Tonight Orange Unified school board will consider leasing/licensing public property to Orange County Classical Academy.
The problem-OCCA has money problems.๐งต
Before we get into the story, lets breakdown who everyone is:
OUSD- Orange Unified School District
OCCA- Orange County Classical Academy (Hillsdale charter)
OCBE- Orange County Board of Education (wife to OCCA founder)
If you donโt know about corrupt OCCA, heres a thread:
Now, OCCA received approval from OCBE for a countywide charter. Once that happened, OUSD was no longer responsible for paying OCCA monthly property tax payments.
So, OCCA started to receive money from OCBE, however, due to an error- OUSD kept sending them payments too.
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Orange County Classical Academy (OCCA) received DOUBLE payments of tax money and saidโฆ NOTHING.
When the error was caught, OCCA said they no longer had the money. It was gone & they needed a payment plan.
How much did they pocket of our tax dollars?
$1,716,289
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AGAIN, bec of a cash flow problems OCCA is repaying Orange Unified $1.72 Million Dollars in payments.
So why on earth would OUSD even consider renting them more property when OCCA admitted they do not have funds?
The OUSD surplus land being considered for licensing is called โPeraltaโ, it is near the Orange Mall and currently has a driving range, a gymnasium, soccer, sports fields, etc.
OCCA would take 4 acres, forcing other licensees out and would get first dibs on expansions.
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OCCA has money issues, so in the agreement (being decided on tonight by OUSD tonight) it would allow them to take on a lender. They can use their lease of OUSD property and get essentially a mortgage.
Now what do you think happens if OCCA defaults on their mortgage payment?
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The lender gets the property for the remainder of the 25-year term.
If you recall, two wealthy Lincoln Club members already purchased OCCA a building. So essentially, Lincoln Club and/or Cal Policy Center could end up with control of OUSD property for 25-years.
OCCA has a countywide charter with unlimited approval for more schools. They could โcloseโ after they get this lease, give control of the property to Cal Policy Center/Lincoln Club, never repay OUSD the $1.7M debt, and reopen a โnewโ school a month later.
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Tonight, OCCA parents & kids will be paraded in front of the OUSD school board. They will have tears in their eyes begging the district to let them expand. OUSD Trustee Madison Miner is an OCCA parent, so she will be crying too.
But it is ALL a distraction from the truth.
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Corrupt people & organizations want to take our TAX DOLLARS for their PERSONAL GAIN. With little to no oversight.
They do not care about school choice and giving parents a voice, they want our money and now, they want our land.
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Orange Unified parents, staff, & community members are fighting back to protect their schools .
Vote YES on the Orange Unified School Board Recalls Trustees
RICK LEDESMA and MADISON MINER.
We need trustees NOT in the pocket of corrupt scammers.
Like many other far-right majority school districts around California, last night Orange Unified passed a Parent Notification Policy that requires staff to out LGBTQ+ students to parents.
But, I unfortunately canโt post a copy of the policy bec it was switched.
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During the August 17th OUSD school board meeting the board held a first reading of a proposed Parent Notification Policy. Trustees discussed and gave feedback on changes they would like implemented on the policy before it came back for approval in September.
Hereโs draft #1-
In advance of last nightโs meeting, as required by Brown Act Laws, OUSD school board released their agenda last week with a copy of the revised Parent Notification Policy. The policy had significant changes from the original discussed in Aug.
There are a lot of people singling out Trustee Kris Erickson, almost as if they were encouraged to do so.
A racist white woman thought it was funny to make fun of Trustee Andrea Yamasakiโs last name during her comment. โOr however you say it, no one cares.โ
Former OUSD Trustee Kathy Moffat is calling board out for lack of integrity and says she is a proud volunteer for recall.
Last speaker was Gays Against Groomers/Cal Policy Frank Rodriguez who stated he wishes someone called his dad while a young kid who loved dollhouses.
The meeting is starting, Pres Rick Ledesma is โsetting the record straightโ to address โliesโ being shared in community by โpaid signature gatherersโ.
A trustee pointed out that this feels like heโs using his position during a public mtg to campaign against a recall against him.
Trustee Erickson is calling into question why the official OUSD seal is being used on advertising to a Fentanyl event Madison Miner is attending (attached below), even though itโs not a district event. Staff is looking into facilities approval since held on Villa Park HS campus.
Is the Orange Unified School Board trying to ban pride flags?
Tomorrowโs OUSD board meeting has an agenda item that will prohibit displaying anything other than the US & CA flags on flagpoles. Itโs unclear if this will have an impact inside classrooms or at charter schools.
As a reminder, when Orange County Classical Academy was under OUSD they flew the blue line flag on their flagpole. At the time the OCCA community supported the flag being flown, which is why I find it interesting Trustee/OCCA parent Madison Miner now submitted this agenda item.
Thereโs also a โParent Bill of Rightsโ agenda item where they want at least 2 in-person meetings with parents each school year (including high school). And they want parents notified if third party coming onto campus to present to students or host an event during school day.
Over the past few years, the โconcerned parentโ grift has taken on many forms, but a new trend seems to be a for-profit model of manufactured outrage.
Are businesses profiting off pushing fear & buzzword headlines at the expense of our kids? /1
ReformCapoUSDโs Instagram page claims theyโre a โGrass roots movement to inform parents and reform our district. We are against mandates and the sexually inappropriate materials in our schools.โ
Their feed is filled with โinappropriateโ library books, SEL, & transgender issues.
Recently ReformCapoUSD posted a photo secretly taken inside a San Clemente High School restroom. While student faces were sloppily redacted, the pic was posted w/ZERO regard for, or consent from, the minors featured on the groups public social media.
UPDATE: Temecula Valley Unified School District held their CRT event tonight. After a black community member made a public comment, he was told by a white woman to leave the country if he didnโt like it.
Chaos erupted when a Trustee tried removing the man NOT the racist woman.
To clarify, โCRTโ is not taught in high schools, however, even if it were it was banned by this school district. Just in Dec, new far-right TVUSD Trustees passed a CRT ban during their first meeting in office. So this expensive CRT forum held tonight was truly political theater.