001e e e testing testing Goose EG microphone in the translations Booth we are now testing the mic in the translation Booth Goose snake microphone mic check 1 2 one two 3 1 231 23 mic check in the gooseneck microphone in the translations Booth 1 two 3 one 23 now I will jump over to the Spanish headset e that's it e e e to e for e e e they're great aren't they just e e e good morning welcome to the March 11th 2025 meeting of the Los Angeles univi School District Board of Education uh the time is now 9:03 hearing a bit of an echo I think the echo should be gone now still there check check on the echo well we're going to press forward because uh I don't want to hold up our
002business probably the the laptop right there thank you okay I'll take rooll Miss nubil present uh Dr Ras present U Mr melvoin Miss grigo uh miss gones here uh Miss Ortiz Franklin and board president schmon present all right so that's four we have a quorum other oh Mr Melo has arrived all right we now have five okay and uh we have other board members arriving imminently I'm going to go ahead and read the purpose and Authority for what will be discussed in close session and following that we will take public comment on the items that will be heard as well as general public comment all right uh under tab one student Discipline matters pursuant to Education Code 48918 CF under Tab 2 Personnel under government code section 54957 uh Public Employee discipline dismissal and release
003and the superintendent evaluation Miss Ortiz Franklin is here now welcome under T three conference with legal counsel uh pending litigation pursuant to government code section 54956.9 D1 Alex G at allv L USD La Superior Court case number 25 s CV 3723 and that case numbers listed on our website along with the order of business if you want to go look that case up and there is one uh piece of anticipated litigation and that will be heard pursuant to government code section 54956.9 D4 under Tab four conference with labor negotiators pursuant to government code section 54957.6 um The Negotiator is Dr Murphy and employee organizations discussed our Associated administrators of Los Angeles California School Employees Association Los Angeles County building and construction trades Council Los Angeles School Police Association Los Angeles school police management association service
004employees International Union SEIU Local 99 Teamsters United teachers Los Angeles and District represented employees and contract management Personnel who um all right that's all we have for uh the close session items to be heard we will jump right into public comment uh the way our public comment works is you can sign up to speak to a specific action item so that we call that a tab or if you made it in time you can speak to General Public comment which are comments uh relative to any business that the school district is involved in Period all right so under tab one student Discipline matters Ashley lades are you here Ashley L AES I don't see anyone online for uh name Ashley also um let's see David Gray are you here David Gray I do not see
005a Mr Gray online either and then we have under tab one erita morinda Morita is uh erinda Morita is here for tab one call in uh I don't see um Miss Mor Marita here I don't have Ron line in front of me so that swiftly brings us to uh tab three conference uh with legal council we have someone listed as an educator uh calling in I have you there uh educator please press star six to unmute yourself and you'll have two minutes to speak once you begin tab three an educator thank you I am here hi so I looked uh over District email and it stated that there was a weeklong event with regards to your affiliation with Sandy Hook promise this is a very sensitive topic but it is uh valid for me to
006address I have spoken to a few administrators I had been a news report order for a professor who has looked extensively into what we all feel is a tragic event uh he has evidence that something different happened to what the official narrative was and I find as an educator it's only right for me to bring this up to you because there is a donation button and a whole lot of people that feel that this was done one way and it would be wrong for me not to say anything so this professor actually went to court with his evidence and the judge would not allow him to present it they also would not give him his constitutional right to a jury and as an educational institution we do tell our students that uh they have rights
007we all have rights in the United States of America so I'm going to uh ask you to please put him as an item on the agenda for your California Education Code where if a member of the community would like to speak that is appropriate he will be speaking more to his case and that's what I wanted to say today it's important that people are not silent and when people are that's very questionable thank you very much for your time we appreciate your time thank you okay uh let's see we have a do Fetzer online Dr Fetzer speaking to Tab 3 conference with legal counsel uh Dr Fetzer saw you online a moment ago there you are Dr Fetzer please press star six to unmute yourself and you'll have two minutes to speak once you begin
