Comments by jlundell
April 27, 2006
John Bayless tells me that the district is running four buses (morning and Cunha only), and averaging 160 riders.
I make that about half of the possible riders (roughly half of CUSD's student body lives north of HMB).
April 21, 2006
The school district is running a single bus for the middle school, mornings only. The schedule is on the district site, but as I write, it says: Cunha Bus Stops: • El Granada School 7:35 a.m. • Montara Post Office 8:00 a.m. • Moss Beach Post Office 8:05 a.m. • Moss Beach Chevron station 8:10 a.m. • Pillar Ridge Mobile Home Park 8:20 a.m. • Alhambra & Cabrillo 8:20 a.m. • Alhambra & Columbus 8:25 a.m. • Medio (West) 8:35 a.m. Coastsider had the story (of course). I don't know what…
April 20, 2006
Busing has always been an important issue to the CUSD. In fact, the $250 parcel tax that lost by a very slight margin in 2003 would have indeed restored full busing. The language of both 2003 parcel tax measures proposed to "provide, maintain or restore ... [t]ransportation services;" My recollection is that the board insisted on keeping the language vague enough that it would not mandate full busing. The justification was that the district could not predict how far funding might fall in the worst…
April 17, 2006
Traffic was heavy on westbound 92 Monday night around 8pm. Not too surprising, as evening traffic will be independent of busing. I'm guessing that more commuters than usual are coming home late to avoid earlier jams.
April 17, 2006
An alternative explanation is that not everyone is back from the spring break. We'll see whether that's the case over the next few days.
April 17, 2006
Perhaps someone could report what the Cunha bus ridership is, as the week progresses.
April 14, 2006
==Scott
I was impressed with the Caltrans geologist's presentation, though (coastsider video--thanks, Barry), and the daily updates on their site are certainly helpful.
April 08, 2006
as early as Tuesday, “weather permitting”
Permission denied. NWS is confidently predicting "rain, heavy at times" on Tuesday.
April 17, 2006
With all the recent research on young people and sleep requirements, I'm disappointed that HMBHS is starting at such an early hour. It can't be for the benefit of the students.
March 23, 2006
Charge by the hour for child's play? As for those who fail to pass the CAHSEE, this school year (2005-06) is the first year in which passing the test is a graduation requirement, so it's not relevant to any of the numbers we've been discussing. As for the case for an "alarmingly high drop-out rate", Darin is the only person on this page to use the word "alarming". The facts are clear enough: the district loses about 20% of each high school cohort, mainly in the senior year. Those are numbers reported…
March 22, 2006
The evidence is convincing that we routinely lose about 20% of our high school cohorts between 10th grade and graduation. At the very least, that's suggestive of a fairly high dropout rate.
If, as Darin suggests, it's child's play to analyze the data in depth, then surely the administration will want to do the analysis.
Darin, do you have an alternative explanation of the numbers?
March 21, 2006
Here's the average cohort size for the last five classes we have graduation data for (ending 2003-04), based on the enrollment and graduation numbers that the district reports to the state (thanks to Ken for a link to the grad data). 306 9th grade 313 10th grade 301 11th grade 286 12th grade 238 graduated That looks to me like a dropout rate of about 20%, with most of the dropouts happening during the senior year, and the rest in the junior year. The ten-year averages show a similar pattern.
March 19, 2006
It's surprisingly difficult to find historical graduation numbers for California school districts in general, and CUSD in particular--surprising because enrollment is tracked very closely, and graduation rates are generally seen to be important. But as Ken suggests, bare graduation percentages tell us relatively little, if we don't have the numbers behind them. If we're just seeing normal movement to and from Mexico, then it's a little surprising that we see the effect only in 12th grade, while grades…
March 13, 2006
Thanks, Barry, this is perfect, especially in view of the push to widen Highway 1 to four lanes. "A few decades ago the coast highway, California Highway 1, rolled through like a pizza cutter, splitting a strip of coast from the majority of town residents. But, symbolic of Pacifica’s failure to do anything-good or bad-to completion, the freeway coming south from San Francisco peters out halfway through the city to become a four lane strip that goes past ugly, unkempt shopping centers." Is there…
March 06, 2006
Do we know how much the second bus costs? I'm wondering in particular how its cost compares to the numbers that the school district is using for the cost of providing middle school busing through the proposed parcel tax.
February 22, 2006
"[Cheri Parr] was told the district has chosen not to spend its money on transportation." The district gets state money for busing, $314,000 in 2003-2004. They're obliged to provide transportation for some students--special needs, I think, and the Moonridge kids that are being sent up to Farallone View. The district sold the most decrepit of their buses, but they still have several. This situation is crazy. Busing would benefit nearly everyone on the coastside to some extent, and would no doubt be…
January 23, 2006
I use Sprint because they have decent coverage at my house (just above Highway 1 and Lobitos Creek). They apparently have an antenna in the Global Wireless antenna farm, on the coast at Meyn Rd (they're not the only carrier to have an antenna there, but I'm not sure exactly who else does). Sprint also has an antenna overlooking San Gregorio, as well as farther south. They seem to be making a concerted effort to cover Highway 1, perhaps all the way to Santa Cruz. On the other hand, the Sprint signal…
December 13, 2005
Janet Zich writes, As far as I know tonight, the HMB election recount is not yet finished. No matter the outcome, remember this: Mike Fererria is the first candidate within memory to win or come within inches of winning a city election by purposely not advertising in the Review. This must scare the publisher out of her...
I believe he's the second, in recent memory. Sid McCausland won handily with no ads in the Review.
November 26, 2005
Both the BOS and the Commission staff endorse the idea of building more commercial and retail space on the coastside. This strikes me as a mixed bag at best. I see two conguestion-easing arguments for coastside commercial development. 1. Provide employment opportunities for coastside residents, eliminating over-the-hill commutes. 2. Provide local "neighborhood-serving" sources of goods and services, eliminating over-the-hill shopping trips. With respect to the first, I wonder whether anyone has looked…
November 08, 2005
Ken, yes, if you edit out the offensive part of Mr Ginna's comment, then it's nothing very offensive. On the tomato front, I'll come down on the newspaper side, as we did in our introductory editorial Why Voice of the Coast, writing, "The new Voice of the Coast is published by the San Mateo League for Coastside Protection. The League was founded in 2001 to 'defend the coast by supporting those who uphold the spirit and substance of the California Coastal Act.' Through this newspaper, we invite you…
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