- Parent Leader to School Board: Oh No You Didn’t
A parent leader is calling on the school board to reverse course after it decided to pull federal funding from schools with lower poverty rates to concentrate the money on the poorest schools.
David Page leads a school district advisory committee that weighs in on funding for disadvantaged schools. He argues the school board violated its own policies by not properly consulting his group on the plan and "acted in bad faith towards parents."
Page is filing an official complaint that calls on the school district attorney to tell the board to cancel its vote immediately so it can get more parent input and response before making its decision.
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- Few California Districts Appoint School Boards
If San Diego voters opt to remake the local school board and add four appointed members, they will be embarking on something very unusual — at least in California.
While there are appointed school boards in other big cities across the country, such as New York and Washington D.C., the California School Boards Association says there is only one other appointed school board in the state, the Los Angeles County school board, which is chosen by the county board of supervisors.
There was at least one other school board with appointees in the past: Oakland briefly allowed Jerry Brown, then the mayor, to appoint a few members and expand its elected board, but later stopped. California Watch does a nice job explaining how it played out, quoting a 2001 report that said the board ended up being split between Brown's supporters and older holdovers.
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