Among the items to be discussed tonight at the Twin Rivers Unified school board meeting is whether to add a student member to the board.
"It helps keep you focused on the main reason we are there," said Twin Rivers trustee Walter Garcia Kawamoto, who asked to place the student board member discussion on the agenda. "It's good when we discuss policy decisions to have a student's perspective."
The student board member discussion will come after several key decisions tonight, including the possible appointment of an interim superintendent and how the district will move forward with a response to a critical grand jury report released in June.
I will be tweeting (@MelodyGutierrez) from tonight's board meeting, which begins at 7 p.m. for open session at 5115 Dudley Blvd., McClellan.
Kawamoto said his suggestion regarding the student board member program is to have two students selected from the district's student leadership council take turns sitting on the dais during meetings.
"Because they are students, they may not be able to go to every meeting or stay until the end," Kawamoto said. "That's why I am hoping to have two."
Loretta Kalb started her reporting career at The Sacramento Union, moved to KOVR-13 as a television reporter, editor and producer, headed to The Associated Press in San Francisco and eventually returned to Sacramento and joined The Sacramento Bee. Throughout her career, she has covered the state Legislature, courts, local government and, now, education. She is a Chico native and an Elk Grove resident.
Diana Lambert began her journalism career as a proofreader at the Lodi News-Sentinel. She is now a senior writer at The Sacramento Bee covering K-12 education and California State University, Sacramento. Previously she was The Bee’s Elk Grove bureau chief. Lambert was raised in a military family and lived at bases around the globe. She attended four high schools, graduating from Tokay High in Lodi and then Sacramento State University. She lives in Elk Grove.
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