State schools superintendent Torlakson visits Alpine County
A week after visiting a school in Los Angeles with an enrollment of 4,000, the state’s top education official was touring the Diamond Valley Elementary School campus in Alpine County, Calif., which has 80 students from kindergarten through eighth grade.
“It is a small school in numbers but mighty in its focus and learning,” said Tom Torlakson, California’s State Superintendent of Public Instruction, on Sept. 20.
At the end of the year, Torlakson’s second and final term will come to an end. With his trip to the rural school south of Lake Tahoe and a few miles from the Nevada state line, Torlakson stayed at the Woodford’s Inn the night before to get an early start to his visits.
Alpine County has the smallest population in California. Alpine County Schools Superintendent Patrick Traynor, who led a tour for Torlakson, said the county has just one stoplight. He said it’s great where the principal and superintendent both can know the name of every student. He added the county is 95 percent National Forest land, which makes it beautiful place to teach and learn.
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