All Rim of the World Unified School District schools on Friday, May 18, 2012, will be closed due to the logistical and safety issues presented by the AMGEN Tour of California Bike Race.  The AMGEN Tour of California Bike Race, Stage 6: Palmdale to Big Bear Lake will require moving road closures along State Highway 138 and State Highway 18 affecting communities from Crestline to Big Bear Lake.  

Effective immediately, ROWUSD will not be offering Transitional Kindergarten (TK) for the 2012-2013 school year.  Only students turning 5 years old on or before November 1^st 2012 will be eligible for Kindergarten entry for the 2012-13 school year.

In the Governor’s proposed budget for the 2012-2013 school year, school districts would not receive any funding for TK and the state would not mandate districts to offer it.

Given that ROWUSD cannot afford to offer Transitional Kindergarten if it is not funded by the state, ROWUSD does not plan to offer TK for the upcoming school year.

While the California Department of Education continues to provide updates and the situation may change over the course of the next several months, ROWUSD is moving forward on the assumption that there will be insufficient funding to offer Transitional Kindergarten within the parameters of the current budget.