[quote=Essbee]Earlyretirement,
I heard the radio version of those stories on the KPBS radio station.
If I recall correctly, you live in the Willow Grove Elementary district. One of the people interviewed on the radio was a Santaluz parent who lives 3 minutes from Willow Grove, but whose child has been assigned to a PUSD school several miles away (can’t recall which, maybe Turtleback).
He was very upset because instead of bringing a temporary classroom to Willow Grove, they were doing improvements at another school. I strongly hope that my kids will get to attend our local school (Stone Ranch).
What City Councilman are you speaking of, though? If you live in the city of San Diego, I somehow doubt that the Council members have any pull with the PUSD, seeing as most of San Diego is part of SD Unified. Heck, I don’t even HAVE a councilperson since I live in 4S Ranch (unincorporated). I wonder if it would be more effective to write to members of the PUSD school board.
Anyway, good luck![/quote]
Yes, I live in Santaluz. I did hear about some parents that didn’t get in. It might also be that they didn’t pre-register on the two days in May when you get first crack at getting in to Willow Grove. The lines were VERY long that day for registration. I think many parents don’t understand the importance of pre-registering their Kindergarten kids those first 2 days.
Yes, I would be IRRATE if they were taking our CFD taxes and using it at other non-CFD district schools if my kids couldn’t get into a school that I live 3 minutes from.
I know my City Councilman, Mark Kersey probably can’t do anything but at least I wanted to see if he had any pull at all to see what can be done about oversight and possibly what measures taxpayers in these CFD areas can do.
I’m not sure how effective writing to PUSD members are when they are quoted and doing interviews saying what CFD funds should be used for and then getting caught using funds for something else!?
200 checking accounts???!! No reason they need so many accounts and I’d like to know who is authorized to sign off on those accounts and what the process is. It sounds like the system has the potential for a LOT of fraud and abuse.
