This morning's speaker at our Realtors' breakfast was Polly Bove, the Fremont Union High School District Superintendent. We in the real estate industry are well aware that good schools drive our market. The fact that all five schools in the district are Distinguished Schools is what keeps property values strong in our area. One of the reasons that the schools do so well is that staff and teachers put the students first. The teachers took a rollback in salary in 2003, rather than cut programs.
What I didn't realize is that the bulk of the district's students live in Sunnyvale, and that the district controls the nonresidents who try to attend these schools by "bed checks"...to the tune of $3 million in savings a year. Their methods range from checking county ownership records to watching the students leave for school in the morning. Funds are still tight, and ball fields, driveways and lunchroom kitchens are all neglected for lack of money. Watch for a bond measure on the November ballot.
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