Jordan Middle School

The school board approved a grant from ALL Management Corp. to pay for career and college clubs at Jordan Middle School. Under the terms of the agreement, Jordan Middle School will host two career and college clubs during the school year with mentors for each. The grant will fund the clubs with three installments of $2,000, which will pay for teaching and indirect supplies, trips to colleges, refreshments for club meetings, promotional materials and stipends for teacher advisors that cannot exceed $4,000.

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BURBANK — The City Council, during a joint meeting with the Burbank Unified School District Board, received a status report from construction officials Tuesday for three schools whose aging athletic fields and parking lots are the focus of ongoing refurbishment efforts. The scope of work for Jordan Middle School, and Burbank and John Burroughs high schools, includes new landscaping and irrigation measures, Americans with Disabilities Act-approved parking lots and ramps, and new men’s and women’s restrooms.

BURBANK — City Council and Burbank Unified school board members on Tuesday took another step toward getting the nearly $3.5 million needed to fund a joint athletic field project. The project, which was approved by the council in February 2007, includes renovating the infields and eight-lane tracks at Burbank and John Burroughs high schools. Burbank High’s lighting will also be enhanced. Improvements to Jordan Middle School, such as 70 parking spaces and a new restroom facility, are also included in the project.

After the city’s summer concert season at the Starlight Bowl comes to a close in mid-August, another show will go on. The last show of the summer at the Starlight is a community-organized benefit concert on Aug. 24 to raise money for a new scoreboard at John Burroughs High School’s Memorial Field. The city’s three Kiwanis clubs have banded together in a quest to raise about $50,000 needed for a new scoreboard Club members hope to bring in a bulk of those funds through the end-of-summer show.

The two bodies will receive an update on the status of the joint-use facility improvement projects at Burbank High School, John Burroughs High School and Jordan Middle School. The projects include renovation of the infields at Burbank High and John Burroughs High School, installing eight-lane tracks at Burroughs and adding an additional 70 parking spaces at Jordan Middle School. Members of the council and the school board will also review several possible funding options for those projects.

The city engineer, Sean Corrigan, provided the council with a report on the status of proposed improvements for athletic fields and facilities at Burbank High School, John Burroughs High School and Jordan Middle School. The plans were initially proposed on Jan. 31, 2007, by the Board of Education and were approved for funding on April 17, 2007. The city agreed to provide $11.65 million toward the joint project. The council provided direction to the district to ways they could remedy funding such as allocation of Youth Development Funds.

BURBANK — A seventh-grade teacher at David Starr Jordan Middle School was arrested last week after multiple allegations of child annoying, police said. Michael Dobbin, 38, was arrested on May 15 and charged with three counts of child annoying after students reported the teacher’s hands were in his pants during a math class, Burbank Police Sgt. Travis Irving said. “There were three kids in the class at the time, and they thought he was playing with himself,” he said.