I now I now reconvene the regular meeting of Board of Education at 6PM with Cervantes, Cruz, Na, Smith, and Shaw present. Before we begin, please silence all electronic devices and note that these proceedings are being recorded. Reagan? The board met in closed session from 03:45PM to 05:03PM regarding conference with legal counsel anticipated litigation, two possible cases, conference with legal counsel existing litigation, six cases, student discipline
matters, conference with labor negotiators, ACT and CSEA, public employee appointments director, student support services and director of transportation, Public Employee Discipline Dismissal Release, and Public Employee Performance Evaluation Superintendent. The board took the following action, appointed Matthew McCain as Director of Transportation, effective date 07/01/2026, by a vote of five zero with Cervantes, Cruz, Naugh, Smith and Shaw voting yes. Appointed Ophelia Verdugo as Director of Student Support Services effective date 07/01/2026 by a vote
of five zero with Cervantes, Cruz, Naugh, Smith, Shaw voting yes and elected to terminate the employee of classified employee 30534 effective immediately with a vote of five zero with Cervantes, Cruz, Na, Smith and Shaw voting yes. No further action was taken, which requires public disclosure. Thank you, miss Reagan. And now we have two special students from Ayala High School. Can I have Emily Prescott and Haley, please, lead us in the pledge? Please rise and put your right hand over your heart.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of The United States Of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you very much. Okay. Because I know we have a bunch of athletes in this room, and being a mother of an athlete, I know you guys need to get out of here. You have things to do and sports to play. So I am excited tonight, and we're proud to recognize the outstanding accomplishments of our girls' soccer teams at all four high schools, Aiella High School, Chino High School, Chino
Hills High School, and Don Lugo High School. Can we give them a round of applause, please? In a remarkable show of excellence across the district, each of these teams advanced to CIF competition this season, an achievement that speaks to the strength and consistency of our athletic programs and to the hard work of these beautiful, beautiful, amazing students and their parents supporting them and our district supporting them in their dreams. Each of these teams has reached an exceptional level of achievement during their seasons, demonstrating
remarkable skill, teamwork, and dedication. Their accomplishments reflect not only their commitment on the field, but also the support of their coaches, schools, and families. We are very honored to celebrate the student athletes this evening and commend them for representing their schools and our district with pride and excellence. We also know that we have honored, Title IX for our female athletes and that's in June. And I know you guys are off probably playing in college or those of of you getting ready to do soccer camp and all these other things. So we wanna celebrate you guys just a little bit earlier.
So please join the board as we present certificates of recognition to our student athletes and coaches alongside, which is this is very, very, very special. As soon as some of our other elected bodies and honorable, elected members of the community found out, some of them reached out and then we reached out to others. They wanted to join and also recognize our young ladies in these programs. So we have the city of Chino. We have the city of Chino Hills. We have assemblyman Philip Chen's office, and we have assemblywoman Michelle Rodriguez's office.
And we have Senator Susan Rubio, who are all equally proud of our student athletes, which this is a super special honor to have you guys here recognizing our students together. Thank you. First I would like to recognize you ready? Okay. Let's go with our Lady Huskies from Chino Hills. Congratulations to the Chino Hills soccer, girls soccer team. As we begin recognition, let's go ahead and welcome up our Chino Hills. Can I have, well, let me read a little bit about them and then I'll
ask the coaches to come up as well? Let's go ahead and welcome up our Chino Hills High School who girls soccer team advanced to the twenty twenty six CIF Southern section division play division one playoffs, marking a remarkable achievement for the program as their first CIF playoff appearance in ten years. This is a testament to the team's growth and determination. Congratulations to our Chino Hills High School girls teams, and we'll start with them first. Testing. We're gonna call our athletes that are here first, and then we'll go ahead and, also announce the names that couldn't be here for track or for whatever reasons.
So we're gonna go ahead and first recognize Grace Archambault. It went it went in alphabetical order. No favorites first. Hold on. I love you. And then I'll have the athletes just line up over here because we'll take a big group pick. We have our goalie, Gabrielle Velaza. Congratulations, ladies and gentlemen. Ava Calvillo. Maya Camacho. Leilani Castillo. Sabrina Choi, Grace Schwann, Congratulations.
Bolin Cognetta. Yesenia Flores. Kendra Jeannie. I'll do the next two together. Congratulations. We have Madeline Huerta and Sofia Huerta. Congratulations. Courtney Cluck. My favorite, Brooke Shaw. And Angelica Zapien. Zapien. And we're going to just read off the rest. We have Riley Harlin, Anissa Khan. Oh, she's here? Oh, okay. We need to get these two out. Kyra Maeda. Chi. Sorry guys, bear with me. If they didn't give us the RSVP and told us they weren't coming, we kind
of pulled them to the side. There we go. And last but not least on this one, Giannavera. And then we'll read the ones that are are not here. Congratulations. Nadia? Anissa Khan? Riley Harlan? Mikaela Nash, Gianna Noraga, Reagan Ramirez. Oh, you're here. Pause. Gianna's here. And this special young lady kept our girls safe the entire season, so thank you for everything that you've done for your kids.
Congratulations. Emmy Sanchez. Addison Ramirez. And coach. Where's coach? Coach Borja. Coach Louie. And coach Stephanie, is she here? No? Okay, we'll have you. And coach Soph. Okay, our three coaches are amazing coaches, thank you. Here's these. And then if we can invite our dignitaries up, please. Do we have our rep oh, Philip Chen's office is not here, but coach, they wanted to recognize you. So our assembly member, Philip Chen, they are also recognizing the program. So add this to your beautiful name on your wall. And then this is the city of Chino Hills.
Here you go, sir. Yeah. And you guys may say something or may not. Real quickly, on behalf of the entire city of Chino Hills and the city council of Chino Hills, It's our privilege to rec to present the certificate of recognition to the Chino Hills High School girls varsity soccer team. Congratulations on advancing to the CIF Division I playoffs. We also, presented an award Tuesday night to the entire school for being, selected as a California distinguished school. I see two special people in the back, Doctor.
B, our principal, and Ian, our athletic director. Come on. You guys are part of this. Let's come up and give him a round of applause. Yeah. You can have it today. He's over here. Coach is right here. You guys can't get away with this. My name is Anthony Moreno. I'm a district representative for state senator Susan Rubio. On behalf of the center, we just wanted to congratulate Chino Hills High School, Chino High School, Don Lugo High School, and Ayala High School on their CIF, achievements. The senator was a teacher for a long time, and so we just wanted to, you know, recognize and support our students when they when they make great achievements.
So congratulations to all the schools. Hi, I'm Sophia Cohen. I'm a field representative for assembly member Michelle Rodriguez. And on behalf of the assembly member and California state legislator, I I'm so honored to be here today to recognize our schools, the girls, our coaches, all the staff, parents. It really shows that our community is here. We're whole and we're all cheering each other on. So thank you for having me. Okay. So we'll go ahead and take a group pick. You guys know the drill. We need our front row, back row, and then we'll have all the, adults and coaches squeeze in on this side.
And Andy will be taking the first picture. And after she takes the first picture, parents, if you're here, especially our chief photographers, please take the surgery. We're gonna let them exit. And then any other parents that wanna move forward, you're more than welcome. If not, Iowa High School will be the next school that we honor. So we'll give them, like, a minute or two to exit, and then we'll start with the next one. I know as athletes, we need to get them in and out very quick. Give about one more second. Okay. We're good. Next, we're going to honor Iowa High School, whose girls soccer team made an incredible
and historic run this season for our entire district. They were named the twenty twenty six division two league finalist, advanced to become the twenty twenty six CIF Southern Section division two finalist, and continued their success as a twenty twenty six CIF State Regional semifinalist, marking the first time in school history the program has advanced to CIF and state competition. Please give them a round of applause. This is amazing. Congratulations, Bulldogs. As a fellow Bulldog, I couldn't even be more proud.
I was following every step of the way, texting some of my fellow soccer mom friends, what's the score? What's going on? Let me know. We are so incredibly proud of you, and to say that you guys made it all the way to the end was just a beautiful, incredible accomplishment. Keep fighting the good fight, and you guys are amazing. I may butcher last names. I'm gonna go with first names. Just excuse me because some of you I know and some of you I don't. I don't wanna butcher your last name, and if there's two, then I can, you know, maybe just save the letter of your last name, and that might help. Help. Sophia Alvarado.
Monica A. Sorry. Maybe yeah. Mikayla b. She not here? Balib Baliby. It's okay. We'll still clap for them. Adelina Corona. Congratulations. Thank you. Kaylee Dean. Thanks for doing the pledge. Congratulations, Stacy. Maylee Dinh. Jillian Gomez. Allison Gutierrez, and Victoria Gutierrez.
Congratulations. And Jay Hillebrand Hillebrand? And Juju Jones. Audrey? L. Not here. Is it Cayenne Lowe? Congratulations, Rachel. Alyssa Loomis? Okay. Zamina, Luna? Congratulations. And Mia Maldonado. Kaylee Martinez. Madison Martin. London McHugh. This one is so funky. What did that say? K. Violet Nunez? No. Sofia O? Marina Ortega. My third daughter, Emily Prescott. Sam Q, Audrey Ragland, Alicia r, Delia r, Ella Solis, Congratulations.
Alaris Serfaka. No? Not here? Amren Silva? Congratulations. Great job. Leah So to. Ivy. Angelina Vargas. Congratulations. Allison Vasquez. Congratulations, great job. Amelia Waroff. Mila Y? Chelsea Y? And our amazing, coaching staff, coach Luke. Do we have him? Coach Julia Gomez? Coach Gabe Ortiz. Is coach Gabe gonna yell on the mic? Because I know you don't need one. I love it. I remember when my kids were at Legends, we would always hear you. Thank you for all your hard work.
Coach Kirk, I'm making I'm making him embarrassed. And can I please have the rest of IELTS staff that's here to, represent and support please come? I have principal Yarboy. I know that. I see that. And then I would like to invite our dignitaries to do the same, please. Yes. We also have one that isn't here. It's assembly member Philip Chen, Iowa High School, girls varsity soccer twenty twenty six, CIF state regional semifinalist on behalf of the California State Assembly. Congratulations on being named the twenty twenty six CIF state regional semifinalist.
Your dedication, teamwork, and perseverance have x, x I can't even talk. The highest standard of athletic excellence. Thank you for your tremendous hard work and sportsmanship. Congratulations to Ayala High School. Thank you again to the coaches, our principal. Congratulations also to our student. On behalf of senator Rubio, congratulations to Ayala High School. On behalf of the city of Chino, mayor, city council, we congratulate Ayala High School. And on behalf of the city of Chino Hills and our entire council, congratulations Aiola. Wonderful year. Board, can you come join us?
And congratulations. Can can we give them another round of applause? I'm gonna have Andy take the first picture and then parents, please come up. These letters are so bad. Well, like the y goes down here and, like, does all these weird things. It's pretty. It's beautiful. Okay. It looks like they're exiting out. We'll wait till the doors are closed so we can have there we go. There we go. Okay. Are we ready for our cowboys? Cowgirls. Next, we recognize Chino High School. The girls' soccer team achieved distinction as a 2026 CIF Southern Section division four semifinalist,
marking another historic milestone as the furthest advancement in CIF competition in the program history. This is amazing. Congratulation, cowboy slash cowgirls. You guys are amazing. Thank you for everything, and we're so excited to honor you. I know the team's still probably in track and everything, but we'll read their names just so we can make sure they're all honored. Our first, we have Maureen, Lorraine, or Maureen? Maureen. Maureen. Maureen. Awesome job. Congratulations. Felicity. Amazing. Congratulations. Mia Langley.
