Why would Inglewood Unified School District ask taxpayers to fund school construction while hiding the fact it was closing schools and selling land?
Maybe it’s just me but maybe that small little detail should have been explained while asking taxpayers to pass a $240 million tax bond.
In fact it wasn’t even a collective body of invested community members from the City of Inglewood , nor the elected IUSD board of trustees who decided to place Measure I on the ballot for Inglewood voters to consider.
It appears from my limited research the brainchild and the final authority , so to speak to put Measure I on the ballot , solely rested on the shoulders of Los Angeles County office of education , appointed administrator Dr. Erika Torres and this action alone should shake the conscious of this community because in exchange for “oversight” and manna raining from Heaven as been promised it appears that IUSD isn’t any closer to gaining local control than it was as going on ten years now when the State intervened.
One could even that saving IUSD was never the plan all along as during my readings I discovered in a 2013, article in the Daily News that quoted then interim State Administrator Latanya Kirk – Carter referring to a dissolution of the Inglewood Unified School District in which there would be a sell off of excess land and schools being absorbed by possible various districts and fast-forward today we’re in some ways seeing that prophecy come into fruition as the passage of California State Assembly Bill 1840 introduced and signed into law in 2018 paved the way for rich land developers can now profit off the ” revitalization” of the City of Inglewood at poor black and brown students expense.
2UrbanGirls if we’re being completely honest, under the stringent guidelines established by the State of California and the Los Angeles County office of education , including Inglewood Unified School District financial obligation to repay its state loan it appears that IUSD will die a slow and painful death with no choice to emerge as something new because clearly the old way doesn’t work and the ” New ” Inglewood will without a doubt demand more from its education system.
In closing 2UrbanGirls I’m disturbed that many folks are being purposely and deceptively kept in the dark about these issues and it is my hope and prayer that your blog continues to expose the fraud and malfeasance at Inglewood Unified School District.
Marvin McCoy can be reached at therealmccoymarketinggroup@gmail.com
**Editor’s note: A complaint was filed with the District Attorney’s office, who responded within 72 hours that the case was “closed” as the alleged violations of Government, and Election Codes were not criminal in nature, but a civil matter.
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Thank you Marvin for asking these great questions
hmmmmmm why did we supposedly elect Dionne Faulk (who was a school board member and did nothing to stop this) to the City Council….when she didn’t ask these?
Everyone can pop “Los Cerritos News Megataxers Inglewood” into their google search and get the nitty gritty.
We have been lied to, lied to, and lied to again by Inglewood School Board members since the Measure K $131 million bond in 1998. Yep they said they would be cautious how that money was sent , but here we are and the money that we told would modernize ALL schools has (along with matching funds) been spent as was the additional $90 million of Measure G. So what do we have for all that cash ? Very little to show for the money on the East Side while La Tijera and Crozier have been completely rebuilt and their feeder schools received the crazy quilt modular buildings while schools in the East have been closed and now are on their way to becoming condo developments…and who will that help oh in case you missed that memo NOT YOU and NOT OUR STUDENTS.
Yes there have been beneficiaries the same ones who made the the list in the Megataxer articles in other communities.
Come on now let’s not be naive – it is plain to see if you take off the blinders, there are those who benefit when our children do not excel. How better to validate stereotypes of black and brown future employees than to make certain they are less articulate and “graduate” math challenged? Hmm doesn’t the Billionaire, who our Mayor is so fond of, tend to hire non-full time minimum wage earners. Come to think of it, isn’t it the low wage earners who have largely contributed to his families Significant wealth.
Let us be real, if they told us our money would be used to finance vacations and higher end homes for consultants rather than on teaching our kids what they need to function in the real world would we have voted for the School Bonds?
When will we learn to say NO to all these tax money grabbing users and hold people accountable? …..please remember it is your elected who made destruction of our school system possible. Yes Steve Bradford, and Autumn Burke consider yourselves called out for your actions.
The editor note speaks volumes !!!!
Basically it tells us that a community that does not have the resources to pay an attorney can be preyed upon by a truckload of well financed and sinister beings (yes even toe-on-the-legal-line elected’s) and the District Attorneys Office will either say the “lost” the file, claim it is out of their realm, or keep the case lingering for decades.
Cleverly we need to do our homework before we vote for these users.