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Resistance is strong, but if moving Puente de Hozho is inevitable, Weitzel parents and teachers stressed gradual
change Tuesday night at the Flagstaff Unified School District governing board meeting.
The district is looking at moving Puente de Hozho School, the district's bilingual magnet school, from Sinagua
High School to Weitzel Elementary School.
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The Coconino Coalition for Children & Youth was selected as the Daily Sun's 2003 Organization of the Year.
The winner is chosen by former Citizens of the Year.
"For the Coalition to receive this recognition from the community is truly an honor, one that is shared by
everyone who has participated in the Coalition over the years," said Avtar Khalsa, executive co-director of
the Coalition.
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FUSD
Board backs override
Urged to eliminate pay-to-play increase
Arizona Daily Sun
December 10, 2003
The Flagstaff Unified School District board set in motion a plan to get a override on the May ballot -- with
the hope that voters will approve a tax increase to help the schools fight continued budget problems.
The board members voted Tuesday night to have district staff members gather information and prepare recommendations
for how to approach the override, which will bring about $2.8 million annually to the district. It would help restore
some of the $6 million-plus budget shortfall from last year, which led to a loss of 80 positions.
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Kramer,
Morrison picked for FUSD Board
Arizona Daily Sun
October 10, 2003
The two vacant seats on the Flagstaff Unified School District governing board have been filled. County Superintendent
of Schools Cecilia Owen has picked Janet Kramer and Elaine Morrison from 11 applicants to fill two vacant school
board seats.
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Lessons worth repeating
Teen Maze helps kids face tough realities
Arizona Daily Sun
October 9, 2003
The Teen Maze places teenagers in real-life scenarios, touching on topics such as sexual behavior, relationship
violence, substance abuse, and general health and nutrition. Actors and guides help them make responsible decisions
at various stages of the maze.
The scenarios, for some students, serve as a wake-up call and point out where teens can end up based on choices
they make now, said Coconino freshman Ali Rozema.
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Call her Mary. Call her 13-year-old son John. John witnessed the traumatic death of a family member. Before
the death, John had been a funny, outgoing boy who loved music and bicycles.
Mary said after the death, John became unfocused in school. He would fly into rages, he started talking about killing
himself, he started getting into trouble with the law and he started trusting nobody.
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Eric Clark will be sentenced to a minimum of 25 years in prison today for murdering Flagstaff Police Officer
Jeff Moritz.
Evidence at Clark's trial led a judge to conclude Clark did not meet the requirement of insanity at the time of
the killing even though he has the mental illness paranoid schizophrenia.
At trial, Clark's parents leveled criticism at the Flagstaff community for not having sufficient mental health
care for their son as he began his slide into paranoid schizophrenia and for not having information easily available
on services to which parents can turn.
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Some juvenile delinquents who need inpatient psychiatric care for mental illness aren't getting it, says the
director of the county's juvenile court services.
Duane Shimpach, director of Coconino County Juvenile Court services, says mentally ill juvenile delinquents can't
get the help they need because: They may not qualify for state aid, there isn't enough state aid, there aren't
enough inpatient beds or, the private insurance carried by the parents doesn't adequately cover the cost of mental
health care.
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Two
FUSD seats, 11 applicants
Arizona Daily Sun
October 1, 2003
County Superintendent of Schools Cecilia Owen will have 11 applicants to choose from when she decides who will
fill two empty seats on the Flagstaff Unified School District's governing board.
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Parents with drug and alcohol addictions are all too common to agents with the county's anti-drug task force,
Metro.
According to officials with the Flagstaff office of Child Protective Services, up to 75 percent of cases where
children are removed from homes and put into alternative care like foster care, the parents had substance abuse
issues.
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Flag
in foster care pinch
Arizona Daily Sun
September 21, 2003
Flagstaff is in desperate need of foster homes, say staff members from the city's foster care coordination agency,
Catholic Social Services.
There are only 15 foster homes in Flagstaff, and there are twice the number of children, especially teens, in need
of foster care placement. And the number of foster homes in Flagstaff has been declining since 2000.
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AIMS
scores for FUSD top state's
Arizona Daily Sun
September 3, 2003
Results from the 2003 AIMS tests released Tuesday show that although the percentage of Flagstaff Unified School
District students with passing scores dipped slightly from last year, it still exceeded the state pass rates.
"We have some areas of slight improvement and we have some areas that need improvement," said Kevin Brown,
Flagstaff Unified School District director of administration. "Now we need to find where are the low areas
and who are the weak students."
FUSD's Class of 2008, last year's eighth-graders and the first class to have taken the tests that will be required
to pass them to graduate, saw 62 percent pass the eight-grade reading test and 56 percent pass the writing test.
But only 31 percent passed the math portion of the test. Statewide, 21 percent of eighth-graders passed in math,
55 percent passed in reading and 46 percent passed in writing.
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Another national park concessionaire won't be paying property taxes in Coconino County, and the tax loss will
throw the local school district onto the financial mercy of the state.
Officials with the Coconino County assessor's and attorney's offices have determined that Xanterra, which operates
many of the hotels on the South Rim, will have its assessed properties within the Grand Canyon National Park taken
off the tax rolls.
That will mean an annual hit of $580,000 to the Grand Canyon School District, with no other local revenue to replace
it.
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