This is AMAZING. Please come back!". Here's the new, best answer. of students and parents agree that clubs and organizations get the funding they need. world. with Embarcadero and a part of Melville shutdown for months; Surely environmental science is part of the curriculum. Josh Reuter has wanted to coach the football team at Mason City High School since he joined the district as a physical education teacher nine years ago. Maybe Casti should pay its staff more so they can live closer? Here's the new, best answer. Understanding the importance of actively teaching and learning antiracism, our leadership competenciesprepare Castilleja graduatesto lead with compassionand insight toeffect meaningful change in the world. Castilleja proposed a garage. and current research that affirm the significant personal and Because we have lived with the current CUP and how that has been complied with historically, it is a huge leap that just because it will be written that there will be no new trips, that will in fact happen. Yes, misogyny and discrimination are blatant here in Silicon Valley. There are currently 89 surface parking spaces on campus, see Fehr + Peers report, footnote 5 in the staff report. Staff's preferred design combines these underground spaces with 11 new at-grade spaces and 26 existing ones for a total of 89 spaces. My question is: WHAT IS IN THE BEST INTERESTS OF PALO ALTO? Obituaries While this would require a 14% reduction in the parking requirement, Planning Director Jonathan Lait suggested in a report that staff would be amenable to adjusting the parking requirements, given Castilleja's suite of measures that discourage driving to school. The assertion that the neighbors are to blame for "holding up the entire project" is not credible. And what's the obligation of the parents and their hometowns? Vice Mayor Burt co-chairs those meetings so he hears the communitys concerns. If Casti supporters and parents really wanted to end the discrimination, sexism and misogyny their daughters -- and all women -- face here, they could eradicate it at the companies, law firms, vc firms etc. The application deadline for Castilleja School is Jan. 9. And Online Name is right to be skeptical about the no new trips claim. @Rita Vrhel, And if it is accurate that Casti added the garage to the plan only b/c neighbors requested it, why not remove it now so that the modernization can begin? Sorry, but further commenting on this topic has been closed. We explore the importance of teaching students how to attribute the work and ideas of others. A North Texas high school is mourning the loss of a beloved wrestling coach. Ron DeSantis apocalyptic attack on higher education. Become a member today. Because current floor area is significantly in excess of what's allowed when you tear down 5 buildings to be replaced by 1 building, that's why they need a Variance. 1. Castilleja Head of School GUIDING THEMES Each year, Ms. KauffmanHA carefully selects a theme for the school year and distributes a sticker on opening day: Belonging 2019-20, Justice 2020-21,. Become a member today. Approving Castilleja, which draws 75% of its students from out of town, for EXPANSION--more students, more sq. Palo Alto backs e-bike ban on Baylands trails, Stanford sues Santa Clara County over tax exemptions for faculty residences, Hit-and-run driver kills man, crashes into five cars Sunday morning, Santa Clara County wants to put millions into child care, California homelessness: Where are the state's billions going? "We take cars off the street, we save additional trees, we reduce our footprint, we exceed Palo Alto's sustainability goals and we educate more girls.". We are proud and humbled to bring together highly-motivated, intellectually curious young women from diverse backgrounds to collaborate within our community. It's a shame the city never bothered to update the traffic numbers so they could really determine the amount of increased traffic. Surely the large contingent of supporters of Castilleja could pitch in to help them find an alternate location for a temporary campus in existing buildings or in temporary mobile classrooms (ie as now planned on their athletic field) . Castilleja has been around before any of the neighbors. Large parking structures are not environmentally friendly. Blogs While Castilleja has been here longer than the houses and I do not think they need to relocate, I like Leland's comment about selling the land to a developer! The City Council concurred with some of the arguments from the project's critics in March, when it reviewed Castilleja's plans and directed it to reduce its proposed underground garage a target for project opponents and to further refine the design of its buildings to make it more compatible with the residential areas that abut its campus at 1310 Bryant St.The revised plans, which seek to respond to the council's