Congratulations. Solei Medina. Congratulations. You took time. Emma? We're we that's all the athlete. Okay. We're just gonna read them now. Maya? Catherine Corona? Janelle Gomez, Jalene Gomez, Brianna Gonzalez, Juliana Huerta, Anissa, Annabelle Abara. I love you, Annabelle. Natalie, Victoria Lopez, Destiny Mendoza, Mikaela Mooney, Rebecca Ortiz, Jocelyn Ramos, DeLeia, Faith Sanchez, Albert
oh, and now we have coach stuff. Coaching stuff. Right? Are we out coaching? Yeah. Okay. Coach Alberto? Is he here? Golfing? Got it. Coach Jessica? Track. Okay. They're at track. See, wait. Our coaches do multiple things. Coach Adam? Coach Megan, and I see an awesome principal sitting here, cowboy principal. Can I have you please come up, mister Miller? And then we'll invite our dignitaries up and then also, assemblyman Philip Chen, I do know that they recognize that some of the Chino Hills students are at Chino High School. Chino High School is amazing, so they wanted to recognize you guys as well.
And then again, I'd like to congratulate our coaches, our staff, and, of course, our wonderful soccer players. Congratulations. And on behalf of Senator Rubio, congratulations to Chino High School on your CIEF, accomplishments. Congratulations. On behalf of the mayor and the city Chino City Council, we congratulate Chino High School. Can we give our Chino cowboys one more round of applause? Cowgirls. Absolutely. And board, can we please have you join us? And anybody else that's representing Chino High School, you may join too. Kind of matching some of them. We'll wait for that door to close.
Okay. Now let's give it up for our conquistadors next. Finally, last but certainly not least, we invite Don Lugo High School to recognize their girls' soccer team for advancing to the twenty twenty six CIF Southern Section Division three playoffs, building on last year's success with back to back CIF playoff appearances and demonstrating continued growth and success for the program. Congratulations to our Don Lugo High School girls soccer team. You make us proud, and you're amazing.
Thank you so much. I'm just gonna read them off. Brooklyn Cartwright. We'll just clap. Jennifer Alvarez. Isabelle Bourbon. Lauren Bourbon. Brianna, Stephanie, Isabelle Fender, Madison l, Alexa Lopez, Cynthia Lopez, Sofia Maldonado, Shayla Martinez, Camila
Moreno, Chloe Montelongo, Susan Monterosso, Mia Narez, Adrina Parra. Look at you. You got the loudest music. Congratulations. I'll get you hung up here for a second. Just stay with me. You wanna read off your players' names? Spotlight? You know all all of them. So which are their names? Malia Stahl. Cassandra Thepia. This spot is crazy.
I'm on it. Congratulations. Thank you. And we have coach Micah. Right? They're all coaching, so please just have grace because they're all doing multiple things. Coach Morrow, but we still wanna honor them. Coach Lauren. And then we have assembly member Philip Chen as well recognizing the group, so you get to hold this. And then our honorable dignitaries I'll have you go up. One moment. And lastly, on behalf of senator Susan Rubio, congratulations to Don Lugo High School girls varsity soccer team on their CIF achievements. Congratulations. Thank you. Oh, sorry, guys.
Sorry. I have a couple more. Again, on behalf of Assemblymember Michelle Rodriguez, congratulations to our school and, of course, our wonderful soccer player. Congratulations. On behalf of Mayor Yoloa and the city Chino City Council, we congratulate you. We'll have our awesome principal, doctor Wong, and doctor Kunishima. Sorry. Essencehip. Sorry. And we can take a picture. Can we give him one more round of applause? Oh, sorry. And our booster president. What was your name? Her dad, Mr. Parra. Okay. We got the room done. One more round of applause for all of our athletes. Pretty amazing to see across the board each of them achieving so many amazing milestones
for their schools. It's we'll continue to honor them as we see them, but it's a pretty awesome thing. Next, we're on to our local control and accountability plan, LCAP, state priorities three and six. We will hear the staff report from assistant superintendents, CEIS, Luke Hackney, regarding the local control and accountability plan state priorities three and six. Good evening president Shaw, members of the board, deputy superintendent Park, cabinet, and community. Our report to the board this evening is on the local control and accountability plan,
also known as the LCAP, focusing on parent and family engagement and school climate. Chino Valley has four LCAP goals to improve student outcomes to address our local district priorities and the eight required state priorities. Our update will be on the progress of state priorities three and six, which are used in part to gauge progress for LCAP goal two using the state adopted reflection tool. There are required elements for measuring the progress of the eight state priorities using both state and local metrics.
State metrics are used when common data points can be collected for all schools, such as test scores, graduation, and suspension rates, and are reported on the California school dashboard by way of a colored gauge with red representing the lowest performance and blue representing the highest performance. Local metrics are used to gauge progress for state priorities that are only available at the local level, for example, with information gathered from surveys and self reflection tools. With local metrics, the district determines the performance toward meeting a state priority as having
met, not met, or not met for two years. In the first part of the presentation, Mr. Schuler, director of access and equity, will review our evaluation on the district's progress with the three promising practices for parent involvement and family engagement using the self reflection tool. In the second part of the presentation, Doctor. Gomez, director of health services, will highlight student perceptions of school safety and connectedness gathered from the district's k 12 school quality survey and student discipline data.
State priority three, parent involvement and family engagement, is evaluated using multiple data sources, including the school quality survey, school plans for student achievement, and feedback from educational partners through the LCAP advisory committee, LCAP school site meetings at all schools, English language advisory committees, and school site councils. Results from our internal evaluations are used to guide the district through a cycle of continuous improvement. For each of the three promising practices, we will report on the district's progress of
implementation ranging on a scale from one, exploration and research, to five, full implementation and sustainability. For section one, building relationships between staff and families, we have all four focus areas and full implementation and sustainability. Section two focuses on building partnerships for student outcomes. In section two, we have all four focus areas and full implementation and sustainability. Section three focuses on seeking input for decision making. In section three, we have all four focus areas and full implementation and sustainability.
We are pleased to share that thanks to CBUSD's focus on family engagement, there was an increase of participants on a school quality survey that agreed or strongly agreed that our schools create a welcoming environment for all families. For the 02/2026 school year, the district has met the local indicator for parent and family engagement. The school's quality survey is administered district wide every year to all students in grades six through 12. The purpose of this survey is to gather information on the factors that affect the overall district and school climate.
In this part of the presentation, we will look at student responses that allow us to have better insight on students' perceptions of safety and connectedness with school. In addition, we will look at district wide student discipline data, specifically bullying and harassment incidents, as indicators of school safety across our campuses. These percentages represent the proportion of students who reported agree or strongly agree in response to survey questions related to school safety, both physical and emotional, as well as their sense of connectedness to a staff member on campus for support with academic and personal
concerns. These results offer a comparison of student responses across the three most recent school years, highlighting the district's ongoing commitment to enhancing school climate. Notably, there has been a steady increase in positive student responses over time, indicating consistent progress in these areas. This data represents the number of reported and substantiated bullying and harassment cases across grades TK through 12, indicating a significant and consistent decline in both reported and substantiated bullying and harassment cases across the three most recent school years.
This downward trend reflects the intentional efforts, strong systems, and effective practices implemented to promote a positive learning environment for all students. These outcomes highlight the district's strong commitment to ensuring that all students feel safe and connected to school. They also speak to the exceptional efforts of our educators whose effective implementation of positive behavioral interventions and supports has had a significant impact on student well-being. And as a result of these collective efforts, every school site within our district district has proudly earned platinum recognition at the state level with Chino Valley being the only
and first school district within the county to earn platinum recognition district wide this year. For the twenty five-twenty six school year, the district has met the local indicator for school climate. This concludes our update to the board on our progress with state priorities three and six. Thank you so much for that, board members. Questions, comments? If you use your light system, I'll cue you then. You wanna say something, Mr. Knopf? No. I don't I don't see his light. Did you want to see something? Press your button. There you go. So in priority three, you notice that all of them are all fives.
And then also you also noting noting the bullying and harassment all the way down from three forty eight down to 58. So what is the driving what's driving the biggest drop when it comes to billing reports? Is it because of specific programs or or changes that are occurring? So we've spent a lot of energy, and we have a strong PBIS program within our district training all of our staff, our counselors, our administrators, our teachers, and ensuring
that we are providing lessons and direct instruction to our students to understand how that can support them and getting along with each other at school. That's that's awesome. And then in terms of all the fives that priority is is getting, is there any further goals? So while while we indicated five, we're still in a continuous cycle of improvement, meaning we continuously identify areas of need that we can get stronger in. So the five means we have a system in place to continually reflect on practices
to ensure we can strengthen those throughout the way. No. That's it's possible for our community. Thank you. Mister Naugh, your mic should be on. Okay. Bring it close. Yeah. I'm looking at school climate study, priority six. And the first line, it said, I feel safe at school. And it has shown from 23 to 24, 73%, and 24 to 25, 78%.
Now this year, 25 to 26, 82%. So what made our students feel safer at school, you think, from our staff's, perspective? So these are students from grades six through 12 that answered this question. So it's ensuring that our staff and trained in how to support all of the needs of our students and ensuring that if a staff member is aware of something, we have other trained staff if they need to go to them to provide those
supports for them. Yeah. This is a very, very important, aspect in our education. If schools don't feel safe, the kids cannot learn. So thank you for the the direction that we're taking and the leadership. And I'd like to encourage that we'll continue to do so and make improvements on on this important issue, safety, at every single school every year. That's not what's happening in LA Unified.
We have to do just opposite of what they're doing. So thank you so much. Hold on, mister Smith. Mic's on. Hey. Thanks, Luke. This is, this is great data. For the priority, three, do we have previous year trends? Or just this is just for this year? This is just this year's Okay. Data. But historically, over time, we've worked toward five. We were almost in full implementation and sustainability last year. However, we continue to identify areas that we can strengthen because we have a we
have a system in place where we can identify areas that we can enhance. Yeah. This is fantastic. I I really like how the, the parent engagement aspects of it are included in this. And as far as is there a because it wasn't to date for, 2526, is there a trend that is that is following so that we can anticipate the, the rest of the year? I mean, there's only but yeah. It it appears right now to date, the numbers are going to still be significantly
lower than last year, but it'll depend on the end of the year where that number lands. But the way it's trending, it will still be lower than it was last year. I'll see. Thanks again. Alright. Thank you. And I would like to point out, while we can't stop someone's behavior, it's how it's responded to. And this is clear data that shows that the response is working. Every year, just seeing our percentages go up. We're trending upward when districts all across California are in a downward spiral and people don't feel safe and parents don't feel safe to send their kids to school.
Again, while we can only control so much in our own, I just love that, you know, you guys are responding. You're listening. I've seen each and one of my colleagues up here bring their own unique concerns from the community. And And thank you for addressing it. When we see that, you know, we go from seventy three percent to seventy eight percent to eighty two percent, that is amazing because, we always wanna make sure that we're doing better than the year prior and we're, you know, taking into consideration. I'll also even look at the bullying and harassment and look at how many cases are to date.
And while we want this at zero, again, it's how you guys are responding that make, each student feel safe and when they're reporting something. Also, the fact that they are able to report something instead of feeling scared to report it shows that you guys are making sure that in that reporting sense, there's a lot of concern sometimes. I mean, I I'm the mother of two students that one's still here. You know, there's there's students that are concerned, parents that are concerned, but I truly appreciate that you guys are making our students feel comfortable and our parents feel comfortable
enough to report these things so you can address them in the proper way. So thank you very much. Thank you for your report. And now we're on to comments from our student representative, Phoenix. Good evening, board president, members of the board, deputy superintendent Park, and distinguished guests. We all recently held their batman theme rally. Additionally, they've been promoting prom through social media posts and reels where they announced ticket sales and organized the prom poser contest. Chino does have their spring academic rally with the surf theme. They also revealed their prom theme and venue details, and they also recognized their principal's
birthday in a fun way with their community. Tom Lugo announced their brand new executive board, class officers, and commissioners. They have also begun their prom activities including nominations for prince, princess, queen, and queen. Chenoa has also introduced our brand new ASB commissioners, and we also, recently held the staff versus student basketball game and also launched our prom poser contest. Currently, we're preparing for a spring rally which will be held tomorrow. Our peer leadership program is organizing night market, which will feature local businesses selling food, crafts, and services. Thank you.
