Get involved: Almost time to vote on new Echo Park school
Construction is wrapping up at CRES#14 - the site previously occupied by 50 homes
We received a submission from Echo Park resident, business owner, and Echo Park Mom’s Group for Education member Micki Curtis. Very concerned about the upcoming vote on Central Region Elementary School (CRES) #14, Micki is calling for the community to get involved immediately so that the community gets what it deserves with this school. Here’s what she has to say:
Dear Fellow Parents and Community Members, I am writing to you as a concerned parent and community member. A couple of years ago, the LAUSD won the battle to destroy over 50 homes and close an access street [Marathon] to build a new school facility currently called CRES #14. Click here to read some of the back story on Curbed LA.
Now that the building is almost completed, the LAUSD is using the CHOICES process to decide who will inhabit this publicly funded project. I have been attending meetings and following the decision process as to which type of school (there are two different proposals) will inhabit the new elementary and middle school facility at Sunset and Alvarado. The two proposals are: a mostly Spanish-language school called Camino Nuevo (not language emergence, but bilingual), and the second school, yet to be named but with a working title of “Echo Park Community Partners Design Team.” The second proposal has continually grasped my deep interest – it is an amazing school for the entire community.
Echo Park Community Design Team is the brainchild of current and retired amazing teachers who live in and love our community and see the need for a progressive and fantastic school. Many of them, although teaching in the area, sent their kids to open charter, a magnet school by the airport. Open School is an exceptional school with ties to its community and offering progressive fantastic opportunities to learn.
The teachers have created a proposal based on Open School, taking into consideration the richness of the arts and history in our community. It really is a dream proposal with arts, science, dual language and a place for all the children who exist in our diverse Echo Park/Silver Lake community. They are partnered with LAPHIL, CalArts, MOCA and the Tree People to offer unique opportunities to the students.
They plan not only a progressive learning school but also a progressive campus servicing pre-K-8th grade, and geared toward being a feeder to the Central High #9 fine arts school. Their proposal includes: Project-based learning, arts education, dual language, environmental science, technology, and inclusive curriculum reflecting our community’s diversity. The school will have grades Pre-K through 8 with multi-age classrooms, and will include team teaching, handicapped accessible facilities, athletics fields, shaded lunch areas and a parent center.
WOW, right? The problem is Camino Nuevo has a lot more support (they currently have three existing Ccmpuses near us), and even though I think it’s a good school for new immigrants, it is not a true reflection of what we need in our changing community now and in our future.
When asked about non-Spanish speakers learning at Camino Nuevo, Ana F. Ponce, the Director and CEO responded, “You have a choice not to attend Camino Nuevo if you don’t speak Spanish.” How is that legal to have a publicly funded school and administration that doesn’t serve the entire community? It is fine to have a charter that teaches whatever it wants in whatever way it professes, but CRES #14 will not be a charter, it will not be a lotter. It will be a neighborhood school entirely funded by the LAUSD via taxpayers and a Union LAUSD School.
Currently, every parent I know who lives around here sends their children to private school or drives a distance to magnets and charters outside our area. There is nothing in our area for our Grace and Quinn to give them a great education. This school could be the answer. The campus is there, the proposal there, the funding is there but we have to support it and vote for it or Camino Nuevo will get that amazing new state-of-the-art campus, and in essence run a specialized charter program for only some of the community, but completely funded by all our community.
Literally built on the backs and homes of our community we have an opportunity to hear the two schools’ proposals this Thursday, January 27, at Union Elementary. At 8:00 pm, a vote opens up. The people eligible to vote are parents, employees and community members in our area.
CRES #14 is in District 5 of LAUSD and is meant to relieve two other schools that reside in District 2. So, if you live in Echo Park, Silver Lake, Angelino Heights, and Elysian Heights, Westlake or downtown, this information concerns YOU. Please see the LAUSD school map by clicking here.
As a concerned parent and community member, our children need your vote and your attendance at the meeting. You and all your friends who live directly in the area or work in the area need to attend. The two voting days are Thursday, January 27 at Union Elementary School (in the cafeteria) starting at 6:00 pm, and Saturday morning at Rosemont Elementary School (in the Auditorium) from 9:00 am – 3:00 pm. The League of Women Voters is running the vote. You have to state where you live or work in the direct area, have any form of ID, and then you may vote. Our children need your input and your vote!
