Board to Address Monte Vista Programs
Whether to restructure or relocate programs now operating at Monte Vista Alternative Education Center will be a topic for debate at tonight’s meeting of Newport-Mesa Unified School District trustees.
The district may need to add an elementary school soon to accommodate an expected boom in enrollment, officials said, and designating Monte Vista as an elementary school would be less expensive than reopening a campus now shut down.
“It is far, far less expensive than opening a closed school,” Trustee Judy Franco said.
But the board would have to find a home for programs now housed at Monte Vista, including the district’s independent study program and its continuation high school.
One possibility discussed in previous meetings would be to move both programs to Davis School, which is where the district now holds adult education programs. Another would be to separate alternative education programs and put them on different high school campuses.
The board meets at 7 p.m. at Harper Community Center, 825 W. 18th St., Costa Mesa.
Information: (714) 760-3200.
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