigorous as it is in the neighboring schools. As new students enroll in the district, every effort is made to place them in their neighborhood school according to the boundary maps. If the grade needed is full at the neighborhood school, an alternate school site will be assigned until there is room available at the neighborhood school.
Beginning in 2011-2012, the Competitive Edge Charter Academy (CECA) operates as a dependent charter school. CECA is a K-8 International Baccalaureate candidate school. All California content standards are included in the thematic-based instruction.
Board-Approved Elementary/Middle School Boundary Changes for 2011-2012
Drastic reductions in State funding and a continued decline in enrollment have made it necessary for the District to make changes to the elementary and middle school attendance boundaries for the 2011-2012 school year. Click on the school site locator link below, type in your address, and see your school of attendance for the 2011-2012 school year.