Thank you so much, Phoenix. And now we're on to our comments from our employee representatives. Do we have anybody from ACT? Okay. And Annette Hatch from CHAMP? Good evening, president Shaw, deputy superintendent, Park, board members, cabinet, colleagues, community members, and distinguished guests. Board, on behalf of the CHAMP, we would like to express our sincere appreciation and gratitude for the thoughtful consideration you are giving to the increase in salaries and health and welfare annual contributions for certificated and classified management employees.
We truly appreciate your support and your commitment to the recognizing the work that we do. Additionally, April 22, this coming Wednesday, marks Administrative Professionals Day. We would like to take this opportunity to recognize the outstanding office staff at our school sites and district offices. Their dedication, professionalism, and hard work are the backbone of the district. They play an essential role in supporting our schools and ensuring that the daily operations
run smoothly. We extend extend our deepest appreciation for all that they do. We would also like to recognize our assistant principals for continued for their continued dedication and unwavering support of our school communities. Their leadership and commitment make a meaningful difference on every campus. Finally, we would like to congratulate Levi Diggy Elementary School for being named one of the first national demonstration schools for AVID. This recognition reflects their continued growth, commitment, and excellence in implementing the AVID program.
This is an outstanding accomplishment, and we commend their efforts. Thank you so much. Thank you very much. And congratulations to Levi Dickey. Awesome. Do I have any other representatives from no? Okay. We're now on to public comments. Raeanne, how many request to speak? There are 24. Thank you. Each speaker will be given two minutes. Board bylaw nine three two three meeting conduct establishes public comment guidelines and following process applies. Speakers will be called in the order you registered on the electronic request to speak
device. Names are displayed on the monitors. Please watch for your name to appear and line up at the designated numbers behind the mic. Once the recording secretary announces the first name, request to speak will no longer be accepted. Additionally, government code five four nine five seven point nine authorizes the removal of an individual or group when a meeting is willfully interrupted and order cannot be restored. Further, penal code four zero three states in part that every person who, without authority of law, willfully disturbs or breaks up any lawful assembly or meeting, not unlawful in
its character, is guilty of a misdemeanor. Mister Cruz? Yes. You have up to three minutes to address the board. You cannot donate your time. One person in the mic at a time. If you read on behalf of an absent person, that will be considered your time. Begin comments when the clock starts. Please refer to board policy. Okay. Start all over? Yeah. Please refer to board policy thirteen twelve point one for the procedure regarding complaints against an employee. And lastly, speakers may not approach the diocese any time. The board is in session.
Please give any materials you wish to distribute it to the board to the recording secretary. Hazel. Good evening. Good evening, superintendent and board members. My name is Hazel. I'm a ninth grader at Chino Hills High School. I came here tonight because I wanted to share something that happened to me recently, which really bothered me and made me think a lot about my school environment. A week ago, I was in my biology class. My teacher decided to play some music while we worked. And one of the song was called Rapping for Jesus. While the song was playing, suddenly it said, Jesus Christ is my n word.
It clearly stated the n word. I asked if I could see who was singing the song, and it turned out to be a white pastor. That moment made me feel really upset and uncomfortable. What made it worse was that it was in the hands of a teacher. I felt like my feelings weren't validated or didn't matter, and it was just a joke. I'm called the n word, har r, all the time. My skin care, my skin color is often a topic of conversation, and I often feel othered. When this happens, I genuinely don't know who to go to on campus.
I want to ask, how are students like me supposed to feel safe and supported at school when teachers and staff don't take things like this seriously? When I look around, I don't see teachers who look like me or try to understand what students like me go through. It's hard to feel like you like you belong when you don't see people who understand or stand up for you. I hope by sharing this, more people will realize these moments really hurt and that we need to we need more support and understanding at our school.
Thank you for listening to and giving me a chance to speak. Thank you. Amanda Swagger. I'm an information item. Good evening, doctor Park, cabinet, board, everyone in attendance tonight. Agenda item two a eight, day of the teacher of the Maestro is an agenda item tonight to recognize our teachers within the district. We have some amazing teachers throughout our district, all four high schools, Buena Vista, our elementary and middle school programs. As we stand together to honor those teachers, it's important to note the hard work
that each of them do as part of our community here in the Chino Valley area. I do wanna present to you guys an idea tonight that I stole from another district. During that district, they represent between one and two of our amazing staff at each meeting with the representation and nominations from the school administration and teachers. What a wonderful way, just like we do with our with our student athletes, our academic scholars, etcetera, to recognize the hard work of our teachers within the district. I also wanna take a moment to thank my amazing colleagues in the chemistry department
at Chino High School. We have a very young staff with miss Guillemet, miss Castaneda, miss Dee Tommaso, and, of course, our physics teacher, mister Fallon, who do such a great job working together within our department. Teaching science is a challenge in today's world, and these individuals come together and work as an amazing team to bring quality education to our department. For all the teachers in the district, I appreciate the hard work you do with our students each and every day, And I wish you guys a happy day of the teacher as we approach later next month.
Thank you. Lauren Setlitch. Non agenda item. Good evening. I'm speaking on behalf of a group of while I appreciate you guys wanting to stand and support, we have safety concerns and you're also blocking people in the meeting. So we would ask that you sit down, please. Thank you. I'm speaking on behalf of a group of concerned parents at Lyle s Briggs Fundamental School to address several serious issues affecting the safety and well-being of our students. On March 3, an incident occurred involving two third grade students in which a weapon was brought to our school, reportedly a result of severe bullying. The handling of this situation has raised significant concerns among parents about how behavioral issues,
bullying, and classroom disruptions are currently managed by the school administration. Since that incident, we've become aware of multiple troubling events, including physical altercations among students in the second and third grades, children being told that they are not deserving to live, using the racial slurs such as the n word, and frequent profanity both in classrooms and on the playground. These issues point to a broader concern about the overall school climate and student supervision. We recently met with our principal, doctor A, to discuss these matters. However, many parents left the meeting feeling that our concerns were not fully acknowledged or addressed. While we provided administrative guidelines for handling such incidents, conversations with teachers and parent volunteers
suggest that these protocols are not being consistently followed. We are requesting meaningful changes in how discipline, behavioral issues, and classroom disruptions are addressed. Specifically, we are asking for consistent documentation of incidents, clear adherence to establish disciplinary guidelines, greater accountability from both administration and staff, proactive measures to ensure a safe and respectful learning environment. Our goal is to support a school environment where teachers feel empowered, students feel safe, and families feel confident in sending their children each day to school. We want Lyle S. Briggs to be a school of choice, one that reflects strong values and fosters positive
development in all of the students. If we do not begin to see measurable improvements in how these issues are handled, parents are prepared to consider further actions, including a planned student walkout to emphasize the urgency of these concerns. We want to emphasize that our intention is to work collaboratively with the school to create a safer and more supportive environment for all students. We are committed to being part of the solution and would welcome administration and the staff to achieve these goals. Fidel Parra Junior on information item. Fidel Pada, Jr. On an information item.
Sarah Omari on an information item. Good evening, board members, cabinet, and community. My name is Sarah O'Morty. I read your 251 page agenda for tonight's meeting, all of it, and I wanna make sure everyone in this room understands what's in it. You wanna tell the public you don't care about them without saying it? Here's how. Start by spending 663,000 of their tax dollars on legal fees in eight months, on pace to hit over a million dollars by the end of this year. Then vote yourself another pay raise, your second in four months. You already gave yourselves a 107% increase in December from $966 to 2,000 a month,
and the staff report didn't even list the dollar amounts for the public. Now tonight, another 2.25% on top of that, plus a bylaw revision that allows your pay to go up to $3,000 a month and adds district issued credit cards. You haven't even finished cashing the first the last raise and you're already voting for the next one. Then rewrite five of your own bylaws in a single meeting. One that lets you skip the public input process for new policies and one that gives you the flexibility to reduce board meetings to once a month. Less work for you, less access for us. And let's be honest about the reason why. Your board president is running for state superintendent of public education.
Fewer meetings here means more time to campaign up and down the state. And then on page 208, delete the language that requires this district to resolve requests for accommodations at board meetings in favor of accessibility. You didn't strengthen that protection. You replaced it with a line that says the agenda should mention how to request one. That's not a policy. That's a pamphlet. Meanwhile, special education specialists are being laid off, and on a single page of this 251 page agenda addresses what SPED pair families lifted up last month. You have three active unfair labor practice complaints from the people who teach our children
and eight legal matters in closed session tonight. Every single change in this agenda moves in one direction. More for this board, less for everyone else. More money, more power, fewer meetings, fewer protections, and less accountability. That's not governance. That's fraud, waste, and abuse. That's a board rewriting the rules to serve itself. I'm asking every single member of this board to look at the people in this room and tell us who is any of this. Naomi Minogue on a non agenda item. Good evening, members of the board, cabinet, and fellow community members. I stand before you tonight to speak about something small in appearance, but huge in
principle, Access to a simple podium for every speaker at our school board meetings. We are taxpayers, parents, students, teachers, and neighbors who care deeply about our district. Asking people to request a podium or to disclose a disability in order to receive one is not just inconvenient. It is inequitable and quite frankly wrong. When a person must ask for an accommodation, they are put in a position of proving their need to participate. That request can feel humiliating, intrusive, and unnecessary.
Requiring someone to identify their disability to speak is an invasion of privacy. Accommodation should be provided as a standard practice to ensure equal access for all, not given out only after someone discloses their personal, medical, or disability information. Equity means designing our public processes so everyone can participate fully without extra steps or barriers. A simple policy, every speaker is offered a podium unless they decline would remove a
needless hurdle. It would show respect, dignity, and protect privacy and align our meetings with the inclusive values we claim to support in our schools. This is not about special treatment. This is about fair treatment. We wouldn't ask people to request a microphone to be heard or to explain where they need a seat in our audience. A podium is the same, providing it routinely demonstrates that we value every voice. Amanda Swagger on an information item.
Good evening again board, audience, and everyone here tonight. We have several by law potential amendments for information items this evening on the agenda. I wanted to point out two glaring issues with those amendments and the language legally provided, these items need to be adjusted prior to the next meeting. First, the simple one. Many of the audience members tonight will will state that cutting down the meeting requirements from one or two to one so it limits the meetings to one.
But it removes flexibility from the board's agenda. There are times during the year where the board may benefit from having a second meeting. The reality is by changing the language, you remove that possibility. By simply changing the wording instead of one to at least one, you leave the flexibility open to have a second meeting whenever required. Second, on board agenda item five, meeting conduct, there is a lot of discussion on the vernacular about groups being removed from meetings. While we understand due to safety considerations, this is often a consideration when people in
the audience or without the audience get riled up or angry. The reality is there's an inconsistency in the clause. The first statement talks about individuals, but then the third statement talks about groups or individuals with no designation for a group. That language needs to be consistent. It should either be all individuals or all groups. Since a group contains individuals, it's a great idea to just remove the word group to put individuals instead. Thank you for your time. Have a good evening. Debbie Hernandez on a non agenda item.