Additional information:
Click here to download the English and Spanish language versions of the flyer with all the meeting information (in PDF form).
For the proposal for the amazing school by the Echo Park Community Partners, click here.
Questions you may have:
Where is the attendance area?
The school is at the junction of Sunset and Alvarado, a major intersection for commuters, and is the on-again off-again boundary that is Silver Lake and Echo Park neighborhoods. The School Board has not defined the area of enrollment for CRES #14. This is your chance to state that you want and need a school like the Echo Park Community Partners Design Team, and how you would like your children to attend. A two-mile radius would extend Silver Lake south of the 5 freeway, just west of Sunset Junction, and into Angelino Heights and Elysian Park. It would be a true neighborhood school and a choice for all of us. You need to write and call the school board to have realistic attendance lines drawn.
What do to?
VOTE: It is not clear how much the vote weighs on the minds of our school board members, Mr. Cortines, our Superintendent, or Yolie Flores and Monica Garcia, our School Board representatives. And because there is a School Board election happening this March, this is the time for our school board members to stand up and listen to the concerned parents in their communities.
CALL and WRITE: Please call and write the following people regarding CRES #14. Right now, the LAUSD School Board knows they need to answer to the parents’ needs first. YOUR VOICE MATTERS! Any phone call and note supporting this project is important and will be heard.
WHO TO CONTACT:
Mr. Cortines is the Superintendent of the whole district: 213-241-7000, and by email ramon.cortines@lausd.net
Yolie Flores is your School Board Member Representative from District 5: 213-241-6383, fax: 213-241-8467 and by email yolie.flores@lausd.net
Monica Garcia is your School Board Member Representative from District 2: 213-241-6180, and by email monica.garcia@lausd.net
Ron Palacios, Director of Community Partnerships: 213-241-6383, and by email ronald.palacios@lausd.net
Please take this seriously, folks, and VOTE even if you don’t have kids! A great school would benefit everyone in the community.
can students vote?
Highschool students in the area can vote. All community members and parents can vote. You can vote as a parent even if your child is in private pre-k or private school.
This school was built using $63 million publicly funded tax dollars. It is supposed to serve the community. When we asked Camino Nuevo if we had a choice on teaching our children in English, their response was we did have a choice- to OPT OUT on sending them there- the facility that we paid for that needs to serve the neighborhood. Their curriculum is set and will send home homework in Spanish. We do not wish this school to DEPRIVE us helping our children with their homework! The Community LD4 School-Parent/Teacher Plan will provide for ALL the students that make up our beautiful racially integrated Echo Park. Please vote tonight or Saturday.
Just returned from the vote at Union Elementary. Tonight, Camino Nuevo spoke a lot about their college readiness curriculum but when a question was asked about many students having to take remedial classes at CSU, they had to admit that only 1 out of 17 of their students attending CSU was proficient in math and reading and did not need remedial classes like the other 16. Maybe I’m out of touch on the statistics around remediation in college but that seems a little inconsistent with their emphatic declarations of producing (I use that word intentionally, because it really does seem like a factory) students that are prepared for college.
If you did not make it tonight, please vote on Saturday!!!
Dear Parents and Concerned Citizens,
Where are you?
I have toured 7 magnets and charters in the area since December 6th. In most of the tours it has been standing room only. Parents are hoping and pushing for a small chance in a random lottery to educate their children. Meanwhile, a new campus is being built in our neighborhood, in our community, and only two organizations are applying to own that brand new campus. Over $63 million tax payer dollars were used to level over 50 homes and to build this school. There will be 300 spots for elementary and 500 spots for middle school. So, it is very likely that this may end up being your local public middle school instead of King.
And yet, the same affluent parents who are elbowing me out of their way at every charter and magnet tour, are nowhere to be found choosing which organization will get the chance to occupy this new state-of-the-art campus. Tonight, you had a chance to hear both the proposals that the new campus could house. AND, you had a chance to cast your vote for which one you thought was best for our neighborhood, our community.
