Jan. 25, 2026
Hanford Insider: How Tightening Residency Verification Aims To Balance Programs, Class Sizes, and Opportunity at our local high schools
Send me a text and give me feedback on this episode! What happens when a growing city meets crowded classrooms and a patchwork of feeder schools? We sit down with HJUHSD Superintendent Victor Rosa and Assistant Superintendent Bobby Peters to talk candidly about enrollment trends, residency verification, and why balance across Hanford High, Hanford West, and Sierra Pacific matters more than ever. We start with the pulse of Hanford: park repairs after Winter Wonderland, a new mixed-use develop...
Send me a text and give me feedback on this episode!
What happens when a growing city meets crowded classrooms and a patchwork of feeder schools? We sit down with HJUHSD Superintendent Victor Rosa and Assistant Superintendent Bobby Peters to talk candidly about enrollment trends, residency verification, and why balance across Hanford High, Hanford West, and Sierra Pacific matters more than ever.
We start with the pulse of Hanford: park repairs after Winter Wonderland, a new mixed-use development near Freedom Park, and the city’s choice for a new manager. Then we zoom into the high school landscape. Rosa and Peters explain how years of loose transfers—especially during Sierra Pacific’s early ramp-up—created expectations that don’t match today’s realities. Sierra Pacific is beyond full, Hanford High is classroom-full, and Hanford West still has room. To steady the system, the district is tightening proof of residency, requiring matching documentation across identity, housing, and utilities while verifying records against assessor data and historical addresses. They’ve moved from easy uploads to in-person review nights and added an anonymous tip line to investigate obvious mismatches and AI-altered documents.
Program access stays front and center. Athletics, clubs, and academics are largely comparable across campuses, with unique options like NJROTC and the Medical Academy supported through transfers or lotteries, and advanced classes accessible via busing when enrollment is small. The leaders make a clear case: distributing students fairly keeps class sizes manageable, prevents one school from hoarding talent, and ensures every campus can field strong teams, ensembles, and advanced coursework. They also address the rise of club sports that unofficially align with a single school and encourage families to build with their true home campus early.
Looking ahead, construction at Sierra Pacific will add capacity, and the district is scouting land for a potential fourth high school down the road. Until then, the path forward is practical: accurate documents, aligned addresses, and a community commitment to fair placement. Want the details or need help? Visit hjuhsd.org, reach out to district staff, or stop by the office to get placed correctly.
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00:00 - Opening And Community Shoutouts
01:21 - City Updates And Park Repairs
02:24 - Landscape Districts And Council Corner
03:47 - New Development And City Manager News
04:24 - Community Calendar Highlights
06:02 - Hanford High History And Guest Intros
06:45 - Enrollment Trends And Boundary Context
09:05 - How Past Transfers Shaped Today’s Imbalance
10:55 - Construction Plans And Capacity Realities
12:25 - Why Residency Proof Is Tightening
14:29 - Catching Fakes And In‑Person Verification
16:15 - Smarter Systems, Tip Line, And Enforcement
18:24 - Goals: Balance Across Schools And Programs
21:05 - Offerings, Transfers, And Access To Academics
23:01 - Feeder Districts, Friend Groups, And Clubs
25:20 - Guidance For Families And Next Steps
30:07 - Sports Report: Hoops And Soccer
33:12 - Closing, Teaser, And Support Links
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On this episode of the Hanford Insider, we'll hear from Superintendent of the Hanford Joint Union High School District, Victor Rosa, and Assistant Superintendent Bobby Peters about the efforts to balance Hanford High, Hanford West, and Sierra Pacific High Schools.
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Rob will highlight some of this week's community events, and later I'll be back with your sports report.
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This is the Hanford Insider for Monday, January twenty sixth.
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Thank you to our listeners, our supporters, financial supporters, and everyone who believes in sharing the stories of our community.
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Last week's episode on the courthouse renovations quickly shot up to be one of the top episodes that I have ever posted.
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Today's episode is number 130, so that's saying a lot.
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Your encouragement and support mean more to me than you know, and I'm grateful to have you along for the journey.
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Now let's get started.
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In community news, now the Winter Wonderland is concluded, Civic Park is undergoing landscape repairs and will be ready for spring activities.
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Rumors have been circulating online about how the repairs are being paid for.
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But if you remember in some of my earlier interviews with the Brad Albert, all of the costs to get the park back into shape are included in the Winter Wonderland budget.
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There was talk of hardscaping the area where the ice rink is, but that discussion has been tabled for another year to get more input from the community as to a long-term solution.
