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Home Schooling Options for Santa Barbara Families
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Impacted by the recent budget cuts in funding for our local schools, Santa Barbara announced plans this week to hold informational meetings for families that are interested in home schooling. Colby Frazier, from The Santa Barbara Daily Sound, wrote an informative article this week if you would like more information about the exact plans the school district has for home schooling in the Santa Barbara area.
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Santa Barbara CA Schools Hard Hit With Budget Cuts
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Members of the Santa Barbara School Board came together this last week to deal with the unfortunate and hard issue of the historic statewide budget cuts for our public schools. Ethan Stewart wrote an article in The Independent this week that summed up what took place during the meetings. With the magnitude of this issue, KEYT news also has been covering the story as well as shown in this video posting.
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Healthier Food Coming to Santa Barbara Area Schools
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School districts in Santa Barbara are changing school menus in an extended effort to provide healthier food to our children. They are also trying to combat a well recognized obesity epidemic among young people in our country. The Director of Nutrition Services says, “the old menu was made up of foods that were high in salt, fats and sugars.” To apply some of these changes, the districts are also reaching out to local growers and markets to provide a supply of fresh produce.
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Westmont College Expansion Approved in Montecito, CA.
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Westmont College, located in high-end residential area of Montecito, CA., won a ruling in Superior Court on Tuesday, December 18th, 2007 to allow the expansion of its master plan. In the first stage, the plan calls for 165,000 sqft. of new building starting with The Adams Center for the visual arts, The Winter Hall for science and mathematics, a residence hall and a chapel. Over the coming 20 years, current plans call for an additional 200,000 sqft. of building. Construction of the first stage is scheduled to start in November 2008. Scott Craig, spokesman for the Westmont College said, “I think this is a huge victory for students in future years. It will allow them to live in residential halls comparable to other liberal arts colleges and will enhance their learning experiences.”
Since the plan was made public, there has been much objection in the small town of Montecito, home to some of the highest priced residential real estate in the country. Many Montecito locals contend that the scale of the building is not aligned with the “harmony and balance” of Montecito as a neighborhood. Many locals biggest complaints are about what this level of construction over the coming years will do to traffic flow on the small Montecito streets.
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