Welcome. The time is now 11:02 a.m. on March 16th, 2026. Welcome to this special meeting of the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education, including closed session items. I'm going to take role. Miss Newell, >> present.
>> Dr. Rivas, Mr. Melvin, >> here. >> Miss Ggo, Miss Gomez, Miss Ortiz Franklin, >> present. board presidentson >> present. >> Okay. I will read the purpose and authority for today's meeting and then we the board will recess into close session. Under tab one personnel public
employment there is inspector general acting general superintendent of schools pursuant to government code section 54957. Under tab two conference with legal counsel anticipated litigation under government code section 54956.9D4 one case. Under tab three, conference
with labor negotiators. Uh under government code section 54957.6 uh the negotiators Dr. Murphy and the employee organizations are Associated Administrators of Los Angeles Teamsters 2010, California School Employees Association, Los Angeles County Building
and Construction Trades Council, Los Angeles School Police Association, Los Angeles, Los Angeles School Police Management Association, Service Employees International Union, SEIU, Local 99, Teamsters, United Teachers Los Angeles, and District Represented
Employees and Contract Management Personnel. Today's general comment will be item specific only. And Miss Ggo is also here. I'll note that. We'll go directly to the item specific comment. And the first person is Isabelle
Gonzalez. Are you here? Come on down. You'll have two minutes to speak once you begin. Isabelle Gonzalez, please come on down. Miss Gonzalez is going to speak in Spanish. So, if you'd like to hear what she's saying in English, please put your hands up and we will get you a
translation headset immediately. Okay, gracias. >> I belong to ELAC committee from my school and also with SSC committee. I also support the parent leaison for schools and we have
obtained thousands of signatures to bring back to school police. For this reason is why I've heard the voices of many parents that are worried because of the decisions that are being taken for the education of our students. Now in
this evaluation of the superintendent um more so we want an evaluation and results from you all public servants each and one of you from the school board of LUSD
a physical exam so we know if you have a heart or if you're just robots that are being manipulated. We want results from the detection of drugs because they're allowing the cons for them to use drugs and arms,
firearms inside and outside around the schools. And this is a proof uh the the parent that came last time and she demonstrated that to you. We want results of a vision exam and aiology
exam to make sure that you that they are supervising what's happening at the schools. And if in reality they listen to the problems that are the same problems every year, we talk about or we talk and talk and it seems like you can't see, hear us or talk to us. Thank
you. >> Thank you for your time. Okay, the next speaker on tab one is Maria Daisy Ortiz. She signed up to speak remotely, but I do not have her on the line in front of me. Are you in the room, Miss Maria Daisy Ortiz? Nope.
Okay, tab two. We have Maria Louisa Palma calling in. Maria Louisa Palma, please press star six to unmute yourself and you'll have two minutes to speak once you begin. Maria Louisa Palma.
>> Good morning. My name is Maria Louisa Palma. I can only assume that the anticipated litigation you have on your agenda today is related to the tragic death of Kimberly Savaleta. As we know, their family's attorney has brought forth to you a call for action on
anti-bullying, increasing supervision on campus, and clear reporting on threats and violence, among other things. So, we ask you here once again, how many more? How much longer will it take before you accept your mistakes that were made? you
continue to pay out very expensive settlements with education dollars that will not be able to use for other children's education. But in some cases, perhaps in the case of Kimberly, that those settlements will be merited, but there's nothing you can do to bring that
child back to their family. There are so many ways in which your policies hurt children. We have the practices of PBIS, restorative justice, which we continue to tell you are not working. The tiered fidelity index is a sham process in which schools self-rate themselves. The
changes to uh state law and willful defiance. UTLA directed the closures of all our schools during the pandemic causing impressively huge amounts of harm to our students and they of course requested and asked you board members to
remove school police from campuses and you complied. We presented to you our proposed resolution on behalf of community members for safety accountability plan. That has not occurred. So, who do you really work for? Who do your policies benefit? In 2022, Miss Kelly Gonz said
on the record on defunding school police, quote, "If you're causing harm to a small group of students, that is enough to address the action that is causing harm, even unintentionally causing harm. So, when are you going to
fix it?" This is on you. >> Thank you for your time. Moving on to tab three. >> Have Dian Guen in the audience. Come on down, Miss Guen. You'll have two minutes to speak when you begin. And then after Miss Guen is Mr. Juan Mandi.
