June 2012
129 posts
Memories
Crawford Pep Ribbons, circa 1968-71
FYI
SDUSD Board President John Evans welcomes FCC Chairman Julius Genachoski to Mann Middle School (Horace Mann Jr High) to launch a program with Cox Cable for affordable internet access for families. Mann is a feeder school to Crawford and this bound to have some affect on both current and future Colts.
Campus Life
Crawford Campus
SDUSD
NOW - The San Diego Unified School District Board of Education this week voted to spend up to $24,200 to hire consultants to search for the district’s next chief financial officer, to replace Ron Little in overseeing its $1.1 billion budget.
Superintendent Bill Kowba tried to increase Little’s pay in November, but the proposal was pulled from agenda for the meeting, at which Kowba told the...
May 2012
92 posts
SDUSD
In the News - Financial analysts from the California Teachers Association will descend on the San Diego Unified School District this week to scrutinize the budget before local labor leaders survey 7,000 educators about potential concessions that could stop 1,500-plus layoffs from taking effect June 30, 2012.
San Diego teachers union chief Bill Freeman summoned the experts to comb through the...
Crawford Campus
What’s Happening!!
The Will C. Crawford High School Alumni Facebook Wall and News Feed can be found at: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Will-C-Crawford-High-School-Alumni/302277597878?ref=ts. Get connected and reunite with classmates!
SDUSD
The graphic above illustrates the size of average classes at various grade levels today and how they would grow following the layoffs of 1,600 teachers, according to San Diego Unified’s estimates.
SDUSD
In the News - The Washington Post recognize nine traditional high schools and one charter school in the San Diego Unified School District and has placed them on the Washington Post list of America’s Most Challenging High Schools. Included among the honorees and ranked as number eight is CHAMPs (Community Health and Medical Practices) at Crawford High Complex.
The newspaper ranks schools...
Classmates
Isamaria Cortes, Crawford Class of 2012.
In the News - Fifteen high-achieving students from City Heights and its surrounding areas will mentor three middle school students from the same neighborhood as part of the first cohort of Price Community Scholars at San Diego State University.
Each of the Price Community Scholars, selected from a pool of freshmen who will enroll at SDSU this fall, will...
Campus Life
The Crawford Complex Senior Exhibition will take place on May 30, 2012 from 12:10PM to 3:30PM at the school. Students must present a senior exhibition in order to receive a high school diploma.
Memorial Day
Want a name rubbing of any of the nine Crawford Colts who died during the Vietnam War in Southeast Asia? Go to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund website at: http://www.vvmf.org/ and from the Home Page— click on The Virtual Wall tab. In the space provided… type in the name you want. Look for the prompt “Find a Name on The Wall” and then click on the word Search. Then click on the word...
Memorial Day
Memorial Day - Remember the 9 Colts who died during the Vietnam War in Southeast Asia. Robert William Prys, Class of 1964; Rim Michael Dungey, Class of 1964; Arnold Gary Kraviz, Class of 1965; James William Wright II, Class of 1966; Meredith Alton Gabriel, Class of 1965; John Marshall Callaham Jr.; Steven Douglas Bartman, Class of 1967; John Leroy Flinn, Class of 1960 and Michael Patrick Murphy,...
Memorial Day
Memorial Day is a Federal Holiday - All San Diego Unified School District offices and schools will be closed on Monday, May 28th, 2012.
Campus Life
Crawford Complex Announcements
*MVAS Assembly - June 1st, 2012
*Senior Prom - June 2nd, 2012
*SAT - June 2nd, 2012
*IDEA Assembly - June 4th, 2012
*CHAMPs Assembly - June 5th, 2012
*Seniors/Last Day in Academic Classes - June 7th, 2012
*ACT - June 9th, 2012
*Last Day of School - June 12th, 2012
*Minimum Day - June 12th, 2012
*Term 4 Ends - June 12th, 2012
*Graduation at Golden Hall - June 12th, 2012
School Paper
Check out the May 24, 1962 Pacer at: http://www.johnfry.com/pages/Pacer620524.html on the John Fry website.
Crawford Campus
Crawford Campus
A basic Texas Instruments TI-84 at Office Depot is about $120 dollars pus tax. To donate and learn more… click on the following link: http://www.donorschoose.org/we-teach/731513.
