Overcrowding
Reform volunteer calls on parents, taxpayers to attend Nov 5th CUSD board meeting to demand equity in facilities spending
Oct 18, 2007
Dear concerned CUSD
parent/taxpayer:
Your help is urgently needed to fight the latest mismanagement and inequity in CUSD. Here's why:
* The "old guard" majority on the Board of Trustees is set to approve up to $12 million dollars in funding to put in a pool and football stadium at the new San Juan Hills High School (SJHHS). This is on top of the estimated $142 million they have already spent on this school that has an enrollment of only 640 students. Meanwhile;
* Students throughout the district sit in substandard, aging facilities with moldy portables, leaky roofs, old dirty carpeting, inadequate or non-existent multi-purpose rooms, rodent infestations, playgrounds/parking spaces that have been taken up by portables to ease overcrowding, etc. (see pictures below) and; Read More...
Your help is urgently needed to fight the latest mismanagement and inequity in CUSD. Here's why:
* The "old guard" majority on the Board of Trustees is set to approve up to $12 million dollars in funding to put in a pool and football stadium at the new San Juan Hills High School (SJHHS). This is on top of the estimated $142 million they have already spent on this school that has an enrollment of only 640 students. Meanwhile;
* Students throughout the district sit in substandard, aging facilities with moldy portables, leaky roofs, old dirty carpeting, inadequate or non-existent multi-purpose rooms, rodent infestations, playgrounds/parking spaces that have been taken up by portables to ease overcrowding, etc. (see pictures below) and; Read More...
Comments
CUSD teacher concerned about district's emphasis on standards, while quality of educational experience suffers
Oct 15, 2007
Irwin made this statement during public comments at the October 15 2007 CUSD Board of Trustees meeting. Irwin is a 36-year teaching veteran who teaches world literature at Dana Hills High School.
CUSD teacher says district "plays with" statistics, touting 94% as going on to higher learning, when less than 45% complete four years
Oct 15, 2007
Irwin made this statement during public comments at the October 15 2007 CUSD Board of Trustees meeting. Irwin is a 36-year teaching veteran who teaches world literature at Dana Hills High School.
Teacher believes large classes have already pushed CUSD passed the threshold of a positive learning environment
Oct 15, 2007
Hoffman made this statement during public comments at the October 15 2007 CUSD Board of Trustees meeting. Hoffman is a 31-year teaching veteran who teaches economics and laptop geography at Capo Valley High School.
Teacher says, with CUSD's increasing class sizes, students get less individual attention and teachers burn out
Oct 15, 2007
Hoffman made this statement during public comments at the October 15 2007 CUSD Board of Trustees meeting. Hoffman is a 31-year teaching veteran who teaches economics and laptop geography at Capo Valley High School.
Reform advocate identifies basic inequities of CUSD's misplaced priorities
Sep 28, 2007
By Sharon Campbell, Mission Viejo
I am a longtime parent volunteer and active supporter of Capistrano Unified School District (CUSD) schools. I, like many others, have dedicated time to serve the students and staff of CUSD. As a resident of Mission Viejo I can say I have never believed Trustee Draper had any interest in the condition of the schools or the children of my community. I have heard her talk a lot about the schools and children in San Juan, but in the past three or four years I have not heard any level of interest about other communities in CUSD, and I attend every board meeting. Trustee Draper does not seem to understand the impact she has on the schools outside her own city. I recently wrote to her about two comments I continually hear her make that led me to my conclusion, but she did not respond. Read More...
Superintendent Fleming’s Real Legacy
Aug 14, 2006
CUSD Recall Committee Demands Fleming Be Removed
Immediately
Rancho
Santa Margarita, CA. CUSD Superintendent
James Fleming has “resigned” in disgrace. “This
moves us one step closer to restoring honesty,
integrity and accountability into our public
school system,” said Thomas Russell,
spokesperson for the CUSD Recall Committee.
A. Immediate Disciplinary Action Must Be Taken.
Very serious allegations involving criminal activity have been leveled against Fleming (and possibly the Trustees). An overwhelming amount
of evidence supporting these allegations has been made public. Given these facts, we believe Fleming cannot be allowed to serve another day as the Superintendent of the Capistrano Unified School District. Read More...
A. Immediate Disciplinary Action Must Be Taken.
Very serious allegations involving criminal activity have been leveled against Fleming (and possibly the Trustees). An overwhelming amount
of evidence supporting these allegations has been made public. Given these facts, we believe Fleming cannot be allowed to serve another day as the Superintendent of the Capistrano Unified School District. Read More...
Superintendent Fleming “Resigns” In Disgrace
Jul 19, 2006
Rancho Santa Margarita, CA. CUSD Superintendent James Fleming has “resigned” in disgrace. “This moves us one step closer to restoring honesty, integrity and accountability into our public school system,” said Thomas Russell, spokesperson for the CUSD Recall Committee.
In announcing his resignation, Fleming posted three self-serving, self-aggrandizing and misleading statements on the CUSD official website. In summary, those statements provided: Read More...
CUSD Recall Committee To Unveil Identities of Three Reform Candidates
Jun 28, 2006
Media Event. This coming
Thursday afternoon, representatives of the CUSD
Recall Committee, 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 announce the identities of three reform
candidates. These candidates will challenge the three
CUSD incumbents who must run for re-election in this
November’s elections. All television, radio and print
media are encouraged to attend.
Date: Thursday, June 29
Time: 5:00 p.m.
Location: At the Front Driveway Entrance to the Controversial New CUSD Administration Building, 33122 Valle Road, San Juan Capistrano, CA Read More...
Date: Thursday, June 29
Time: 5:00 p.m.
Location: At the Front Driveway Entrance to the Controversial New CUSD Administration Building, 33122 Valle Road, San Juan Capistrano, CA Read More...
The truth about portables: CUSD has systematically and fraudulently violationed state environmental laws
Mar 07, 2006
• CUSD improperly filed multiple Title 14
Exemptions
• Completely ignored CEQA requirements
• Caused overcrowded and unsafe conditions
• Continues to engage in cover-up schemes
CUSD has
systematically, continually (an oftentimes in
patently fraudulent manner) violated California
law by expanding existing school sites to
astonishing, unsafe and illegal levels. For
years, CUSD has been illegally placing portable
classrooms on the playground areas of schools
without adhering to the safeguard and analyses
required by the California Environmental Quality
Act (CEQA). David Doomey, CUSD Assistant
Superintendent in charge Facilities Planning,
personally processed and approved virtually all
of these patently illegal (and oftentimes
fraudulent) actions. Read
More...
• Completely ignored CEQA requirements
• Caused overcrowded and unsafe conditions
• Continues to engage in cover-up schemes