Earlier this month, the Anaheim City School District hit parents with a letter and robocall, signed and recorded by Superintendent Linda Wagner, warning them about “aggressive petition gatherers” who might “pressure them” while  “they may not be telling you” all the facts about re-starting Palm Lane Elementary as a charter school — and oh, by the way, district staff ...

  Government bureaucracies tend to resist change and defend the status quo, and none more vigorously than public education bureaucracies. In the Anaheim City School District, a group of parents is utilizing the state Parent Trigger Law in an effort to convert Palm Lane Elementary School to charter status – and the school district is fighting them. Earlier this month, ...

  The Anaheim City School District Board of Education voted last night to fill a board vacancy by provisional appointment rather than special election. The vacancy was created by the resignation of board member James Vanderbilt, who will be sworn in tonight as a member of the Anaheim City Council. Board members Jeff Cole, Bob Gardner, D.R. Heywood and Ryan Ruelas ...

  In her latest OC Register column, former state Senator Gloria Romero, author of the Parent Trigger Law and education reform leader, has called on the Anaheim City School District Board of Education act in the interest of “new – not recycled – representation and leadership” when deciding how to fill the vacancy created by Trustee James Vanderbilt’s elevation to ...

The new Anaheim City Council is scheduled to be sworn in on December 9, and according to the agenda of last night’s Anaheim City School District Board of Education meeting, board member and councilman-elect James Vanderbilt will submit his resignation that day. That, in turn, will create a vacancy on the five-member board. The ACSD Board of Ed will then ...

This came over the transom yesterday : PARENT LEADERS TO MEET IN ANAHEIM TO DISCUSS PARENT TRIGGER LAW, PARENT LEADERSHIP TO TURN AROUND FAILING SCHOOLS UNDER HISTORIC LEGISLATION Parent leaders from Anaheim will meet this Saturday, November 15th with Senate Minority Leader Bob Huff, Senator Gloria Romero (Ret), Connecticut Parent Union President, Gwen Samuel, and Doreen Diaz, Desert Trails School ...

I have noted on this blog numerous times of the disconnect between the lead plaintiff on the ACLU lawsuit seeking to force single-member districts on the Anaheim City Council while simultaneously doing nothing to bring them to the Anaheim City School District – in spite of the fact that the circumstance Jose Moreno says warrant them in the City of ...

  Another untrue rumor being spread to undermine the Palm Lane Elementary charter petition drive RUMOR: “The Palm Lane parents are the trying to close the school.” TRUTH: That’s ridiculous because the only purpose of the petition campaign is to make the school better for our children. The District told some of us that if we didn’t like the quality ...

I’ve written previously that Jose Moreno, the lead plaintiff in the ACLU lawsuit seeking to impose single-member council districts on the people of Anaheim, has made no effort to shift elections to the Anaheim City School District Board of Education from at-large to the single-member districts he judges so critical to democracy. Moreno is a member of the ACSD Governing ...

In addition to the proposed addition to the governing board bylaws regarding how it is elected, there was another interesting item on the agenda of last night’s Anaheim City School District Board of Education agenda – related to paying for candidate statements. Candidate statements are probably the single most important communication a school board candidate has with the public. It’s ...