008Dr Fetzer thank you so much my name is Jim Fetzer PhD I'm a retired professor of philosophy from the University of Minnesota theth in order to sort out the ambiguities of Sandy Hook I brought together a group of 15 experts including six phds to figure what actually had happened and published a book about it 440 Pages we discovered the school had been closed by 2008 that there were no students or teachers there and that it had been a FEMA drill presented as a school shooting to promote gun control we already had the manual for the event which I included as appending say in the book which I entitled nobody died at Sandy Hook and Amazon banned less than a month after it went on sale even though it had sold 500 copies I was taken
009to court to try to get the book suppressed after I released it for free as a PDF and the judge as Monique has observed would not allow the pro apologize for the interruption sir but is this relevant to pending litigation before the district right now no no it's relevant to your association with Sandy Hook promise because uh the participants in the drill reached out to me over the lawsuit because they were upset that I was being sued they informed me that everyone in the community had participated in the drill likeed the book because it was honest you can find information about it now including provided by them on my blog at James HF Fetzer do org entitled fake news the truth versus Alex Jones including the Connecticut feem schedule showing this exercis is l366 right
010on the schedule which was provided by the participant who was cast as Emily Parker little blondey school your time sir that's all the time you have [Music] today that concludes tab three conference with legal council okay going on to Tab four conference with labor negotiators we have one David toski come on up Mr toski you'll have two minutes to speak once you begin thank you very much David T kovski speaking of course there's plenty of litigation on the shootings around schools uh um and that litigation unfortunately um comes on our burden here at the public of La unified I'm speaking on negotiations uh always with negotiations is to protect the general fund general fund provides money for the instruction program the most important thing we do uh the programs the curriculum and of course it
011it is essential to your negotiations for salaries and health benefits So Def feing what we used to call def fleecing of cops because cops fleece the general fund is a good idea but what you need to see is how much general fund has been paid down how much you're saving and how much you you expended already and the itemization of it that is not in the materials for later good news your three-year uh second interim today shows a growth of general fund but it doesn't tell us how it went from 6.5 billion down to 4.1 good to see you back again meeting um and and how uh those 6.5 to 4.1 itemize it it would be great to see that where did it go what is it being dedicated and three years of course is
012a ridiculous item ab1 1200 requires three years of expenses with only one year of Revenue it needs to be part of the legislative agenda to figure out how the third year is basically to to hone in the unions and their asks um so again um today protect the general fund so you can negotiate and and not defer money to a third year because children are here now they're learning right now the more money and dedication we can put in to the right now now and not defer it like the 500 million from FEMA that we bought for four years ago is now being spent 7 years later put the money in now support your programs support instruction and support the adults who do that for the children of La UniFi thank you thank you for
013your time all right that concludes item specific comment and we'll now go to General Public comment as is uh my usual policy I'll call on folks who are in person first and then we'll transition to those who have listed themselves as speaking remotely so the first uh three speakers uh we have Mark Wiki Mark W if you're here come on up you'll have two minutes to speak when you begin and then after Mr W is our Maria Lisa Palmer and then John kramper uh please go ahead the two minutes is yours all right good morning president smelson superintendent cavalo and board members I am Mark wki a retired La USD social studies and English teacher a taxpayer and a concerned Community member I Rise to draw attention to the district's egregious mistake in providing links
014on its websites to material from the Anti-Defamation League the ADL the board should know that the ADL is a Lobby group for the state of Israel masquerading as a civil rights organization the ADL has a unabashed political agenda to support the genocidal actions of the Rabid extremist zionists who have taken control of the Israeli govern government the nation magazine has called the ADL the Israel's attack dog in the US in 2020 more than 100 civil rights and Community groups including the cent center for constitutional rights and the national lawyers Guild published an open letter warning that the ADL quote has a history and ongoing pattern of attacking social justice movements led by communities of color queer people immigrants Muslims Arabs and other marginalized groups while aligning itself with police right-wing leaders and perpetuators of State
015violence unquote indeed a visit to the adl's website that the ad L USD links to reveals that the ADL distorts Jewish teachings unjustly demonized Palestinians and their supporters and ferments islamophobia material provided by such a political charged racist and hatefield organization such as the ADL is but propaganda not education and has no place in at La us d i urge the void board to remove the link and refrain from any future Association or promotion of the ADL and any of its literature thank you thank you for your time Maria Lisa Palma come on up you'll have two minutes to speak once you begin good morning everyone my name is Maria Lisa Palma as a long time professional in the financial services industry I come here today to speak to you about this proposed Defence of
