HBCSD Corruption
Lie #28
Needlessly moving all 3rd grade students from Valley School to View School starting in the 2015-2016 school year – severly overcrowding View School 10 months before the district's next $59M dollar facilities bond vote.
Proof of the lie:
(1) In November 2014, HBCSD lost the vote for their $54M facilities bond, Measure Q.
(2) Prior to the November 2014, Measure Q $54M bond vote Decision Insite’s March 2014 enrollment report projected an increase in students for only one year; the 2015-2016 school year. After that, from 2016 through September 2023, DI projected stable enrollment with a decline of about twenty two (22) less students in the district. See Decision Insite Composite TK-8 Forecast report of March 2014 (Exhibit DI-19)
(3) In the meantime, LAUSD, in their May 2012 and June 2015 enrollment projections, was projecting significantly lower enrollment in Los Angeles County from 2012 through to the 2023-2034 school year. See LAUSD Projected Public K-12 Graded Enrollment from Enrollment Decline and K-12 Education: Trends and Implications for Southern California, LAUSD Master Planning and Demographic Unit, of May 21, 2012. (Exhibit DI-22) See DOF K-12 Public Graded Enrollment Projections for LA County (2014 Series) from Projecting K-12 Public School Enrollments: Monitoring and Evaluating Data Changes for the Los Angeles Unified School District, LAUSD Master Planning and Demographic Unit, of June 1, 2015. (Exhibit DI-24)
(4) There were no large housing projects planned for Hermosa Beach that would bring in more students to the district.
(5) On February 11, 2015, three months after losing the $54M Measure Q bond vote and three months before enrollment consultants Decision Insite May 2015 enrollment projections predicted an increase in future enrollment, School Board members voted to move SEVEN classrooms of 3rd grade students (149 students in all) from Valley School to View School starting in September 2015. The school board’s decision would completely overwhelm an already overcrowded View School with additional students only 10 months prior to the June 2016 $59M Measure S bond election. (Exhibit DI-37)