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The Hanford City Council met last week, and during the afternoon study session, they received a comprehensive report of the landscape assessment district fund balances and how they plan to inform the residents of how they can improve their neighborhood by raising their annual taxes to pay for the neighborhood landscape to be maintained.
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There's a special council corner with Councilman Travis Payton and Public Works Director Russ Sterling on Wednesday night at Me and Ed's on 10th Avenue from 4 30 p.m.
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to 7 PM.
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This would be a great opportunity to ask your questions about the landscape assessment districts, and this is what Travis Payton had to say about this event.
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Well, thank you, Rob, for giving me the opportunity to share with you about Council Corner for the residents of District A.
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I'd just like to invite everyone to our monthly Council Corner, which is happening this Wednesday, January 28th from 5 30 to 7 p.m.
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at Me and Pizza, located on the corner of 10th Avenue and Fargo Avenue.
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We will have pizza and drinks available for anyone who attends.
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And we're pleased to have Public Works Director Russ Sterling and Deputy Director Alvin Diaz joining us.
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They will be available to discuss the landscape assessment districts in the northern part of Hanford, as well as several upcoming projects planned for the north side of Hanford, including the area around 12th Avenue and Fargo.
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We'll also provide an update on items that are most that happened at our most recent city council meeting.
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But most importantly, this event is about listening and hearing directly from you and having an open conversation about the issues that matter most to our community.
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So once again, please join us this Wednesday, January 28th, from 5 30 to 7 p.m.
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at Me and Ed's Pizza on the corner of 10th Avenue in Fargo.
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We hope to see you there.
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Thanks, Rob.
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In the evening study session, the council approved a new mixed-use development on the northeast corner of Grangeville Boulevard and 9.4 Avenue, across from Freedom Park.
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Home builder Lenar is planning for 650 homes, an apartment complex, and a potential strip mall fronting Grangeville Boulevard.
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City Attorney Ty Mazzotti announced at the meeting that an offer has officially been made to Chris Tavares to become our new city manager.
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He has accepted the offer and will officially be sworn in on Thursday, February 5th at 5 p.m.
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at the Hanford Civic Auditorium.
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Now let's take a look at this week's community calendar.
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Sierra Pacific High School is presenting the Prince of Egypt at the Presentation Center this weekend.
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For details and tickets, visit spband.org.
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The Charmhouse is hosting a Valentine's Vendor Fair on Saturday, January 31st.
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Find out more at thecharmhousevenue.com.
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The Little Brick Theater is hosting their whatever open mic night on Friday, February 6th.
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Visit their website at HanfordMTC.com for more information.
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Looking ahead to June, the Carnegie Museum of Kings County announced this week the registration is now open for their fifth annual downtown Hanford Car Show on June 6th.
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There are 15 car and truck categories.
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This year, there's a new horseless carriage category and a lowrider category.
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There's also going to be a bike show that will include pedal cars, strollers, lowrider bikes, remote control cars, and models.
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You can find out more and register now at CarnegieCarshow.com.
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If you have an event coming up, large or small, and you'd like some help getting the word out, let's work together.
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Send your information to HanfordInsider at gmail.com.
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There are lots of community events coming up in February, so be sure to subscribe to my weekly newsletter to get a complete calendar of events.
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It's the most comprehensive community calendar available.
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Well, if you've lived in Hanford for any period of time, you know the history of Hanford High School, over a hundred years old.
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And then we added the West Campus in the 60s, and students were split between the two campuses.
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Hanford West came along, and uh they're on Lacey Boulevard when the West Campus converted to a full comprehensive high school.
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And uh gosh, it seems, you know, not that long ago that Sierra Pacific High School was opened out on 13th Avenue, if you can believe that.
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And with me today, I have the superintendent of the Hanford Joint Union High School District, Mr.
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Victor Rosa, and Bobby Peters, who is the Assistant Superintendent of Educational Services.
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Welcome to the show, guys.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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So, Dr.
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Rosa, Hanford has grown.
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We've got a lot of things going on, and the high school district has had quite a challenge of balancing all of the enrollment.
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And today we're going to talk about some of the new enrollment trends and some of the requirements for proof of residency, which has become a topic here in uh early 2026.
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So let's go ahead and start with just an overall evaluation of the enrollment uh trends in the schools.
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Sure.
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Well, as a district, we have seen uh steady growth, not tremendous growth, but growth in the and at least in the seven years that I've been here, we've had um growth.
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We've been lucky for that since there's a declining enrollment in a lot of other communities.
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And we do expect there to be a little bit of a lull uh coming as well for us that as our feeder districts have smaller classes coming forward.
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But uh for us, our attendance boundaries have not changed.
