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Good morning and welcome. The time is now 10 a.m. on August 11th, 2026. Welcome to this regular meeting of the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education, including closed session

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items. I'm going to take role. Doc, uh, Miss Newell, >> present. >> Dr. Rivas, >> present. >> Mr. Meline, >> here. >> Miss Grigo, >> here. Miss Gomez, Mr. Ortiz Franklin, board presidentson >> present. >> All right, that's five. We have a quorum. Uh, today I will read through

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the purpose and authority for the closed session items. Uh, and then we will take public comment on specific item comment and then general public comment and then the board will recess into close session after which uh when they come back I will report out on any action taken. All

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right, close session items, purpose and authority. Tab one, student discipline under education code section 48918 CF. Tab two, personnel pursuit to government code section 54957. Uh public employee discipline dismissal and release, superintendent evaluation

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and the inspector general's evaluation. Under tab 3, conference with legal counsel, anticipated litigation pursuant to government code section 54956.9D. Uh there are two cases under pending litigation pursuant to government code section 54956.9D1.

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Uh Jacquellyn Martin and Demani Norris v LUSD at all, LUSD v ace property insurance at all. LUSD v Allied World at all and LUSD v AIU Insurance Company at all. These case numbers are available on

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our website if you want to go look them up at the LA Superior Court website. All right. All right. Under tab four, conference with labor negotiators pursuant to government code section 54957.6. The negotiators Dr. Murphy and the employee organizations represented are Associated Administrators of Los Angeles

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Teamsters 2010, California School Employees Association, Los Angeles County Building Construction, Construction Trades Council, Los Angeles School Police Association, Los Angeles School Police Management Association, Service Employees International Union, SEIU Local 99, Teamsters, United

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Teachers Los Angeles, and District Represented Employees and Contract Management Personnel. All right, we'll go directly into public comment. Speakers have two minutes to speak once they begin and they come up to the

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podium here right up front. Uh we have no speakers under tab one. Under tab two, it looks like we have Mr. David Tokovski. Come on up, sir. You'll have two minutes to speak once you begin. >> Nice to meet you again after the bearded people's uh conference that we were at.

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Okay. Um I am sorry I lost the election to you. you're now the president. Uh >> um but I'll I'll keep trimming. So, uh a number of items quickly on the litigation. Make sure you also ask on the um three cases, how we're doing, uh

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in terms of how much we're spending in order to get the 20 million, whether we got the 20 million from those three insurance companies who dropped us uh early on in the uh child molestation uh insurance issues. on the evaluation of the OIG. Congratulations in doing an

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evaluation so quickly. He just got the job and you're evaluating. So, make sure you find out what has happened with Sue Stangle as she departed and what what uh did she tell you that he's finding as well. Number three, the evaluation of superintendent. Congratulations, Mr.

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Chait, on your six-month anniversary as you come up at the end of the month to being here for six months. and uh congratulations on your incredible work on the east side to make the schools safe. It does not mean that they're healthy. There's a distinction there. And and do not ever say that they're

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100% safe. You cannot say that statistically. I'm sure our Berkeley statistics class has taught us that there is a problem with public health there. It's not the district's issue, but we need to be interviewing all of the families the way we did Mr.

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Schmurson and Mr. Chait out at Porter Ranch. Um and uh then I also want to draw your attention to the June 1st uh quasi secret meeting with the county uh prior to the letters that you as a board got. You will now know that on June 1st

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that that meeting was held in which the county uh superintendent declared that there would be a an overseer of the district prior to the public seeing it at a later time. And finally on negotiations, um I think it's very important to pursue the revenue. Miss Tanya has has set up a committee that

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you should all be participating in. Adam Smith at Adam Schiff, not Adam Smith, but it's an Adam Smith and Adam Schiff letter this morning talks about what you should have in place for November and January on the state budget, new governor, and the federal government

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when the two houses turn Democrat. You need an agenda with all the public schools and urban schools in in the United States. >> Thank you for your time. All right, there are no speakers to tabs three or four. We'll now go to general public comment. Our first speaker is Maria Luis

