Welcome to the SAVE CORDOVA LANE website!
Our Story
On November 19, 2009, the FCUSD board of trustees voted to close Cordova Lane and Riverview Elementary schools in Rancho Cordova, CA, due to budgetary issues. Our schools will close in May of 2009 :-( Closing these two schools will save the district $600,000.
Just ONE month earlier, we were notified our school was considerd for closure. On October 16, 2009, the Save Our Schools (SOS) committee was formed and we began efforts to save our school.
Cordova Lane has provided decades of high quality education! It is the HEART of our community and located on one of the busiest streets in the city of Rancho Cordova. For hundreds of cars to drive by our school each day and to see it abandoned, would be heartbreaking.
Cordova Lane is not only known for its exceptional reputation in our school district, but also for it's dedicated, passionate and involved parents. We have 461 students. We are at 84% capacity enrollment. Several CHOICE students attend Cordova Lane. This means they choose to attend our school over their home school. Cordova Lane has high Academic Performance Index (API) scores. We offer an award winning Drama Program, the FLES program where our students learn Spanish as a second language, and other unique programs.
Cordova Lane students have access to the STARS program on site and the Cordova Community Preschool and Safe Harbor programs off site for before and after school care. Many parents depend on these programs to safely walk their students to and from school. Both programs also work closely with Cordova Lane in terms of preparation for entering Kindergarten and meeting the needs of students outside of the classroom. If we do not save our school, these vital programs may no longer exist and parents will be forced to revisit their transportation and daycare plans.
Closed schools are NEVER good for a city. Property values may decrease, blight may come to our neighborhood and families may leave. This will affect our neighbors and businesses and most of all, our children!
As an alternative to closing our school, our parents asked if we could raise $300,000 to save our school.
The board agreed to give us until March 1, 2010 to raise these funds. This is a crazy, extreme undertaking and amount to raise. However, we cannot put a price on a GREAT education. We need to keep this EXCEPTIONAL and long standing school OPEN. Should we not reach our goal (we plan to!) we will designate a beneficiary of these funds within our school district.
WE NEED YOUR HELP! We have 90 days to raise these funds. We need the help of our residents, businesses and families from other schools to PLEASE help! We are appreciative of any donation and all donations will be tax deductible.
We are reaching out to our community members and those of surrounding communities.
The Cordova Community Council is our fiscal sponsor and is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Your contribution to SAVE CORDOVA LANE is tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law. No goods or services will be provided in exchange for your generous financial donation.
Donations can be made payable to:
SAVE CORDOVA LANE and mailed to
SAVE CORDOVA LANE
C/O Cordova Community Council
2729 Prospect Park Drive, Suite #117
Rancho Cordova, CA 95670
or Donate using Paypal
BE A PART OF SOMETHING GREAT- WE’RE ON OUR WAY, TO SAVE CORDOVA LANE!
We will mail a tax receipt letter within 2 weeks of receiving your donation.
COUGARS ROAR!!!
Thank you for your time and interest,
Kathryn and Kristy
SOS Committee leaders for Cordova Lane
on behalf of our students, their families and our teachers
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We hope to see you again! Check back later for new updates to our website. There's much more to come!
Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail.
What you gain at one end you lose at the other.
It's like feeding a dog on his own tail.
It won't fatten the dog. ~Mark Twain
