Facilities Equity
OC Weekly sees through the thin veneer of high test scores and exposes the real reform issues in CUSD
Dec 27, 2007 Filed in: Altan,
Daffodil
Altan is a reporter for OC Weekly.
Trustee Stiff and the ABC Trustees put SJHHS stadium on hold pending outcome of district-wide facilities needs assessment
Nov 07, 2007 Filed in: Stiff,
Duane
CUSD school board member Duane Stiff moved to table a staff recommendation to put a proposed football stadium at San Juan Hills High School out for contractor bids. The ABC Reform Trustees joined Stiff and passed the motion 4-3.
CUSD parent joins district-wide outcry: before building a new stadium, fix broken schools
Nov 07, 2007 Filed in: Collier,
Julie
Julie Collier, The Orange County
Register “It’s disappointing
that they’re even considering the stadium. They
need to take care of broken schools first and
focus on education, especially at the lower
levels. As kids get older, they could be at
greater risk.”
Collier is a CUSD parent and resident of Mission Viejo who spoke on behalf of Parents Advocate League at the November 5, 2007 CUSD board meeting. Click here to read her speech.
Collier is a CUSD parent and resident of Mission Viejo who spoke on behalf of Parents Advocate League at the November 5, 2007 CUSD board meeting. Click here to read her speech.
District sycophant Kutnick tows party line for Benecke and Draper by ignoring facilities equity and hypocritically accusing others of politically exploiting children
Nov 07, 2007 Filed in: Kutnick,
Erin
Kutnick made these remarks after the November 5, 2007 CUSD board meeting where she spoke as an advocate of a new stadium for San Juan Hills High School. Kutnick is a long-time advocate of the old guard Fleming trustees and an outspoken opponent of reform at CUSD. Kutnick's statements were hypocritical since it was her anti-masterplan-pro-stadium-spending crowd who flagrantly used their own children as political pawns that night. By contrast, not one of her opponents objected to the stadium (they just wanted to fix broken schools first), and not one of them brought their children to the meeting as political pawns to put emotional pressure on the trustees.
When the meeting was over, Kutnick approached the dais to publicly deride Trustee Stiff (who had made the motion to table the item) and then, in a tantrum, she stepped outside the room where she loudly criticized her opponents, using profanity within earshot of SJHHS children who had attended the meeting that night. Nice touch, Erin! Kutnick has children who attend San Juan Hills High School and Capistrano Valley High School.
Smith's plans for the new administration building
May 09, 2007 Filed in: Miller, Sam
Sam Miller, The Orange County
Register "Trustees Monday voted
to lease out one of three wings in the new
administration building. The decision will raise
about $338,000 annually, which will go to older
schools for facilities improvements. The district
will consolidate its operations into the
building's center wing and northernmost section.
About 15,000 square feet in the southern section
will be rented out. No tenant has been identified.
Smith said the district will grow into the
building."
Some residents had criticized the 126,000-square-foot building as too large for the district, and it was at the heart of a failed recall effort in 2005. School district officials moved in a year ago. Miller is the South Orange County education reporter for The Orange County Register.
Some residents had criticized the 126,000-square-foot building as too large for the district, and it was at the heart of a failed recall effort in 2005. School district officials moved in a year ago. Miller is the South Orange County education reporter for The Orange County Register.
CUSD neglect of Mission Viejo schools reflects badly on city, CUSD should repay its “debt” to Mission Viejo
May 06, 2007 Filed in: O'Brien,
Sharon
Sharon O’Brien, The Orange County
Register “Sharon O’Brien, The
Orange County Register “Every citizen of Mission
Viejo is affected by the conditions of our schools
because it is a reflection of our city and will
have a long-term impact on the status of this
community. Every citizen should be asking when
Capistrano Unified will repay its debt to the city
of Mission Viejo.”
O’Brien is a CUSD parent and resident of Mission Viejo.
O’Brien is a CUSD parent and resident of Mission Viejo.
CUSD has made Mission Viejo a donor city for school projects elsewhere, unfair to the children and taxpayers of Mission Viejo
May 06, 2007 Filed in: O'Brien,
Sharon
Sharon O’Brien, The Orange County
Register “Mission Viejo has
been a donor city to this school district for
years and the result has been new and improved
facilities elsewhere and a Taj Mahal of a district
office. Meanwhile, high school parents have to
raise funds to get the theater that every other
CUSD high school already has, and elementary and
middle school families have to send their children
to some of the oldest and most neglected schools
in the district.”
O’Brien is a CUSD parent and resident of Mission Viejo.
O’Brien is a CUSD parent and resident of Mission Viejo.
Tired of Mission Viejo taxes paying for CUSD facilities in other cities while the children in Mission Viejo schools are denied
May 06, 2007 Filed in: O'Brien,
Sharon
Sharon O’Brien, The Orange County
Register “It is inspiring to
read about all the hard work and fundraising
parents at Capistrano Valley High School are doing
to provide a performing arts center for that
community, but it is also aggravating to know that
these facilities were provided to other high
schools in the Capistrano Unified School District
with Mission Viejo tax dollars.” O’Brien is a CUSD
parent and resident of Mission Viejo.”
O’Brien is a CUSD parent and resident of Mission Viejo.
O’Brien is a CUSD parent and resident of Mission Viejo.
Capo Valley only high school without a theater; it's hard on students who want to know why they've been neglected
Apr 24, 2007 Filed in: Holke,
Emily
Glowish is a reporter for The Orange County Register.