Sentences with phrase «desert trails»

ATV tours: For an awesome half - day adventure exploring the desert trails and beaches around Cabo San Lucas, all - terrain vehicles promise hours of off - road fun.

Address: 12851 E. Speedway Blvd, Tucson, AZ 85748, Phone: [phone] Best Romantic Weekend Getaways from Phoenix - Photo: Desert Trails Bed and Breakfast

Desert Trails is a classic Arizona adobe - style home located 15 miles from downtown Tucson.

Day Three — On day three, you start the day travelling along the desert trails through Anna Creek Station, passing through the famous dog fence.

Hikers of all fitness levels can enjoy the beautiful Sonoran Desert trails.

Subtle Sub Vehicle: 1989 Chevy Suburban 2500 Owner: Scott and Julie Paine Location: Phoenix, Arizona Chassis: Stock frame Engine: TBI 350ci V - 8 with cold - air intake kit Drivetrain: TH400 transmission, NP208 T - case, 10 - Bolt front axle, 14 - Bolt rear axle Suspension: 4 - inch Rough Country lift springs at all four corners, sway bar drop brackets, Rough Country shocks Steering: Raised steering arm Brakes: Factory front disc, rear drum Tires / Wheels: 35x12.50 R16 Interco M - 16s on Mickey Thompson Classic II wheels Interior: Custom - covered dash matches paint Favorite off - road area: Desert trails around Black Canyon City, Arizona

To make sure the Tacoma was outfitted for higher - speed desert trails while still being able to stretch and flex across muddy ditches and rocks, we chose the Fox 2.5 Factory coilover springs and upper control arms from Total Chaos Fabrication for the front of the truck.

The combination of 20 - inch BBS RD wheels — reminiscent of historic Chevy truck wheel — and aggressive Goodyear Wrangler MT / R tires connect to the chassis via BDS shocks and a four - inch lift kit to help negotiate those desert trails.

Desert Trails Preparatory Academy believes that all students have a right to a safe and healthy school environment.

Having learned lessons from the Compton experience, parent organizers at Desert Trails made clear who they were and what they were doing.

Parents and organizers who led the parent - trigger campaign at Desert Trails Elementary School in Adelanto, Calif. await a decision from their school board about the validity of their petition for a charter school conversion in January 2013.

Rose said that Desert Trails parents would decide what tack to take next later this week.

At Desert Trails Preparatory Academy we are fully implementing the Common Core Standards that have been adopted by the state of California.

But after talks fell apart in early 2011, parents submitted the charter petition with 466 signatures, representing 70 percent of parents and guardians with children at Desert Trails.

San Bernardino County Superior Court Judge Steve Malone ruled that the Adelanto School District trustees illegally rejected the petition submitted by a majority of parents to turn Desert Trails Elementary into a charter school.

But parents might want to wait and see how Adelanto, the Desert Trails school going through the trigger process now, pans out.

Just one school — Desert Trails Elementary in the tiny high - desert town of Adelanto — has been converted into a nonprofit charter school through a parent - trigger campaign.

Desert Trails Preparatory's new principal, Mandy Plantz, and the charter school's director, Debra Tarver, are already preparing their submission to their district for a renewal of the three - year charter, using internal testing data to track improvement.

Desert Trails Preparatory Academy is a public charter school serving scholars from Transitional Kindergarten to 6th grade.

Doreen Diaz, leader of the Desert Trails Parents Union praises the judge's ruling approving their parent - trigger petition during a press conference on Monday.

The other, if district officials aren't willing to work with parents, would hand Desert Trails over to that board entirely.

Let's hope the discourse hasn't turned so poisonous and political that parents are too tired to participate — and that the original urgency of turning around Desert Trails hasn't been lost to the flamewar, like in Compton before it.

The Desert Trails student body is overwhelmingly poor: Of the 400 students whose test scores were included in the 2012 API score, every one of them was categorized as «socioeconomically disadvantaged» by the state.

Here's what attorney Mark Holscher says about the teacher - backed rescission campaign in Adelanto, in a press release issued by Parent Revolution (the nonprofit guiding the Desert Trails «parent union» through this sticky political mess).

