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Day on the Glen 2009, Part I

September 20, 2009 | Topics: Events

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After a very full day in the Tassajara Prep booth at Day on the Glen, we are delighted to report the overwhelming positive response from festival attendees today. We were quite often swamped with people crowding the booth clamoring for information about the new public high school coming to town. We have long known that there was a strong demand for a high school in east Dublin, but even we were surprised by the excitement and gratitude expressed by many, many parents.

The first thing we were asked today by most parents was “When will the school open and where will it be located?” The first question is easy to answer. As the Tassajara Prep banners over our booth proclaim, we expect the school to open in Fall 2012, most likely just for 9th grade the first year.

The question of where the school will be located is not an easy one to give a satisfying answer to at this stage of the process. We are still working on our petition. We want to obtain everyone’s input at our upcoming town hall meetings before we finalize the petition and submit it to the Dublin Unified School District, so that our petition reflects the needs of the community. After the petition has been submitted, it could take months before it is approved. Once the petition is approved, the school district will notify us on how they will provide a facility for Tassajara Prep. Until then, we probably will not know where our initial facility will be.

President Rully Kusuma’s Speech

September 17, 2009 | Topics: Announcements

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Below is a transcript of the televised speech that Rully Kusuma, president of Dublin Learning Corporation, gave at Dublin’s City Council Meeting, 7:37PM PDT on September 15, 2009.

Thank you for this opportunity to speak. My name is Rully Kusuma. I live in Dublin with my wife and baby daughter. I am also president of the Dublin Learning Corporation. I am here to announce that we are planning to open A NEW PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOL IN DUBLIN. Scheduled to open in Fall 2012, Tassajara Prep will give Dublin parents a new choice in high schools.

Tassajara Prep will offer an exceptional college prep experience to all Dublin students, and will include:

an expanded choice of Advanced Placement classes,
a high level of parent participation and influence,
state-of-the-art teaching and learning technologies, and
a collaborative learning environment with a fully-credentialed faculty, performance-based pay and annual merit bonuses for teachers.

New Public High School in Dublin, California Announced

September 15, 2009 | Topics: Announcements

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“Tassajara Prep” Aims to Meet Highest Academic Standards for Diverse, Rapidly Growing Population, Emphasizing Parental Involvement, State-of-the-Art Technologies and a Preeminent Curriculum

Dublin Learning Corporation today announced plans to open Tassajara Preparatory High School (Tassajara Prep), an independently-operated, fully credentialed public educational institution to meet the needs of the increasingly diverse and rapidly expanding population in Dublin, California. Tassajara Prep will be designed to offer a unique, challenging educational program reflecting the highest academic and civic standards, providing students with the foundation for future success in top university programs.

Scheduled to open in August 2012, Tassajara Prep aims to offer all the advantages of a private education at a tuition-free public school. With the goal of delivering an ideal combination of rigorous curricula and innovative teaching practices from leading instructors, Tassajara Prep will emphasize parent and community involvement, a collaborative, student-focused learning environment, an expanded choice of Advanced Placement (AP) courses and extracurricular enrichment programs, and the integration of state-of-the-art teaching and learning technologies.

Dublin, CA Ranked Number One in Projected Population Increase by 2035

September 13, 2009 | Topics: Perspectives

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As the fastest growing city in the San Francisco Bay Area [1], with a population expected to expand more than 69 percent in the next 25 years, adding 34,600 and reaching more than 81,000 residents, the citizens and businesses of Dublin will benefit significantly from the addition of a second, high-caliber high school.

“Tassajara Prep was established to offer all Dublin parents a new choice,” said Rully Kusuma, president of Dublin Learning Corporation. “It will provide the best possible academic program to help all of our students prepare for life beyond high school. In addition, while we may initially utilize a shared-use Proposition 39 facility in one of the Dublin Unified School District buildings, our long term vision is to offer our families in Dublin the cohesive sense of community that a neighborhood high school brings, while eliminating the need for thousands of daily cross-town car trips to the only high school currently available, which is on the west side of town. It’s a truly win-win-win situation for our students, parents and the city of Dublin.”

[1] Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG); “Projections and Priorities 2009: Building Momentum;” http://www.abag.ca.gov/

California Charter School 2008 Performance Update

September 12, 2009 | Topics: Updates

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A review of the EdSource 2008 California Charter School Performance Update provides a very telling and positive assessment of charter high school performance. The 2008 scorecard uses data through the 2006-2007 school year. Here were some of the highlights:

There were 617 charter schools in California representing 6.4% of all public schools and 3.6% of all students (225,095 kids).
Of the 617 charter schools, 40% were high schools. In fact, there are more charter school students in grades 9 -12 than any other grades.
After adjusting for differences in school size and characteristics, classroom-based charter high schools scored 44.6 API points higher than non-charter schools.

Learn about Tassajara Prep at Day on the Glen

September 10, 2009 | Topics: Events

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Please plan on visiting the Tassajara Prep booth at Dublin’s annual Day on the Glen festival September 19-20 at Emerald Glen Park. We will have games and prizes for young kids, information about our plans to open a brand new public high school in Dublin in Fall 2012, and resources available to answer any questions that you may have.

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