016$250 million uh of the certificates of participation do any of you know what this is this is a financial calculator hp12c classic use in the financial services industry back in the day I'm an old-timer before we all had computers sitting on our desks my name is engraved in the back because somebody else might walk away with my calculator I believe you have a need for a little bit of training on the time value of money concepts of prudent Finance of capital assets let me give you an illustration about the concepts let's say that you got a car loan with a 14-year term with a 10-year prepayment penalty you can only prepay after the 10 years let's say that your mom owns a real estate property so before the two years are up you ask your
017mom to take out a 30-year mortgage to give give you the cash and a lump sum to pay off that car loan so you're going to ask that she your mom makes the payment on the mortgage of both principal and interest so if she gives you all that cash and you pay off the outstanding principal and therefore all the interest that's due between now before year two and the 10-year Mark can you kind of imagine what happens to that interest amount you would be paying 10 years worth of Interest over a 2-year term that you actually borrowed the money for can you imagine what the effective rate of interest for that is so if you go ahead and approve that Defence of those certificates of participation over a two-year term and you pay the entire
018interest which is how I read that document that you will have a prepayment penalty of 10 years worth of interest on that you will be in this position where we will be paying as taxpayers for all of the interest for that period and we will be paying the interest on the bonds that you replace that debt with so please consider this please call me if you need more information on these Concepts this is math and the time value of money calculation thank you for your time Miss Pama uh John kampner come on up you'll have two minutes to speak once you begin and then after Mr kampner will be Diana guen and then Marie Germaine good morning uh my name is John kramper uh I oppose the district website's link to the Anti-Defamation League's Echoes
019and Reflections curriculum in addition to being a retired teacher of English as a second language in the adult division of LAUSD I am also a Jew growing up in Brooklyn I attended the Beth Elohim synagogue in Park Slope I was bar mitz there in 1965 over the last year year and a half I have watched in horror as Israel has engaged in a campaign of genocide against the Palestinians the Anti-Defamation League does not speak for me nor does it speak for the Jewish Community its Echoes and Reflections curriculum Echoes the party line of the right-wing extremists who now rule Israel and it reflects a mindset of intolerance rather than defense of the Jews as a Jew I have experienced anti-Semitism opposing genocide is not anti-semitic saying Palestinians are human beings with legitimate National aspirations is
020not anti-semitic criticizing Zionism an ideology controversial among Jews since its Inception is not anti-semitic curricular material which implies otherwise is not educational it is propaganda and yes it is defamatory it does not belong in L USD the Ado's curriculum twists and deforms my religious Heritage into a cudu that deprives other religious and ethnic communities of their basic rights as American citizens please do not use Echoes and Reflections or accept any curricular input from the hate mongers of the ADL thank you for your time de come on up miss gan's going to speak in Spanish so if you'd like to hear what she's saying in English please put your hands up and we'll get these translation headsets to you Miss guen oh there she is one more on the back it looks like Mr tolkovsky has
021his hand raised okay Leos gracias good morning members of the board my name is di Guan and I'm here to represent the parent Network for school safety I truly hope you heard the manyi class you got regarding Finance because this money we are going to be paying for all the contributors since you're taking unilateral decisions that don't necessarily benefit all of the public Mr melin you you said you were graduated from a great school hopefully you can demonstrate then taking care of the money of the public in the committee in the subcommittee of this uh school police we've asked for the incident data and we haven't been delivered this information and it the last meeting is this this month and we'd like to know when we're going to be provided these documents because how are
022we supposed to provide feedback in a way that is based on information since in February in 2021 Miss Goldberg when you decided to create Bap and remove school police from the school sides she said she was going to vote Yes but just in case she was mistaken with this decision she said I want to be analyzing the data significantly so if it was important to change the decision you could do so but it looks like over the past four years you have not wanted to hear or seek the information you've already had a question onto the public and we retriev 5,000 signatures of parents demanding school police in school grounds we have a crisis here and you're not listening Miss ortis you're saying you're here to defend the African-American Community but you're not talking to
