Altadena's Partial List of Grievances as Performed by PUSD
written by Steve Lamb [in reponse to a composite of observations about PUSD's search for a new superintendent (specifically item #10 under "the major challenges facing the district in the years ahead" section, which reads "10- Altadena attempting to pull out of the district, potentially removing a large portion of the system and exacerbating the challenges listed above") as authored by Myra Martin Booker of Linda Vista-Annandale Association on Monday, September 25, 2006, and sent to Pasadena Neighborhood Coalition Chairman Dale Trader] on Thursday, October 15, 2006, and sent to Pasadena City Council, Altadena Town Council, PUSD Board of Education, Pasadena Neighborhood Coalition, AUSD Now! Steering Committee, Altadena NAACP, and Supervisor Michael Antonovich's staff:
"The consideration by Altadena of removing itself from the PUSD is a result of several major 2000 pound gorillas in the room that no one from Pasadena will publically address. These are as follows:
1. Continuing lack of respect for the concerns and needs of Altadena's citizens and students.
2. Continuing 'dumping' of undesirable land uses by not-for-profits controlled by predominantly Pasadena boards of directors, in Altadena. This includes the endless effort to place various programs that are not wanted in Pasadena in Altadena.
3. Failure after nearly 40 years of alleged special programs, integration, and various so called reforms to raise the level of education for minority students. In fact the level of education for minorities is BELOW what it was when Judge Manuel Real issued his integration order, and the PUSD schools have been reorganized into not a defacto, but a dejure system of segregated and unequal schools. These schools are failing minority and not so wealthy kids on a level that even the late Gov. George Wallace would have found intolerable.
4. A financial system in the PUSD that favors connected no bid contractors.
5. The fact that the PUSD is NOT supplying services required by state law to individual handicapped students, but is uspplying well connected local not-for-profits with outrageous sums of money to educate kids who could be educated more inexpensively and effectively.
The State of California will not allow Altadena to leave the PUSD, no matter what positive effects would be gained by our students, if the PUSD would be harmed. It is a false statement that Altadena leaving the PUSD would harm the PUSD at all. By state law, if Pasadena would be injured, our kids must continue to suffer. An outrage to any fair minded Democratic citizen.
-Altadena Town Councilman Steve Lamb"
mahalo,
justin
"The consideration by Altadena of removing itself from the PUSD is a result of several major 2000 pound gorillas in the room that no one from Pasadena will publically address. These are as follows:
1. Continuing lack of respect for the concerns and needs of Altadena's citizens and students.
2. Continuing 'dumping' of undesirable land uses by not-for-profits controlled by predominantly Pasadena boards of directors, in Altadena. This includes the endless effort to place various programs that are not wanted in Pasadena in Altadena.
3. Failure after nearly 40 years of alleged special programs, integration, and various so called reforms to raise the level of education for minority students. In fact the level of education for minorities is BELOW what it was when Judge Manuel Real issued his integration order, and the PUSD schools have been reorganized into not a defacto, but a dejure system of segregated and unequal schools. These schools are failing minority and not so wealthy kids on a level that even the late Gov. George Wallace would have found intolerable.
4. A financial system in the PUSD that favors connected no bid contractors.
5. The fact that the PUSD is NOT supplying services required by state law to individual handicapped students, but is uspplying well connected local not-for-profits with outrageous sums of money to educate kids who could be educated more inexpensively and effectively.
The State of California will not allow Altadena to leave the PUSD, no matter what positive effects would be gained by our students, if the PUSD would be harmed. It is a false statement that Altadena leaving the PUSD would harm the PUSD at all. By state law, if Pasadena would be injured, our kids must continue to suffer. An outrage to any fair minded Democratic citizen.
-Altadena Town Councilman Steve Lamb"
mahalo,
justin
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