Good evening, board members. First and foremost, podium would have been nice. First and foremost, I want to acknowledge our amazing students, student athletes, and how encouraging it is to see, our young ladies being given the spotlight they richly deserve. In my day, that Whistley wasn't, it was a very different story. So congratulations to all of them. Secondly, the podium. Unless there is a legal restriction to providing a podium, I don't understand why this item needed to rise to the level of requiring us, your constituents, to come and
beg for the podium, which was a staple in the previous location and often utilized by yourself, miss Shaw, to be returned excuse me. To be returned to service here. There are many reasons that for a podium provides a positive support for the speakers from our community. Asking speakers to send their comments through email is not a reasonable substitute for those wishing to address this board publicly. On that monitor, monthly, we see the words humility, civility, and service.
With civility, we ask you to please have the humility to put yourself in the shoes of those you were elected to serve and provide us the simple dignity of a podium. Speaking in public is difficult. That provides an avenue for allowing people to feel a little more comfortable to come and share their thoughts with you, which I believe is what you want us to do. It's what we elected you to do. Thank you. Sarah Omari on a non agenda item. I haven't started talking, so I don't know why it started.
So I just wanna make a record. I'm not getting my full two minutes. Just one minute. We'll restart it this time, but it was clear that you guys need to line up so then the next speaker comes. And if we don't have you lined up, we've already stated it in the beginning. That's the time we'll start. I can't I can't see it. That would be a warning. I'm clearly stating what what we're doing. We clearly stated the rules in the beginning, and that's what we're saying. I, as a courtesy, restarted it for you, but we've asked you guys to line up. I I can't stand without support, so I can't do that. Good evening again, board members.
My name again is Sarah Omari. I wanna talk about something that should be simple, a podium. I surveyed the school districts surrounding CBUSD. Every single one in our region provides a podium lecture or bench for public comment at board meetings. Everyone. We are hard pressed to find a district in the region that doesn't. This isn't a special request. It's a standard practice everywhere except here. So my question is simple. Why is this district the outlier? Why does every other district manage to extend the basic courtesy to their public and we can't? I requested an accommodation for tonight's meeting. Under this district's own current policy, any doubt was supposed to be resolved in favor
of accessibility. Instead, I was required to submit a medical note, and what I was offered in return was this chair, set apart from every other speaker in this room. That's not an accommodation. That's humiliation. That's being singled out. You wanna know how to tell someone you don't care about them without saying it? Make them produce medical documentation to get what every other district provides as a common courtesy. Miss Shaw, please eyes up here. Miss Shaw, are you okay? Health check. Put them through a process, make them wait, don't look them in the eye. Offer them something that marks them as different, and then on the very same night,
propose to delete the policy that was supposed to protect them. Every surrounding school district has a podium. This one doesn't. Every surrounding district accommodates its public or has a transparent process to do so. This one required a doctor's note. This board will always find the energy to do the wrong thing and never find the energy to do the right one. I'm asking you for to provide a podium for public comment. It's what every other district does. It shouldn't be this hard. It shouldn't require humiliating a public member. Thank you. Lisa Gee on a non agenda item.
A few months ago, this board voted itself a 107 raise to over $2,000 per month. On top of that, you get free health insurance for you and your families, free life insurance and retirement benefits worth thousands more. That's why I was so surprised to see that this board is about to vote itself yet another pay raise tonight. And on top of that, you're revising rules to give yourself even more generous health benefits, credit card usage, and expense reimbursement. I realize this increase is part of a ridiculous me too clause that matches the
negotiated increase of our teachers. But may I remind you that you were elected as public servants who presumably did not become school board members to replace earned income, but to serve the community. In fact, previous school boards rejected these increases precisely for that reason because that money could be going into classrooms. Oh, and on the chart you buried in the agenda, we can see that you'll be voting again soon to increase your compensation yet again, this time to $3,000 per month. To make matters worse, you're reducing your meeting calendar even further. Last year, you cut the number of board meetings by half from two per month
to one, except for summer months. Tonight, you'll reduce summer months down to one meeting as well. So $3,000, per month plus benefits to attend one meeting per month? That's a sweet deal. This new calendar creates tremendous delays when district employees are seeking approvals for purchases, hirings, and policy revisions. But I suppose you have better things to do with your time, like crisscrossing the state to campaign for higher office. The bottom line is that you're building yourselves a hefty compensation package while bleeding the district dry in legal fees and ignoring pressing needs.
And you are reducing public access and oversight at a time when this board needs more transparency, not less. It's time to wake up Chino Valley. Integrity matters. Thank you. Lisa gee on a non agenda item. We know you don't like listening to public criticism. Nobody does. We know that miss Shaw hates hearing from particular critics so much that she often gets up from the dais and hides in the backroom during their public comments. But by law, public meetings require that you allow public comment, and you're required to make these meetings accessible to all.
It's a cornerstone of our democracy. However, since Ms. Shaw has taken office, we've seen our rights whittled away little by little. For example, you've front loaded the public comment period so that now speakers on both agenda and non agenda type topics are combined so that you can limit the number of minutes we're allowed to speak arbitrary time limit. You prohibit anyone from standing in support of a speaker, and you frequently cut off speakers if you can think of any reason they don't fit into your always narrowing framework. You have thrown people out and shut down meetings so many times we've lost count. Ironically, Ms. Shaw exploited every one of these rights that were count.
Ironically, miss Shaw exploited every one of these rights that were afforded to her when she was a community member seeking to be heard by the board. What I don't understand is this district's refusal to repeated request to reinstall a podium that for decades was a fixture boardroom and is at every other boardroom in surrounding districts. In fact, there's a standing desk right there that could be moved over for speakers or allow us to speak over there. A podium serves a practical function. It provides stability for speakers who need physical support, gives people a place to hold
their notes, and offers a sense of security for those who struggle with public speaking. And the denying this could well lead to ADA complaints as well. Our group, Chino Valley Defenders of Public Education, submitted a petition to this board today with over 100 signatures of community members who'd like to see the podium reinstalled. Since we've told that we've been told this is a district matter and not a board issue, I ask one of you to step up and do the right thing and introduce this as an agenda item at the next meeting. Thank you. Jeff m on a non agenda item.
Thank you, board members, support staff, and audience members. Amy Coney Barrett, who is president Trump's last appointment to the US Supreme Court, was asked if her religion had any influence on her decisions. And she said no. And then she quickly, corrected herself, and she said, well, yes. I put placed my hand on a Bible and swore to uphold the constitution. In my observation, I I've attended the majority of board meetings in the last year,
and this board is in violation of the First Amendment. I'm concerned that students who may be, watching this, these proceedings are either learning the wrong lesson or not learning at all what government is supposed to do. As most people know, the first amendment is comprised of five different clauses. The first is freedom of religion. And this board is determined to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars and millions across
the years, to impose your religious, inclinations upon people who may have different faiths or no faith at all. The second and third clauses are related, so I'll address them, together. The second clause is freedom of speech, and the third clause is freedom of press. And, by you, classifying many, comments, as threatening or disruptive, you've prevented people from speaking.
And one meeting, I remember you, kicked Christie Hurst on a non agenda item. Over the last three and a half years, a number of policies have been put into place that are restricting parents and students' ability to address this board and district publicly about concerns. Probably people don't know this. Before Sonia was elected, speakers were given three minutes to speak on each action item and then three minutes on informational items and three minutes on consent items. Then as she was faced with having to listen to many students and parents who were not happy with her, our time was restricted and tied to how many speakers
signed up per agenda item and then per each category. So one to three minutes based on each category how many people signed up. Then suddenly, they combined all speaking topics together and assess our time based on how many total speaking requests were for the entire meeting. Then they cut the number of meetings in half, all while increasing your pay from just over $800 a month when you stepped into office to now $2,000 a month. You're listening to community members far less each meeting and cutting the meetings in half.
I was shocked to see how many important items are crammed in the consent calendar today. Another raise for you, what appears to be a new district level administrative position being added and so much more. Given the current policies for public comment, it is extremely difficult, if not impossible, for families whose tax dollars you are spending to give input. Sonia's seat is up for election this November. We can elect someone who is willing to listen to our families and our schools and reverse these policies. And I have one final off topic comment. You were reviewing your quality surveys a few minutes ago and talking about how great
your scores were among students. And I think you need to do something to make sure the students know they are not tied to those surveys because I will tell you, many students have told my child and other students from other schools have told me that they will warn everybody. Don't say anything bad on there. They know who you are. They tie it to your ID. You better not say anything bad on there. So I can tell you that you're not getting completely accurate information from this Christy Hurst on an information item. James Gallagher on a non agenda item.
Good evening. So on March 9, as you know, I brought up the whole podium issue. To me, that is just a physical manifestation of what everyone else is talking about. And that's the obscurity of the public who actually are the taxpayers who put you where you are. It is tax money that pays for this facility. It's tax money that pays for this microphone, and we're asking for a podium to be, also included in that. What struck me odd is the champion article that reported on on our ask for
a podium last meeting, stated that the district responded where it stated it had no plans to change the setup of the boardroom and the current configuration was established in alignment with district standards for room design, safety considerations, overall meeting operations, and adjustments, which are evaluated within that broader framework. I thought that was excellent newspeak. I call that institutional obfuscation. Safety concern, what is that? Does that mean that Chino Hills and Chino and every other school board is not
considering our safety by having a podium here? I do not understand the response. So as an alternative, you suggested, the district, that individuals are welcome to submit comments to the board via emails. Of course, we should be doing that. But at the same time, we think that we should show a little more consideration. If it's a funding issue, I think the defenders the CV defenders hub would be more than willing to come up with some money to help pay for a podium. We'll start a collection tonight if you'd like.
So thank you. Jennifer v on a non agenda item. Good evening. My name is Jennifer. I came here tonight to advocate for the Chino Valley community, especially those with disabilities. Americans with Disabilities Act is a federal civil rights law that prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities in everyday activities. The ADA prohibits discrimination on race, color, sex, national origin, age, and religion.
The ADA guarantees that people with disabilities have the same opportunities as everyone else to enjoy and participate in the public square. The ADA covers reasonable accommodations for employees and universal accommodations in the communities so that those with disabilities can purchase goods and services and can participate in state, local, government programs. The district is denying the disabled members of Chino Valley equal access to these meetings and to making public comments by refusing to place a podium for public use.
The secretary of this board recently suggested that those with disabilities should just email their comments rather than participating in the public comment part of this government meeting if standing without support excuse me. If standing without support was problematic. As Americans, we know separate is not equal. Separate never was equal. Emailing instead of standing up here is not the way to resolve this. I come here to demand that the board do the right thing both ethically and legally and place a podium for the purpose of universal reasonable disability accommodations for the
Chino Valley community. I'm very disheartened to see so much pushback from the board and the district and the community. Excuse me. From the board and the district. Annika Lane, on a non agenda item. Students have to go through. Good evening, distinguished board members. I am so thankful for you guys, and I am actually very saddened by the disrespect I've seen tonight. Those who are behaving disrespectfully, they claim to be examples to students, and this is a shame. Our students are watching. Also, a person in a wheelchair would not be visible if a podium was present
here, so I'm actually thankful that there's not a podium, and you guys are including people who are in wheelchairs, for that reason. I just wanna thank you for giving, us your time, all of us, freedom of speech and, listening to every comment. Today, I'm actually here to speak about an incident that happened last Tuesday at an elementary school my son goes to. Second he's a second grader. I picked him up from an extracurricular from Aesop SoCal Aesop SoCal, and he said to me an instructor looked like a man who was dressed as a woman.
That naturally causes a child confusion. Whether or not the person was transgender, I do not know. However, this prompted a very important conversation with my child, and it had me thinking of other families. I would like to reasonably request that the school board make it or consider to make it a policy that when a transgender person or cross dresser, when they are instructing children at any CBUSDA school, that parents be notified so they are at least prepared to have conversations with their children about transgender people and cross dressing.
