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Learn about Saratoga schools on the Net

Delaine Eastin, state superintendent of public instruction, has a Web site that allows Saratoga residents to access individual school profiles for all 8,000 schools in the state.

The Web site is part of the Education Data Partnership Web site established last year. The newly added profiles allow residents to find information about a school by entering the school's name or the name of the city, school district or ZIP code in which it's located.

The profile includes information such as a school's location, legislative representation, size and demographics, number of students by ethnic group and primary language and staffing information. The high school profiles also include information about college placement of graduates, dropout rates and Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) scores. And the profiles contain a link to the school's Internet home page, if there is one.

Tours of Europe offered by WVC

West Valley College has announced it will offer a musical tour of Europe June 18- 30 in which participants will attend operas, symphonies and chamber music concerts.

The tour, being operated by Intropa Tours in Vienna, Austria, and Intropa Tours in Sunnyvale, is scheduled to take music lovers to Vienna, Prague, Dresden, Leipzig and Berlin on sightseeing tours focused on music history. Visitors will also visit the homes, graves and memorials of musicians including Beethoven, Mozart and Strauss.

Cost for the tour is $3,095 per person for first-class airfare plus performance tickets. Packages do not include concert tickets so that tour participants can choose their own concerts and seating arrangements. Estimated cost is $500 per person for concert and opera tickets for the tour. Included in the tour price is air transportation on Lufthansa German Airlines from San Francisco, first-class hotels in each city, full breakfast daily and some dinners, deluxe motor coach transportation in Europe, sightseeing, all tips and taxes.

For information, contact Craig Northrup at West Valley College at 867-2720.

Foothill School will hold visiting days

Foothill Elementary School will hold visitation days on Jan. 28 and March 4 from 8:45 to 10 a.m. in the school's cafeteria. Parents, prospective parents and community members are encouraged to come to the school and visit as many classrooms as they wish. The school asks those with last names beginning with the letters A through K to come on Jan. 28, and L through Z on March 4.

Student on Dean's list

James Edward VanOver was recently named to the dean's list at Southern Oregon University in Ashland, Ore.

In order to qualify for the dean's list, VanOver had to have a grade-point average ranging between 3.5 and 3.99 for the fall quarter and had to be taking at least 12 units.

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