023them and so many of them want school police Poli and like you said here is a paid group not actual parents who want school police it's not just African-American people that are asking this in their schools but in you seem to not know how these people live you've been here for years and now we have a crisis of safety in all the community or Marie Germaine there we are good morning board member MERS and superintendent I am Marie Germaine I worked for 25 years as an elementary school teacher and I'm a member of the UTA board of directors I will speak to the need for paid planning days for teachers as you know C bases employees that is teachers are off during the summertime and are not expected to work a day past the pupil
024free day at the end of the school year and they are not expected to return in August until their people free day but many teachers do and this is on their free time and without Pay Teachers have to set up classrooms that are academic vibrant inviting and inclusive for all students they create spaces for small group instruction centers for students to rotate through throughout the day technology for the class flexible classroom designs that support the need for students to have movement during learning and so much more utla members are asking for the Board of Education to approve our requests for one paid teacher prep day at the beginning of the school year and one paid prep day to close out classrooms at the end of the school year while this request for two paid days
025falls short of honoring the weeks of unpaid work time teachers put in before and after the school year our dedicated members deserve two full days of prep pay we are asking for thank you thank you for your time Basha Jam Basha Jam okay Jennifer Anderson come on up you have two minutes to speak once you begin good morning I'm Jennifer Anderson I'm I'm a 21 year teacher and um I'm also on the board for utla and I'm speaking about the paid prep days that the union is asking for at the beginning of every school year in every classroom across this District a new family is created whether that family is dysfunctional or not depends on the teacher and the way that they set up their classroom in over 20 years of teaching I've seen teachers
026volunteer weeks of their time ahead of the school year in order to prepare for students to come the environment they set up in their classroom inspires friendship exploration Play learning and success for the students who will call at home for the next year the district needs to acknowledge the thought and sweat that teachers put in before the classes open to children with paid prep days a teacher will use a first day just to clean set up furniture and supplies that have been stored away for summer and look at how many students are on their roster and need to be prepared for this includes a call home to introduce themselves to make sure families get a brief introduction to the person their children will spend a large portion of their year with day two starts a
027creation of bulletin boards opening cumes and putting library books on shelves and books in desks if the teacher's lucky family and friends will come donate their time as well to help set up this environment for their classroom I just want to note that a teacher has not even started lesson planning yet that will come later in the week two paid days of preparation is not enough we need to respect the process that teachers go through to set up and take down their rooms and prepare for instruction by paying them for some of their time if we expect instructional time to be used for instruction then we have to give time for all of the other duties that surround teaching and a school environment thank you thank you for your time Rebecca husseini Rebecca come on
028up you'll have two minutes to speak once you begin good morning my name is Rebecca husseini I'm the vice president of operations and administration at the Muslim public affairs Council today I represent the Muslim Community which is deeply concerned about the implications and effects of external influence on our K12 schools the primary focus of our schools should be to provide a balanced education that encourages critical thinking and a broad understanding of diverse perspective Ives however the involvement of third-party groups with specific political or ideological agendas Rising this balance compromising our core educational mandates and influencing the academic freedoms that are the foundations of our institutions we then mold young minds to fit a particular narrative rather than fostering an environment of learning and inquiry the influence and fear-mongering eily parallels dark moments in US history
029such as the Red Scare and the imposition of loyalty Oaths within the UC system where fear and discriminatory bias plagued academic Integrity just as those actions and periods were reviewed with regret this may also be our path if we continue to allow our schools to be swayed by such pressures the American Muslim Community has noted an alarming rise in islamophobia within our schools correlating with the influence of the ADL that conflates cism with anti-Semitism and vilifies American Muslims for Palestine it is not just about preserving the Integrity of our educational practices but about protecting the future of our children and ensuring they receive an education that is free from hate let's keep the ADL and special interests out of our classrooms so we can educate and not indoctrinate I look forward to our Collective efforts