This is so vital to help children with confusion and to open up conversations with their parents, whether you are considering yourself on the left or on the right. And I wanna thank you board members again for upholding dignity and respect, letting Yeah. So two a six, we're giving ourselves another 2.25%.
You guys already gave yourselves quite a hefty raise, and now you want more. So I do have the privilege of working for Corona Norco Unified School District. They that district is massive, far more massive than this one. From Roosevelt High School in the North all the way down to Santiago High School in the South, that runs from just below the 60 Freeway all the way down below the 91 Freeway along the 15. Those board members do not get paid as much as you.
So what's the deal? If you're willing to pay yourselves that much, yeah, a podium would be nice. Bring back the old one. I mean, the old one we had at the, at the old place had the nice green, yellow, red lights right here so I don't have to look up and see how much time I have left. It's right there. It's far more accessible. As far as wheelchairs go, have an accommodation for that, maybe a a smaller podium alongside it for those people. This is what accommodation looks looks like.
It's the basics. It's all we're asking for. So, do us all a favor and vote that, that, raise you wanna give yourselves down. Prove to us that you're actually public servants and not just trying to suck off the public teat. And get us a podium with that money. Thank you very much. Paul Griffin on a consent item. Consent items. To turn your attention to three b five, just for sake of transparency, temporary borrowing between funds of the school district. If you could, when you're going through this, to pull this and let us know
which funds, which accounts we're talking about, which ones we wanna transfer to and from, and your rationale as to why. Also, for the minutes, we need to make sure that we add in there that John Cervantes, you said you would save your comments to the end about my previous question about whether or not you believe Donald Trump's statement that students who do not who have learning disabilities are dumb and are not to be given any kind of preparation for higher level jobs.
You said you were gonna make statements at the end of that. You did not, which meant that you effectively believed he was correct on that. Miss Shaw, it was not meant to be a stunt. I figured just a simple thumbs up would not be in any kind of violation. But since you insisted that that be the case, I give you the opportunity now at the end when you're making your statements because you also did not make a statement. You did not say anything, to those. So the minutes should reflect that neither of you two made any statements, made any
position, make yourself known when it comes to such an an an integral part of the core values of our school district and our board members caring about our students. Thank you. Jackie Cortez on an action item two a six. Chino Valley has suffered significantly since the zero five board began its reign of incompetence. This is the worst board this district has ever had. Yet the board thinks they are worthy of taking the same race as teachers, counselors, school psychologists, speech pathologists, nurses, and other service providers.
These are people who work daily with our students and who definitely deserve the race as opposed to the school board who hardly deal with students as it should be because they are incompetent to do so. Especially when they just gave themselves a race, thanks to the political cartel they so despise. You have the option to not give yourself the race then, and you have the option to not give yourself the race now and stand by your so called values. If educators cannot get more than one race a year, why can't you? You're all grifters. You should be ashamed of yourselves if you approve the race tonight.
I think it is ridiculous that you are self governed and can therefore give yourselves all of these races. Sonia, you went on a rant over LAUSD district reaching a tentative agreement, said that those teachers do not deserve a race. That is not a good look for someone running for state superintendent. You criticize LSUSD for prioritizing ideological mandates over academics. What a hypocrite. You literally described yourself. I have asked several of your crazy minions what you have done for education other than the copy and paste protect girls sports, which you don't actually do, and deals
with an extracurricular, not academics. No one has anything to say. You are so out of touch with the actual issues in this district that you definitely do not deserve this race. An appreciative parent on a non agenda item. And these are hard acts to follow. I have two minutes. I'm an appreciative parent. I hope I spelled that right for all you educators. I was here some time ago, and I brought my concerns about a second or third party vendor selling books to our children that I felt weren't appropriate for my
young daughter. And I received a call from someone in the district, and they reached out to the principal at the school. And me and the principal reviewed it and they took a look at it. And it was pretty productive, although I didn't get the exact outcome I would have liked, but I felt supported by the district and I felt supported by the board and I also felt supported by the principal. On a second note, I wanna acknowledge the janitor at that school who found a rattlesnake on the kids' playground.
And I hope that's okay to acknowledge him. And I think that he's great for our school and the kids at our school really love him. Lastly, with my last little bit of time, I wanna thank, the IEP program because my nephew is in it and he was feeling a little bit less than. And someone reached out to him, because he doesn't wanna come to school and he doesn't want to, get a job when he grows up because he feels less than. And somebody put it into perspective that all baseball players are players and sometimes the
runt is a player, but he can't hit the home run, but he learns how to bunt. And they put it in a different perspective that everybody is able to be on the same playing field, you know. And he's IEP and he's, you know, he's doing a lot better as a result. So thank you, board. And thank you everybody who shared and after. Thank you forever. Jackie Cortez on a non agenda item. I recently presented at the first ever CTA women's leadership conference where I had an
amazing time surrounded by educators from all over the state. Something that resonated with me was when someone told me that women should support women unless it is a woman who does not support women because part of supporting each other is accountability. So Sonia, why has another month gone by where school board meetings are not translated? Information about school board policies has not been sent out to families related to ICE and families continue to lack support when it comes to special education. As a special education teacher myself, I have been working with the family to try to secure them a hot spot, and Andrew Black cannot even be bothered to respond
to emails in a timely manner. The parent has come in person on many occasions only to have one roadblock after another. Told to go to student support services, then to the school, and then back to student support services. She put in this request back in February and this whole time the family has had to rely on going to the public library instead of getting the resources they need from the school when the district was paying for a hot spot before. I sat through a presentation on how much money is spent on sped students yet the district cannot get a hot spot for my student.
And board meetings have really changed since Sonia joined the board for the worse. Meetings were cut from two to one. The podium was taken away and doctor Enfield said the present configuration was established alignment with district standards for room design and meeting operations. So why is it different from the speaker set from before when it was better? Why are students no longer allowed to speak first? Why are people not allowed to stand with one another to support each other? And, Sonia, thanks to you, I will never suffer from imposter syndrome. Because if you think you can run for state superintendent of public instruction with barely
a diploma to your name and zero educational experience, then I can run for queen of the world. Paul Griffin on an information item. Oh, hello again. So information item, we have four a five, revision bylaw board bylaw for meeting conduct. So when it comes to conduct, I think for this board, the most important thing is that when we are making our concerns known to you, you're here seated, respectfully
listening. So I wanna take us back to a meeting in December when Sonia Shaw, you said, during your time to speak, you said right before you began, when the truth speaks, evil flees. And I think that was because some of us decided to get up and leave because we had things that we needed to do. The following meeting in January, we had a line of people from a church letting you know that there are certain Christian ways to behave toward the LGBTQ community?
You, in a huff, stood up, demanded that these people stop, that it was going to make you vomit, that these people who are followers of Christ are saying things that are so against you, and you ran off? So by your own logic, truth was spoken and evil fled. So as far as this meeting conduct goes, we need you to be seated for the whole ride, please. Thank you. Paul Griffin on a non agenda item. Alright. So the last thing.
I'm not letting you guys off the hook on this one. Trump said about students with learning disabilities. Mister Naugh, you said that it was common sense that you would all be here for all of our students. But it's not common sense. Because common sense would tell you that Trump is not Jesus, yet he posted a picture of himself thinking that he is your lord and savior. So we're going to need, in this era of common sense being out the window, we need you to be more specific in your statement.
Do you believe Donald Trump was wrong in his statements about students with learning disabilities? Mister Cruz, you said that it only applied to governor Gavin Newsom. And as much as I am repelled about him as you are, it doesn't change the fact that if he thinks that about one, he thinks that about all of them. You can't just pick and choose like that. The logic doesn't follow. So I need you to follow-up on that. Do you believe Donald Trump was wrong to say that?
Mister Smith, you did fine. Mister Cervantes and Shaw, you both need to address the issue, please. And I And I will keep coming back here and asking for this until we get good answers. Thank you. Reagan, is that in? Okay. Thank you. We are now on to changes and deletions. Just Just a little side note, board members are not to respond to the public, but they may choose to respond in their public comment and respond to the concerns at the end. I also always encourage to follow-up with an email.
That way we have your contact info and we can, forward it to the appropriate staff. Okay. Now we're on to changes and deletions. The following change is on the agenda. Item three e one, certificate to classified personal items. Pages one forty one and one forty five are yellow sheeted. There are no further changes or deletions. Thank you. We're now on to action items. Item two a one, public hearing and ratification of the tentative agreement between the Chino Valley Unified School District and the Associated Chino Teachers, ACT, for a collective bargaining agreement
reopener effective 07/01/2026, recommended the Board of Education conduct a public hearing and ratify the tentative agreement between the Chino Valley Unified School District and the associated Chino Teachers, ACT, for collective bargaining agreement reopener effective 07/01/2026. I now get public notice and open the public hearing at 07:46PM. Rating, are there any speakers? There are none recorded. Thank you. Just for clarification, are there any speakers? Okay. There we go.
Amanda Swagger. Thank you. Good evening, board, everyone here in attendance, and all the ACT members at home who are listening to this broadcast. My name is Amanda Swacker, a nineteen year teacher here in the district and a member of the Associated Gino Teachers. I'm not here speaking for the union tonight, but I'm speaking here to share the information that we received on email about the current tentative agreement. I'm very disappointed to see that leadership from ACT is not here, which prompted me to stand up at the microphone today, something I had not planned on doing.
But I need to speak for all the members who voted for the contract and are not here tonight. It's very, very disappointing to see they're not here, and I hope leadership in ACT will actually take the time to show up at another meeting when this is on the agenda. That said, the the tentative agreement provides a 2.25% raise over the next, this year and next year, along with a one time, bonus, if you would, a one time payment of $2,000 As teachers, we are stretched financially
now with all kinds of increasing costs, both inflation, as we can see especially at the pump, our classroom supplies, and everything that goes into being an educator. And it's appreciative for the district to work with our bargaining team to actually come and provide this for people. In addition, the slight increase in the benefit cap is also appreciated. So as a board, I appreciate your vote tonight in approving the tentative agreement for the Chino, for the Chino Associated Chino teachers.
Thank you. Thank you so much, Amanda. And just for clarification, do we have any more speakers? There are none. Okay. Thank you. And to board members, may I have a motion to ratify the tentative agreement, please? Thank you, mister Cruz, and thank you, mister Smith, for your first and your second. Board members, do you have any comments, questions, discussions? Mister Na, your mic is on. Yeah. I'd like to thank our teachers, helping out our students throughout the year. Good times and difficult times.
But because of our, teachers' support, our students are very successful in our school district. Again, thank you so much. Thank you, mister Nam. Mister Cruz, your mic is on. I just I just wanna make a note that the ACT collective bargaining negotiation was completed more quickly than any other in the history of CVUSD. So thank you, miss President Fraser and cabinet. Awesome. Thank you. And I'll also make a comment. I just wanna thank both our great teachers and So cabinet and staff and doctor Park, thank you for just going to the table.
And also board members, thank you for listening to the concerns of our great teachers and making sure that we as a team prioritize, to even try to get competitive with their pay. We can understand that the funding model in California is not equitable, unfortunately, when districts do good. We don't get as much money when as if they were doing, you know, in part of failure. So, I just truly appreciate everybody coming together as a team. I believe not only did we make history in Chino, but we made history all over California when we see teachers having to strike all throughout the state and districts
in a deficit. Again, that speaks to the volumes of a team working hard alongside our great educators. So thank you everybody for working as a team. I truly appreciate everything that you do. And with nothing further, mister Perdue, you have another comment? Go ahead. Hold on. Mic's on. And also that we are number one in San Bernardino County and academics. Absolutely, mister Cruz. Okay. Seeing nothing further, board members, please register your vote. And the motion passes with a vote of five oh, preferential.
