June 2012
129 posts
ASB Ball
1972 ASB Ball
Campus Life
A Look Back
SDUSD
District schools and offices will be closed on Wednesday, July 4th, 2012 for Independence Day.
SDUSD
Health - The district’s Nursing and Wellness Program is sponsoring two free Tdap Clinics for all students entering 7 -12th grade who have not met the state-mandated requirements for the Tdap Vaccine. John Muir School will host a clinic on Thursday, July 12, 2012, from 9 a.m. to noon (12 p.m.). Monroe Clark Middle School will host a clinic on Friday, July 13, 2012, from 9 a.m. to noon (12...
What’s Happening!!
Students from the automotive technology program at Crawford High School have been regular visitors to this year’s San Diego County Fair, which runs through July 4, 2012 in Del Mar.
Under the supervision of teacher Carl Kingsbury, the students have been showing fair visitors the differences between diagnosis and repair of a 1974 Chevrolet (owned by Kingsbury) and a 2012 Toyota Prius hybrid,...
Campus Life
A Look Back
In Memory
Karen Anne Sather, Class of 1963
Passed Away on April 22, 2012
Classmates
Major League Baseball cards of Crawford Colt - Dave Duncan, Class of 1963.
Colt Dinner
SDUSD
It’s a Deal - It’s official! The San Diego Unified has canceled 1,481 teacher layoffs.
Two days before the state deadline to adopt a final budget, the San Diego Unified School Districtboard on Thursday ratified a labor pact that rescinds all layoffs issued to K-12 teachers in May. Trustees also approved a final spending plan for the San Diego Unified School District’s 2012-13 Academic...
Campus Life
2011 Crawford High School Homecoming
Budget
In the News - California Governor Jerry Brown signed a new budget for the State Wednesday, June 27, 2012 that relies heavily on voters approving his proposed tax hikes in November.
If voters reject the tax initiative, a series of automatic cuts will be triggered, with schools bearing the burden. If that happens, districts would be allowed to shorten each of the next two school years by three...
Classmates
Leonard Tucker, Class of 1975 - What San Diego musician can claim the title of “most local airplay”? Pinback? P.O.D.? Jewel?
The honor goes to Leonard Tucker. You many not recognize the name, but odds are you know the voice. Here’s why: “Mossy Nissan! Mossy Nissan moves you!”
Love it or hate it, but the Mossy Nissan jingle, and Tucker’s distinctive yell at the end of the spot, is well known to...
Campus Life
A Look Back
Classmates
If you are one of the 23 million plus who have viewed one of Louis Schwartzberg’s videos on YouTube you already know the power and beauty of his films. In his 30-plus years in the film industry he has been a director, producer, selected as one of Kodak’s top 50 cinematographers of all time, and a pioneer in time lapse and high speed photography. His latest film Hidden Worlds is being...
San Diego Education Association
Teachers Vote for Concessions - The San Diego Unified School District teachers overwhelmingly approve new labor deal, around nearly 1,500 colleagues, voting for concessions that will halt raises and spare jobs in California’s second-largest district.
Of 4,501 votes cast, 3,033 members voted to ratify the agreement and 1,468 members voted not to ratify.
Now the pact will go to the San Diego...
Education
Graduation Rates Climb in County - More students are receiving high school diplomas in San Diego County and statewide, and fewer students are giving up on school, according to new data released by the California Department of Education on Wednesday, June 27, 2012.
The state released graduation and dropout data for the 2010-11 school year, which showed the countywide graduation rate was 77.5...
What’s Happening!!
Supporting Pregnant & Teen Parents - California ranked number one in its support for pregnant and parenting high school students in a recent national report. The state’s Cal-SAFE program set it apart.
Seven San Diego County school districts offer the state-funded program for pregnant and parenting students.
Budget
State Schools - The California legislature is considering an education budget bill that would cut more days from the school year if voters reject Governor Jerry Brown’s tax measure.
In May, Brown said if his tax initiative fails in November, districts could cut fifteen days from the K-12 schedule over two years. But a new provision would allow districts to cut fifteen days in each of the next...
Classmates
Writer and illustrator Kadir Nelson, Class of 1992 has a new book out called “I Have a Dream” with paintings illustrating Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s speech delivered on August 28, 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.
Crawford High
What’s Happening!!
In a joint announcement made today at ISTE 2012, Promethean, Channel One News and the National PTA launched The Parent Connection, a new program that delivers daily Channel One News InterActiv broadcasts shown in the classroom directly to parent’s mobile phones. Representatives from San Diego Unified School District join today’s announcement and will be the first school district in the country...
Classmates
Louie Schwartzberg, Class of 1968 is an award-winning cinematographer, director and producer whose notable career spans more than three decades providing breathtaking imagery for feature films, television shows, documentaries and commercials. Louie has a short film called “Gratitude” that has acquired over 3 million views and also received requests to create a feature length version. To view a...
School Days
Looking Back
Campus Life
2011 Crawford High School Homecoming
Classmates
Marianne Hoke, Class of 1971 and Linda Zweig, Class of 1975
The two Lady Colts are key people at the San Diego County Fairgrounds. Marianne Hoke is the Human Resources Director, and Linda Zweig is the Media/Public Information Officer.