030to deliver educational excellence and promote critical thinking thank you so much thank you for your time okay Mr Juan mandhi come on up you'll have two minutes to speak once you begin Mr Mandi is going to speak in Spanish so if you'd like to hear what he's saying in English as he's speaking in Spanish please put your hands up we'll get you these translation headsets then after miss man Mr manani will be Monica Rola and then Mar Marcy Winograd so Mr mandhi then miss arizola and then miss Winograd please go ahead well good morning I don't know if to laugh or cry because you know to come here is like talking how's it called where the gods lived and you know those things Asgard or the kingdom of the Gods something like that they did
031not care about looking down at all do you know how many students we've lost in the last five years Mr Schon about what we talked about that this would happen I told you if you know that if you knew what the Cassandra syndrome is I told you once why don't you uh kneel when the tsunami and the um explosion is coming or did I not say that what would happen right now how many students we've lost in the last 5 years and you are guilty don't tell me you are not because you ignore about the realities in the community and what are you doing today to change that image that way to help parents don't come to say that you're interested in the community you are false just like the others because you have been
032able to do good things for the community because you do know but what are we doing here how many students have we lost and what we would continue doing where's parent engagement that you have supported that is the secaria of the parent engagement which is anonio who's done stupidities and it's uh furthering parents uh from being in schools what are you doing you are the chair the president it is time for you for the first times to uh pull up and make changes because this is uh make changes because if you're not doing this look at all those things about finances because so many of you are are pro bonds paying debts with debts and we're going to be paying for this for 30 years I don't know where's the man from Harvard oh here
033he is Mr melne he knows so much about finances but maybe he's perverse because he sees that you can make an error that you're going over the edge because you don't have the information and to um advise the district that we truly need because we are in crisis in uncertainty and to stop doing what has not worked and what's not good I think Schon this is a call to action because you know what we're going through thank your time uh Miss arzola come on up I'll see you out there please you have two minutes to speak once you begin mon Rolo good morning my name is Monica rasolo I have two students in the district I am here because I continue to support the police the police is having the support of parents the PTA
034is also uniting so they can help the police it is very important that school police returns to our school it is very safety is very important and truly every single day we don't know in what second in what moment we can lose a life we give you our children well and you return them dead or or criminals or that they're thieves delinquents criminals Miss Rosio you that are Latina please support us please walk with us to look after our children it is so important please represent us as Latina that you're an immigrant as well please uh be in our shoes as a parent thankfully your son is okay but unfortunately some others are not and you more than anything know that these crimes have increased in 300% this is incredible and it's something urgent that
035we need to take action and sometimes you get so frustrated to come and go come and go talk to parents and the parents are saying that how their children are doing and a African Americans we've spoken to them that they too are concerned about what's happening I don't know where that information comes that you said that they don't want it because I've spoken to parents I don't speak English but I've been able to speak to them in my little English that I do understand how they are also wanting school police in schools because their students are victims now with this new change in president there's been more violence it is so sad that another person that is not a Latino to say to Latino that they don't know what race is but because they're Latino
036they say Mexican oh say Mexican you're going to get deported that's something so sad for our children our students are born here and they're telling them that they're going to be deported when they don't even know what that is that should not happen I ask you miss Rosio to please support us as Latino thank you so much thank you for your time uh Marcy winegrad are you here Marcy W com on up you have two minutes to speak once you begin president sharlon board member superintendent Alo I'm rcy winegrad great to be with you thank you for your commitment to our Student Success I a retired LAUSD English and government teacher a voting member of the utla House of Representatives a member of Jewish voice for peace and the organizer for code Pink's National drop