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La Palama. Come on up, Miss Palma. You have two minutes to speak once you begin. And then following Miss Palma is Danna Guen and then Wendy. As a heads up, Miss Guen is going to speak in Spanish. So if you'd like to hear what she's saying in English when it's her turn, please put your hands up and we'll

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get you headsets. But for now, Miss Palma, come on up. You'll have two minutes to speak once you begin. Your job is to ensure that the children of Los Angeles learn to become productive adults. Your job is not check marks. And this school district is not a

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jobs program. On top of that, the law says that children must be taken from their families, from their parents for 180 days a year into your care. And yet, predictably, today, the first board meeting of the school year, here we are

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in closed session. So, what are you going to do behind closed doors? Check with legal counsel. Check with the unions. What messaging are you sending? That transparency is not your priority. Once again, you have side conversations in the back. We must hear your

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discussions. Now, we find out this morning in the LA Times that there was a letter sent out by Mrs. Moros and Miss Rivas. Whose authority was that letter sent out on? Do all the rest of you board members agree with that? Miss Ortiz Franklin is not here. She's been

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very outspoken about the recent events with fiscal issues. Is she in agreement? Was this uh if there was some kind of agreement, wouldn't that be a Brown Act violation that that was not handled here in public? And there's more messaging

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here that apparently unions are running the show. Six unions signed on together with Mr. son and Dr. Revas on that letter. So, is everyone speaking? [clears throat] Is does that letter speak for all of you? We must see all of those secret letters now to hear that there was another secret meeting that

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happened here. My goodness, secrets are everywhere. The public must be able to read the letters from LEO July 17th. We need to know exactly what was approved. We need to review every single letter. Some of us out here that understand finance actually understand every last

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detail in there. just a clue. We must be able to decipher that information so that we can make this understandable for the public because apparently from the school district we get zero transparency. So remember that you work and every single person in this building

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works for the children of Los Angeles and their parents and what you are doing in secrecy is against the public interest. Thank you. >> Thank you for your time. The next speaker is Dion Guan. Come on up, Miss Gian. You'll have two minutes to speak once you begin. Miss again is going to speak in Spanish. So, if you'd like to

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hear what she's saying in English, please put on these translation headsets that we have to offer. If you do not have one, please put your hand up and we'll get you one. >> Okay. Gracias. What a disaster, right? I remember when Mr. Melboyne had his

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slogan, kids first. But no, now is unions first, right? I love your decisions because now you will be reminded as the ones who destroyed LUSD. And Miss Reebas, I congratulate you again because

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good that Miss Amoda lost because if not, she'd be here in this in this place full of snakes and you are the ones who destroyed the district, the second district largest the second largest district, Mr. Eduardo says, is a bad

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work of the collective work. It's bad, right? >> Honestly, I would say it's it's really bad. Unacceptable. And you are failing our students, putting your political agendas first and there is no

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trust. Imagine Lake doesn't even trust you. Honestly, you will sacrifice the children be for $450,000 to give it to the employees and sacrifice 6,000 of them. And what

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matters here is to have more power. more power for your political campaigns, for your priorities, not for the children. Because Mr. Melvin once said, what I think it's what I think, not what the public thinks. I will do what I want. Just like Miss Greg said, she comes here, she does what she wants, not what

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people are asking for with your political campaigns, no police, and first the counselors. What are you doing? What are you doing, Miss Grigo? >> Your polit your politics of putting employees first. And what you're doing

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is allowing our children to fail. And now you're saying, "Oh, we need to ask more taxes uh Sacramento to Sacramento so that they can charge us." And you need to do this for what? So that we can pay so that we can b pay for your bad decisions. A lot of people believe in

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you. They believe they honestly believe that there is no money. No, there is funds that we do have money. It's just that you are not using using them accordingly with the political campaigns for the students and you're dam damaging our community and our childrens can't even read. How

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embarrassing. I am embarrassed for you all. >> All right, the next speaker is Wendy. Are you are you here Wendy? >> I'm right here. >> All right, come on up Wendy. You'll have two minutes to speak once you begin. >> Good morning. >> Nice to see you all again. So the school um school starts tomorrow. Um I have

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five children. They've all been part of LA USD. I have three that are currently part of LUSD. The oldest of those three has had an IEP since she was in first grade. She's going into 10th grade now. She does not know her multiplications.

