HBCSD Corruption

Lie #1: Misleading the public regarding HBCSD’s contractual provisions for use of classrooms, office and storage space at Pier Avenue Community Center.

Lie #2: Claiming that the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) is not valid because it was not signed by the Hermosa Beach City Council members.

Lie #3: Claiming that the Community Center needs to be purchased by HBCSD in order for it to be used by the school district.

Lie #5: Misinforming the public that the Community Center can only be used for recreational purposes.

Lie #9: Confusing the separate provisions for district use of the gymnasium changing rooms and auditorium in Exhibit K with the provisions for district use of classrooms, office and storage space that has NO expiration date contained in the Memorandum of Understanding in Exhibit G.

Lie #4: Claiming that the Community Center does not meet CDE Title 5 Regulations.

Lie #6: Misleading the public as to the condition and safety of the Community Center (or the grandfathered-in North School) for students.

Lie #7: Claiming that the Community Center and North School are not ADA (Americans with Disability Act) accessible.

Lie #8: Claiming that renovating historical schools such as Pier Avenue School or North School are very expensive and cost prohibitive.

Lie #10: Unverified statements. There is no proof to verify these statements made by Superintendent Escalante and School Board members Lance Widman and Greg Breen.

Lie #11: Claiming that the City of Hermosa Beach purchased the Community Center from the school district because Proposition 13 had decimated district funding in the 1970s.

Lie #12: Claiming that HBCSD sold Pier Avenue School for less than fair market value because of the Quimby Act or Naylor Act requirements.

Lie #13: Misinformation and misleading information and misinformation regarding district use of the Community Center contained in the October 2023 update on Proposed Expansion of P.A.R.K. After School Program by the City of Hermosa Beach.

Lie #14: Misinformation and misleading information in the Recommendations for the May 2014 Joint Meeting of the Governing Board of HBCSD and the HB City Council.

Lie #15: Misinformation and misleading information and misinformation regarding district use of the Community Center contained in the May 2014 School Board Highlights sent to school parents.

Lie #39: Misinformation and misleading statements contained in the History of the Sale of Pier Avenue School to the City of Hermosa Beach by Superintendent Pat Escalante.

Lie #16: Rampant misinformation and misleading information told by HBCSD attorney Terry Tao with collusion by Superintendent Pat Escalante and School Board members in a videotaped and televised presentation one week before the district’s $59M bond vote.

Lie #17: Misinforming the public regarding HBCSD use of North School AS IS.

Lie #18: Misinforming the public as to the historical facts and value of the circa 1934 North School in Pam Daly’s Historic Resource Assessment of North School.

Lie #20: Misleading the public that Pat Escalante was well qualified to be a superintendent.

Lie #21: Claiming that Pat Escalante was qualified to be superintendent and that she had decided to apply for the superintendent position at HBCSD on her own.

Lie #22: Claiming that hiring Pat Escalante saved HBCSD money.

Lie #23: Claiming that Pat Escalante was honored by the Creative Coalition at the Sundance Festival in Park City, Utah.

Lie #24: The district’s demographic report given to the Facility Planning and Advisory Committee members in January 2013 made no sense and was later proved to be substantially incorrect.

Lie #25: The district’s enrollment projections supplied by Decision Insite seemingly ignored evidence of declining K-12 enrollment from the California Department of Finance, Demographics Unit and the Los Angeles Unified School District.

Lie #26: HBCSD enrollment consultants inflated Transitional Kindergarten (TK) and Kindergarten (K) enrollment and seemingly did not take into account the full-time to half-time change in TK and K classes even as their May 2015 report was titled “Conservative 5-year Projections, Assuming Return to Half-Day Kindergarten.

Lie #27: Less than six months after the district won it’s $59M Measure S bond vote, HBCSD’s enrollment consultants changed their projections from future large increase in enrollment to one of markedly lower overall enrollment at HBCSD.

Lie #28: Needlessly moving all 3rd grade students from Valley School to View School starting in the 2015-2016 school year. Severely overcrowding View School ten months before the district’s next $59M facilities bond vote.

Lie #29: Misinformation and misleading information provided by Superintendent Pat Escalante to justify moving 3rd grade from Valley School to View School in September 2015.

Lie #30: The enrollment facts at the February 2015 school board meeting did not justify overcrowding View School with an additional 149 3rd grade students.

Lie #31: Was the School Board’s February 2015 decision to egregiously overcrowd View School actually a response to losing the November 2014 $54M Measure Q bond vote and not about class size reduction funding?

Lie #32: HBCSD enrollment consultants, Decision Insite’s May 2015 enrollment projections for the 2015-2016 school year predicted rising enrollment prior to June 2016 $59M Measure S bond vote.

Lie #33: Decision Insite changed historical enrollment data on the March 2014 and May 2015 History even when HBCSD had exact month to month enrollment information that had NOT changed.

Lie #19: Claiming that HBCSD was over capacity by 500 students prior to the district’s 2016 $59M bond vote.

Lie #34: HBCSD Historical Enrollment information was changed to create an unbelievable enrollment scenario just months before the office of Public School Construction and Coastal Commission were to approve the district’s plan for a brand-new 510 student campus.

Lie #35: Other enrollment facts after HBCSD $59M bond was passed.

Lie #36: Misleading enrollment projections provided by HBCSD in Spring 2024.

Lie #19: Claiming that HBCSD was over capacity by 500 students prior to the district’s 2016 $59M bond vote.

Lie #37: Misinformation told by HBCSD Superintendent Pat Escalante in a videotaped and televised presentation regarding North School only two weeks before the district’s $59M bond vote.

Lie #38: Misinformation and misleading information on the HBCSD website prior to the district’s $59M bond offering.

Lie #39: Misinformation and misleading statements contained in the History of the Sale of Pier Avenue School to the City of Hermosa Beach by Superintendent Pat Escalante.

Lie #16: Rampant misinformation and misleading information told by HBCSD attorney Terry Tao with collusion by Superintendent Pat Escalante and School Board members in a videotaped and televised presentation one week before the district’s $59M bond vote.

Lie #40: Misleading statements that HBCSD is the lowest funded school district in the South Bay.

Lie #41: Claiming that the lawsuit brought against HBCSD in April 2005 was the cause for school board members’ decision NOT to accept the May 2005 construction bids and thus caused the delay, cost increases and the elimination of two classrooms when bids were accepted in February 2006.

Lie #42: Claiming that the lawsuit brought against HBCSD in April 2005 cost the district $500,000 in legal fees.

Lie #43: 1.) Claiming that HBCSD School Board members and Superintendent Pat Escalante were NOT responsible for misinformation on the YES on Measure Q website in Fall 2014. 2.) Superintendent Pat Escalante’s refusal to correct misinformation on the YES on Measure Q website when called out by a community member and the FPAC chair.

Lie #44: HBCSD School Board members and Superintendent Pat Escalante coordinating the targeting of community members in their Letters to the Editor.

Lie #45: Claiming that the North School Environmental Impact Report “delayed” the rebuilding of North School.

Lie #46: Claiming that the Citizen’s complaint brought in August 2017 “delayed” the rebuilding of North School.

Lie #47: Claiming that an asbestos coated pipe “delayed” the rebuilding of North School.