To the editor: I’m a Los Angeles Unified graduate, mum or dad and trainer and co-founder of the advocacy group Dad and mom Supporting Lecturers. LAUSD’s lack of transparency, accountability and creativeness is deeply troubling as we face powerful conversations about the way forward for our colleges (“Vacant and vandalized, this $34-million LAUSD campus could be a sign of what’s to come,” Oct. 27). LAUSD households and workers merely received’t belief choices made by these on Beaudry Avenue till we see the actual numbers concerning spending on contracts, applications and departments together with some measure of their efficacy and necessity.
Why are we heading straight to furloughs with out asking faculty workers about what district-directed spending truly has a optimistic profit in our school rooms? Why isn’t our management straight speaking and listening to the folks doing the work at colleges? The place is the general public dashboard of all LAUSD contracts that was alleged to be prepared by September?
For many years, LAUSD has made choices remoted from the classroom and college web site. On this second, that is merely not adequate for our youngsters and metropolis.
Nicolle Fefferman, Los Angeles
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To the editor: Employees author Howard Blume’s current article in regards to the vacant Miramar campus struck a private chord with me. That is the neighborhood wherein I grew up and the neighborhood I now have the privilege of serving.
After I attended a number of different colleges, my mother finally made the choice to ship me to the Los Angeles Academy of Arts and Enterprise (LAAAE) and I’m grateful she did. I graduated in 2014 and since 2018, I’ve been an worker there.
That’s the reason having a everlasting campus means a lot to me. I see dad and mom get enthusiastic about LAAAE, solely to hesitate after they study we’re co-located at Belmont Excessive Faculty. Having grown up on this neighborhood, I’ve seen Belmont’s status over time and sadly, it continues to discourage some households earlier than they even get to know our college.
LAAAE deserves the chance to face by itself, with a campus the place college students really feel proud to belong and households really feel welcomed from the second they arrive. Miramar represents greater than an empty constructing. It represents an opportunity for our college to develop, construct its id and provides college students a real place to name house.
My mother as soon as selected LAAAE for me. As we speak, I would like different households to really feel simply as assured selecting it for his or her kids.
I urge LAUSD, state officers and LAAAE to work collectively to discover a financially sustainable resolution that places college students and households first and offers our college a everlasting place to name house.
Our college students deserve greater than a spot to study. They deserve a spot to belong.
Eileen Quinones, Los Angeles
This author is an administrative and communications assistant on the Los Angeles Academy of Arts and Enterprise.
