#AnotherDayAnotherCharterScandal
Doubling Down On Excluding Parents
The newly crowned LAUSD Board President’s reasons for not reinstating the Parent Engagement and Special Education Committees are full of holes.
“Children with disabilities in particular have been heavily impacted by the shift to distance learning and the physical closure of our campuses.”
- LAUSD Board President Kelly Gonez
It took less than 24 hours for the new Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) Board President, Kelly Gonez, to throw her predecessor under the bus. When asked at a meeting of the Community Advisory Committee (CAC) to reconsider her decision at the previous day’s board meeting to turn down Board Member Scott Schmerelson’s request to reinstate the Parent Engagement and Special Education committees, Gonez emphasized in her reply that it was former Board President Richard Vladovic who had initially suspended all of the board committees. She went on to say that “unfortunately, my predecessor did not agendize a conversation on special education or parent engagement” during his tenure, but this would be one of her first actions as Board President.