What’s Happening!!
Crawford Multimedia and Visual Arts School (MVAS) students joined residents from all walks of life in their City Heights neighborhood in learning about how to take leadership in environmental issues.
Residents from all walks of life City Heights, of varied ages and from many countries, such as Burundi, Myanmar (Burma), Somalia, Vietnam, and Mexico; participated in workshops on topics that...
SDUSD
Follow Up - Following the SDUSD Board of Education meeting on June 22, 2012 Board President John Lee Evans requested that the Superintendent seek further information from the State Department of Finance (DOF) about future K-12 funding projections should the Governor’s November Tax initiative pass. Several DOF charts show how the state is projecting significant funding increases for K-12...
SDUSD
Recycling efforts are being boosted this coming fall thanks to a significant grant made possible by The Coca-Cola Foundation as the district will receive 60 recycling bins for placement at schools and administrative facilities.
The Bin Grant Program awards recycling bins directly to recipients and leverages volume buying discounts. In its seven years of operation, The Bin Grant Program has...
Graduation Day
Crawford High Graduation 1968 at San Diego State College
The Official Class Size for the Class of 1968 is 1,028 students as per the San Diego City Schools Statistical Data Base Archive. This is only the number who graduated with diplomas. To view this image in a larger format click on the following link at: http://www.johnfry.com/pages/Graduation68Keeyes.html and see it on the John Fry website....
School Days
1989 Crawford Crawford Colts
SDUSD
Breaking News Updates - To demonstrate its commitment to a deal with the teachers union to save nearly 1,500 jobs, the San Diego Unified School District board voted Friday, June 22, 2012 to approve the agreement should teachers vote to accept it in an upcoming election.
Some 7,000 members of the San Diego Education Association will vote Sunday through Tuesday on the tentative agreement. If more...
SDUSD
For Sale - The San Diego Unified School District is poised to sell seven properties to generate scarce revenue and balance its budget.
The school board approved the “intent to sell” the real estate estimated at more than $26 million during a rare Friday, June 22, 2012 night meeting. Most of the proceeds would help offset the district’s projected $122 million deficit to next...
Education
Lyn Neylon Jerry Rindone
Late Breaking Update - Cuyamaca College Professor Lyn Neylon, PhD has won a seat on the San Diego County Board of Education, narrowly defeating incumbent Jerry Rindone for District 2.
Neylon was heavily backed by a teachers’ union, which spent nearly $50,000 on mailers, signs and phone banks in a two-month period to support her...
SDUSD
Just In - Opposition is mounting to San Diego Unified’s tentative agreement with its teachers union to save jobs because the deal lays the groundwork to cut the school year by up to 19 days - eliminating about a month of instruction time for students.
A group of parent leaders has formally complained to Superintendent Bill Kowba and the school board about the union deal that will go before 7,000...
In Memory
Diana Phay McGowan, Class of 1966
Passed Away on June 5, 2012
In Memory
Dennis Hugh Stout, Class of 1963
Passed Away on May 13, 2012
Here and Now
In the News - It’s being hailed as a sign of new collaboration between labor and management in the San Diego Unified School District: a plan to save nearly 1,500 teaching jobs and keep class sizes from ballooning next year.
But before the district can begin canceling layoff notices, more than half of the SDEA union’s 7,000 members must approve the deal in a paper-ballot vote set for Sunday...
FYI
2012 Centaur scores Blue Ribbon and 1st Place Award for School Yearbook for MVAS at Crawford at the San Diego County Fair. Photo by Kelly Tran, Class of 2012
Campus Life
2011 Crawford High School Homecoming
Looking Back
Crawford Town Hall, September 2010
SDUSD
Update - Educators, district officials and community leaders on Thursday, June 21 celebrated a tentative agreement forged by the teachers union and San Diego Unified School District to save nearly 1,500 jobs and keep class sizes manageable next year.
Now that the San Diego Education Association and the San Diego Unified School District have hammered out a deal, its up to 7,000 teachers to decide...
Crawford High
Summer Interns 2011
On December 13, 2011, the SDUSD Board of Education approved the restructuring of the administrative leadership at Crawford High School. Based on the recommendation from Superintendent Bill Kowba, Crawford High will change from three principals to a hybrid comprehensive school leadership model with one principal and two vice principals. The goal is to create a single...
School Days
Crawford Library
School Spirit
School Days
SDUSD
In the News - San Diego teachers struck a tentative deal with the city school district Tuesday, June 19 to forgo pay raises to save 1,480 jobs and keep class sizes manageable come September.
Every one of the 1,372 teachers laid off earlier this year by the San Diego Unified School District will be back at school by September 1, under a two-year deal agreed to by the district and the teachers...
FYI
The Federal Aviation Administration is co-hosting a weeklong aviation camp for San Diego County high school students next month at the TRACON headquarters near Marine Corps Air Station Miramar.
The Aviation Career Education day-camp will give young people interested in careers in aviation a chance to learn what it’s like to pilot helicopters, work as air-traffic controllers or fly in the cockpit...