Sorry. Okay. Awesome. Preferential voting. Yes. And the motion passes with a vote of five to zero. Next item is two eight two, public hearing and ratification of the tentative agreement between the Chino Valley Unified School District and the California School Employees Association and its Chino Chapter one hundred and two for a collective bargaining agreement reopener effective 07/01/2026, recommends the board of educate education conduct a public hearing and ratify the tentative agreement between the
Chino Valley Unified School District and the California School Employees Association and its Chino chapter one zero two for a collective bargaining agreement reopener effective 07/01/2026. I now give public notice and open the public hearing at 07:52PM. Reagan, are there any speakers? There are none recorded. Thank you. Just for clarification for all those in attendance, are there any speakers? There are none. Okay. Thank you, Reagan. I now close the public hearing at 07:52PM Now for the vote oh, sorry.
May I have a motion to ratify the tentative agreement, please? Mister Noth, thank you. And second, mister Cervantes. Now board members, do you have any comments, questions, discussions? Seeing that there's none, preferential. Thank you. And board members, please register your vote. And the motion passes with a vote of five to zero with preferential voting yes. The next item is two a three, approval of an increase to salary and health and welfare annual contributions for the certified certificated and classified management employees effective 07/01/2026, recommends
that the board of education improve the increased salary and health and welfare annual contributions for the certificated and classified management employees effective 07/01/2026. May I have a motion, please? Thank you, mister Naughn. Thank you, mister Smith, for your second. Any comments, questions, discussions for mister Cruz, your mic is on. I just wanna say that mister Hernandez has strong, effective leadership as president. Thank you, mister Cruz. Seeing nothing further, referential?
Thank you. Board members, please register your vote. Just waiting for one more. There we go. And the motion passes with preferential voting yes and a vote of five to zero. The next item is item two a four, approval of an increase to salary health and welfare annual contributions for the classified confidential employees effective 07/01/2026, recommends the board of education approve the increase to salary and health and welfare annual contributions for the classified confidential employees effective effective 07/01/2026.
May I have a motion, please? Thank you, Mr. Cruz, and thank you, Mr. Cervantes, for your second. Comments, questions, discussions, board members? Hearing nothing further, board members, please register your vote. Preferential. And the motion passes with preferential voting yes and with a vote of five to zero. The next item is two a five, addendum to the employment contracts for the deputy superintendent associates, superintendent business services, assistant superintendents, curriculum instruction innovation and support and facilities planning
and operations effective 07/01/2026. Recommends the board of education approve the addendum to the employment con contracts for the deputy superintendent associate superintendent business services, assistant superintendents curriculum instruction innovation and support, and facilities planning and operations effective 07/01/2026. And bear with me. I'll try to make sure I read everything clearly in a timely manner. Ready? One moment. I just need clarification on something. Okay. Thank you. The board will consider amendments to executive cabinet contracts that provide a salary increase of
2.25% or the cost of living adjustment, whichever is greater, for the 2026, 2027, and twenty twenty seven, twenty twenty eight school years, consistent with the agreements for ACT, CSEA, and CHAMP. The proposal also includes a one time payment of $2,000 for employees who are paid status as of 10/31/2026. Pursuant to government code section 54,953, Subdivision C 3, the board provides this oral summary of all components of compensation, new and existing salary and fringe benefits for the following
local agency executives, deputy superintendent, associate superintendent business services, assistant superintendent's curriculum instruction innovation and support, assistant superintendent facilities, planning, and operation, deputy superintendent Grace Park doctor Grace Park, $295,848 annually for the twenty twenty six, twenty twenty seven school year, $315,374 annually for the twenty twenty seven, twenty twenty eight school year. 6% long longevity annually. 4% doctoral stipend annually.
Health and welfare benefits capped equipment to the ACT, CSEA, and CHAMP employees and monthly mileage. Annual organizational membership to APSA and vacation and sick leave. 24 annual vacation days and 22 annual sick days. Associate superintendent business services, missus Sandra Chen, $263 and, 8¢ annually for the twenty twenty six, twenty twenty seven school year. $269,583. Sorry. And it's $8 on the one above. Annually for the twenty twenty seven to twenty twenty eight school year, 8% longevity annually,
4% CBO certification stipend annually, health and welfare benefits, cap equivalent to the ACT, CSEA, and CHAMP employees, and monthly mileage, annual organizational membership to access and vacation and sick leave, twenty four annual vacation days, and 22 annual sick days. Assistant superintendent curriculum, instruction, innovation, and support, Tracy, doctor Tracy Fried, $216,176 annually for the 2026, 2027 spoyer. 230, thousand $444 annually for the twenty twenty seven, twenty twenty eight spoyer.
8% longevity annually, 4% doctoral stipend annually, health and welfare benefits capped equivalent to the ACT, CSEA, and CHAMP employees and monthly mileage, annual organizational membership to access and vacation and sick leave, twenty four annual vacation days and 22 annual sick days. Assistant superintendent curriculum, instruction, innovation, and support, Luke Hackney. 216,176 annually for the twenty twenty six, twenty twenty seven school year. $234,144 dollars annually for the twenty twenty seven twenty twenty eight school year, 4% longevity.
Annual health and welfare benefits cap equivalent to the ACT, CSEA, and CHAMP employees and monthly mileage. Annual organizational membership to access and vacation and sick leave, 24 annual vacation days and 22 annual sick days. Assistant superintendent facilities, planning, and operation grades to Churra. 20 $224,823 annually for the twenty six twenty twenty six, twenty twenty seven school year, $230,444 annually for the twenty twenty seven, twenty twenty eight school year, 10% longevity annually,
health and welfare benefits capped equivalent to the ACT, CSEA, and CHAMP employees and monthly mileage, annual organizational membership to access and vacation and sick leave, 24 annual vacation days, and 22 annual sick days. Excuse me for any mishaps. That was a lot of numbers. Okay. Now that we're there, may I have a position to please? Thank you, mister Cervantes, and thank you, mister Cruz, for your second. Comments, questions, discussions. Mister Naughton, did you have a comment? Press it one more no? Okay. Seeing nothing further, board members, please register your vote in preferential.
Thank you. One more. And the motion passes with a vote of five to zero. And the next item is compensation increase for the board of education effective 07/01/2026, recommends the board of education approve a 2.25 compensation increase or the cost of living adjustment COLA, whichever is greater, for the board of education effective 07/01/2026 for the twenty twenty six twenty twenty seven school year. It says refer to a supplemental sheet. Do you have one? Do you wanna go get one? Do we need one?
We've never had one, so I'm not sure why this is here, but may I move forward correctly? Are we okay, miss Kayla? Okay. May I have a motion, please? I think we're good. It was a sheet, but I think it was just duplicated. Thank you, mister Cervantes, for the first may I have a second? Thank you, mister Smith. And comments, questions, discussions. Mister Cruz, Mike's on. Yeah. So, you know, governor Newsom, he signed this executive order. And, it it it plays it it it's it's healthy for the community because, you
know, when it comes to retirees, people go flex with jobs or the wealthy. You now bring more people, working class, young families, socioeconomic background. This is this is good, and this is healthy for the future for our school for our school district. And and the boards, they can choose whether they want it or not. So holding yes is important because ultimately, at the end, you can choose whether you want it or not. Not. So that's it. Thank you, mister Cruz.
And board members, register your vote and preferential. Thank you. It looks like we got all in, and the motion fails with the vote of two to three. The next item is two a seven. Proclamation for National School Nurse Day on 05/06/2026. Recommends that the Board of Education adopt the proclamation for National School Nurse Day on 05/06/2026. May I have a motion, please?
Thank you, mister Nott. Thank you, mister Cervantes. And any comments, questions, discussions? Go ahead. Hold on. There we go. Yeah. I I just wanna say about twelve to thirteen years ago, the adult ed nurse was the one that notified my issue. And so after that, every six months, I would check my issue. So thank goodness for for that nurse. I've always knew I had something, but it was her that prompt me to pay attention to it. So nurses, heartfelt gratitude for them.
Thank you. Mister Ngoc? Yes. I still remember, day when a nurse from Buena Vista High School, Sherry Ma, had actually saved little baby's life. So thank you nurses to basically saving many of our students' lives and and their family members. So your hard work will never be forgotten or underappreciated. We really appreciate your dedication and love for our children.
Thank you so much. Thank you, mister Nam. Mister Cervantes, Mike's on. Yeah. Again, nurses, you do so much. You're you're you're definitely behind the scenes and sometimes, you know, on you go unnoticed, but you don't go unnoticed because you're so appreciated as far as you go, with the first responder team that's out there on every school site. So we, appreciate you more than you know. We thank you so much, and we couldn't do our jobs here or at the
school sites without you. So thank you. Thank you, mister Cervantes. And, yes, I ditto everything that you guys say. Our school nurses are amazing. We appreciate them, and we thank them for always being there for our students and also my daughters. Okay. Seeing nothing further. Preferential. Thank you. And board members register your vote, please. And the motion passes with a vote of five to zero. Here we go. Awesome. Now we're on to item two a eight, Resolution twenty twenty five twenty twenty six
dash 41 of the teacher, Dia Del Maestro. Recommend the board of education adopt resolution twenty twenty five twenty twenty six forty one day of the teacher, Dia Del Maestro. May I have a motion, please? Thank you, mister Cruz. Thank you, mister Cervantes, for your second. Any comments, questions, discussions? Yes. Mister Cruz, your mic is on. I'm certified of a single subject in biology and a single subject in librarian, And teachers are amazing. I I love it. I deliberately put myself at the school site.
The teachers are so connected with the kids. I mean, I I love dealing with those type of people rather than management that or people up in the office. So I'm very proud of I'm very proud of my own teachers where I work at. Awesome, Mr. Crews. Thank you. And our teachers here too as well. Absolutely. They're all the same everywhere. They love what they do. They love teaching children because they do more than that. They teach them about life, ethics, morality, everything like that. Thank you, mister Cruz.
And, mister mister Cervantes, your mic is on. Yeah. Teachers, what can we do? What what can we do about you? There's absolutely nothing. You guys are incredible. Thank you for all you do, not only at full time staff, but also our subs. You go out there and you're committed, dedicated to our kids. Your day start way before the kids get there, and they extend afterwards, making sure your lesson plans are ready to go and that you're giving your all to these students. So we thank you, and you'll never go unnoticed. Thank you so much. Yes, sir. No. Hold on. Is it on?
Try it again? No. Yeah. Teachers are part time parents. Without teachers, all of us, we wouldn't be here today. And all the teachings that we have learned, we would take it to lifetime. And, also, we would share it with our neighbors and our children. The teachers, What a honorable public service occupation. You plant the seeds, and you see the flowers blossoming.
And here we are having week of teachers appreciation day. And can we have our teachers in the audience to be recognized and and be please stand up? Let's give them a great pause. Thank you. That was awesome. So I just, did an open house last night at Townsend and got to spend quite a bit of time with the teachers there and spend a lot of time
with the teachers and, band organization as well. And just want to recognize the amount of hard work that the teach teachers put into these students and want to recognize that that doesn't go unnoticed. So the teachers are greatly appreciated. We are very blessed in this district to have, phenomenal staff and the students and, of course, the parents. But the teachers are recognized and appreciated. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Cruz?
No. I I don't remember my learning in school, but I remember the teachers, how they treated me. And in my mind, as I'm getting older, I I have these impressions of these certain teachers that kind of scared me. But but back then, you don't really pay attention. That's what teachers really do. I mean, I mean, I think all of you. Right? You remember what you learned. You don't literally, you just remember how they were, how they treated you. So I just wanna say that. Thank you. Okay. Seeing no other comments, board winners, please register your votes and preferential.