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Uh, this is my seventh year here.
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Our actual actual attendance boundaries have remained the same, I'm assuming for at least the last since Sierra Pacific.
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So that's uh going now, I think around 14 years that uh that's been in existence.
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And those attendance boundaries still work for us.
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The the lines are drawn, it creates a very equitable distribution of students for our community.
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And the reason for us going forward with more proof of residency is as a community, more and more people have sort of stretched the rules and then bent the truth a little bit as far as uh where they live and and the feeling that I can attend wherever I'd like to attend versus attending the school that is within my attendance boundary.
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So we're just really just enforcing what's been in place for a long time now.
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So, Bobby, you've been a teacher at Hanford West and uh you're in the administration role now.
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Uh what kind of patterns have you seen?
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It's interesting to look now.
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As you said, I started teaching at Hanford High West campus back in the day in the 90s and transitioned to a teacher at Hanford West High School, and then eventually became principal of Hanford West High School.
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And so I was principal at Hanford West before Sierra Pacific came along.
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And it was still a struggle for me as a principal because we weren't Hanford High.
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And so we really had to do our best to market our school as um equal, if not better, in my opinion, at that point, uh, than Hanford High to get students over because there was really uh uh really loose boundaries at that time.
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It was pretty much at that time you could go wherever you wanted.
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And I think that's what kind of it's kind of it kind of stumbled its way into where we're at now.
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It's very similar um when Sierra Pacific came on.
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I think it was my second year as principal, maybe third year as principal, I can't quite remember.
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But um as people will remember, Sierra Pacific came on with only a freshman class.
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And at that time, hard to believe, but there was very few houses in the, you know, quote unquote Sierra Pacific boundary at the time.
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And so quite literally, anyone that wanted to go to Sierra Pacific got a free pass to go.
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And so it kind of established this idea or norm that anybody could transfer to Sierra Pacific because it went on for, I want to say three to five years because they really couldn't get enough students there to fill the school.
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And so it was literally any transfer would get granted for for really no reason.
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And so, you know, as you started to, as we started to really enforce, like, no, you should really live in the boundaries, it created people were questioning, well, that's not the way it's always been.
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And and really, you know, we we laxed the boundaries for quite a time so that they could actually fill the school.
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And now that we look at now, it's like the opposite.
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We have so many homes in that area, the school is very full.
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Hence the new construction.
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So, Victor, about that construction, the city of Hanford is uh actively looking at some of these developments north, south, east, west, all over town.
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And uh, I would imagine getting this process in place um as subdivisions are coming online is gonna help you only help going down the line, yeah.
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It absolutely will.
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Uh it gives us a little bit of time.
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Uh, if you're not aware, we are constructing a new wing at Sierra Pacific, which will in essence almost allow Sierra Pacific to to, from a student population size, to be almost as big as Hanford High.
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But I we can give an example when Bobby was principal at Hanford West, there were nearly 2,000 students at Hanford West.
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So it's not like there isn't room at Hanford West as well.
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We've got plenty of room on our sites overall.
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With that being said, this is the first year in a few years that Hanford High we consider full from a classroom perspective.
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It's full.
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Sierra Pacific is beyond full.
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It has our largest class sizes of any of our schools.
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Uh, it just has it has the least amount of space and the least amount of teachers for what's turning into the most the highest number of students.
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So, in essence, that just creates larger class sizes.
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And with all the construction that's going on at Sierra Pacific, we realize that that new wing is absolutely necessary to be able to deal with that growth.
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But growth is happening in Hanford West.
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We have a lot of housing developments in Hanford West, and very soon we'll have more housing developments going into what Hanford High's area is, enough to the point where we are at least, you know, internally discussing it's time to buy another piece of land.
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We we really, you know, for we don't want to just all retire and leave it, throw it to the wolves.
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We want to make sure that the the next generation of administrators in our district at least have a piece of property.
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I can't imagine having a fourth high school for probably another, you know, 12 to 15 years, but that process takes a long time.
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So so we're looking at that growth.
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We would love all of our schools to be somewhat balanced in that, you know, 1600, 1700 student range.
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Um, and and then really start looking at the next problem for the next generation is then where do we redraw the lines when high school number four comes down?
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High school number four.
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It's hard to hard to believe we're even talking about that.
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But I know from experience those things do take years and years of uh of planning.
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So appreciate you doing that.
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So let's get to the matter uh at hand, and that is the it's not a new policy, but it's kind of a revamped policy of how you make sure students are where they need to be to make sure that you all of your schools flourish.
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So uh let's review this a little bit about this uh proof of residency and uh how it works.
