UPPER LAKE, Calif. – In a special meeting set to take place this week, the Upper Lake Union Elementary School District Board will discuss a resolution to unify with the Upper Lake Union High School District.
The meeting will take place beginning at 6 p.m. Wednesday, June 3, in the Upper Lake Middle School gymnasium, 725 Old Lucerne Road.
The public is encouraged to attend, according to Principal/Superintendent Valerie Gardner.
Before the board will be a resolution approving the agreement and petition to reorganize the Upper Lake school districts.
Last week, the two school boards held the last of several joint meetings to discuss the unification proposal, accepting a final feasibility report, as Lake County News has reported.
The report, which can be seen below, assesses all of the state-required criteria for such district consolidations.
Last summer, the Upper Lake school districts began having the unification discussion in earnest, with school officials supporting consolidating the two districts because they believe it will improve articulation for students and be a better use of financial resources.
If the elementary district moves forward with approving the resolution on Wednesday, the high school board will consider its own version of the unification resolution at a meeting on June 10.
From there, the resolutions would be submitted to the Lake County Office of Education, with the Lake County Board of Education – sitting jointly as the Committee on School District Organization – required to hold public hearings ahead of sending the matter to the State Board of Education for final approval in the fall.
Lake County Superintendent of Schools Brock Falkenberg also will be tasked with selecting a new board for the unified district by the end of this year, with those three boards working together until next summer.
Should the districts unify in the 2016-17 school year, the resulting district would still be the smallest unified district in the county, according to school officials.
Also on Wednesday's agenda are public hearings on the district's adoption of its local control and accountability plan and the 2015-16 proposed district budget.
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Upper Lake Elementary School Board to consider resolution to unify with Upper Lake High School District
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