CUSD Recall Leaders: “This Battle is Not Over”
Dec 22, 2005 Filed in: Recall Campaign
05-06
San Juan Capistrano, CA: Today, leaders of the CUSD Recall Committee were informed by the Orange County Registrar’s Office that the Registrar had not certified the recall petition against the seven trustees of the Capistrano Unified School District. The CUSD Recall Committee is the grass roots group of parents and concerned taxpayers that led the widespread effort throughout South Orange County to recall all seven CUSD trustees. They recently submitted more than 175,000 recall petition signatures to the Orange County Registrar of Voters. Read More...
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School District Avoids Full Disclosure
Dec 05, 2005 Filed in: Culture of
Corruption
School Corruption Sparks Citizen Revolt
Dec 05, 2005 Filed in: Culture of
Corruption
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Full Disclosure Network releases first program on CUSD Recall
Dec 04, 2005 Filed in: Recall Campaign
05-06
This is a momentous event – there has never been a recall in the history of CUSD – and now the national news media has taken note of this citizen revolt. Read More...
Cost of CUSD administration building balloons to $52 million! True sources of funding finally revealed.
Nov 14, 2005 Filed in: Administration
Building | Certificates
of Participation | Cost
Overruns | Mello-Roos
Taxes |
Redevelopment
Funds
A blockbuster article by the Orange County Register confirms that this extravagant project ultimately will cost $52 million, more than twice the amount originally announced by CUSD. That's right, the CUSD Trustees chose to spend 52 million taxpayer dollars to house approximately 300 administrators in San Juan Capistrano while thousands of children languish in decrepit portable classrooms.
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More than 175,000 Petition Signatures to Recall Entire CUSD Board of Trustees Submitted to OC Registrar of Voters
Nov 08, 2005 Filed in: Recall Campaign
05-06 |
Registrar
of Voters
This is a momentous event – there has never been a recall in the history of CUSD. Read More...
Text of Comments Made By Capo for Better Representation at the Offices of the Orange County Registrar Of Voters
Nov 07, 2005 Filed in: Recall Campaign
05-06 |
Registrar
of Voters
Petitions To Recall Entire Capistrano Unified School Board Will Be Submitted To Orange County Registrar Of Voters
Nov 04, 2005 Filed in: Recall Campaign
05-06 |
Registrar
of Voters
Media Event: This coming Monday
afternoon, representatives of Capo for Better
Representation, the grass roots group of parents and
concerned taxpayers that have led the widespread
effort throughout South Orange County to recall all
seven trustees of the Capistrano Unified School
District will submit the signed recall petitions to
the Orange County Registrar of Voters. All of the
boxes of signed petitions will be displayed for the
media prior to submission to the Registrar. Public
Statements will be delivered by
Thomas Russell (Spokesperson, Capo for
Better Representation) and
Kevin Murphy (Chairman, Capo for
Better Representation). All television, radio and
print media are encouraged to attend.
Date: Monday, November 7
Time: 2:00 p.m.
Location: Orange County Registrar of Voters, 1300 South Grand Avenue, Building C, Santa Ana, CA 92705 (at the corner of Grand Avenue and McFadden)
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Date: Monday, November 7
Time: 2:00 p.m.
Location: Orange County Registrar of Voters, 1300 South Grand Avenue, Building C, Santa Ana, CA 92705 (at the corner of Grand Avenue and McFadden)
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PLF Fights To Stop School District From Color-Coding Kids
Aug 01, 2005 Filed in: Legal
Proceedings | Racial
Gerrymandering
The following op-ed was co-written by Harold Johnson, a PLF attorney, and Arthur B. Mark III, a former PLF attorney.
Like Rip Van Winkle, administrators at Capistrano Unified School District apparently missed some big news. They’re acting as if Proposition 209, the 1996 initiative that forbids race-based policies in California schools, was never put on the books. The district recently redrew attendance boundaries in a disruptive way that uses students’ skin color, in part, to determine where they will go to school. Read More...
