BURBANK : 11 Campuses Named Distinguished Schools
The Burbank Unified School District will celebrate its recent successes in the competition for the California Distinguished Schools Award next week with a special ceremony honoring the staffs, students and teachers of nine schools, district officials said.
“We really haven’t done a citywide recognition of the fact that we have nine distinguished schools in Burbank,” said Bob Fraser, director of elementary education. “This is a way to give credit to everyone involved.”
Five of Burbank’s 11 public elementary schools--Bret Harte, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, Robert Louis Stevenson and George Washington--were among more than 200 schools in the state to win the award for 1994-95.
The distinguished school, the highest honor for public schools in the state, is awarded after an evaluation process by the state Department of Education.
The district’s three middle schools were all named distinguished schools last year, and Burbank High won the honor the year before, Fraser said.
The district will celebrate “California Distinguished Schools Day” at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday with a ceremony in the center court of the Media City Center Mall.
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