direction, are now set to undergo a series of reviews by the Architectural Review Board, which will consider them on Dec. 2, and the Planning and Transportation Commission, which will review them on Dec. 8. and self-confidence to reach her full potential. Nanci Kauffman, head of Castilleja, said Monday that the school is prepared to reduce its proposed square footage in accordance with the council's direction, but said she hopes this "minor change . But with enough housing to reduce these insane prices (or at least slow increases), many more staff/students could live close enough to walk or bike, and there'd be far less need for parking (and fewer complaints about traffic)." Based on the $3.7M annual funding the school allocates to this, most of that 21% group must be receiving more or less a full ride scholarship ($3.7M is enough to cover 16% of students at the full $54k each). With sixty girls in one grade, it would seem that competition would be prevalent, especially during the college process. I am a former employee of Castilleja and an almost lifelong resident of Palo Alto, and continue to strongly support the school's plans to modernize the aging campus and offer enrollment to more high school students. My life is forever changed and I will bring the lessons you have taught me throughout the rest of my life. And for good reasons. Castilleja School Photo #6 - Sophomores tackle chemistry class. "We just want to be educating girls," Kauffman said. intellectual advantages of all-girls education. In fact, even if they got more students, they have enough surface spots on-site to accommodate them with the (planning) director's discount. So, I asked ChatGPT to explain itself. Special Pubs It is calculated using the reported number of students and full-time equivalent teachers. Finally, one question about the massing on Kellogg. "The TDM plan has been further enhanced and is expected to result in reduced parking demand.". Stay informed on important city government news. Tuition is $56,500 for the highest grade offered. These activities, which would be relegated to the underground garage in the original proposal, would now take place in designated loading areas in the Emerson parking lot.When added to 26 surface spaces that currently exist and that would remain, Scheme E creates a total of 89 spaces. Promotions 6th to 12th Grade Tuition & Fees are $54,000. These including new shuttle and bus routes, a bike-share program, a "guaranteed ride home" program for employees who don't drive but who need may need to leave the school for an emergency (they would be reimbursed for the cost of transportation) and a new Castilleja Lyft program that will provide free midday rides for faculty and staff, according to the plan that the school released last month.If the school fails to meet its trip cap numbers, it would also establish a "Kiss n' Ride" program that allows parents to drop off and pick up their children at an off-site location about 15 minutes before school starts. Of course schools have to modernize. There aren't endless acres of undeveloped, properly zoned/approved PA land, just waiting for more single family homes to be built - we need to build many more duplexes, triplexes, apartments, etc, on the finite amount of land we have. I live within steps of people who have posted above and are persistently concerned about the "expansion". "Additionally, such reduction responds to concerns expressed by some community members about the size of the originally proposed structure.". Visitor Info, Send News Tips Downtown parking garage. But, Castilleja has so many fun events and traditions. Board member David Hirsch urged significant revisions to the layout of the project, including setting the building's further back and creating a drop-off and pick-up area for students on Kellogg Street. Many of these community complaints would be solved if the community wasn't also so opposed to building more (and denser) housing in Palo Alto. [6][7] She was a charter member of Alpha Phi and was the first Stanford Alpha Phi elected to Phi Beta Kappa. of students and parents agree that students at this school are athletic. It also includes measures that require Castilleja to prove that its transportation measures are effective before it can gradually increase enrollment from the current level of 422 students to 540. "It's often called an 'expansion,' but the footprint would be smaller. Since 2015, the 112-year-old private girls school in Old Palo Alto has been planning to rebuild its aging facilities and construct a parking structure beneath an old playing field on the six-acre campus. Let Castilleja move to a new location like most of the other private schools have done - Keys, Pinewood, Harker are just a few. Now back to the Casti specifics. Any proposal that has a garage entrance or exit on Bryant should be immediately discarded. MOBILE, Ala. - Well