One of the groups is a very slick and well-oiled political machine, Camino Nuevo Charter. This organization actually already has 5 campuses throughout southern California and is becoming a huge corporation. They have a “record” and a background. I have not been interested in hating Camino I think they have a lot to offer as a charter but not as a fully funded local school. I really didn’t want to sling mud at them But since I am pushed to the limit, from Camino Nuevo’s terrible behavior tonight. I have some questions. This was confirmed to be true tonight. If they have such a great record, why out of less that 100 graduates in 2009 :
“According to the Fall 2009, CSU Freshmen Admits database* [2] the number of Camino Nuevo High School Charter students that were NOT proficient in mathematics was an absolutely astonishing 94 percent. This almost unfathomable statistic is all the more glaring when compared to its peers.
Mathematics Proficiency
Camino Nuevo High School Charter 06%
All County High Schools 51%
All California High Schools”
http://rdsathene.blogspot.com/2011/01/crafty-camino-nuevo-charter-charlatans.html 62%
appalling!
The other proposal calls itself THE ECHO PARK COMMUNITY. It is a proposal made up of volunteers and educators who have NOTHING to gain but a good school from our community. Please read the proposal yourself — it is AMAZING and incorporates all of the best learning models available to educators. Conceptual Learning, Project Based, Community Involvement, Reggio Emilia, International Baccalaureate, Fine Arts, Science, Ecology and environment, muti-age classes, team teaching and dual language emersion. The school will be a span school preK-8th grade pilot program part of LAUSD so it will have an autonomy in curriculum, assessment, budget, staffing and governance. And yet, the teachers will be fully union and of course get union benefits.
PLEASE READ THE PROPOSAL
http://publicschoolchoice.lausd.net/sites/default/files/PCS_2.0_Proposals/CRES%20%23%2014%20-%20LD4wEchoParkPartEdu-%20Proposal%20%26%20Appendices%201of%202-%20Redacted.pdf
Tonight, there was a chance to see the proposals and to vote. Where were you community? If your child is going to Ivanhoe, Elysian, Mayberry, Micheltorena or any of the charters, where are you going to middle school? Cres# 14 could be your LOCAL Middle school instead of KING. DO YOU CARE? If you would like a choice, if you would like a progressive school, you better stand up and vote this Saturday and start calling the school board members, and Garcetti. Start writing letters and getting attention — the School Board will decide soon. The advisory vote is only one part but it was not a fair vote tonight. It seemed that Camino Nuevo brought their army. Did I mention they have 5 campuses? I saw all five campuses tonight at OUR COMMUNITY MEETING. They actually had a HUGE GREYHOUND size bus and were bussing in people to vote. They filled the back of the presentation room and rudely spoke loudly the entire time The Echo Park Community design team spoke. Please get out there, VOTE, and start screaming. Even if your child won’t have anything to do with this school but you live here, your vote matters and makes a difference! Please read the proposal, HOW CAN YOU NOT support it?
Can you tell I am very frustrated and sad…?
Last chance to VOTE if you live in the community:
Advisory Recommendation Voting
Advisory Recommendation Voting – There will be an opportunity for parents, high school students, faculty and staff from relieved schools and focus schools, and community members to cast their advisory recommendation vote.
Saturday January 29, 2011 9am – 3pm Rosemont Elementary School Auditorium/Theatre 421 N. Rosemont Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90026
What do to?
VOTE: It is not clear how much the vote weighs on the minds of our school board members, Mr. Cortines, our Superintendent, or Yolie Flores and Monica Garcia, our School Board representatives. And because there is a School Board election happening this March, this is the time for our school board members to stand up and listen to the concerned parents in their communities.
CALL and WRITE: Please call and write the following people regarding CRES #14. Right now, the LAUSD School Board knows they need to answer to the parents’ needs first. YOUR VOICE MATTERS! Any phone call and note supporting this project is important and will be heard.
WHO TO CONTACT:
Mr. Cortines is the Superintendent of the whole district: 213-241-7000, and by email ramon.cortines@lausd.net
Yolie Flores is your School Board Member Representative from District 5: 213-241-6383, fax: 213-241-8467 and by emailyolie.flores@lausd.net
Monica Garcia is your School Board Member Representative from District 2: 213-241-6180, and by emailmonica.garcia@lausd.net
Ron Palacios, Director of Community Partnerships: 213-241-6383, and by email ronald.palacios@lausd.net
Eric Garcetti You can E-Mail the councilmember at councilmember.garcetti@lacity.org 200 North Spring Street,
Room 470
Los Angeles, California 90012
(213) 473-7013
Fax:(213) 613 0819
Respectfully and gratefully,
Windy O’Malley
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