Delaine Eastin to visit Yosemite High School

 

Yosemite High School

Delaine Eastin, state superintendent of public instruction, will visit Yosemite High School on Thursday [August 29].

She will meet with administrators and students, then tour the campus prior to a luncheon with staff, members of last year's YHS Site Council, district trustees and guests from the community.

Superintendent Eastin selected YHS as one of the schools she is visiting this year because of the Environmental and Spatial Technology [EAST] laboratory and because YHS is a California Distinguished School.

It is a significant honor for a school to be nominated and chosen as a California Distinguished School and the Mountain Area is proud of YHS.

Yosemite High School Prin­ci­pal Steve Raupp says Mrs. Eastin is interested in seeing classrooms, visiting with students and observing the programs that helped the school earn the Distinguished School honor.

In addition to the EAST lab, Mrs. Eastin will visit the newly renovated science laboratories, the Badger Art Gallery, the library/media center and some of the vocational education classrooms.

YHS was one of 10 schools in California to be awarded a grant two years ago to establish the EAST lab. Because it was one of the first labs in the state, it is a demonstration site that has been visited many times since it opened.

Visitors have included teachers and students from throughout the region as well as EAST officials from Arkansas.

Mr. Raupp says it is an honor to be selected for a visit by Mrs. Eastin.

 “We have known that she was going to come to our campus for quite some time but only received the confirmed date this week,” he says.