it looks like Theodore football has found their guy.Steve Mask has accepted the head coaching position with the Bobcats. This is a wonderful neighborhood, but it simply isn't practical to block all new development in an attempt to pretend it's still 1990. Casti should sell the property to a developer and put in low income housing then watch neighbors scream "NOOOO, We were only kidding! Palo Alto backs e-bike ban on Baylands trails, Stanford sues Santa Clara County over tax exemptions for faculty residences, Hit-and-run driver kills man, crashes into five cars Sunday morning, Santa Clara County wants to put millions into child care, California homelessness: Where are the state's billions going? If Casti were to apply today to locate in a residential neighborhood it wouldnt be permitted. As in the past, the public was split between those who believe Castilleja is still asking for too much, particularly when it comes to its proposed underground garage, and those who argued that Castilleja's project is worthy of approval and that the city's process has already dragged on for too long. One reason this has taken so long is that the applicant has persisted with plans that include an enormous garage. "If they were to request a 10% enrollment increase, we'd be looking at about 450 students and there's there's sufficient parking on-site for 450. This is not about education, it is about greed and hubris. ", "It's doing something that is really powerful and I want to emphasize that," Thompson said. Are you suggesting that Palo Alto's 25K taxpaying household provide/ subsidize housing for a private school whose students are 75% commuters? From that moment on, I was determined to make excellence in single-sex education accessible to as many girls as possible. Castilleja School 5.00 (1 review) 1310 Bryant St Palo Alto, CA 94301 Tel: (650) 328-3160 www.castilleja.org REQUEST INFO SAVE SCHOOL Castilleja School educates motivated young women to become confident thinkers and compassionate leaders with a sense of purpose to effect change in the world. 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Funny how they could do that when, as Rita Vrhel noted in her speech, they were working with incomplete information since various critical reports were never forwarded to the decision-makers A shameful waste of taxpayers money!! And isn't the staff already stuck parking in the Baylands and being shuttled onto campus while students will use the campus parking? In all the years this has been on the table, we see the same cycle repeat. Three of Castilleja's proposed designs include 52 underground parking spaces, while two other options have 57 and 69 underground spaces, respectively. @Staying Home - In PA, housing is effectively a finite resource. The only reason anyone knew that Castilleja had surpassed their enrollment is because Castilleja got a new head who reported it. Director of Operations Castilleja is a private, all-girls school located in Palo Alto whose mission is to educate motivated young women to become confident thinkers and compassionate leaders with a sense of purpose to effect change in the world. The skepticism about that is valid; the City is weak in enforcement and the school has a history of exceeding enrollment. Thanksfor the article on Castilleja'sexpansion. Advertising Info Sign up for our. I also attended and LOL when Alcheck made his comments about the garage; that commissioner has garage history; I think he favors them! Nanci Kauffman is Castilleja's sixth Head of School. Now Castilleja wants to wreck it all with this proposal. Don't miss out on the discussion! Castilleja's 6th through 12th grade program offers opportunities for girls across all grade levels to develop a keen sense of self and an unbridled zeal for exploration, innovation, and friendship. Be careful what you wish for neighbors!! Based on student and parent reviews of clubs and activities. [3][4], Castilleja was founded in 1907 by Mary Ishbel Lockey. Sexism. Andie Reed, one of the group's co-founders, noted that even the revised project includes elements that residents have consistently deemed to be problematic namely, an underground garage that many believe is incompatible with the neighborhood. Home On page 1 this report indicated Alternative 4, the Disbursed Circulation/ No Garage Alternative-would meet the Citys Municipal Code requirements providing 104 parking spaces, which is based on the number of teaching stations. Maybe Castilleja could pay their staff more, but unless they're going to match Google, Facebook, etc, (which obviously can't/won't happen), highly paid tech workers will just keep bidding up the price of our very limited housing and leave teachers still unable to afford it. "We don't need a CO2-belching industrial concrete garage in our neighborhood," Levinsky told the commission. Books & Uniforms (new or used): $650 - 1,100 