Text Box: TC: No it’s going to stay the same. There is going to be about 525-550 students. PC: How much is the school going to measure? SEE BUNGALOW, PAGE 3 Olivia Ryder What has LAUSD done now? LAUSD is considering adopting an across-the-board discipline policy that it hopes will increase parent involvement and decrease the number of referrals, detentions and suspensions. This would be the first discipline policy of its kind in the nation’s second largest district. There is a document that would spell out procedures to handle Text Box: Yesenia Ocampo Charles Hernandez Expect a new building for Animo Venice Charter High School soon. In the interview with Mr. Chang (TC), We (PC) found out that the new school is going to be pretty cool. We are going to have more space for ourselves. If you want to know what’s going on, read the interview below. PC: When is construction going to begin? TC: Construction is going to begin at the beginning of the summer if everything that we are hoping for goes the way we want it to come out. PC: Where are the students going to go while the construction is going on ? TC: The students are going to move somewhere else for a year. But when you guys come back you are going to have a very cool school. Text Box: PC: Are we going to have a library or P.E? TC: No. We don’t think that there is any chance of having a library or P.E. Instead you guys are going to have more electives. PC: Is the building going to be two stories? TC: Yes, the school is going to be two stories. PC: How many classrooms are we going to have in the new building? TC: We are going to have 26-27 rooms all together. We are going to have a full computer lab, we are going to have a basketball court and an auditorium together in one. PC: Are we going to have a cafeteria? TC: We are going to have a kitchen where you are going to get your lunch and go eat your lunch at the lunch area. PC: Is the capacity of students going to change because of the new building? Text Box: Bungalows Gone For Good? Animo Going to Westchester? Text Box: New Discipline Policy for LAUSD Text Box: problem students. There is also a district-wide expulsion policy. The policy would apply to elementary, middle and high schools and would emphasize “positive behavior.” It would be a behavior program that would allow administrators, parents, teachers and even other students to reprimand troublemakers, but also explain Text Box: why their actions are wrong and how they can correct them. For instance, a parent may be asked to sit in a student’s classes and draw up a daily “behavior report” or get a group of students to discuss discipline issues in an effort to SEE LAUSD, PAGE 2 intervene in the student’s bad behavior. Text Box: About 10% of L.A.’s schools are already testing the discipline plan on their campuses to positive reviews, but Marlene Canter, president of the school board, says a policy is as good as it is implemented. In other words, you can have a great policy, but if schools don’t follow the guidelines of the policy, then the new policy will

May 2007

Volume 1, Issue 1

The Pirate Chronicle

Bungalows Gone for Good?

1

New LAUSD

Discipline Policy

1

Interview with Ms. Koehler

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Artists suffer as downloading

continues

2

Norbit movie

review

3

Get Published!

4

Staff Contact Info

4
Text Box: Assistant Principal Will Herrera in front of the main office bungalow