Rocklin School Board update - expected to torpedo charter school
Posted by Aaron Park on January 13, 2008 at 08:22 PM
Mark this one as unbelievable – informed sources in Rocklin have called and e-mailed this blogger.
Recently, Ted Gaines and others attended a School Board meeting over a Charter for a new High School in Rocklin. Gaines, Doolittle and Chalie Brown(!) (the Tin Soldier) all have publicly endorsed a Charter for the 7-12 Western Sierra Collegiate Academy.
The amazing part is that a new Charter School would bring jobs to Rocklin. It would not impact current facilities.
At the previous school board meeting, the questions asked by the school board were amazing – one about low achievers by Camille Maben (a liberal Democrat who works for the CA Dept of Education for a day job) and English as a Second Language Education by Greg Dailey.
It appears to this blogger that the school board was grasping for Red Herrings to deny a charter to the school. Rocklin is 99% white or something like it and has almost no need at all for ESL… low achieving students have a variety of special options (way more than average students do) and it is a standard teacher’s union attack against Charter Schools to bring that issue up.
In the past, the Rocklin School board has made life difficult for the Rocklin Academy – including forcing the Academy onto two separate campuses (to drive costs up?) and limiting access to Rocklin Academy by opposing expansion and mandating that 20% of the students come from outside of Rocklin.
The 20% mandate effectively limits the size of the academy because most kids want to go to school in their own neighborhood – and, Rocklin taxpayers paid for a facility their own children are precluded from using.
The dramatic irony here is my sources have told me that at this time the board is expected to vote on the Charter for WSCA as follows:
Democrat Camille Maben: Yes
Democrat Wendy Lang: Yes
Republican Greg Dailey: No
Republican Todd Lowell: No
Republican Steve Paul: No
The Placer GOP endorsed all three Republican members at one time due in no small part to their professed support of Charter Schools. As you see from the above, the Republicans are going to be on the wrong side of the issue!
I am in possession of their candidate questionnaires from 2006 and they paint a very different picture than what is about to occur on Wednesday.
Please come and make sure they see you when they vote – This meeting will start at 7:00 pm at the Rocklin School Board District Office (2615 Sierra Meadows Drive, Rocklin) on Wednesday Jan 16th.
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Lets not forget about the Rocklin City Council. Word on the street is they also oppose the grade 7 – 12 charter school. Funny thing, a member of the city council sends one of their family members to Rocklin Academy. Very strange this councilman, (I guess that eliminates Kathy Lund) stood up in 2006 and said Rocklin Schools are the best in the State. Maybe best in the state for the average voter, but not good enough for this councilman’s family member.
The Central Committee also endorsed these City Council members last election. It is getting harder and harder to tell the difference between the Republicans and Democrats in Placer County.
The Placer County Central Committee knew that Mr. Lowell and Mr. Paul did not support charter schools and they still endorsed them. One of the reasons is Ted “in my pocket” Gaines asked them to.
Where is Mr. Hudson on this issue?
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