Browse past news stories for Piru Elementary School in Piru, CA.

• Fillmore Unified School District Regular Board Meeting (The Fillmore Gazette)
  posted on November 16, 2009 at 11:08:13 pm
  AGENDA 5:15 p.m. I. CALL TO ORDER AND PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG II. ROLL CALL III. PUBLIC COMMENT ON NONAGENDA ITEMS, PETITIONS This is the time and place to address the Board.
• Sweeney, School Board Deny Piru Charter (The Fillmore Gazette)
  posted on November 12, 2009 at 05:23:12 am
  On Monday, November 9th, 2009 the Fillmore Unified School District board rejected a petition to convert Piru Elementary School into an independent charter campus. Petitioners said they plan to appeal the decision to the Ventura County Board of Education.
• FHS Senior Ian Gaven Patrick McKeown enters US Army's Delayed Entry Program (The Fillmore Gazette)
  posted on November 5, 2009 at 02:53:13 am
  Imagine, or can you remember, being seventeen years old and in your senior year at Fillmore High School (FHS). Your Senior year at FHS means being busy with studies, school activities and stressful long hours trying to figure out what your future will be like!
• Charter decision to be rendered Nov. 9th (The Fillmore Gazette)
  posted on November 5, 2009 at 02:23:23 am
  The Fillmore Unified School District received a petition for the conversion of Piru Elementary School to a charter school to be known as the Piru Charter School.
• FUSD Board Honors Blanca Martinez (The Fillmore Gazette)
  posted on October 22, 2009 at 09:38:13 am
  Pictured above (l-r) Tony Prado, Tricia Gradias, and Blanca Martinez. At the opening of the Fillmore Unified School District board meeting on Tuesday, October 20, Blanca Martinez was recognized as the Power of One recipient for 35 years of service to the district.
• Piru Charter School Meeting (The Fillmore Gazette)
  posted on October 13, 2009 at 07:08:23 am
  The Fillmore Unified School District received a petition for the conversion of Piru Elementary School to a charter school to be known as the Piru Charter School.
• Fillmore Middle School Intervention Highlights School Board Meeting (The Fillmore Gazette)
  posted on October 8, 2009 at 12:53:13 am
  An overflow crowd filled the Fillmore School Board meeting Tuesday night October 5, 2009. Before the regular session began at 6:oo pm, more chairs were set up to accommodate all waiting community members as they streamed into the room.
• “Piru Charter School train has left the station” (The Fillmore Gazette)
  posted on October 1, 2009 at 12:38:13 am
  Nine teachers from Piru Elementary School, working with their former principal Richard Durborow, mailed a charter school petition last week to Fillmore Unified School District (FUSD) Superintendent Jeff Sweeney and Board Members beginning the process to obtain charter status for Piru Elementary School.
• Piru Elementary School Files Petition To Become Charter School (The Fillmore Gazette)
  posted on September 24, 2009 at 04:23:23 am
  Nine teachers from Piru Elementary School, working with their former principal Richard Durborow, mailed a charter school petition this week to Fillmore Unified School District (FUSD) Superintendent Jeff Sweeney and Board Members beginning the process to obtain charter status for Piru Elementary School.
• United States Army Specialist Eleazar Lopez Assigned to Kandahar, Afghanistan (The Fillmore Gazette)
  posted on September 10, 2009 at 01:23:22 am
  U.S. Army Specialist Eleazar Lopez. Eleazar Lopez, 20 years old, is a 2007 Fillmore High School Graduate and Fillmore native. When I last wrote about Eleazar Lopez in June 2008 he said with enthusiasm, “I graduated with the greatest class ever!”
• District Office Preparing for School (The Fillmore Gazette)
  posted on August 6, 2009 at 05:10:20 am
  Fillmore Unified School District Board members meet August 4, 2009.
• 25th Annual Piru Softball Tournament Draws Regional Competitors (The Fillmore Gazette)
  posted on July 22, 2009 at 10:36:49 pm
  Piru’s “One River Stadium”, located in Warring Park, was again the focal point for baseball fever as the three-day 25th Annual Piru Softball Tournament drew crowds of players and fans for this yearly event.
• School Administrators React to API Scores (The Fillmore Gazette)
  posted on July 2, 2009 at 12:17:52 am
  FUSD Administrators hope scores are recovering from last year’s dip.
• Community grieves for Denise (The Fillmore Gazette)
  posted on May 20, 2009 at 11:17:32 pm
  Dear Friends of Piru and Fillmore: As you may have heard or read, Piru lost one of our young one’s with this weekend’s tragic drowning of 9-year old Denise Arredondo at Lake Piru.
• School Budget Controversy Continues (The Fillmore Gazette)
  posted on May 14, 2009 at 01:17:32 am
  Confusion surrounds much of the controversy between the District Office and School Employees.