Thread: ACTION!!! Reporter Assaulted at MEChA Charter School

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Only 8% fully credentialed teachers, a statewide ranking of 1 out of 10 on the Academic Performance Index and many more scary realities about this publicly funded school. CHeck it out for yourself

http://www.kabc.com/mcintyre/goout.asp? ... olid=10663

California State Senator, George Runner, sent a letter to Roy Romer with proof that the LAUSD has the legal authority to revoke Academia's charter at any time.

Dr. Roy Romer

Los Angeles Unified School District

333 S. Beaudry Ave., 24th Floor

Los Angeles, CA 90017

Dear Dr. Romer,


It has come to my attention that some questionable practices are occurring at the Academia Semillas del Pueblo charter school. Based on these reports, I am respectfully requesting that you investigate Academia Semillas del Pueblo charter school, which is a part of your school district.


As you know, LAUSD is the chartering authority for this school and so your district is responsible to hold the charter school accountable. You have full authority to revoke a charter under education code section 47607(c) if there are violations of the law.


Education Code 47607(c) states:

(c) A charter may be revoked by the authority that granted the charter under this chapter if the authority finds that the charter school did any of the following:
(1) Committed a material violation of any of the conditions, standards, or procedures set forth
in the charter.
(2) Failed to meet or pursue any of the pupil outcomes identified in the charter.
(3) Failed to meet generally accepted accounting principles, or engaged in fiscal mismanagement.
(4) Violated any provision of law.
(d) Prior to revocation, the authority that granted the charter shall notify the charter public school of any violation of this section and give the school a reasonable opportunity to cure the violation, unless the authority determines, in writing, that the violation constitutes a severe and imminent threat to the health or safety of the pupils.

Charter schools have proven to be very successful and I am in full support of them and their expansion. However, schools that may be abusing their authority and violating the law must be held accountable. I have also written a letter to Dr. Darline Robles, Los Angeles County Superintendent urging her to also investigate this school.

I urge you to take the appropriate steps as it is important to preserve the integrity of the law and not allow abuses to occur which ultimately hurts the students and the taxpayers.

Sincerely,


George C. Runner, Jr.

Senator, 17th District

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http://www.bruinalumni.com/antonio/villar3.html

The student radicals were emboldened by their successes in trashing the school with impunity, but still smarting from the rejection by Young. On May 25, 1993, a group of nine Chicanos (including seven students) initiated what would eventually be a 14-day hunger strike. Two UCLA students, Marcos Aguilar and Balvina Collazo, and one high school student, Norma Montanez, adopted Azteco-babble names; respectively, Huitzilixtlitiu, Chitlichicoshayotl, and Ixtlapapayotl. The nine, which included an assistant professor from the medical school, rallied to their cause nearly every Chicano-interest activist and politician. Then-State Senator Art Torres (later to become chair of the California Democratic Party) threatened to withhold state funding unless demands were met. Cesar Chavez’s son Fernando led a rally of Chicano students on June 3, 1993 supporting the hunger strikers. And in an evolution that would have warmed Tony Villar’s radical heart, UCLA MEChista Gil Cedillo, and Chicano radicals Vivien Bonzo and Juan Jose Gutierrez, came together to lead a “United Community and Labor Alliance,” that agitated for departmental status. Even old-time white radical Tom Hayden, then a State Senator from Santa Monica, threw his lot in with the mob.

REMEMBER THE GOALS OF THE PRIMARY SUPPORTERS OF THIS SCHOOL:


MEChA: Takeover of U.S. Southwest & give to Mexico.
La Raza: "For the Race, everything - for all others, nothing".


Now we know why L.A. Mayor "MEChA-Man" Villaraigosa wants control of all L.A. schools -- so he can insue that ALL little children are brainwashed with these racist groups' vicious, violent, anti-American lies.


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Wretched LAUSD clears La Raza/MEChA indoctrination center

Associated Press
http://www.bakersfield.com/119/story/55419.html
District clears charter school catering to Mexican students
By OSKAR GARCIA, | Monday, Jun 5 2006 8:15 PM
Last Updated: Monday, Jun 5 2006 8:15 PM
Responding to allegations of discrimination, the school district has concluded that an elementary school catering to students of Mexican descent is following its charter, officials said Monday.
The district sent observers after Sandy Wells, a reporter working for KABC-AM, was allegedly assaulted outside the school Thursday by a man who demanded his audio tape. Station officials said Wells was also followed as he drove away. Police are investigating the incident.
"They have followed the charter that they wrote originally," said Kevin Reed, chief legal counsel for the district. "What we care about is that the curriculum is inclusive and not exclusive."
The school in east Los Angeles is one of about 100 charters in the district, Reed said. The school has until January to apply for renewal, and the district anticipates it will, Reed said.
The alleged assault has brought attention to the small school as immigration tensions rise across the country.
KABC-AM radio host Doug McIntyre has been one particularly vociferous critic. McIntyre has accused Academia Semillas del Pueblo school and its principal, Marcos Aguilar, of having a separatist philosophy that excludes students of non-Mexican origin from applying.
Repeated calls to Aguilar Monday seeking comment were not returned.
A school statement last week said it did not "discriminate against any student on the basis of ethnicity, national origin, gender, gender identity or disability."
Meanwhile Monday, a handful of parents protested at McIntyre's studio, saying the school had received bomb threats because of the show. McIntyre said he had also received death threats due to his criticisms.
The school aimed to provide children of immigrant and native families an education "founded upon their own language, cultural values and global realities," according to the charter application.
"The indigenous heart of our vision is a repossession of an identity denied from our children in standard schools," the application reads.
Students are taught in English, Spanish, Mandarin and Nahuatl, an Aztec language. The school teaches both traditional math curriculum and a separate Aztec math system.

Hi everyone I’m new member and here is some information I found from LaWatchdog website on Academia Semillas del Pueblo, Look at their API Scores

http://www.lawatchdog.com/ASP-AcademicAchievement.html


This link is from the CA Treasurer dept. and look at the funding this school gets. Scroll down go to page 13 and the Academia Semillas del Pueblo 11th school from the bottom of page

http://www.treasurer.ca.gov/csfa/charte ... jt_rpt.pdf