037the ADL campaign I'm here to ask you to sever your relationship with the Anti-Defamation League a pro-israel Lobby group that spent a million dollars last year on lobbing the adl's curriculum Echoes and refle I'm deep into it I think it would be shocking if you looked at what they are teaching our students and that is to conflate anti-zionism the rejection of political critique the rejection of an ethnonationalist jewish state that privileges one ethnicity over another with anti-Semitism persecution discrimination against Jews my great-grandparents were murdered in a Nazi concentration camp I Say Never Again never again for anyone I say we cannot whip weaponize the Holocaust to justify the occupation of Palestine the genocide in Gaza right now two million people being starved to death we cannot indoctrinate our students into this and please take a
038look at the ADL website which now says we no longer focus on anti-bias training we are now solely focused on Judaism the Holocaust and anti-Semitism no the ADL is focused on vilifying peace activists on genocide denial and on complicity take a look at their Twitter page with the Trump administration's persecution of Peace activists thank you so much again for what you are doing for our students I'm really really grateful best bye thanks for your time uh Isabel Gonzalez come on up you'll have two minutes to speak once you begin Miss Isabelle Gonzalez Miss Gonzalez is going to speak in Spanish so if you'd like to hear what she's saying in English as she's speaking Spanish please put your hand up we'll get you a translation headset good morning members of the board you members of
039the board have a lot in common with the PO uh Democratic politicians it's simple you just don't want Wellness for your community who are the children and those children are most vulnerable we have gathered more than 5,000 signature or 6,000 of cons concerned parents due to the increase and violence in and outside of schools in L USD and you are deaf your ears are deaf to these uh petitions requests you don't listen to principles in schools that uh yell out to control uh violence in schools you are blind and deaf to the positive assessments of having school police having school police the students feel protected they create safety they create they create confidence in themselves the behavior of the children Becomes of respect towards the Law and Order academic achievement of children is positive but
040it looks like you don't like that the wellness and safety and the future of the lives of our children are should have never been negotiated we demand that school police return that you return the financing or funds for school police and that you are not respecting students rights to study in a safe environment thank you thank you for your time Marcela Garcia you're signed up to speak remotely but I do not have you online Marcela Garcia David kleene David kleene please press star six to unmute yourself and you'll have two minutes to speak once you begin David Klein Mr President superintendent car Alo and board members my name is David Klein I'm a retired professor and a member of Jewish voice for peace I've given dozens of professional development lessons to LUSD teachers in past
041years and I have grandchildren about to enter LAUSD schools I'm here to ask you to cut all ties with the Anti-Defamation leak the ADL is a pro Israel Lobby group much like APAC masquerading as a civil rights organization the ADL smears human rights organizations that oppose Israel's genocide of Palestinians and it silences Jewish and Palestinian voices calling for the protection of Palestinian lives a coalition of more than 90 organizations has denounced the ADL in writing and called upon schools not to partner with the ADL these organizations include Jewish voice for peace American friends service committee movement for black lives code pink and the Council on American Islamic relations among many others please heed the advice of these prestigious organizations by severing all ties with the Anti-Defamation League please do not allow Zionist indoctrination of our
042students and the normalization of genocide thank you thank you for your time Jerome palasio meerson I see you're online Jerome Myerson please press star six to unmute yourself and you'll have two minutes to speak once you begin hello hopefully you can hear me my name is Jerome Clos Myerson thank you board members your ongoing dedication to our children's education I'm the parent of a first grader at SAR Elementary in district 6 I'm a devout Jew I can read and write Hebrew I have walked the length of Israel from Lebanon to the Gulf of AKA and I have several Israeli friends including many that live there to this day that being said the ADL doesn't represent me and has no place in a public school system ADL curriculums offer simplistic approaches to complex issues increases Division
043and trivializes viewpoints that don't align with the Israel first mentality they may be welcome at a private conservative religious school but not one as diverse and far-reaching as lusc I agree we should all stand up to anti-Semitism but prioritizing that ahead of other forms of bigotry is political and unjust and what is anti-Semitism anyway this term was literally created by Nazi Germans to provide a scientific veneer for anti-jew hatred meanwhile the notion of anti-zionism is several decades older and was born in the Jewish Community from those that oppos migration to our Biblical homeland in Palestine conflating these two ideas is is inaccurate and just one example of how the ADL fails to help teachers Express Nuance for developing Minds I'm not here to say the ADL is evil I'm here to say it simply doesn't
