HBCSD Corruption

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.   However, from 2016 through September 2023, DI projected stable enrollment with a decline of about twenty two (22) less students in the district.  

(3)        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.    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.  

(4)         There were no large housing projects planned for Hermosa Beach that would bring in more students to the district.

(5) At the February 2015 meeting HBCSD School Board members ONLY had the March 2014 Enrollment Report that projected only one year (2015-2016) of a possible slight increase in students.

(6) The district's new May 2015 enrollment projections would not be available until after the district decided to move 3rd grade from Valley School to View School in February 2015.

(7)         On February 11, 2015, three months after losing the $54M Measure Q bond vote and three months before enrollment consultants May 2015 enrollment projections predicted an increase in future enrollment, School Board members voted to move SIX 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. 

(8) Overwhelming View School with an additional 149 3rd grade students would panic parents and staff into supporting the district's upcoming $59M Measure S bond.

(9) It is believed that View School parents would be more likely to support a large bond that promised to build a new campus since it would be more likely that TK-3rd grade students would enjoy the new campus before they moved on to high school and out of the district. It is believed that Valley School parents would be less concerned with passing a large bond to build a brand-new campus because it is unlikely that their children, currently in grades 4th through 8th, would be able to enjoy a newly built campus before their children graduated out of HBCSD.