CA: District clears charter school catering to Mexican students - Academia Semillas del Pueblo

AP on Bakersfield Californian ^ | 6/5/06 | Oskar Garcia - ap

[lentulusgracchus]

Good tag line.

[bboop]

Time to pull the taxpayer teat from these good fellows.

[garbageseeker]

I am very curious as to who were these observers.

[lentulusgracchus]

[article] "They have followed the charter that they wrote originally," said Kevin Reed, chief legal counsel for the district. "What we care about is that the curriculum is inclusive and not exclusive."

How about excluding gringos, Kev? Surely you're sensitive enough to realize what's going on when you yourself are getting dumped on because you're guero?

[garbageseeker]

http://www.greatschools.net/cgi-bin/ca/other/12317

How can you inclusive when the school ethicity is 96 percent Latino and they speak Spanish 100 percent of the time?

The LAUSD bureaucrats are deaf,dumb and blind.

[garbageseeker]

Do Kevin Reed, Jess Womack and Donald Davis of LAUSD at the phone number 213-241-6607 gave the OK for the school to remain open?

[garbageseeker]

I messed up on their phone number

Its 213-241-6601 NOT 6607

[garbageseeker]

It looks like the Special Education Team Has a phone number.

They might of had juristiction in this case

Their Phone Number

213-241-7600

[calcowgirl]

Why, thank you! :-)

[LNewman]

Could be me ... cut and paste to location:

http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/lausd/offices/general_counsel/home.html

The link just worked for me. I was being sarcastic about the "special" education part, BTW.

I consider their response the typical first response/damage control line ...

deny ... deny ... deny.

[LNewman]

See my post 30. I think they are buying time, hoping things blow over ... people forget the particulars, etc.

As I mentioned I was being sarcastic about the "Special" education team, but I see where one might think it would fall under this category.

At the very least, there is liability involved and I would think not just whether they ordered the attack on a reporter, or whether they met equal opportunity standards. I would think the curriculum, as evidenced by their scores, would be a red flag.

At best, this should be a private school accepting zero government funding (IMO).

[Uncle Hal]

What a white wash. If this had been an all white school professing Christian values it would have been closed in a NY minute.

[VOA]

Nahuatl

The "codetalker" language of Mexican prison gangs.

Just use Google Advanced with "all the words" string of:
"Nahuatl" "gangs" "prison"

[VOA]

Police are investigating the incident.

So much for that ever seeing the light of day.
Mark that file "L.A. Confidential".

I pity the cops doing that investigation. Working while wearing
a muzzle probably isn't any fun.

[LNewman]

McIntyre in the Morning web site includes a letter from 17th District Senator, George Runner, to Dr. Roy Romer of LAUSD. In the letter, he says "You have full authority to revoke a charter under education code section 47607(c) if there are violations of the law. "

California Education Codes dealing with Charter Schools are here and make interesting reading:

http://www.aroundthecapitol.com/code/code.html?sec=edc&codesection=47605-47608

[garbageseeker]

Extremely fascinating. Good info to gave on hand. Thank you.


Its a good time to question on Kevin Reed to explain why for the LAUSD to OK to have a charter school(paid for by your taxpayer dollars) that promotes an racist ideology. Ask him that why is he violating the education code section 47607(c).

213-241-6601

[garbageseeker]

Senator George Runner sent a letter to this person last week in regards to the school:

Dr Darlene Robles
Los Angeles County of Education
9300 Imperial Highway,Suite 109
Downey,Ca 90242

phone:562-922-6127
Fax: 562-922-6678
email: Robles_Darline@lacoe.edu

So far there no response. I would like to say if you contact the person please be nice and to the point and express your concerns about having a school that promotes racism in the Los Angeles School District paid with your property tax dollars. Remind her that the school is in violation of California Education code 47607(c). The more letters and faxes that pour into her office the closer we are of shutting this school down permanently

I am including the link to of the letter written to Dr.Robles.

http://republican.sen.ca.gov/news/17/PressRelease3936_print.asp

[garbageseeker]

Marcus Aguilar has pulled his school web site, the English version.

What is Mr. Aguilar hiding? Is he afraid of criticism?

[Real Men Read]

It's amazing how easily weak minded individuals are swayed by the media. I've been looking over the comments and not one has mentioned the fact that some moronathon called the school stating that the children and teachers were better off burned and warned the school to check for bombs. Listen, you may or may not agree with the curriculum the school uses but to condone a bomb threat is inhumane. KABC repeatedly stated that there were no african-americans or whites at the school but if you had the aptitude to click on the LAUSD link you would have seen the real stats. Also, in reference to their standardized tests LAUSD has also found out that in comparison to all other Charter Schools Third Year Performance Measures Semillas Del Pueblo is equal or higher. So please read....it may help you out when trying get a better job so you don't complain about the "undocumented" taking your entry level positions! KABC is all about ratings they could care less if the youth in Los Angeles were better educated. If they really want to talk about schools not meeting their aptitudes take a look at LAUSD's 50% drop out rate!!! Now that's a state of emergency!!!

[garbageseeker]

Thank you for the propaganda piece. I am sure it came out Mr. Aguilars office.