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How did my daughter fall in the cracks? Me as mother, I feel like I failed her. But then again, I'm like, wait a minute. I have the support of this school system, the second largest school district in the country, but my daughter, like I said, has fallen

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through the cracks like many other children. I don't understand with all these support services that she has received throughout her school, throughout her education, how it is that my daughter is going into 10th grade without knowing how to. She's at a first

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grade reading level and second grade when it comes to just reading novels and books. First grade when it comes to um I forgot what uh the counselors told me, but she's first second grade reading level. How is it that my daughter has made it to 10th grade without knowing

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how how to read at her level, her grade level, and knowing multiplications? I don't understand. And I come before you today hoping that this doesn't happen to another child ever again, which unfortunately is is continuing to happen

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year after year. I just ask that, you know, this this uh board, please look into look into it. Please, you know, do your job properly so that this doesn't happen so that funds get allocated correctly for the children like my

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daughter that need the help. Uh, and then I also want to mention that a lot of the things that the board is doing, I didn't know from you guys personally. I I had to read it from newspapers. How is it that a mother like me that has had five children in the district for years is not informed? Please inform us

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parents. Thank you. >> Thank you for your time. All right. Looks like uh Mr. Singh is here in person. Come on up, Mr. Singh. You'll have two minutes to speak once you begin. Good morning. Um, good to see you. Although it's unfortunate that I have to

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be back here again. Um, you will recall a few months ago when I uh returned to these board meetings to here as a whistleblower. I came here as a whistleblower reporting what had occurred within the superintendent student advisory council. The SSAC of

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course makes legal recommendations um on the LCAP and when I had when I had suggested certain recommendations like performance-based pay for teachers even if you disagree with that it is undoubtedly false that that is not that

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that is not within our purview. Mr. Placencia and Dr. Eric Lward claimed that we could not make recommendations on such an item. Despite the fact that the auditors I reached out to, the county officials all contradicted this. Placencia and Elward lied. I had to do

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the outreach to ask for an investigation. Nobody here reached out to me. Nobody ever reached out to me to ask despite me giving you my email address. And this is one of the biggest scandals that this is happening to students. Um, of course we hear it happen all the time to parents and now it's happened to students who push back.

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Um and then of course uh Dr. Johnston and uh um Dr. Elward supervisor his name escapes me at the moment investigated themselves and found nothing wrong and now refused to provide me with any notes related to this matter. Um this is

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corruption without a doubt and also last time I came here I reported to you and I also shared this with um Mr. Placencia's supervisor, uh, Miss Carter, that students were intimidated by Placencia during the the student board member election. Nobody

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reached out to me. Students were intimidated by Mr. Placencia. This is what Mr. Placencia does. And nobody here reached out to me. When will you reach out to me? When will you ask me for my testimony, for my evidence against these corrupt individuals who lie about the LCAP to students, who lie about the LCAP

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to parents, and who intimidate students, who push back, who run for student board member. I wait to see it. Thank you. >> Thank you for your time. All right, the next speakers will be remote. Uh let's see who's online with us. We've got Isabelle Gonzalez. Uh Miss Gonzalez,

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please press star six to unmute yourself and you'll have two minutes to speak once you begin. Isabelle Gonzalez. >> What a shame that Miss Gonz is and Miss Ortiz aren't here. We see the lack of interest that they have. I would also like for them to hear this. Congratulations.

