New All Tribes Elementary Charter School nearing completion




New All Tribes Elementary Charter School campus is now under construction.

New All Tribes Elementary Charter School campus is now under construction.

New All Tribes Elementary Charter School campus is now under construction. photo by Dan Weisman / Roadrunner.Work continued this week in earnest on the new $3.8 million All Tribes Elementary Charter School now slated for opening early next year. The last portable building arrived just before Thanksgiving and, after much ado, the long-awaited move on up to the deluxe campus in the sky is good to go.

It’s been a long and winding process for the tribes school to get from there to here at the Rincon location jet past Harrah’s on Valley Center Road.

The road began in the late 2000s, actually as Valley Center-Pauma Unified School District officials clashed with tribal educators over financial management, the K-5 elementary school reorganized as

 

 

a tribal school serving North County Reservations in 2010.

With the $3.8 million federal grant in hand, two high bids called for the job to be split between construction companies and into two phases. The school’s initial timetable called for it to be completed by last May. That didn’t happen and the new completion date was set for late December.

As students return next year, they’ll continue enjoying the benefits of a six-year accreditation granted by the leading Accrediting Commission for Schools, Western Association of Schools and Colleges. That represents the longest accreditation of a school in the group’s history.

In other news, lead teacher Michelle Parada previously was named educator of the year by the National Indian Education Association


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