Mt.
Eden
High School
– Student musicians in the outstanding MEHS Instrumental Music Program have again reached for the stars, surpassing the number of students honored in past years by being inducted into the U.S. National Honor Band and Orchestra.The National Honor Band and Orchestra consist of student musicians from middle to high school level.Students are required to make an unedited string and percussion DVD or a live recording of pre-selected excerpts. Audition material is then reviewed, critiqued, and scored by the country’s top musicians and music professors. Acceptance into an ensemble is then determined from the score received. Upon a successful invitation to an ensemble, the student must again perform a live audition for their ranking in the ensemble and essential the
US
.Anywhere from a hundred to a thousand auditions are submitted for each instrument category, and only a small number of students is admitted to the ensemble. It is remarkable that the
Mt.
Eden
instrumental program is sending musicians from each instrumental family—brass, woodwind, percussion, strings, both low and high. As such, it truly speaks to the high quality of the Mt. Eden Instrumental music program and to the dedication and skill of their director and band teacher, Kevin Cato.
Hayward USD – “No Name-Calling Week” is an annual week of educational activities aimed at ending name-calling of all kinds and engaging students in ongoing dialogue about ways to eliminate bullying in their communities.HUSD’s “No Name Calling Week” Middle and Elementary School activities have students reflect on their own experiences related to name-calling, develop empathy for the experiences of others in their community, and helps them learn how their behaviors and actions can help create positive learning communities at their schools. Activities include: door decorating, posters, reading and writing assignments, video screening and class discussions.HUSD Schools will be conducting “No Name Calling Week” through the month of February.
The State Budget Crisis and Hayward Unified
School District Our public schools play a fundamental role in the community.The responsibility to properly educate our children and prepare them for the future has never been more daunting. This is no different in the
Hayward
Unified
School District where we embrace this responsibility and privilege with the utmost dedication and respect for our students and their families. The fact that
California spends $1,900 less per pupil than the national average is shameful.When comparing California to the other 49 states in our great nation,
California ranks 47th out of 50 based on per pupil spending.That’s a ranking where being number 50 is the worst.Could it be that we will rank 50th in 2010-2011 school year?Hard to believe when our state is in and of itself the 8th largest economy in the world.With the release of Governor Schwarzenegger’s proposed budget for 2010-2011, we could end up spending our already limited and strained resources begging for funds for our 21,000 students.Why?We have 21,000 reasons to demand their rightful priority in the infrastructure of our state.
