Latest news with #ArroyoGrandeHighSchool
Yahoo
14-05-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Arroyo Grande to start biggest infrastructure project in its history. What to know
The biggest infrastructure project in the history of Arroyo Grande will officially start next week, shuttering one of the main routes into the Village until late this year. According to a news release from the city, the Traffic Way Bridge Replacement Project will close the bridge connecting Station Way and West Branch Street starting Monday with construction projected to wrap up in November. A detour will be in place for the duration of the project, and all businesses and driveways along Traffic Way will remain open during construction, according to the release. Several temporary traffic control measures have already been implemented, including a traffic circle at the Arroyo Grande High School entrance to allow legal left turns from the school parking lot, reducing the bridge's overall volume of traffic, according to the release. A pair of temporary traffic signals will be installed at the Fair Oaks Avenue freeway exit and at the intersection of Bridge Street and West Branch Street to improve traffic flow, according to the release. The 91-year-old bridge has been inspected by engineers multiple times since 2018, which detected deck cracking, failed expansion joints, concrete spalling, abrasion and erosion within the creek channel, lowering its bearing capacity and requiring a full replacement. Most of the replacement project's $11 million price tag will be covered by the Federal Highway Bridge Program, according to the release. Additional project updates, detour maps and details can be found at
Yahoo
26-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Paso school board member Kenney Enney defends boycotting class over trans policies
On April 21, 2025, the headline on a letter to the editor from H. K. Davie of Templeton asked the question: 'Are Moms for Liberty breaking the law if they keep SLO County students home?' The simple answer is no, primarily because they are not behind the proposed grassroots school boycott. But to play along, let's say that boycotting schools is breaking the law. Opinion Civil disobedience has been a time-honored tradition in our republic since its founding, whether it was the Sons of Liberty tossing tea into Boston Harbor or civil rights marchers fighting against segregationists by sitting at 'whites only' lunch counters. Whether it's refusing to sit in the back of the bus or boycotting schools, breaking the law for what is good, right and true is sometimes necessary. Leftists usually celebrate boycotts and sickouts. I don't recall any objections in San Luis Obispo County about breaking the law when left-wing teachers organized sickouts to oppose immigration policies or spending cuts. Why is it that H. K. Davie and leftists are now so concerned about a sickout in support of protecting girls' rights under Title IX? I don't recall any outrage over the fact that California has openly violated federal immigration laws for almost 10 years. Yet when parents and students protest the fact that their civil rights are being violated, the left is suddenly concerned? Article VI clause 2 of the U.S. Constitution states: 'This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, anything in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.' When state law and federal law are in conflict, federal law is supreme. California laws allowing boys in girls' spaces or permitting boys to compete in girls' sporting events is in conflict with federal law (Title IX) and President Trumps' executive order regarding the protection of girls' private spaces and sports. California laws allowing school officials to lie to parents regarding the health and welfare of their children is a violation of parents' rights under Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and the Fourteenth Amendment. The fact that officials in Sacramento and school districts in San Luis Obispo County refuse to abide by their oaths of office and protect the civil rights of those girls attending the public schools of this county has created this situation. Brave young ladies like Celeste Duyst at Arroyo Grande High School are speaking out and 70% of Californians polled agree that Celeste's rights and the rights of tens of thousands of girls throughout the state are being violated. If leftists are concerned about violating the law, then I recommend they contact their school board trustees and demand that they abide by President Trump's Executive Orders and all aspects of Title IX. Kenney Enney, a retired lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps, represents trustee area 7 on the Paso Robles school board.
Fox News
18-04-2025
- Politics
- Fox News
California girl cries while recounting trans athlete experience, school board president says 'wrap it up'
A school board meeting in California featured emotional debate over transgender athletes being allowed to share locker rooms with high-school girls. One girl who cried during a speech was told to "wrap it up" by the board president. During the Lucia Mar Unified School District (LMUSD) board meeting on Wednesday, a high-school junior girls' track athlete at Arroyo Grande High School named Celeste Diest took the podium to recount her experience of having to change in front of a biologically male trans athlete before practice, while that athlete allegedly watched her undress. "I went into the women's locker room to change for track practice where I saw, at the end of my row, a biological male watching not only myself, but the other young women undress. This experience was beyond traumatizing," Diest said, as she began to choke up and cry. "Adults like yourself make me and my peers feel like our own comfort was invalid, even though our privacy was and still is completely violated." Diest then fought through her tears to argue that the trans athlete's XY chromosomes define the person as a male, adding, "That is basic biology." But Diest was then interrupted by LMUSD board president Colleen Martin. "Okay, please wrap it up," Martin said, gesturing to Diest to finish her point. The teen then sniffled and continued speaking. "I just want to ask 'what about us?' We can not sit around and allow our rights to be given up to cater to an individual that is a man, who watches women undress and is stripping away female opportunity that once was fought for us. Sadly we have to try and regain our rights back. I hope you put effort into the restoration of our school safety." Diest then walked away from the podium to a roaring applause from the audience before Martin tried to silence the cheers. Martin even began slamming her gavel down to try and temper the growing applause, but the cheers only got louder after that. "No!" Martin yelled when the cheers got louder. Then, Martin just sat there silently as the applause continued for several more seconds, before it finally tempered, and the next speaker gave another speech opposing trans inclusion. Prior to Diest's speech, one of the other speakers, a woman named Shannon Kessler, who was scheduled to go after the teen, asked Martin whether she could give her speaking time to Diest. But Martin denied that request. "We're not doing that," Martin said. Several other parents gave speeches in opposition of trans athletes in attendance, while other community members spoke in support of trans inclusion. California has been one of the many blue states in the nation to defy President Donald Trump's "Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports" executive order, and has allowed trans athletes to compete with girls for over a decade. A law called AB 1266 has been in effect since 2014, and gives California students at scholastic and collegiate levels the right to "participate in sex-segregated school programs and activities, including athletic teams and competitions, and use facilities consistent with his or her gender identity, irrespective of the gender listed on the pupil's records." California Code of Regulations section 4910(k) defines gender as: "A person's actual sex or perceived sex and includes a person's perceived identity, appearance or behavior, whether or not that identity, appearance, or behavior is different from that traditionally associated with a person's sex at birth."CIF Bylaw 300.D. mirrors the Education Code, stating, "All students should have the opportunity to participate in CIF activities in a manner that is consistent with their gender identity, irrespective of the gender listed on a student's records." These laws and the subsequent enabling of trans athletes to compete with girls and women in the state has resulted in multiple controversies over the issue over the last year alone. The California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) said it will continue to follow the state's law that allows athletes to participate as whichever gender they identify as, a spokesperson told Fox News Digital. "The CIF provides students with the opportunity to belong, connect, and compete in education-based experiences in compliance with California law [Education Code section 221.5. (f)] which permits students to participate in school programs and activities, including athletic teams and competitions, consistent with the student's gender identity, irrespective of the gender listed on the student's records," a CIF statement said. The California state legislature's Democrat majority rejected two bills that would have changed state law to ban trans athletes from girls' sports on April 1. Follow Fox News Digital's sports coverage on X, and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.
