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LOS ALAMITOS

Polakoff Honored for Board Efforts

Keith Polakoff, who served as a school board member for four years, was recently honored for his work with the Los Alamitos Unified School District.

Polakoff’s term will end Monday. This year, he served as president of the five-member Board of Education. He was one of the authors of Proposition K, a $13-million bond measure voters approved in 1990 for school repairs.

He said that one of the toughest challenges during his term has been to maintain quality school programs in the face of continued state budget cuts.

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IRVINE

Water District Donates Computers

The Irvine Ranch Water District has donated 60 computers to University Park Elementary School, where officials have created a schoolwide computer network for all students in grades 3 through 6.

The network has electronic mail, an encyclopedia on CD-ROM, access to computer software and an electronic database that can search the school library. There are 10 computers in each classroom, giving all students access to the network.

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YORBA LINDA

Drolet to Take Encinitas Union Post

Bryant Ranch Elementary School Principal Bonnie Drolet has resigned to become assistant superintendent of the Encinitas Union Elementary School District.

Former Tuffree Middle School Principal George Bowman has been hired to serve as acting principal while the Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District searches for a new administrator for the school.

During her four years at Bryant Ranch, Drolet helped the school earn the California Distinguished School and Blue Ribbon School designations.

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IRVINE

University High Has 25th Anniversary

University High School celebrated its 25th anniversary in November. To mark the milestone, teachers and office workers wore clothing in the style of 1970, the year the school opened.

Students decorated school buildings to represent different eras, and the Irvine Co. presented the University High football booster club with $5,000 during halftime at a recent football game.

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TUSTIN

Foothill High Makes the State ‘Top 100’

Foothill High School is one of the top schools in California, according to the 1994 edition of California School Surveys’ “The Top 100.”

California School Surveys ranks all public schools in the state based on test scores from the California Learning Assessment System, or CLAS.

School officials said the selection was an honor.

--COMPILED BY BERT ELJERA WITH RUSS LOAR, JEFF BEAN AND DANIELLE A. FOUQUETTE