Save Monta Vista High School

What happened on the FUHSD board meeting on April 24, 2024?

At the 4/24 FUHSD school district by-trustee district map meeting, the school committee finally voted to proceed with Map 5. 

Only two out of the five school committee members, Rod Sinks and Jeff Moe from Monta Vista, voted for Map 6. 

Unfortunately, Map 5 is the worst map of all for Monta Vista:

• Compared to the Monta Vista High School Attendance Map, the district where Monta Vista is located has lost the part between De Anza/Stelling (Lincoln, Garden Gate Elementary School), the Saratoga area located west of De Anza, and part of the Monta Vista traditional area adjacent to Saratoga. At the same time, part of Homestead High School north of I-280 was added. This greatly dilutes Monta Vista in its area, refer to attached map below.
• What is even more unfavorable is that in the next two years (2024-2026), Monta Vista will not have any FUHSD board member from this region. Since the term of the current two Monta Vista School board members (Rod & Jeff) will end in 2024, Map 5 does not provide the electoral rights that Monta Vista seeks in 2024. Current School board member Rosa Kim from Homestead will represent the Monta Vista district (and part of the Homestead district).
• Before the 4/24 meeting, Monta Vista residents had a meeting with Rosa Kim, and we clearly stated and emphasized that Monta Vista residents were strongly opposed to Map 5. However, Rosa Kim ignored the voices of Monta Vista residents and voted Map 5 in the board meeting. In fact, residents of the Homestead area also expressed their demands to Rosa Kim that they did not want to be mixed with the Monta Vista campus and strongly opposed Figure 5. But Rosa Kim still supports the Map 5 which was advocated by Lynbrook and Cupertino High School, to broadly mix the Monta Vista and Homestead campuses.

What it means for us:

• In Map 5, Monta Vista won’t be up for re-election until 2026. This results in Monta Vista’s future situation in the school district being very unfavorable, especially when it faces the risk of school closure. Please be aware of the risk of school closures in the future! North Sunnyvale has been working hard to re-open Sunnyvale High School. FUHSD can only maintain 5 high schools, if one high school is reopened, another must be closed, and the most likely closing high school will be in the south. 
• Additionly, the school district’s daily operations in recent years have also been very unfriendly to Monta Vista. In the past 10 years, the funds Monta Vista has received for campus construction are significantly lower than other high schools in the district (Monta Vista’s fund is about 100 million, and the average of other high schools is about 150 million). You can intuitively feel that the buildings of other high schools are obviously better than those of Monta Vista. Without Monta Vista’s own representative, the future school funds will continue to be unfavorable.

What can we do:

• We are residents of the MV school district and volunteers who care about the community. Putting this information together is hoping to allow more residents to quickly understand what is currently happening and its potential impacts! 
• We don’t want to wait until school closure is actually put on the board agenda before everyone starts taking action, then it will be too late. Refer to the district’s recent process for closing Regnart Elementary School.
• Follow our community website savemvhs.org to learn about news about our community. You can also subscribe to emails to get the latest news!
• At the same time, if you also want to contribute to the community, please contact [email protected], let’s protect and build the MV community together.

4/24 Board Approved Trustee Area Map 5 (Blue thick line is current school attendance boundary)

目前情况概述

在4/24 FUHSD学区by-trustee选区地图会议上，学委最终投票选择了图5。五名学委中只有来自Monta Vista 的两名学委Rod Sinks 和 Jeff Moe 投票选择了图6。非常不幸，图5是所有地图中对Monta Vista最不利的地图：

• Monta Vista所在的区相较于Monta Vista High School Attendance Map失去了De Anza/Stelling 之间的部分（Lincoln, Garden Gate小学），De Anza 以西的Saratoga地区，以及与Saratoga相邻的部分Monta Vista传统区域。与此同时，加入了I-280以北Homestead高中的部分地区。这使得Monta Vista在其所在区域的比例被极大的稀释，参见下面的附图。
• 更不利的是在今后两年（2024-2026）Monta Vista将没有来自本区域的学委。由于现任的两名Monta Vista的学委（Rod Sinks & Jeff Moe）任期都将在2024结束，而图5在2024年不提供Monta Vista所在区的选举权利。现任的来自Homestead区的学委Rosa Kim将代表Monta Vista地区(和部分的Homestead地区）。
• 在4/24会议之前Monta Vista居民和Rosa Kim进行了谈话，明确表示和强调Monta Vista居民强烈反对图5，但Rosa Kim在投票时还是不顾Monta Vista居民的诉求转而投票支持图5。实际上，Homestead 区域居民也向Rosa Kim表达了不想和Monta Vista 校区混合的诉求，并强烈反对图5。但Rosa Kim依然支持Lynbrook 和Cupertino High School 力推的图5把Monta Vista和Homestead校区大范围混合。

对于我们意味着什么：

• 在图5中，Monta Vista要等到2026年才可以重新竞选。这导致Monta Vista未来在学区的形势非常不利，特别是遇到关校风险时。请大家警觉将来的关校危险！北Sunnyvale一直在努力重开Sunnyvale高中，考虑到目前持续下降的生源，如果重开高中则必须关闭一所高中，最有可能关闭的则是南部的一所高中。地图5除了增加MV的关校风险，学区近些年的日常运作对Monta Vista也非常不友好。近10年来Monta Vista在校园建设得到的资金大幅度低于学区内的其他高中（Monta Vista 1亿左右，其他高中平均1.5亿左右），大家可以直观的感受到其他高中的建筑明显比Monta Vista的更新。未来的两年Monta Vista没有自己的代表，学校可用的资金有可能会进一步缩水。

我们能做什么：

• 我们是MV学区的居民，也是关心社区的义工。把这些信息放到一起是希望可以让更多的居民更快的了解目前发生的一切和其潜在的影响！我们不希望等到关校真正被提上日程大家才开始行动，那就已经太晚了。参见近期CUSD学区关闭Regnart小学的流程。
• 大家可以关注我们的社区网站 savemvhs.org 来了解有关我们社区的相关消息。同时也可以订阅邮件来及时获取最新的讯息！
• 同时，如果你也希望为社区出一份力，请联系[email protected]，我们一起保卫和建设MV社区。