California / School Districts / Norris Elementary
MOT director Ryan Carr and assistant Melissa Martin reported on Norris district maintenance projects including a nearly $1 million gym renovation, in-house LED retrofits expected to touch ~1,000 fixtures and rollout of Incident IQ (362 closed work orders), plus transportation staffing and fleet plans.
California / School Districts / Norris Elementary
At public comment a parent, Diana Smith, criticized the quality of school lunches as overly processed, raised concerns about pay-to-play registration and uniform fees, and said contacting administration is difficult; the superintendent offered to have staff follow up.
California / School Districts / Norris Elementary
At its organizational meeting the Norris School District Board approved the first interim budget, accepted a clean 2024-25 audit, adopted multiple policy updates and heard that construction at Norris Elementary (Elementary No. 5) is about 11% complete.
California / School Districts / Norris Elementary
The Norris School District Board approved a set of routine and substantive items including adoption of a reading‑difficulties screener, two resolutions to pursue clean‑equipment grants, piggyback modular leases, and ratification of employee bargaining agreements.
California / School Districts / Norris Elementary
Norris Middle School principal Amy Spotsky told the board the school has expanded AVID strategies school‑wide to improve student organization and readiness, using binders, planners and regular checkpoints.
California / School Districts / Norris Elementary
A district subcommittee reported ongoing negotiations with Lennar to acquire a parcel in the Gossamer Grove development; an independent appraisal of the parcel was reported at $3,800,000 and the proposed purchase would use a promissory note structure that delays payment until state matching funds are available and CDE site approval is obtained.
California / School Districts / Norris Elementary
District staff reported enrollment at 4,307 students (up 90 from the prior year) and told the board Parent Teacher Clubs across five schools raised about $855,000 last year.
California / School Districts / Norris Elementary
District staff reported early site work at Norris Elementary and asked the board to ratify a soils‑testing and materials‑inspection proposal for the new classroom addition. Staff said work has begun (excavator on site), plumbing has been capped and soils testing will proceed to allow summer construction.
California / School Districts / Norris Elementary
Teachers from Olive Drive Elementary told the Norris School District board they returned from a Visible Learning conference with concrete strategies — teacher clarity, success criteria, scaffolding, peer feedback and targeted intervention — that they are implementing across grades TK–6.
California / School Districts / Norris Elementary
After a public hearing on instructional materials, the board approved Resolution 25‑03 confirming sufficiency of textbooks and instructional materials and approved several administrative items including a piggyback bid for electric buses, the SELPA agreement for 2025–26, and numerous policy and administrative regulation revisions.