members of >> Good morning members of the board. My name is Diana Gueen and I represent parents leen for the school for the schools. Well, we know that you will have another day of negotiations with all the unions but especially we are worried about the teachers union. What
type of decision-makings will you make? Because five of you have your agenda that's compromised along with theirs. You don't have an community agenda. You have the agenda that has to do with the teachers unions. And that is what they want. They want to have more personnel
so that they can continue charging their tariffs. And also they want the personnel to well for them not to be rectified or be called upon when something is going wrong. They want to have they want
people that have a long time at working at the district for it to be because of the time not because of the results. And I believe that as a community we want results for our children. We want better academic results because that is not what's going on. Therefore, people, the
ones we know, because honestly, you don't give the information in those black black masses that other people talk about. You don't we don't know what's being negotiated in there. You don't bring to light what's got going on. And the teachers union are saying,
well, they make a little not too not enough money. And this is a profession where if teachers don't like it, I believe they should change their profession. They should be negotiators. They should be engineers. I don't know any other thing that maybe pays them more because school is not for it to it's not so you can make money. It's to
help the community. It's for our children can have a better future and and uh the way we're doing things now if you don't ask results from the teacher and you don't renew that and you don't enforce results then they will waste money as always. children will be low
academically and the community and there will be more crime or and you're saying we will defend the children so they don't get criminalized and you're taking them to crime because you're not giving them the education. That is what you're not understanding. Thank you. >> Thank you for your time. Mr. Mcandi, come on up. You'll have two minutes to
speak once you begin. All right, Mr. Mcani, we're ready for you. Thank you. Two minutes once you begin counting to see how many personnel is and how many parents come to see what you're doing. And this is the same thing that happens at the parent committees.
Every everyone is personnel and you too, right? Oh. Oh, it's funny to celebrate a negotiation that's in a packact black in a black mass where everything is agreed
upon. And the problem is how are we going to share the cake, right? It's funny because there are candidates that don't have rivals in their campaigns. And you know what? They they should have had the decency to pay a rival for at
least to to to be the backup and to just to make it look like there's a competition. Do at least do that because you are doing a bad job and you still have the decency to say that you are doing the job to help the community,
the poor, the students. You're not doing anything of that. It's a disgrace to know that there's a lot of mediocre and you don't have rivals. You know why? Because they are being financed by those groups [snorts] mafia groups that are the ones that
being paid by their campaigns and they don't allow allow to dem the dem democracy to be involved. They don't allow a parent to come and fix the educational problems in this district. What what is what is your what is what
is your what information do you have? Oh, I worked as a representative or or a principal. Oh, how beautiful you've have you've worked in. When have you worked as to when have you cleaned homes? When have you worked in the farms? When have
you been persecuted by immigration? It's nice to come here and say, "Yes, I come from a poor family and my mom would sell here and she received welfare, but thanks to LA USD, I'm a millionaire now and I have a good position now." You know what it is? It's a It's a laugh.
You're laughing at the people that are fighting and making a living. >> This concludes uh public comment. The time is now 11:13 a.m. and the board is going to recess into close session. Thank you. Good afternoon. Welcome back. The time
is now 4:39 p.m. on March 16th, 2026. I have nothing to report out at this time and the meeting is going to recess until March 24th at 1:30 p.m. Again, this meeting is going to recess until March
24th at 1:30 p.m. Thank you very much. The time is now still 4:39.