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Sure.
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So I again our our boundary lines have not changed.
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Um there's a joke among the superintendent's uh world that you know if you want to lose your job quickly, change change your attendance boundaries.
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Um and it's just it tends to align very closely.
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For us, again, it's just we made some brief changes to what we are accepting as far as proof of residence goes.
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Um, and and then looking at some documents as far as uh shared residence affidavits, which really means that you know it's homeless, but the state's version of homeless, not necessarily homeless on the street, caregiver affidavits and that sort of thing.
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But the bottom line is we just added three areas, and you have to provide one proof from each of those three areas.
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So first you need an ID to prove who you are, um, and that's one proof.
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And then we go down the road to be either a car registration or a W-2.
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We get down into um uh tax documentation or mortgage or a lease agreement, and then we get into the utility.
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So it really breaks down and starts looking at documents that you would hope are a little harder, um, a little harder to fake.
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Um, but in reality, we've started to see a few fakes even in that respect.
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Let's talk about that because you had mentioned earlier about um even with AI now, people are able to create documents that are look I look authentic.
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It's interesting, uh, and not to interrupt, but it's interesting because last year is when we started notice this.
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And I and I think the the big answer here is well, why are you guys doing this now?
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And really because la we started seeing this last year, and if not the year before, that you could start to see the uh fraudulent documents coming in, you know, that were manipulated by Adobe.
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Now with AI, we're starting to see, you know, we weren't seeing that a few years ago, but you're starting to see the manipulation of these documents.
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And it's really easy to, you know, email a document over or something like that.
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But having these in person, like we're doing now, makes it a little more difficult to do some of those things when you can actually see the document.
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It's not a copy, it's something that's actually someone has to bring to you, uh, you know, Victor didn't mention, but and all of the um addresses have to match.
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You'd be surprised at how many addresses don't match for multiple documentations for where people live.
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So we're making sure that all those things are in place as well.
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And these these live nights have been interesting, you know.
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It it's really, really has been eye-opening.
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And I I've enjoyed it.
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I really like being out there and to see pe to see a lot of people.
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A lot of students live nights.
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Yeah, it's great.
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What is so basically we uh as Bobby sort of mentioned, we for the last several years have accepted all of the documentation electronically for proof of residence.
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So feeder schools would just send over all of the information, and we basically took it for whatever they sent.
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And so then we started seeing some changes, things things happening.
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And so we we changed it this year to actual physical nights.
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So we had our first one at Hanford High, the second one was at Sierra Pacific, the third one was at Hanford West, tomorrow is our first district makeup.
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Next week we have another district makeup, and it's an inconvenience to parents, we understand, but all of those eighth grade parents are needing to bring the documentation.
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It needs to align with what we have in our system.
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So our system says that this address, you're a student of Hanford High School, but all the documentation that you brought us says that you're a student of Hanford West high school, or you know, that so what's the difference here?
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What's what changed?
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And then it allows us to clean up our system.
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And and this is just one step, you know.
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A lot of people came through that night, and if we're being really honest, we looked at the paperwork and said, okay, great, thank you.
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But we know that that paper, there's something wrong with that paperwork.
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And so I guess the reality of that is that's only step one to our process.
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I think that our community needs to have an understanding that just because you ran a document through Chat GPT and edited the address doesn't mean that once it gets into our computer system, that it's not going to notice the error because it does.
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We we go back and look at addresses for all of the previous years.
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There's something called CowPads.
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So we get to see what your address was in fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth grade.
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And lo and behold, a lot of those addresses get changed in eighth grade because people got wise to our system being electronic.
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I'm gonna change the my kid's address at the beginning of their eighth grade year, and then the high school is gonna assume that this kid goes to Hanford West or to Sierra Pacific based on that.
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Well, our system now catches all of those things.
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In addition to that, we're able to check through the assessor's office and just see who actually lives at this residence.
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And we've come to find there were open fields where it was this is my address, um, or you know, or some sort of shack, or it was a business, you know, that clearly didn't have a resident there.
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But moreover, that's something that our system now is able to catch is multiple families using the same address.
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And that is really just it's so I think people understand, yes, we're we're asking for this next level of documentation, but internally our system is much, much smarter than it used to be.
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Um, and we are able to find those errors.
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And just because you got through that night doesn't mean you're not going to be getting a call in the next few weeks to say, look, we need further proof.
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In addition to that, we're we've been laughing about a lot of these things, we have a tip line now.
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And it's an anonymous tip line through Stop It.
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And I've been amazed, amazed at the number of contacts that we've had of people saying, This is Johnny, whoever, and here's a screenshot of their house.
