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From a SEAL...My public comments to @AltaLomaSD --Dear @ALSD_Super_Jim,
I am aware that ALSD is holding an in-person meeting tonight and unfortunately I cannot attend in person. I am requesting an accommodation as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Governor’s stay home
order. I have individuals in my family that are considered “high risk” & therefore I am strictly adhering to the Governor’s orders. Please read the comments below into the record during public comment:
Dear @AltaLomaSD Board and members of the public,
I would like to take the
opportunity to thank @ALSD_Super_Jim for his leadership in challenging a proposal by the West End SELPA to create a fund that would be used to collect sanctions against parents. This was a very encouraging gesture to parents in the community to show that perhaps there will be
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September 1, 2020, will be day 3 trail against special education student - @UplandUnifiedSD using taxpayer dollar intended for education students, paying a private law firm with our taxpayer dollars to fight not support a young girl with reading disability.
We are passionate about exposing the use of private law firms in Special Education at Districts like @UplandUnifiedSD (CA) and @TVUSD (CA).

Stop the #schooltoprisonpipeline. The lawyers at the private law firms approved by Board Member at @UplandUnifiedSD and @TVUSD
are taking an advantage of an opportunity to earn income from students with dyslexia and other disabilities.

The only people who win are the primarily white lawyers in law firms throughout CA who profit from students with disabilities.
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SELPA harassment of service providers exposed, see comments made during WESELPA public comment period today. Posting with permission:

Public Comment

My name is Doug Stephey. I am an optometrist with a master’s degree in education. I have been providing Related Services to
special needs kids for more than 30 years. These services are commonly known as vision therapy. Vision therapy has been written into the California education code for roughly 40-50 years. Let me briefly share some of my experiences with the West End SELPA:

1. In early 2018 a
parent asked for a vision IEE and named me as their provider of choice as is their right to do so. The parent was told I wouldn’t sign the agreement because I wouldn’t accept the West End SELPA’s arbitrary and capricious fee cap. I would not and will not accept an arbitrary and
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Hi Elected Temecula Valley Unified School Board,

Since COVID-19 and school closure of 31 Temecula Valley USD schools affecting 29,000 students at many families are suffering financially, getting unemployment and can't pay rent.
Despite the national crisis, Temecula Valley USD has been using our tax payer dollars paying the firm Dannis Woliver Kelley in a federal lawsuit (March 16, March 17, March 20 and March 30 -documents are public)
pacermonitor.com/public/case/27…

The following attorneys at
Dannis Woliver Kelly are named in the document filed on March 16, 2020 (attached) in federal court in Los Angeles:
Sarah Sutherland, Esq, Shareholder - San Diego Office
Matthew J. Tamel, Esq. - San Francisco Office
Kasmire M. Brough, Esq, Special Counsel - San Francisco Office
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