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Thank you to your bad decisions. The we still have low academic excellence due to the bad decisions that you make. Now you have less students. [snorts] But what is going to be the narrative now,

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Miss Grigo? Oh, I know. 5 to 10 students of reduction per class so they can learn better and we can continue hiring more school personnel. Yes, that sounds much better. Thank you to your terrible decisions. The students

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are leaving school because of lack of school security, because of lack of school police that are trained and qualified to guarantee the security that our students require. That is what they want. And I am also

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sure with real police officers just the way you are saying in which bullying, fights and massive destruction, arms firearms drugs alcohol cigarettes deaths.

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Thanks to those bad decisions that you have made for putting an agenda that is against the students. Now there is less students and a agenda that is perversive like LGBTQIA plus. That is why parents

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pull their children from these schools thanks to the bad decisions that you have made. You are like a that are like a plague in every classroom in the district. Thanks to the bad decisions,

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there are more deaths because of sex contagious things like HIV today or the soon as possible. I want to know my rights for the parent meeting on how to exclude my child from

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perverse classes like LGBTQIA plus. Thank you. >> Time. The next speaker is Karina Lopez. Miss Lopez, I see you're on the line. Please press star six to unmute yourself. You have two minutes to speak. Once you begin, Karina Lopez, Karina Lopez,

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please press star six to unmute yourself. And you have two minutes to speak once you begin. Karina Lopez, you're online with us, Miss Lopez. >> Hello. Hello. >> Okay. >> Thank you. Good morning. My name is

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Karina Lopez. I am calling to speak in regards to the importance of school security and which has been affecting us not only all students but families. in regard to

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the crime that exists and the aggressive behavior in regards to inside and outside of the schools. We need more officers at our schools so that they can guarantee the

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well-being, integrity, and security of the students because that is the priority, the students as well as involvement of parents. We need to up the funds.

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You need to show the interest that you are truly worried. Not just saying it but doing it. Worried about the security and well-being of the students is having more officers and that is the appropriate element to talk

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about school security as well as showing that you have the interest of involving in reality the parents as same as parents of the same range. Thank you.

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Next speaker is Isabelle Agira. She's signed up to speak online but I don't have her in front of me and I don't see Miss Agira in the room. Uh Ralph Arza signed up to speak online uh but is not signed in. Ralph, Mr. Arza, are you

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here? I do not see him. Uh and then let's see. Leticia Rodarte, you're signed up as calling in but I don't have you signed in and I do not see you in the room. Okay, that concludes >> Maria Daisy Ortiz. >> Uh, let's see. Maria Daisy Ortiz, are

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you here in the room? >> Also not also not online. Um, that's everybody. Thank you. That concludes all specific comment and general comment. The time is 10:20 a.m. and the board is going to recess into close session.

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Thanks everyone. Good afternoon and welcome back. The time is now 3:09 p.m. on August 11th, 2026. Uh the board is reconvening close session. I'll take a quick roll. Uh Miss Newell >> present. >> Dr. Rivas >> present. >> Mr. Meline >> here.

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>> Miss Ggo >> here. >> Miss Gomez, Mr. Ortiz Franklin. Board President Schmelson >> present. >> All right, we have a quorum. I will read out action taken. [sighs] All right. Under tab one, student discipline, the board of education approved the expulsion of students in

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case numbers one, two, three, four, and five with the recommended disposition. The vote was five eyes and two absent. Board members Gonz Ortiz Franklin. The board of education denied the enrollment in student in case number 001A. The vote was five eyes, two absent with board

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member Gonz and Ortiz Franklin. Tab two personnel employee discipline dismissal and release. The board of education authorized the dismissal of five certificated employees. The vote was five eyes and two absent board members Gonz and Ortiz Franklin. And under tab 3 conference with legal counsel pending

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litigation, uh the board of education authorized a settlement in the case of Jaclyn Martin and Demani Norris va USD. Terms and conditions will be available upon the finalization of the agreement. The vote was five eyes. No, four eyes. I'm sorry, correction. The vote was four

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eyes, one no uh board presidentson and two absent board members Gonz Ortiz Franklin. This concludes reporting out and unless there are any objections, uh the meeting can be adjourned. All right, time is 3:11 p.m. Thank you so much.