INSIDE THIS ISSUE Camp 1st Place Connection GENERAL Summer 2017 EXCELLENCE California Newspaper Publishers Association FEBRUARY 24, 2017 VOLUME 25, NO. 5 www.MountainViewOnline.com 650.964.6300 MOVIES | 20 Math program’s flaws hidden from board, public MV WHISMAN DISTRICT OFFICIALS HID COMPLAINTS, PROBLEMS PLAGUING TEACH TO ONE By Kevin Forestieri that adjust daily lessons based on each student’s needs. The or Mountain View Whis- pilot launched at the start of the man School District’s elect- school year for the roughly 500 Fed board members, the sixth-grade students attending cascade of problems that flowed Crittenden and Graham middle from the ill-fated new Teach schools, and it didn’t take long for to One math program wasn’t troubling signs to appear. even on the radar. Every passing Using a Public Records Act week that teachers grappled with request, the Voice obtained emails technological crises and numer- between district staff and employ- ous parents demanded fixes was ees of New Classrooms, the com- another week the district office pany behind Teach to One; the stayed mum about the problems. emails revealed one major snag MICHELLE LE Emmett Carson is CEO of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation. The Mountain View-based charity But for anyone in the know, in the system after another — controls $8.2 billion in assets that are directed to philanthropic efforts both at home and abroad. the writing a teacher get- was on the ting assigned 49 wall as early ‘I cannot add more students in her as November class, identi- Silicon Valley’s rainmaker charity turns 10 that Teach parent concerns about cal lessons from to One was TTO than we already one day to the FOUNDATION’S GROWTH SPURS IT TO LOOK BEYOND BAY AREA going to fall next, week-long apart. Dis- have or we are going tech hangups, By Mark Noack all have in common? rainmaker like none other. trict officials math problems Money — specifically money Considered the largest orga- feared “some- to run the risk of for sixth-graders hat do a rural arts that flows to each of these nization of its kind, SVCF has thing ugly” full-scale parent and that inexplicably center in Kyrgyzstan, initiatives from the Silicon become a lifeline for hun- was bound extended into Wa climate-change Valley Community Founda- dreds of nonprofits, NGOs to happen — teacher revolt.’ trigonometry, think tank in metropolitan tion (SVCF), the Mountain and independent do-gooders, whether it be and students with Chicago and a science banquet View-based organization that ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT a total revolt disabilities being held each year at Moffett Field has become a philanthropic See SVCF, page 10 by parents CATHY BAUR illegally denied and teachers extra time to fin- or bad press — that would kill the ish exams. program. The emails show that a deluge Publicly, however, Superinten- of parent concerns would fre- Wanted: more applicants for rent-control board dent Ayinde Rudolph announced quently pour into the district that “mixed test results” were to office after teachers and district QUALIFICATIONS: MUST BE A MOUNTAIN VIEW LANDLORD blame when the district abruptly staff sent out messages attempt- pulled the plug on Teach to One in ing to demystify Teach to One. By Mark Noack Council members were sched- apartments in the city but its January. After an email blast on Sept. 16 uled to pick their top candidates implementation has been delayed Last year, district officials about how Teach to One works, t didn’t quite rise to the level for Mountain View’s new Rental by a lawsuit filed by a landlord decided to run a “pilot project” one parent raised concerns that of naming a new justice to the Housing Committee, the pow- group. using Teach to One, a digital the curriculum was impossible IU.S. Supreme Court — but at erful new panel in charge of After putting candi- math curriculum that prom- to follow, and made it impossible times the Mountain View City implementing Measure V, the dates through two rounds of ises individualized learning plans Council’s Feb. 21 meeting sure rent control regulations. 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