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This is where they live.
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I don't know what they're telling you, but this is where they live.
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The detail is yeah.
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I mean, I think we all know, we all grew up, and everybody here grew up in Hanford.
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And I mean, it's different than when we grew up, but still people know I mean, you know, you know, when your kids were growing up, you knew who their friends were, you know where they lived.
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And so it's like it's not a surprise that people are going to say that's not where you should be going to school.
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And they it's I I've been uh it's been interesting reading all the stop it's that come through of the amount of detail that is involved in where they live, who really owns the house, how they got it fixed.
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It it's amazing.
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And we're investigating those.
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As they come through, we're investigating them further and and we're finding unfortunately Through the processes of doing this, um where whether they're brand new neighborhoods or whatever the case may be, where you're seeing fake lease agreements, you're seeing fake rental agreements, you're and and some of those are not AI generated, they are generated by people who who um live and work within our community, and those are the really, really difficult conversations to have.
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It's like, hey, this this has to stop.
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And I and I get everyone's trying to do a favor for their friend and and uh or whatever the case may be, but it really does hurt us.
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So with all of this enforcement, uh kind of a new way of looking at uh proof of residency, I would imagine you get a lot of questions.
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Why now?
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Um, how is this going to impact my child's ability to play a certain sport at a certain school or music or uh a certain academy that uh, you know, it's it's going to have an impact.
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And I would be curious just the both of you, maybe state what do you feel are the goals of this program and why what how how will it have an impact in the classroom?
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I think my personal opinion is there needs to be balance among the schools.
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And and the listeners can take balance however they want.
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You can fill in any any metric in there that you want, but I think we need to have balance in our schools.
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And that can be on the athletic field, it can be in the classroom, it can be in band, it can be in choir, it can be in whatever whatever you want it to be.
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But when you start to see a shift so hard to, you know, a certain program or a certain school, it starts to create imbalance.
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And then with that imbalance, it's hard to swing back.
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And so you're almost like this the the one school may never ever have that opportunity to have that great baseball team, have that great water polo team because the students are moving, gravitating towards a school that's already found that success, and it's really hard to get to get that balance back.
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And I just think that to create like I guess my goal is always to create the best possible situation we can at every single school.
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I mean, and and the role I fall in is with education.
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And so like I'm always trying to make sure that it's balanced across the board.
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And I think a lot of that has to do with students and families.
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I mean, all of it, all of it factors in.
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And if we're if we're letting people choose or creating like we are contributing to the imbalance of that, it it's a it's it's not good for that school site.
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And we need to make sure that we are doing our best to make sure that there is balance of all different types of students so that we can have, you know, um, I'm trying to stay away from the word equitable, but an equitable balance of students.
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Yeah, definitely.
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Once once we put out information about this, it made it onto social media, and there were some, you know, concerns from people, and some of the comments were, well, why don't all the schools just offer the same thing and then we wouldn't have an issue?
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And the reality is, is our schools all do for the most part.
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We offer the same athletics at all of our schools.
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Um, we do have, based on size, some schools that are in different leagues.
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Um, and so that that's part of it, but all of our athletics are the same.
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Our clubs are the same on all of our campuses, our academic programs are the same.
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The only few unique ones that we have are the Medical Academy at Hanford West and NJROTC at Hanford West.
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Those are unique to that school, but also the school that we are allowing students to transfer to.
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So no student is gonna get denied a transfer to be able to go to NJRTC.
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It is a lottery for the Med Academy, but your chances are pretty good.
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And the other, only other unique program is the Business Academy at Sierra Pacific.
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But we have business classes at all of our schools.
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So we really do, for the most part, offer the same thing at all of our sites.
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Students are gonna have the same experience, whether it's an athletic experience, extracurricular type of experience.
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They have the opportunity regardless of where they go.
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I mean, just to further that too, is like sometimes we do get that.
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I mean, because we do have some other courses that aren't exactly the same at every school site.
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But like when you we talk about the CT career technical education programs, they're expensive.
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They're extremely expensive.
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And sometimes it's like, hey, it's more bag for your buck.
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We're gonna put it at one school, we're gonna build it up, we're gonna create a great shop with this program, and then we'll go to another school with a great program over here.
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And it's like, and some of that, you know, it's it's about being fiscally smart and making sure that we can provide these opportunities and and not always replicating everything at every single school site.
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But academically, it's I mean, we work really hard on making sure it's the same.
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And where we where we don't have, say we have an AP class that's only offered at one campus because there aren't enough students between all three of our schools to fill, we'll bust kids to make that happen.
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