Parents Sue Capistrano Unified School District Over Racially Based High School Boundaries That Violate Prop. 209
Jun 16, 2005 Filed in: Legal
Proceedings | Racial
Gerrymandering
New CUSD Administration Building to Cost $35 Million
Jun 13, 2005 Filed in: Administration
Building | Cost
Overruns
In a new Information Bulletin published by Superintendent Fleming on June 16th, the total cost of the new District Administration Building is now estimated at $35 million! On April 26th the Superintendent published a in which he stated that the new District Administration Building "is built with some $20 million." That is an additional $15 million (75% increase) that is being spent on the administrators, instead of improving the schools for our kids. How much more money will be taken away from the kids before the building is actually completed? Read More...
The Truth About Portables
Jun 12, 2005 Filed in: Cost
Overruns | Culture of
Corruption | Facilities
Planning | Portable
Classrooms
For a long time, the CUSD Trustees and Superintendent have defended their excessive reliance on portable classrooms on their representation that up to one third of all classrooms are required to be portables by law. Since other local school districts had chosen to go a different direction, making permanent structures their priority, something about CUSD's representation didn't seem right. Since facts matter, we researched the issue and it didn't take long to confirm that the Trustees and Superintendent have misinformed us once again. Read More...
The $133 Million Lie
The Dirty Little Secret About CUSD’s New Administration Building
Jun 07, 2005 Filed in: Administration
Building | Certificates
of Participation | Redevelopment
Funds
Based on everything we have heard from school district officials, one would think CUSD had $20 million sitting in an account earmarked to pay for its new administration building. Instead, the money has been borrowed. CUSD is hoping enough funds come in to pay back these loans. Read More...
The Truth About Redevelopment Funds
May 18, 2005 Filed in: Administration
Building | Redevelopment
Funds
Recall Letters Of Intention To Be Served On CUSD Trustees
Apr 22, 2005 Filed in: Recall Campaign
05-06
Media Advisory - A Political Action
Committee called Capistrano for Better Representation
will be serving formal recall letters of intention to
several members of the Capistrano Unified School
District Board of Trustees.
Members of the Capistrano for Better Representation PAC will be serving recall intentions at the regularly scheduled CUSD Board meeting to be held:
Monday, April 25th 2005 at 7:00pm
Jerome R. Thornsley Education Center,
32972 Calle Perfecto, San Juan Capistrano.
Press availability to follow the event.
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Members of the Capistrano for Better Representation PAC will be serving recall intentions at the regularly scheduled CUSD Board meeting to be held:
Monday, April 25th 2005 at 7:00pm
Jerome R. Thornsley Education Center,
32972 Calle Perfecto, San Juan Capistrano.
Press availability to follow the event.
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RSM Councilmember Thompson weighs in on Arroyo Vista Park joint use issue: City should step in to protect residents
• CUSD - stop interfering with our community
• Residents - please respect SAMLARC’s decision to protect Arroyo Vista Park
By
Gary Thompson
Councilmember, City of Rancho Santa Margarita
Thank you Mayor, members of the council.
I have requested this item tonight for discussion, quite frankly, because I continue to be deeply disturbed by the tenor of animosity within this community that has overcome what should be a respectful, civil dialogue over accessibility to Arroyo Vista Park. The deep hostility that has manifested itself within the residents of this community, pitting neighbor against neighbor, friend against friend, and child against child, can no longer be tolerated by this city. When people are being threatened, intimidated and harassed, we as our city’s leaders, must be diligent in our efforts in bringing this issue to resolution.
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• Residents - please respect SAMLARC’s decision to protect Arroyo Vista Park
Councilmember, City of Rancho Santa Margarita
Thank you Mayor, members of the council.
I have requested this item tonight for discussion, quite frankly, because I continue to be deeply disturbed by the tenor of animosity within this community that has overcome what should be a respectful, civil dialogue over accessibility to Arroyo Vista Park. The deep hostility that has manifested itself within the residents of this community, pitting neighbor against neighbor, friend against friend, and child against child, can no longer be tolerated by this city. When people are being threatened, intimidated and harassed, we as our city’s leaders, must be diligent in our efforts in bringing this issue to resolution.
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