Otherwise, they would have to build a smaller structure and pay hundreds of thousands to redesign it to comply with the codes. "Our plan now checks all the boxes," Kauffman told the planning commission Wednesday night. ""We have not compromised internally enough to give them a fair description of what they need to do," Baltay said.Both the architectural board and the planning commission plan to hold further meetings on the proposal before it goes back to the council next year for another hearing. Now, a century later, Castilleja's mission expands beyond Mary Lockey's founding principle by educating young women to become compassionate leaders and global citizens. The opposition to this project keep referring it to a large scale expansion and that Castilleja wants bigger buildings. placed on academic development, Castilleja is just as committed to Castilleja School Photo #7 - Our multi-story athletics center includes spinning, a yoga studio, rock climbing wall, cardio room, and dance studio in addition to two full-size gymnasiums. non-sectarian all-girls middle and high school in the San Francisco It has 416 students in grades 6-12 with a student-teacher ratio of 7 to 1. Yet another said the EIR did not fully address GHG emissions. Global Investigator trip for all 11th graders. "Does it seem to you that this is going to bite us in the rear when we look at this project in the future and ask, 'Why did we make a big deal out of this minor difference in underground parking?'" Likely that is why Planning chose not to include the actual report only a link ARB's or PTC's packet. Before joining the Palo Alto Weekly/PaloAltoOnline.com in 2008, he covered breaking news and local politics for the Waterbury Republican-American, a daily newspaper in Connecticut. Castilleja School ranks among the top 20% of private schools in California for: Castilleja School's tuition is approximately $49,900 for private students. When I first came, I was a little nervous as I had heard of Casti's reputation as rigorous and competitive. Castilleja is a member of the California Association of Independent Schools[2] and the National Coalition of Girls' Schools. This time its in the form of a planned underground parking structure that school and city planning officials describe as a basement but a majority of Palo Alto City Council members consider a garage. I bet you wouldn't be able to fight that project! "We don't need a CO2-belching industrial concrete garage in our neighborhood," Levinsky told the commission. The school's modernization plans have polarized the Professorville and Old Palo Alto neighborhoods, with some residents panning Castilleja's construction plan as a colossal overreach and an affront on the surrounding single-family neighborhood, and others calling a sorely needed upgrade for an acclaimed institution dedicated to educating young women. Three of Castilleja's proposed designs include 52 underground parking spaces, while two other options have 57 and 69 underground spaces, respectively.So far, planning staff is leaning toward what's known as "Scheme E," which combines a 52-space underground garage with 11 new at-grade parking spaces. AND the additional enrollment. We were glad to see city council land on a 450 max enrollment to start, which most neighbors would support, and then entertain further requests down the road. Mask stepped down as the head coach at Pell City High . "With public testimony stretching until nearly midnight, the planning commission deferred its own discussion of Castilleja's plans until Dec. 15. Castilleja School Photo #9 - The Class of 2013 is all smiles at the splish-splash party! In previous meetings, PNQL members have stated that they're fine with the enrollment increase as long as the garage isn't built. @Online Name - It's worth noting that 21% of Castilleja students receive tuition assistance, so the students are clearly *not* all from wealthy families who you implied could easily afford to live in PA but choose not to. PR MediaRelease But Vice Mayor Pat Burt resented the strategy and city planners apparent willingness to go along. They are also increasing underground square footage by adding an additional 36,000 square feet underground. Castilleja School Photo #4 - Freshman are introduced to "blinkie bugs" and other hands-on physics expiraments. Exactly what I needed: Los Gatos teachers move into affordable units Nanci Kauffman, Castilleja's head of school, told this news of organization that the school believes its new plans "check all the boxes" when it comes to addressing concerns from residents, city commissioners and the council. "We think a 30% increase in enrollment excessive," Reed said in an interview. Thank you, Lorraine, I appreciate your bringing that up. Through coursework, arts, athletics, and an array of co-curricular experiences, Castilleja students become inquisitive and persevering learners. It