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RUSD Board celebrates ‘Perfect-Perfect’ scores

By HECTOR HERNANDEZ JR.
R EPORTER
H IGHLAND C OMMUNITY N EWS

The Redlands Unified School District

(RUSD) Board of Education hosted a
standing-room-only audience during its
Sept. 25 meeting as the board was honor-
ing 30 students for perfect scores in the
2017 California Assessment of Student
Performance and Progress (CAASPP)
testing as well as presenting awards to
teachers and coaches.
According to Jamie Cortz, coordinator
of instructional technology and student
data, the Perfect-Perfect award was cre-
ated three years ago by Mrs. Ray at
Moore Middle School for students who
earned perfect scores in both the mathe-
matics and English language portions of
the new state test.
This year 332 elementary students
earned perfect scores in the English
test, up from 110 in 2016-17, and 176
earned perfect scores in math, up from
74 perfect scores the year before.
In all there were 84 students, grades 3
to 8 and grade 11, to earn perfect scores
in both tests, 17 more than last year. The
30 elementary students were honored
Tuesday evening.
The rise in perfect scores indicates
the district’s improving performance in
the new and more rigorous state testing,
Cortz said.
The board also recognized employees
of the month Brian Bartlett and Fausto
Rios, both from Highland schools.
Barlett, a Citrus Valley High School
engineering teacher, was the district’s
The RUSD Board of Education
presents Arroyo Verde Elementary
School custodian Fausto Rios a dis-
trict employee of the month award,
thanking him for single-handedly
preparing the school for its first day
when the other custodian could not
make it to work.
Superintendent Mauricio Arellano also
presented the district’s Crystal Apple
H igHlAnD C ommUniTy n EwS pHoToS By H ECToR H ERnAnDEz J R .
Award to Stephen Levine thanking him
Highland grove Elementary principal luana Bamsch and Board of Education for his dedication to coaching Redlands
member Alex Vara present Highland grove students Kamie pham, gerard luma High School’s highly competitive mock
and noah Joffer perfect-perfect Awards for earning perfect scores in the trial team.
CAASpp English and math state tests. In his 11 years assisting Donna St.
George coaching the team it has won six
certificated employee of the month. He task in the shortest time. county championships and a state cham-
was honored and thanked for his leader- Rios, the classified employee of the pionship in 2013.
ship in the school’s engineering program month, was thanked for single-handedly “I get more out of this than our kids
and its robotics club. The club won the preparing Arroyo Verde for its first day do,” Levine said. “I cannot think of a
State Championship for Robotics in 2017 of school when the other custodian could greater privilege than to watch the peo-
by designing and building a robot that not come in for work during the last ple who will be leading this country in
completed an urban search and rescue days of summer. the next 10 years come of age.”

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