Community forums to address school cuts San Diego Unified School District board member John de Beck plans to meet with Bird Rock, Point Loma and Mission Bay cluster schools to discuss recent school budget cuts. De Beck plans two meetings for the beach community schools he represents. The Point Loma Cluster Schools (PLCS) Foundation will host a town hall meeting Wednesday, April 22 from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Correia Middle School Auditorium, 4302 Valeta St. “This is so parents can hear directly from de Beck and have an open dialogue about the budget cuts and what they mean for our schools,” PLCS foundation president Polly Traylor said. The foundation had originally scheduled the meeting for earlier this month but it was postponed due to scheduling conflicts, Traylor said. Friends of Pacific Beach Elementary (FOBPE), a parent-teacher organization, announced de Beck will also attend a town meeting Monday, April 27 at Bird Rock Elementary School, 5371 La Jolla Hermosa Ave., at 5:30 p.m.  “I strongly encourage you to attend this local opportunity and let board members know our opposition to a part-time principal,” FOBPE president Dawna Deatrick said in a statement. Parents, administrators and students held a rally at a recent school board meeting in opposition to several cuts. Board trustees voted then to end busing to magnet schools and to consolidate one principal for every two schools that have fewer than 400 students.  Interfaith service will honor Ellen B. Scripps The Massachusetts National Memorial Committee is holding an interfaith service at St. James by-the-Sea at 743 Prospect St. to honor the memory of Miss Ellen Browning Scripps on Patriot’s Day, Monday, April 20 at 11 a.m. The Massachusetts Committee will be reading a formal Memorial Declaration to raise national awareness of the significant contributions that Scripps made to the local community and American society as a whole through her philanthropic work. A bagpiper brigade will welcome local citizens attending. Speakers will include John Bolthouse, executive director of the La Jolla Historical Society; Dr. Ramona Trevino, CEO and principal of the prestigious Austin Charter School; and Capt. Ed Sullivan, Massachusetts Field Representative, National World War II Memorial Committee. Sixteen La Jolla women will recite a list of Scripps’ major accomplishments in the local community. La Jolla residents are welcome to attend. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information, call (619) 723-1144.