would be great to somehow put both those issues to rest. Castilleja School is an independent school for girls in grades six through twelve, located in Palo Alto, California. Sponsored content @midtownmadness: I call BS that this issue is due to Palo Alto housing problem. In 1907, Mary Lockey opened the doors to Castilleja School to pursue a revolutionary ideato provide young women with the educational opportunities needed to seek a college education. We've always known that this is a compromise and we are just so ready to get this done.". It includes five different designs for the garage, as well as new restrictions on the number of school events a source of consternation for some of the school's neighbors. In fact, even if they got more students, they have enough surface spots on-site to accommodate them with the (planning) director's discount. Were really digging to see how we could get to yes, but I fear the conclusion may be no. Jul 2010 - Present12 years 7 months. Blah. TownSquare Also, please realize that if any of the students are on a club sport, they will be driving or having someone come pick them up; don't think that they will take a train or public transit. Sponsored content The information contained in these 2 reports should cause the PTC to send Castillejas expansion plans back to the drawing board. It's not one blank wall. One commissioner, Michael Alcheck, suggested at the onset of the meeting that the city's concerns about the proposed garage may be overblown. Castilleja School Photo #8 - Seniors show off their school spirit! Embarcadero Media file photo by Magali Gauthier. PALO ALTO Castilleja Schools proposed expansion, a sore subject among neighbors who have been fighting it for years, has hit another roadblock. they remain out of compliance with. Castilleja's pedagogical approach is shaped both by tradition An unfortunate case of "Who's on First." "The review process has gone on for long enough" is perhaps the worst argument for approval I've ever seen. Redwood City Pulse, 2023 Palo Alto Online where they work and hold top positions. [15] In June of 2022, the Palo Alto City Council approved the school's permit to expand the school's enrollment, renovate its campus, and build a parking garage. Its like threading a needle. Time and time again, Castilleja has revised their plans to meet the demands of the neighbors, yet the neighbors turn down every solution. remains true to its mission to give each young woman an "educated Web Link The school tweeted, "Castilleja School is committed to creating an anti-racist curriculum and making space for difficult conversations about racism." . This process has continued to devolve, as each time Castilleja changes its plan in deference to the naysayers, those [portion removed] pivot to some other minuscule detail to complain about. Mountain View Voice The school desperately needs to modernize the buildings and the process in order to do so has been ridiculous. The length and complexity of the approval process has not discouraged the school, Kauffman said, given the improvements in the project. Express / Weekend Express Terms of Use I think we've pretty much been saying the same thing for 5 years. "If Castilleja really wants 500 to 600 students, it's time to move or open another campus like so many others do. It's a game of pay-to-play musical chairs, with more people constantly being added, but basically the same number of chairs then only the wealthiest players can afford a seat and everyone acts surprised that prices keep skyrocketing. Castilleja, for its part, has consistently rejected the notion that it is looking to "expand." "There's a lot of breaks happening in its faade, there's a lot of void. of students and parents agree that the teachers adequately lead and control the classroom. Period. Selecting a category below will take you to another page. Every single one of my classmates will become amazing women when they grow up, and Castilleja has been instrumental in developing our confidence, poise, ability to express ourselves, and compassion for others. Schools deserve to be in neighborhoods. Castilleja School is a top rated, private, all-girls school located in PALO ALTO, CA. If some people thought those speeches are unnecessary, they are probably against having the school in Palo Alto in general or else they don't understand the point of the school's proposed modernization. Suddenly, from being a reasonably quiet residential neighborhood, 75% of its students are commuting daily into the neighborhood and the school begins its continual expansion creep with an increasing number of disruptive evening and weekend events. The school's new plans include five garage designs, though only three comply with the council's request that underground parking make up no more than 50% of the total spaces on campus. 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