SDUSD
In the News - The San Diego Unified School District board Tuesday, May 22, 2012 night finalized sweeping personnel cuts that could drive up class size and leave roughly one in five teachers in the district without a job come September of 2012.
The board voted 4-1 to formally authorize all but 132 of the 1,666 pink slips issued to teachers this last March. Hundreds of non-teaching employees have...
Remember
The Drill Team, 1970 Paceretts
School Spirit
On Thursday, May 3, 2012 there will be a Senior All-Star Badminton Game held at Hoover High School. The selections for each team were made by the coaches as a whole. Included will be 6 Colts representing the Western League.
SDUSD
The San Diego Unified School District faces an estimated $219 million budget shortfall over the next two years. The district is in a lot of trouble, and most of that trouble is self-inflicted. The 2010 deal it made with the unions saddled the district with a deficit that it is now trying to solve by laying off staff.
Without concessions from unions over the planned pay increases, or increased...
Education
In the News - California has embarked on a course to fundamentally reshape how every student is taught and tested.
These new “common core standards” for grades K-12 go into effect in fall 2014 for English Language Arts and math. Revisions to the curriculum and assessments for other subjects, such as science and history, will follow in later years.
California is not alone. Almost every state has...
Campus Life
The Karen Youth Organization (KYO) of Crawford High would like to invite everyone to a celebration on May 25, 2012 from 3:00PM - 7:30PM in the Crawford auditorium. *See also the other posting on the Karen refugees from Burma on the ePacer News Blog at: http://epacer.tumblr.com/post/16850490354/campus-life & http://epacer.tumblr.com/post/16837411659/campus-life.
Back When
Cheerleaders Steve Borsen, Class of 1973 and Cindy Saldamando, Class of 1973.
Memories
Colt Booster Button, circa 1957 - Early 60s
Classmates
Sherri Schuler Lightner, Class of 1968 is running for re-election to the San Diego City Council District One witch includes the communities of Carmel Valley, Del Mar Heights, Del Mar Mesa, Pacific Highlands Ranch, La Jolla and Bird Rock, Rose Canyon, lower San Dieguito River Valley, Sorrento Hills, Sorrento Valley, Torrey Hills, Torrey Pines, University City, and UCSD.
School Spirit
After the Prom clean out your closet and consider donating your gently used dress to The Princess Project of San Diego. As almost every aspect of attending high school prom continues to rise out of reach for many teen girls, The Princess Project makes it possible to send a girl to prom for only $25 - and it is the contributions of donors like you that make it all possible! For more information...
Crawford Campus
CORE is coming back to Crawford High on Wednesday, May 23, 2012! Attend after school, for free food, a free T-shirt, and lots of education and resources about making healthy decisions for your future focused on preventing teen pregnancy and STDs and promoting healthy relationships. You will receive a “passport” to CORE, which they will be stamped by visiting resource booths.
CORE is...
Campus Life
Remember When
Looking Back
Memories
Crawford Pep Ribbons, circa 1968-71
Memories
Crawford High Big ‘C’ Booster Pin
School Days
Remember When
Pacerettes, 1970-71
Campus Life
Law & Business Seniors 2012
In Memory
Richard Bruce Degen, Class of 1964
Passed Away on May 5, 2012
FYI
2012 Team Playoffs - Finals
What’s Happening!!
In the News - San Diego schools need a countywide set of standards and training guidelines on what fees can legally be imposed on students, the San Diego County Grand Jury said in a report released Thursday, May 17, 2012.
In the report, entitled “Free Education,” the civil grand jury said that all of the school administrators it interviewed favored a uniform policy on how to deal with the issue...
San Diego Education Association
SDEA Teachers union president Bill Freeman
“The union’s representative council, made up of reps from around the district, voted overwhelmingly to open lines of communication with the district. Just because the union’s talking to the district doesn’t mean it’s going to make concessions.” Bill Freeman, May 15, 2012.
Memories
Colt Football Booster Pin, 1969 - 1971
Memories
Colt Football Booster Button, 1969
Crawford Campus
Go Colts
View Point
Brown discusses revised state budget, May, 14, 2012.
Rally at La Jolla High, May 14, 2012.
The Governor’s Budget - Most K-12 schools are not banking on voters approving tax hikes and instead are preparing worst-case budgets for 2012-13.
Lora Duzyk, assistant superintendent for business services for the San Diego County Office of Education, said the majority of San Diego County’s 42 districts...
Memories
Good Times
