Facilities Equity
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Capistrano Dispatch editor agrees that CUSD should address essential, safety and classroom needs before pools and stadiums

Nov 19, 2007
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Jonathan Volzke, The Capistrano Dispatch "Old portables, too few bathrooms, toilets that don’t work properly. Capistrano Unified, fix your plumbing before you move on to your yard. I’ve been impressed with interim Superintendent Carter Woodrow thus far and agree with his philosophy of planning the plan, then executing the plan. Well, when you look to the district for a comprehensive facilities construction and maintenance plan, it’s still being formulated. That plan needs to be in place before more dollars are spent on non-essential, non-safety, non-classroom items."

Volzke is the editor of the The Capistrano Dispatch.

Trustee Stiff and the ABC Trustees put SJHHS stadium on hold pending outcome of district-wide facilities needs assessment

Nov 07, 2007
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Duane Stiff, The Orange County Register “I’m in favor of finishing San Juan Hills. But we’ve got so many needs that we could fill a book. We’ve got 50-year-old schools that aren’t getting their fair share.”

CUSD school board member Duane Stiff moved to table a staff recommendation to put a proposed football stadium at San Juan Hills High School out for contractor bids. The ABC Reform Trustees joined Stiff and passed the motion 4-3.

CUSD parent joins district-wide outcry: before building a new stadium, fix broken schools

Nov 07, 2007
Julie Collier, The Orange County Register “It’s disappointing that they’re even considering the stadium. They need to take care of broken schools first and focus on education, especially at the lower levels. As kids get older, they could be at greater risk.”

Collier is a CUSD parent and resident of Mission Viejo who spoke on behalf of Parents Advocate League at the November 5, 2007 CUSD board meeting. Click here to read her speech.

District sycophant Kutnick tows party line for Benecke and Draper by ignoring facilities equity and hypocritically accusing others of politically exploiting children

Nov 07, 2007
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Erin Kutnick, The Orange County Register “I’m shocked and horrified that a board of trustees would not vote to finish a school that has been in the planning stages and approved for five years. It was about political agendas, and children were the pawns.”

Kutnick made these remarks after the November 5, 2007 CUSD board meeting where she spoke as an advocate of a new stadium for San Juan Hills High School. Kutnick is a long-time advocate of the old guard Fleming trustees and an outspoken opponent of reform at CUSD. Kutnick's statements were hypocritical since it was her anti-masterplan-pro-stadium-spending crowd who flagrantly used their own children as political pawns that night. By contrast, not one of her opponents objected to the stadium (they just wanted to fix broken schools first), and not one of them brought their children to the meeting as political pawns to put emotional pressure on the trustees.

When the meeting was over, Kutnick approached the dais to publicly deride Trustee Stiff (who had made the motion to table the item) and then, in a tantrum, she stepped outside the room where she loudly criticized her opponents, using profanity within earshot of SJHHS children who had attended the meeting that night. Nice touch, Erin! Kutnick has children who attend San Juan Hills High School and Capistrano Valley High School.

Tired of Mission Viejo taxes paying for CUSD facilities in other cities while the children in Mission Viejo schools are denied

May 06, 2007
Sharon O’Brien, The Orange County Register “It is inspiring to read about all the hard work and fundraising parents at Capistrano Valley High School are doing to provide a performing arts center for that community, but it is also aggravating to know that these facilities were provided to other high schools in the Capistrano Unified School District with Mission Viejo tax dollars.” O’Brien is a CUSD parent and resident of Mission Viejo.”

O’Brien is a CUSD parent and resident of Mission Viejo.

CUSD has made Mission Viejo a donor city for school projects elsewhere, unfair to the children and taxpayers of Mission Viejo

May 06, 2007
Sharon O’Brien, The Orange County Register “Mission Viejo has been a donor city to this school district for years and the result has been new and improved facilities elsewhere and a Taj Mahal of a district office. Meanwhile, high school parents have to raise funds to get the theatre that every other CUSD high school already has, and elementary and middle school families have to send their children to some of the oldest and most neglected schools in the district.”

O’Brien is a CUSD parent and resident of Mission Viejo.

CUSD neglect of Mission Viejo schools reflects badly on city, CUSD should repay its “debt” to Mission Viejo

May 06, 2007
Sharon O’Brien, The Orange County Register “Sharon O’Brien, The Orange County Register “Every citizen of Mission Viejo is affected by the conditions of our schools because it is a reflection of our city and will have a long-term impact on the status of this community. Every citizen should be asking when Capistrano Unified will repay its debt to the city of Mission Viejo.”

O’Brien is a CUSD parent and resident of Mission Viejo.