New - age reformers — as well as many parents and an ex-administrator at Desert Trails — are convinced that teachers» cushy union contracts are lowering the standard of excellence on campus, and preventing necessary changes to the curriculum.

Morales said the alleged promise of financial cooperation for promoting «Won't Back Down» had no impact on his or other parents» support for the parent trigger effort and bringing in Hesperia charter school LaVerne Preparatory Academy to take over Desert Trails at the end of this school year.

From here, the Desert Trails parent union is considering going door - to - door, once again, to all those houses where parents were talked into taking their signatures back.

Two Desert Trails Parent Union members, Doreen Diaz and Cynthia Ramirez, were involved in promoting the film.

A flier for one rescission rally read, «DESERT TRAILS CHILDREN WILL LOSE THEIR TEACHERS AND PRINCIPAL IF THE PARENT TRIGGER PETITION SUCCEEDS.»

More recently at Desert Trails Elementary in the Adelanto Unified Elementary School District, more than 70 percent of parents signed on to a petition.

A little later today, I'll be headed to Adelanto, a small city in the High Desert of Southern California, where parents at Desert Trails Elementary School plan to deliver petitions to convert the failing public school into an independent charter school.

The father of two children, including a fifth - grader at Desert Trails Elementary School, he helped lead the effort for local parents to use California's parent trigger laws, which allows parents who gather sufficient signatures to wrest control of their school away from officials and, in this case, turn it over to a Hesperia charter school operator at the end of this school year.

Meanwhile, for the past six years, Desert Trails has been on the state's «failing» list, remaining stagnantly in the bottom 10 percent of California schools.

It brings into question the priorities of the district, who has been maintaining a friendlier front than Compton Unified but is clearly not too excited about the prospect of relinquishing financial power over Desert Trails.

As well as some well - organized teachers from next - door Hesperia, who have every interest in preventing the Parent Trigger law from making a historic change at Desert Trails.

It took the Desert Trails parent union months to track down the houses of other parents at the school — mostly through word of mouth.

Which is where we would like to politely intervene: The moms on the Desert Trails parent union have tried everything within their power to secure their kids an equal education.

The blood, sweat and tears that this pack of fed - up Desert Trails moms has put into an immediate turnaround for their slipping children, delving deep into pedagogy research and statistics for success at other schools, is unrivaled by any counter-effort we've observed thus far.

Adelanto school leaders reject parent trigger effort Supporters of changes at struggling Desert Trails Elementary say they will fight the vote in court.

These teachers also say that Tarver, who as executive director of a charter school is paid a salary commensurate to that of a San Bernardino county school district superintendent by both Desert Trails and LaVerne Elementary Preparatory Academy — a combined annual salary of around $ 200,000...»

In its first year, however, the Desert Trails Special Ed program consisted of a single teacher, Special Education Coordinator Tina Fryberger, and a sole classroom aide.»

'' Desert Trails Parents Union (the name of the Adelanto Trigger faction) and its sponsor, the Gates Foundation - and Walton Family Foundation - backed Parent Revolution.»

Desert Trails» charter application promised to accommodate the elementary school's estimated 90 special education students by hiring «a Special Education Coordinator, three full - time special education teachers and five instructional aides.»

Doreen Diaz, who heads the Desert Trails parent union, says her group's ideal situation would be if the district worked with parents to create a more flexible restaffing and restructuring system at Desert Trails.

So they created a second petition, asking for a complete restart under a yet - to - be-created, community - based charter called Desert Trails Kids First.

The Hesperia Teachers Association, just over the 15 freeway, backed a recent rally to «Save Desert Trails Elementary.»

Trigger - pullers at Desert Trails, who receive guidance and resources from Parent Revolution, learned from those mistakes.

Diaz (of the parent union) sees the opposition as «more of a staff - support type of a movement» — because no matter which petition comes to fruition, Desert Trails teachers will have to reapply for their jobs.

But she learned that what she actually signed was a petition to convert Desert Trails Elementary School into a charter campus, a change she says she had specifically told organizers she didn't want.

Yet right on cue, one day before the district is set to give its stamp of approval or rejection on the Trigger, the Los Angeles Times drops a painfully familiar story about a growing opposition effort at Desert Trails.