When in France ... WEEKEND | 18 AUGUST 21, 2015 VOLUME 23, NO. 30 www.MountainViewOnline.com 650.964.6300 MOVIES | 21 Mistral parent tapped to fill school board vacancy JOSÉ GUTIÉRREZ HAS TWO CHILDREN IN MOUNTAIN VIEW WHISMAN’S DUAL IMMERSION PROGRAM By Kevin Forestieri Dozens of audience members showed up at the meeting, held in fter three rounds of vot- the Mountain View City Council ing to winnow down Chambers on Tuesday night, to Anearly a dozen of appli- see which of 11 applicants would cants, the Mountain View Whis- fill the seat of former board presi- man School District voted Tues- dent Chris Chiang, who resigned day night to appoint district in June with nearly a year and parent José Gutiérrez to an open half left of his seat on the school board. term. The board voted 3-1, with Greg Attendees Coladonato voting for another included city candidate, to select Gutiérrez. council mem- MICHELLE LE Board members at the Aug. 18 bers from Palo Kindergartner Naima hugs her father Emmanuel on the first day of school at Gabriela Mistral meeting celebrated the decision, Alto, Los Altos Elementary on Monday. saying the inclusion of Gutiérrez, and Moun- a parent of two at the new Mistral tain View, four Elementary, adds some much- members of José Gutiérrez Class in session at new needed cultural and geographic the Mountain diversity to the board. It also View-Los Altos marks the first time in several High School District board and Mistral Elementary years that the board has a repre- its Superintendent, Jeff Harding. sentative from the Castro School Throughout the interview pro- DISTRICT’S DUAL IMMERSION PROGRAM LAUNCHES AS NEW SCHOOL community in its ranks. cess, applicants brought up a SEPARATE FROM CASTRO ELEMENTARY Castro School recently split number of issues related to Com- into two schools that share a mon Core, the dysfunctional By Kevin Forestieri ents, both excited and a little bit to the district’s Dual Immer- campus, with the Dual Immer- school board, the achievement anxious, and the first day for sion choice program, which sion program dubbed Gabriela gap and spending plans for the onday marked the Gabriela Mistral Elementary, teaches students in both Eng- Mistral School. Measure G bond money. Many first day of school for the Mountain View Whisman lish and Spanish until they In an emotional speech fol- of the candidates claimed to have Mbustling crowds of district’s newest school. lowing the vote, Board President the experience and the perspec- kindergarten students and par- Mistral Elementary is home See MISTRAL, page 10 Ellen Wheeler emphasized that tive needed to round out the the board needs a voice for the board. underrepresented minority stu- Gutiérrez told the board that dents in the district. She said that one of his top priorities in roughly 35 percent of students working with the superinten- One year later, unsolved slaying in the district are Latino, with dent would be to narrow the a similar percentage of students achievement gap and improve from low-income families, yet the test scores of underrepre- at Shoreline haunts family the board hasn’t had that same sented minority students in the VICTIM’S FAMILY SUES CITY, CONCERT ORGANIZERS representation. district. “There’s a lot of people who In the first round of votes, By Mark Noack investigation, for Johnson’s shooting on the city think it’s about time we had board members homed in on but even though of Mountain View as well as rap- someone from Castro on the Gutiérrez, district parent Sanjay lmost one year ago to his death is per “Young Jeezy” and the orga- board,” Wheeler said. Dave, former City Council mem- the day, 38-year-old Eric unsolved it nizers behind hip-hop artist Wiz Gutiérrez said he was “ecstatic” ber Tom Means, community AJohnson of Contra Costa could soon be Khalifa’s “Under the Influence of to join the school board, and that activist Lisa Garcia and former County was shot and killed while a matter for the Music” tour. he has to get moving to prepare district parent Steve Sherman. backstage at a Shoreline Amphi- courts. A civil Exactly what precipitated John- for the school board meeting on The second round of votes led theatre concert. His Aug. 22, 2014 lawsuit recent- Eric Johnson son’s shooting last year still Thursday of this week. to an unexpected four-way tie, slaying remains the subject of an ly filed by his “I’ve got a lot of homework to ongoing Mountain View police mother is pinning responsibility See UNSOLVED SLAYING, page 9 do,” Gutiérrez said. 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