044fit with LA USC's mission of providing a rigorous culturally relevant education for all students please remove all references from La USC web pages please decline meetings with them do their partisan approach and please remember Jews are a diverse population with several perspectives blindly supporting the state of Israel is only one of those perspectives thank you thank you for your time Estee Chandler I see you're online Estee Chandler please press star six to unmute yourself and you'll have two minutes to speak once you begin Chandler SD Chandler hi thank you as a Jewish Angelino it's troubling to see that the LA USD website promotes the Anti-Defamation leagues teaching about anti-Semitism in schools as the nation magazine reported last year posing as a Civil Rights group The ADL has long operated as an intelligence organization targeting Israel's
045critics to their point about a year ago following a pro Palestinian demonstration in New York the ADL released a report listing over 3,000 anti-semitic incidents committed in the first three months of Israel's genocidal assaults on Gaza but it was quickly found that the incident cited in their report were actually actions directed in Pro protest of Israel's conduct of its war on Palestinians not attacks against Jews due to their religious or ethnic identity forcing the ADL to later admit to making up nearly half of the incidents they cited in fact former ADL staffers confided to the Jewish currents magazine last year that the CEO had redirected the group's dayto day work to Target Pro Palestine activism rather than focusing on anti-semitism in American Life a shift they said quote seriously undermines the organization's credibility end quote
046one stopper was quoted saying the CEO is Waging War on Pro Palestinian activists according to Jewish currents reporting green blat the CEO has even battled against the Ado's own civil rights office over legislation targeting criticism of Israel quote choosing repeatedly to privilege Israel advocacy over the prot protection of civil liberties end quote under the circumstances it seems like malpractice for an educational institution like La USC which I graduated from to consider let alone utilize any anti-de defination League materials for the teaching of students of any age thank you for your time thank you for your time Karina Lopez I see you're listed as speaking remotely but I do not have you online Karina Lopez are you in the room no uh let's see Jenna noes I see you're online Jenna please press star six to
047unmute yourself and you'll have two minutes to speak once you begin Jenna noes good morning members of the board my name is Jenna no and a PT Executive Board member representing Valley Hills Council Apperson Elementary and mount l Middle School so just last Friday along with many other parents I kept my child home from school due to a serious threat made by an eighth grader who reportedly had a hit list and threatened to shoot up the school initially many dismissed it as rumors but as I received phone calls and text messages from concerned parents students came forward for the information late Thursday evening after sharing names and screenshots with the Watch Commander I was told they were unaware of the situation and would begin investigating however the school failed to be transparent falsely claiming the
048situation had already been handled and resolved even before the school day began so the situation highlights a deeper issue that I'm concerned about the safety of our students unfortunately what emerged from this incident was not just a threat but a cry for help from the student who due to bullying and personal struggles felt the need to express their pain in such a dangerous way I speak from experience having witnessed my own child endure bullying how can we ensure that the student gets the help they need as well as address The Bullying issue at its core when interventions like peer mediation and the Dean's office are ineffective bullying and tier rejection are known risk factors for school violence and we cannot ignore that another pressing concern I want to bring to your attention is the alarming
049number of safety incidents at the school in just the short month of February there were four severe safety incidents and now in March two fights and a gun threat this level of violence and disruption is out of control how can we ensure the safety of our students when such incidents seem to be coming the norm it's crucial that we take stronger measures to protect the children why can't there be specific campus police check-ins why is there a lack of transparencies with families about incidences parents and community members deserve to know the facts and we can collectively work to prevent further violence and create a safe learning environment I urge the board to take immediate action train campus AIDS bring back campus police and most importantly collaborate with families and Community to make the necessary changes