Thank you. And the motion passes with a vote of five to zero. That concludes action items. Moving on to consent. Board members, if you have an item to pull, please indicate so on your monitor. For the consent items, may I have a motion, please? Thank you, miss Ternan. Thank you, mister Cervantes, for your second. Board members, please register your vote. Preferential? Thank you. The motion passes with the vote of five to zero with preferential voting. Yes. We are now on to information items. Are there any comments or questions?
Seeing none, we're now on to board member comments. Mister Smith. Mike's in. About the podium, it it's actually kind of a validation of how awesome the school is doing when the number one topic is a podium at the board meeting here. So if, like, the schools are doing so great, and we have to dig so deep to complain about the podium. It's just a testament to how awesome the school is doing. Just wanted to recognize that.
A couple of items, doctor Park. Are the surveys anonymous for the students? Yes. The survey is anonymous. K. So would what would be the reason that it would be oh, don't you know, make sure you don't say anything bad. I don't understand. Is it boldly based it that the the surveys are anonymous? It's like is it stated clearly? We have standardized protocol that is sent out to the school sites, and school sites are expected to follow our protocol. The results are are, given to a company, and the company will give us the
results collectively Okay. And personal site. So there's no personal identifiable information in this in the surveys? Students do input their ID when they take their survey to be able to register for the survey, but the results are directly communicated to the vendor, and the vendor will, will compile the results and give us the results. Okay. And so with that, there are no it is completely anonymous. Alright. Excellent. Do do the board this I keep I've heard this a couple of times.
I I saw it, printed in the champion, and then I've heard it repeated up here a couple of times. I'm I'm curious about this retirement plan, what we're supposed to be getting. Do we get a retirement plan, Tucker Park? No. School board members do not receive retirement. Oh, okay. And what about, free health care for our family members? Do we also get free health care for our family members as Is is it free for for our family members?
Okay. Because I didn't see that it was free when we were going through the the packages. It was okay. And as far as the hot spot as well, you and I had a conversation about this recently. The hot spot, we had a conversation about the hot spot with the the students. Or do we get was there a problem with the the SPED students with IEPs getting hot spots? No. There were no concerns with students with disabilities who have an IEP where a hotspot is designated as a resource for the student.
Okay. And we can provide that. Right? That is correct. Okay. Excellent. Thank you. Alright. Got to spend some time with the, Chino Hills High School Color Guard last week, which was fantastic. We went to Dayton, Ohio, where we placed fifteenth in the world. So congratulations to the Juno House Color Guard. It's fantastic. So we got, Chad Hartman, who is a fantastic director and coach out there. We even had Romero, Sanchez out there as well.
And then the rest of the pillar guards, you know, just like a give me real quick. So Carla Hernandez, Dolce, Congo, Nico, Matt Samara, and, Ren Alvarez. Fantastic coaching team. They're awesome. Now, Ayala and Shane Knowles and I, the drum line is out there right now competing, in the world. So just a fantastic a group of kids and a fantastic staff out there that
we, that are directing these kids. So, let's go bring them home. Hopefully, we'll bring home some good numbers out there as well. Again, the, open house was fantastic. The teachers, the amount of work that they put into this, I would just see piles of it. And the teachers were having a sense of pride in the amount of work that they put into these students, and it was fantastic because you you see the results in these kids. And, really, it starts at home. So once again, thank you to the community out there for raising such awesome kids.
Thank you. Excellent, mister Smith. Thank you for debunking. And, okay. We have mister Knott. Mike's not. Okay. So we have, some of the parents still sitting in our audience, on our left hand side, doctor Park, and we have our staff member, meet up with them and listen to their concerns. I don't know, in details what what's their needs, but I would like to have our staff listen to their needs.
One second, doctor Park. Doctor Park already ensured us that she's gonna follow-up, and we're gonna make sure that the parents' voices are heard. And she'll make sure that that all gets done during the meeting. Unfortunately, sometimes we don't know about things, and, we always ask that you do follow-up with the email so that way they can address it. Because oftentimes, speakers come here, we're not per view to any of your guys' confidential information. So thank you for doing that. And if you wanted to add something, I just wanted to make sure that was clarified. Yes. We'll take care of it. Okay. Now okay.
I'm on again. Okay. So having said that, I have gone to those schools, multicultural celebration day, and what a great time I had. Such a great music and and dances. Students, actually, they were all adults, but they were really, really having a fun. And my favorite one was, a song called Aries de Maya, and it was from
Mexican and was an excellent song and dance. There, I have learned something. Whenever I would confront our students, I would tell them that all students are gifted. And, also, I would remind them, as our former teacher had told his students when he was still alive, mister Browning, that be good to yourself and be good to
others. And here, I'm at adult school, and you got hundreds of adults having plain fun and enjoying love for another, and respecting each other's culture. And this is where I felt that Chino Valley's strength is. We may from we may be from a different background, different families, different situations.
But when we we come to school, we are united. We have one goal. We have one hope, and we have a one mission, which is success. And we are accomplishing it every single day. Now, again, having said that, I'd like to congratulate our Phoenix, a student sitting next to me, who has not only received 4.6 in his GPA score, but now many people heard this, but he was accepted to
Stanford University. And it's all because all the parents sitting here tonight, the teachers coming here, it's and our our cabinet members, our staffs. It's a work of collaborations where we're sending our children to Stanford and a Harvard. And now we have a whole member running for said office, and I think she's gonna make it. It's all because of you guys.
It's not just a one person. And character matters. We believe in respect, respect, and respect. Thank you so much. Thank you, mister Nang. Mister Cruz. Nope. Okay. Also, let's follow-up with the ninth grade at Chino High School. And, also, the other lady that mentioned about cross dressing, things like that, parents should be informed if that is possible. So that's something to see if that's possible too. And as for AC president and the CSE president, you guys should be here because
you represent your people. So, start coming to the board meetings. Okay? Okay. I want to address the recent article in the Chino Champion regarding PBIS. While I value the voices of our teachers, it is crucial for the board, for this board and our community to distinguish between school level behavioral frameworks on the street legal mandates imposed on us by the state of California. Critics often conflate the two leading to a narrative that PBIS removes discipline.
This is actually incorrect. This article suggests that PBIS prevents verbal consequences. This ignores the reality of the California education code. SB two ninety one, we can no longer legally take away students' recess for disciplinary reasons. PBIS isn't solved. It is a strategic response to state laws that have removed traditional punishment from our toolkit. We're using research because the old ways are now literally illegal. SBT 74, as of this year, California law prohibits suspending students in grades K through
12 for willful defiance. This means if a student is being defiant, disrespectful, or disruptive, for example, cussing at a teacher, the law forbids us from simply sending them home. PBIS is not what handcuffed our ability to discipline Sacramento did. PBIS is actually the solution we use to manage behavior within these tight legal boundaries so that learning can still happen. A teacher stated that positive reinforcement cannot be the only tool in the shed. We agree. That is why PBIS is designed as a multi tier system of support.
Tier one is for everyone. Tier two and tier three are for students needing intensive, firm intervention. PBIS does not replace the backbone of discipline. It provides the data and the instructional steps to ensure that when a student is disciplined, it actually changes their behavior rather than just sitting them in an office for an hour only to have them return and repeat the cycle. The criticism that we are bribing students with candy bars or tickets for basic behavior mischaracterizes the science. Studies from doctor Edward, doctor Richards show that for many students, intrinsic motivation in doing
it because it's right hasn't developed yet due to various environmental factors. Students have not learned self regulation at home. We must jump start the behavior with extrinsic rewards before it can ever become an intrinsic habit. We don't expect a student to solve a math problem without being taught the formula. We should expect a student to act with integrity if they've never been taught and rewarded for what that looks like in a classroom setting. Finally, it is disappointing to see a junior champion one, a piece that treats a
highly researched evidence based framework used in over 25,000 schools as a dog and pony shell to suggest that our PlantSim status is safe, is an insult. Our PlantSim status isn't just a certificate on a wall. It represents thousands of hours of direct counseling with our most vulnerable students, explicit social emotional lessons taught in every classroom to prevent bullying before it starts. A meticulous documentation of improved behavior patterns that keep our schools safer. To have a newspaper portray this massive professional effort as fake is a disservice to
the teachers and administrators who are doing the heavy lifting every single day. Thank you. Also, I just want to say about teacher day, I just want to tell you that there is one teacher I think about, and that is missus Lee. And, you know, missus Lee, I had her practically throughout elementary school, and, she she found out I was a board member early on. And she contacted me, and she called, but I never I never answered.
I I it it was so complicated. I don't know how it I don't know how it occurred, but it it never followed through. And I couldn't. I couldn't. But this woman treating me like her son. I mean, amazing that I had that opportunity to have that kind of teacher in my life. And she did teach me academics. So when it comes to teachers, they really impact our lives tremendously. So, I I I know that she impacted my life tremendously and other people too. So I think she's still alive.
I think she is. Well, you never know. So thank you, missus Lee. I'm done. Thank you, mister Cruz. Mister Cervantes, your mic. Hello, everybody. And, thank you so much for being here. Appreciate your time. It's getting late. So I'll try to make this as short as possible, but I do wanna cover a a couple events that, weren't quite covered yet. And, again, community comments, appreciate them. However, just real quick regarding the comment, about a statement that was made from a
person that I never met, or I didn't hear the comments, or for me to to determine that person's state of mind. You're gonna be waiting a long time if you're waiting for a comment from me because I try not to respond to comments that I don't know about. So that's all I gotta say about that. Got the awesome privilege to be part of the BST senior banquet at Chino High School. That program is taken off, and we've had students now that have attended every four years, so this is the first graduating class that they attended from their freshman year
to seniors. Man, we're graduating some students that are gonna be doctors and lawyers and teachers. The best and the brightest to see what that program, is doing and to knowing, you know, where where it's going. The sky's the limit. So just grateful to be part of that. I had the privilege of attending the Baldi View ROP student awards, and that was that was awesome just to be part of that. So, president Shaw allowed me to go in her place, and just to see that and to participate in that was great again.
You know, if you think about college may not be for everybody, but that program allows and gives them the opportunity to become, you know, engineers, technicians, electricians, plumbers, IMO first, you know, teachers if they wanna go to continue their education, doctors to the president of The United States. It's, it's amazing. And then also, it was touched on briefly regarding, Levi Dickey becoming a national demonstration school for AVID.
That's incredible. How incredible is it? This this much. Only 1% of all schools in the nation get that recognition, so that's outstanding. I think we heard a lot about the podium, and that's cool. You know? Great. But I'll tell you what, that's a podium we're standing on and shot on the rooftop. So, Levi Dickey and staff, congratulations. Doctor Park. Last fifth, I had a chance to attend the county's multilingual recognition where several of our staff member were recognized, and it was just a nice reminder that it takes a village to raise a child.
We had administrators Christina Gentry and Lonnie Davis, teachers Alice Lee and Sherry Webster, bilingual clerk, Marie Masao, and our community liaison, Xiaomei Zhao, recognized for their work in supporting our English learners. And I also wanna recognize Kyle Schuler, our director of access and equity, and Jessica Orozco, our administrative secretary for coordinating and ensuring that our excellent staff are recognized at the county level. These are people who are not always in the spotlight, but they're doing incredibly important
work behind the scenes that have contributed to four hundred and forty three English learners this year being reclassified as proficient in English. I also wanna take a moment on the behalf of our superintendent to thank our labor partners, ACT and CSEA, for their collaboration and professionalism in the negotiations process. These agreements reflect our commitment in supporting our staff to sustain the important and the excellent work we are doing that makes Chino Valley number one in California.
