CUSD portrays portables as a problem when it suits their purpose - when they need money from taxpayers

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CUSD, Key Message Points CUSD, Key Message Points “Many of our students currently attend school in portable classrooms. We have been forced to convert libraries, storage rooms, hallways and auditoriums into classrooms. Our local schools are severely overcrowded.”

Several years later during the CUSD Recall Campaign, with terrible overcrowding and portables still serious issues for students, Marlene Draper and others at CUSD rebuffed reform advocates by denying that portables were a problem and claiming that it didn't matter if the children were taught in portables as long as their test scores were good. The Key Message Points flyer was prepared by CUSD to advocate support for Measure A, a $65 million school bond later approved by voters in 2000.