050the current approach is not working and we need to do better for the safety wellbeing of our children thank you very much thank you for your time Maria Daisy Ortiz I see you're on the line Maria Daisy Ortiz please press star six to unmute yourself and you'll have two minutes to speak once you begin Maria Daisy or this is good morning to all my name is Maria Daisy Ortiz and as a citizen I am a taxpayer and I'm here I'm asking you as as board members that there should be more transparency with the categoric funds knowing that as a parent we haven't had for years we haven't had a glossery or an explanation of the categoric funds and I'm talking about this because within those category funds there is a program of secure schools in
051which we don't don't know how many funds we receive or how much funds we receive how much the School receives uh therefore this should change Mr Scott as president I've had meetings with all the mechanis mechanisms from the state Title One title three lcfs and honestly I want to reveal the light that has been covered by Salo and Placencia by Pedro Sala and Mr Placencia saying that categoric funds only DC committee are the ones who endorse it that is a huge lie therefore we ask for changes so that there can be transparency there can be parent inclusion this is why you receive the categoric funds now now uh in regards to funds and the bad decisions that you've made in this board we our children are paying for it they're the first ones with the
052education because the results with the English Learners and I ready is 1% Mr carvalo therefore 5% is in math is in math and English science all students are at 8% compet in competency and 70% of all the students don't have competency in mathematic and English therefore if you will renew the contract I believe that you should think about it because he has dismantled this with money but he does appear at school saying asking for parents to participate so that federal funds aren't removed just to secure his position thank you for your time and let's see we have Eddie pistolesi Eddie P please press star six to unmute yourself and you'll have two minutes to speak once you begin Eddie P Mr pisty you're uh your I see you're online in hello hi go ahead Edie
053hi my name is Edie pisty and I am a retired public school teacher I taught in inner city public schools for nearly 40 years my children attended LAUSD public schools and I understand public education from the inside for that reason I am appalled at the plan for La USC to partner with the Anti-Defamation League to use a curriculum that actually suppresses oer opposition to genocide this Zionist indoctrination has no place in public schools there is no place for a curriculum that excuses Israel's murder of Palestinian people tens of thousands of whom are kids from newborn infants to teenagers this curriculum of implicit violence and hate has no right to exist anywhere and especially not the kids in the LAUSD public school system thank you thank you for your time and we have one late arrival
054um erinda Morita you're online please press star six to unmute yourself and speak to tab one student discipline erinda Morita when of the US uh so good morning my name is erita I would like to know what is the discipline that you're implementing in the schools last week at John Ley Middle School uh at around Union Avenue for students had adhere alcohol and other substances therefore schools aren't secure there aren't officers to assist for emergency situations the discipline is failing inside the schools you need to create a campaign against drugs and bring the official and counselors so that they can bring conscience to the problem that we're living as parents we are the most affected ones let's get school police back to schools well within the academic academic area schools are you're failing to the
055students there's no structure as coming from professionals we need to work on this so that we can help there are many students that are very low in mathematics in English and therefore this is something that that needs to instead of bettering it's getting worse and I've seen many students leaving L USD therefore what are we going to do you need to start working on this thank you thank you for your time that concludes public comment the time is now 9:53 a.m. and the board is going to recess into close session e e e okay welcome back the time is now 1:03 p.m. we're going to reconvene the March 11th 2025 regular meeting of Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education 9:00 a.m. meeting which included closed session items I'm going to report out on
056action taken and then we will adjourn the meeting and after about 5 10 minutes we will open up the 1 pm meeting okay under tab one student discipline the Board of Education approved the expulsion of students in case numbers 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 and 72 with their recommended dispositions uh the Board of Education denied the conditional enrollment of the students in case numbers 17 18 and 19 the vote was seven I on all student Discipline matters then under tab two uh Personnel Employee discipline dismissal and release the Board of Education authorized the dismissal of one class ified and two certificated employees the vote was seven eyes and I'm realizing now that before I read that out I didn't um establish our Quorum so uh Miss nuel present Dr Ras present Mr Mel
057Miss Grio miss gones here miss Ortiz Franklin and board president schmon present okay and I'll note that all seven board members were physically present during the close session including the superintendent and Team all right the time is now 104 um unless there any objection we'll adjourn the meeting and prepare for the next one okay thank you we'll be back shortly e