Please join us on Tuesday, December 1st, at 6:30 at Las Palomas Restaurant for the fourth ABC Board Meeting of the 2009 – 2010 school year. Everyone is welcome. Our monthly board meetings will be held the first Tuesday of each month at 6:30 at Las Palomas. Any changes to the meeting schedule will be posted [...]
Planning on doing any “Black Friday” or “Cyber Monday” shopping at Amazon? Start by following one of our links to Amazon.com and Amazon will pay ABC a portion of each purchase that you make. You pay nothing extra, and the highly capable students of Puyallup benefit. You can follow the link in this message, or the [...]
There are a number of important events rapidly approaching that you need to know about, so we’re writing a special advocacy update to bring you up to speed. The Puyallup highly capable programs did very well in the face of last year’s financial challenges, but that doesn’t mean that we can be complacent. Discussions are underway [...]
As Thanksgiving approaches, it only seems proper that I take a moment to let you know a few of the things I’m thankful for this year. My list could never be all inclusive, so I should probably start by telling you I’m thankful for those who will understand if they aren’t mentioned specifically, because they know that I [...]
Many local businesses and government agencies have kicked off or will soon be kicking off their annual giving campaigns. Not only does this present an opportunity to make an impact on highly-capable education in the Puyallup School District through a tax-deductible contribution to ABC, often this presents an opportunity to increase the impact of your [...]
The Puyallup School District has put a programs and operations levy on the February 9, 2010 ballot. This levy provides for about 21% of the total District budget — about $40 million dollars, and roughly 1 in 5 staff positions. This levy will replace current expiring programs and operations levy. From the Puyallup School District’s [...]
