Sanger Herald 10-4-18 E-edition

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Sanger High graduate and NFL great Tom Flores, the homecoming grand marshal, pumped his fist as he rode into the stadium in a red convertible. Tom made the coin toss to start the game and obviously used his mojo to help the Apaches avoid a last minute comeback by the Madera Coyotes in one of the most exciting games of the season.
SUSD is pleased with scores in latest round of state testing
By Dick Sheppard
Sanger Herald
Sanger students showed growth in the 2018 scores for the online California Assess- ment of Student Perfor- mance and Progress (CASPP) tests released this week.
"SUSD showed improve- ment with the percentage of students at the achievement 'Met or Exceeded' level, with gains in English Language Arts (ELA), 3.5 percent, and Math, 1.3 percent," said as- sociate superintendent Tim
Lopez.
"I would also like to
highlight the growth of our third grade students at the 'Met or Exceeded' perfor- mance level, improving over 11 percent in ELA and 4.9 percent in Math. Our 11th grade students improved
7 percent in ELA and 5.6 percentinMath. Inaddition, Sanger students continue to be above the state average in ELA and Math and one of the top performers in the valley," said Lopez.
"This is the fourth year
of the computer-based tests, which use California’s chal- lenging academic standards and ask students to write clearly, think critically, and solve complex problems, as they will need to do in college and 21st century careers," said State Superintendent ofPublicInstructionTom Torlakson.
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The homecoming king and queen, Adrian Mercado and Rachel Pimentel were crowned at halftime. Rachel was sponsored by Student Government and Adrian was sponsored by the Interact Club.
Big Fresno Fair
Long delayed Measure
S audit moves forward
Records prior to 2012 are missing
What could be more appropriate for a Sanger booth at the Big Fresno Fair than a mini replica of Tom Flores Stadium with the Apaches blanking the opposing team 37-0? The fair kicked off its Oct. 3-14 run on Wednesday. The Sanger booth is in the "Wells Fargo Agriculture Building presented by Save Mart Supermarkets." The booth was designed, built and stocked with choice vari- eties of grapes by members of the Sanger Rotary Club with lots of help from members of the Sanger High School Interact Club.
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By Dick Sheppard
Sanger Herald
Maybe the third time will be a charm.
The first attempt at a com- pliance audit of how Measure S funds have been spent was a well publicized bust. It turned out, due to an appar- ent misunderstanding, not to be a "compliance" audit at all.
The second attempt to get the same firm that made the first effort to do it again, using a clarified explanation of what was expected, fell through when the audit firm said it wasn't interested.
The Measure S Oversight Committee at its Oct. 2 meet- ing, unanimously approved changes in title, definitions and procedure to make sure the finished product will, this time, be what the committee is looking for.
The changes are intended to remedy problems encoun- tered with the first audit attempt.
There was one problem, however, that couldn't be solved. The committee had originally wanted the audit to cover a period from fiscal years 2009 through 2018. However, relevant Measure Srecords priorto2012are not available, administrative services director Gary Wata- hira told the committee.
"They were destroyed," said longtime committee member James Miser.
The changes approved
by the committee will be
sent out with a Request for Proposal (RFP) to qualified auditing firms, said Watahira.
Changes include calling the scope of the process to be
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