And thank you to our board of education for ratifying these agreements, including our non represented CHAMP group and cabinet. You continue to show your commitment to supporting all of our employees, and we appreciate the value you place on our people. We're proud of the incredible work that's happening across our school district and grateful for everyone's collective effort to serve our students well. Thank you, and have a good evening. Thank you, doctor Perrick. And just because I know, we have parents here and also first to our young
lady, our student who raised this very serious concern, my heart goes out to ensure that staff has all the support needed to make sure those things are addressed and they stop. It absolutely breaks my heart that we have people in the classrooms doing things that are inappropriate. And, I'll be honest. I'm one of the first ones that will jump on that and ensure they have all the support they have. So much to say that it leads me into court sometimes because we get sued because people were trying to hold them accountable.
So even in the uncomfortable moments, just remember I will be the voice and make sure I'm protecting you guys in your classroom. And to our parents, thank you for coming and expressing a very serious concern. And I also was assured by staff, again, I just wanna reiterate that they are going to follow-up with, not only the parent that spoke, but any other parents that have emailed. I encourage parents, please, please, please, if it's a site related thing, always go to the principal. If the principal is not addressing it, then, of course, the next people in line
or the cabinet, our deputy superintendent and our superintendent, they need to hear if something isn't, in your beliefs appropriately, handled so they can make sure they remediate and get in there and try to fix whatever's going on and ensure that we have all our children safe. So I just want to give you the confidence to know that when you don't feel heard, please then feel very, very comfortable in going to the next level and ensuring that. And if they don't do it, then the next chain of command would obviously be the board. We are the ones that, you know, make sure that the superintendent has a board.
There's not one single member that can do anything on their own. But as a board, we ensure that the superintendent has the support because I will say I am not here to say our staff does not do it when they are aware of something. I, again, will reiterate, we often end up being sued because we're trying to hold bad actors in the classroom accountable or on the site. So just please understand the confidence of that. We are fighting an uphill battle, when it comes to trying to hold people accountable that are around our kids that shouldn't be around our kids. We are constantly being harassed and sued when we do the right thing, and that's
okay. I can stand in the face of anybody who says you're wasting taxpayer dollars. Nope. We're responding to a lawsuit because we're holding people responsible that shouldn't be around our kids. So know that from the bottom of my heart. I I and I know all these board members up here will never ever back down from that. That is a promise, and it is shown through not just our words, but our actions. I wanna get to a couple of things. I'm gonna be very careful because I was in court, but I will never deny the love of the mothers that I met many years ago fighting this good fight.
And, unfortunately, I was even asked about my love for one mom in particular, which really made me pissed off because I don't understand why teachers union cares about the love of my friend that that I have for my friend. So on record, Nicole Vaccario, not to out you, but I love you with all my heart. And I would stand in front of anybody that ever tries to hurt you because I know you stand for our kids. So I love you, sister. And if anybody wants to take that and sue me, please do.
Feel free. Thank you. And they know who I'm talking to. In regards to the podium, because I am, before I got to the seat, I mean, I came to the seat because government and I wouldn't even say so much of this district, but the majority of the board members that were here six years ago didn't wanna give us a seat at the table. That's why you had five members that give parents a seat at the table. And while, again, we face bad actors in the classroom and on school campuses, we will do everything we can to make sure the message is said loud and clear. If you do it in Chino, Chino Valley, we're gonna make sure that you're held
accountable. Period. I say it aligns with our police department and our sheriff. There's a, what is it? A saying on the street. You do it in Chino, you pay the time for the crime. It goes alongside our school districts. I am extremely confused when we have so many great things happening in Chino too. We were identified by Stanford, so I hope you get to be part of the research. They were looking at districts all across California, and they identified, you know, as a recovery model. And we are pushing kids in the right direction for academics, which means free from
ideologies shoved down the throats of little children. We're not gonna stand for that. It's legislated, by the way, parents. I want you to know that. And I am begging you to please go back to those dinner table conversations. Trust me, I'm the mother of two athletes. And if that means the dinner conversations or you in the bedroom giving them a kiss goodnight, ask them what they're being taught. Ask them what happened on campus. Ask them how they're being treated by other students, by the teachers, by the admin. If it's not reported, we can't remediate and get in there and try to fix
the problem. It is so important for us to go back to that. I am telling you, I get it. California created chaotic environment for people just to wanna survive and both parents are working and we don't have that one parent that's always available sometimes, find the time. I mean, there's times where I go in my kid's bedroom and they just got home from practice and it's super late, but I wanna hear about their day. I wanna ask them what's going on. And through those conversations, I have found out a lot of things that I have been able to address as a parent. And then also my knowledge as a board member, it helps me to, remediate the
situations. But I also encourage parents, don't be silent because I get it. You're afraid sometimes of retaliation on your child. But I will I will honestly be the biggest offender if that happens, to make sure your child is not retaliated on. And I just want you to ask yourself this question. Is that possibility you can address that because you're gonna be in contact with an darn good amazing staff that I am sure that at least the ones at the top are gonna make sure that that doesn't happen and any bad actors are identified and exposed. But I will tell you without you guys doing that, our kids face danger all
the time. We have activists with our kids. Even in Chino, we have activists with our kids. That's, I mean, sue me for saying it. We do. I see the I see the things. I'm in a mom group. I hear the, you know, concerns. I see them. I'm also a board member. I can tell you right now, and the laws protect bad actors. Districts are literally harassed for trying to hold bad actors accountable. This is happening, welfare, weaponizing of systems. It's absolutely disgusting. And a podium? Really? Do you guys wanna hear something?
One of my concerns with the podium, and this has nothing to do with what the decision was made on it. We have people threatening the lives of people. And you guys, it's our job to make sure not only we are safe up here, but you are safe. A podium hides things that we can't see. Let me just put that out there. I literally, two weeks ago, had someone say they're polishing their AR to come visit me. Do you really want the possibility of someone with an AR that is behind a podium where we can't even dodge by the time he's gotten six of us down. I mean, these are very serious things.
This isn't about a podium. I understand being up there. It's nerve wracking, but go to Sacramento and go testify in a bad bill. You don't have any of that luxury. You don't even have the luxury of getting the fifteen seconds that you're sometimes able to get. We are more than accommodating to people who need accommodations, and we will ensure that those accommodations are. But I I have to give credit staff. We didn't even have to go that far. They go out of their way. And here we are having how many speakers line up about a podium? We have districts all across California in a deficit, teachers on strikes, kids not being
able to learn how to read, write, and do math. And in our district, the biggest problem we currently have apparently, besides these ones, I'm not downplaying this, trust me, is a podium. Let's put that into perspective, California. This is where we got to, and that's gonna bring me to the beautiful slideshow. Wait. Hold on one second. But despite the fact that this board of education and district leadership has made every, every, every effort possible in our power to protect your students' instructional time by keeping
classrooms focused on academic curriculum, reading, writing, math, free from inappropriate materials, free from ideologies. Let me be clear. When we do something like that, they legislate it in the curriculum. They legislate ideologies. They legislate prison to train teachers to push an ideology into the classroom and to keep secrets from you. If you don't believe me, we were the whistle blowers in the case that's on the Supreme Court case. That said we're not keeping secrets from parents. Remember, they got blamed for spending all this money in a lawsuit, which we did
have Liberty Justice who took us all the way through without us paying a dime after we had to, in the beginning, protect ourselves, defend ourselves. We got sued. And let me be clear who one of the people that were suing us is, the teachers union. And I want the message to be loud and clear. Our good teachers, I love you, and I will always defend you. But please be aware of what your union is doing to good staff staff in this district that protects our kids from nefarious actors in the classroom. There's still people who call themselves educators in this system who insist on pushing personal agendas on a captive audience, your children.
Let me be clear, what I'm about to expose is exactly what I'm talking about. Please cue the first slide. Now, I covered up some bad words, but even if you've covered up the bad words, in an English class, a very concerned parent remember, I'm not trying to get us in another lawsuit because the teachers union, CTA, all them are gonna sue me because I'm exposing what bad actors in the classroom does. In ELA, this was one of the egregious, disgusting, vile slides that was given to
our children or shown to our children. The a hole, the effing something, the I mean, come on. Look at it. The sexy one, the dumb you know what? I mean, what does that have to do with education and ELA? Now let's go to the next slide. Yeah. Makes them wanna vomit. So adults know what that is, but why is any classroom being shown that? What does that have to do with education? And if a dinner table conversation didn't happen, if a mother didn't go to the
appropriate department, which in which she told me she did, and I have nothing to do with writing up teachers. Believe me. I don't get involved in that. That's not my job. But my job is to make sure there's policy to keep kids protected. There's policy. So let me be loud and clear before we get another CTA or ACT lawsuit. This was shown to your children. Even in a district where we're gung ho, we send the message, no ideologies, no crap, no bull crap, no evil crap, no disgusting crap in the classroom. This was shown to your children. And then they weaponize a system to go after us if they respond in appropriate
way. Just remember that. And then they go up there and say, you have this much in lawsuits, and the safe people are the ones part of the lawsuits. I'm not gonna lie. I'm not gonna Let's go to the next one. New sex tips. Now, again, I wanna ask you, and I wanna ask our good teachers, do you really think that's appropriate for someone in the classroom and access to our kids' captive audience? Is this appropriate? Because I said, hell no. Not on my watch.
Again, take me to court. I don't care. I will make sure staff has everything in their will to make sure that these people are held accountable. But remember, there's California law that protects people who I define as, next slide, groomers. Now that's a very serious word. I don't take it lightly, but I just showed you sexual explicit stuff. So I don't really care if they wanna cry and say Sonia calls us a
groomer. If you fit the definition, I didn't call you anything. You defined it Yourself. Definition of a groomer. According to the site, a manipulator, or groomer who uses affection, trust building, special attention to foster a secret, unhealthy dependency with a vulnerable child aiming to alienate them from their parents' caregivers, creates family division, and establishes emotional control.
Just remember, we were sued by a union, in which a lot of great teachers are involved in, for protecting your kids from things like this. For protecting your kids from not keeping secrets from you as the parent. I mean, read this. These aren't my definitions. I am I'm I'm mind blown. Sometimes I don't even know when I go to sleep at night, what the hell are we gonna do in California to really save our kids? I would be the first one to tell you, even in Chino, with everything possible,
we still have bad actors in the classroom. And every time we try to respond, we are having every ability at every program weaponized against us because we're doing the right thing and standing on the right side of history. We will continue to fight the good fight. I will continue to take the slings and arrows, and they will tear me apart and go after my family and polish ARs. I don't care. I know where I'm going. If they wanna kill me, kill me. Don't go to them. I know where I'm going. If it means me standing in front of one child being protected from a groomer who's putting that in the classroom, oh, well.
I signed up for this. I'm not client about it. I actually thank God for giving me the ability to protect our kids in this community. I will never back down. Go after me, go after every single part of me, the way I dress, the way I look, the way this, the way that, the way I can't speak a word sometimes. I was brought up in the public education system, by the way. No offense, but I was. Going after me, we had a teacher who who claimed to be a special education teacher tell me in front of people and and forget about me.
Let's go to the message she told our kids. I didn't have a college degree or this or that. I barely had a high school diploma, which by the way, I got darn good grades. And I was the class president at Townsend of ASB. I was very involved, and I tried my best. But I'm a damn good mother, and I didn't need to go to school for that. And because of being a mother, put me in this position, thank god, to you guys. So just know in my heart to our children who you were just told, because you didn't go to a college, you equate to nothing and you can't do anything
amazing. I am sorry there's adults like that in the classroom with our children that believe that because how do you ever push a child to do something greater? And I am 100% gonna say this. You do not have to go to college to do something great and be something great. That is the message I want our children to know. Whether it's another pathway, you are amazing. You are beautiful. You are, awesome, and I will do everything possible to protect you. So with that said, I'm going to call the end of this board of education meeting with us fighting the good fight in arms together at 08:49PM.