HBUHSD Board of Trustees to develop trustee area election system
The change from an at-large voting system will take place beginning in the 2024 election cycle.
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California plans to add Southeast Asian studies to curriculum, including Vietnamese refugee experience
California is developing its first ever Southeast Asian curriculum, set to be done by September 2025. Through extensive outreach to the Asian community for feedback, the model curriculum is on track be a collaborative and extensive push towards adequate Southeast Asian historical representation.
Algebra 2 Honors to replace Algebra 2 and Trigonometry class
The new honors course will now serve as the advanced and weighted alternative to Algebra 2 starting in the 2023-2024 school year.
FVHS creates new WellSpace ‘Le Sanctuaire’
During this summer, FVHS will be building its new wellness center, ‘Le Sanctuaire.’ As a part of a county-wide initiative to promote better mental health for teenagers, ‘Le Sanctuaire’ will be a safe space for students to visit and practice mindfulness.
Fountain Valley High School teachers considering a new 2023-2024 bell schedule
Both traditional and block bell schedules will be considered as options for next school year.
HBUHSD’s possible push away from physical textbooks
The district may integrate more online resources into courses in the future.
HBUHSD finalizes withdrawal from Coastline Regional Occupational Program
The Board of Trustees unanimously approved the withdrawal which will be effective June 30, 2023.
Vietnamese should be offered as a language class at FVHS
Fountain Valley High School is composed of a predominant Asian majority with many of those students being Vietnamese, yet, the language isn’t offered as a course even though many students can benefit from it.
Teachers’ union and district close in on a new employment contract after more than a year of turbulent negotiations
Over the last year and a half, the teachers’ union and HBUHSD have gone through several attempts to agree on a new contract for the 2021-2022 and 2022-2023 school years. With the release of their first tentative agreement on Nov. 3, the process to this contract has had many steps.
How the new bell schedule has affected FVHS students and staff
Approximately one month into the school year, students and staff discuss the impacts of certain changes in the bell schedule and the reasoning behind them.