- Target:
- Novato
- Region:
- United States of America
- Rancho is a successful school of choice with some of the highest test scores in the county and state and has a track record for preparing its students with a solid foundation for middle and high school.
- Rancho is the most cost effective school in the district and keeps students enrolled in the district, protecting funding for NUSD.
- Rancho has attracted more students than it's capacity allows. For the past 20 years there have been 300 to 400 students on the wait list.
- Rancho’s lottery process is transparent and equitable. Making any changes to the process will not only be an expensive prospect but will create confusion and bureaucracy that will disenfranchise the very people we hope to protect.
- Achievement and intention create success, not averaging and boundaries.
We, the undersigned, ask the Novato Unified School District Board of Trustees to keep Rancho as a school of choice for all of Novato. Keeping Rancho’s enrollment policies intact allows the synergy of Rancho to continue.
We ask the board to honor the agreements that they have made to all parents who have already participated in the lottery and waitlist process.
We ask the board to support us in our outreach efforts to continue to increase diversity at Rancho.
We also ask the Trustees to allow Rancho to further differentiate and expand our program and to focus on raising the bar for all of Novato by creating opportunities and programs rather than spending any more time and money changing successful programs or moving children.
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The Keep Rancho as a school of choice for all of Novato petition to Novato was written by Cathe Anderson and is in the category Education at GoPetition.