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Morning. Welcome. The time is now 9:02 a.m. on June 5th, 2026. Welcome to this regular meeting of the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education, including close session items. Uh we'll take role. Miss Newell >> present.

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>> Dr. Rivas >> present. >> Mr. Milo >> here. >> Miss Grigo. Miss Gomez. Miss Otis Franklin >> present. >> Board President Schmelson >> present. >> All right we have a quorum. On the agenda for today we have one open session item and then four closed

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session items. So, we will now proceed to the open session item. May I have a motion and a second to bring it? >> I'll move it. >> Second. >> Moved by Mr. Meline, seconded by Dr. Rivas.

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Uh, there any questions or discussion on the item? >> None. >> None. >> Okay, let's take a vote. >> Oh, that's right. I'm sorry. Thank you, Mr. Tokoski. I will give you credit on that one. We have Mr. David Tokowski

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signed up on item one. Come on down, sir. You'll have two minutes to speak once you begin. And your mic is on. Thank you, sir. >> Thank you very much, Mr. President, board members, superintendent. Uh I'm here to support uh the appointment of Matthew to this uh apparently um

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unfilled position for a long time and it would be good to know what is going on with the consortium exactly. You've got Culver City which is in fiscal trouble. You've got Montabella which is in receiverhip and we're in this partnership. um what what is this benefit of the consortium and decide

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whether or not uh it's something that we ought to be working on a legislative agenda across the state to undo our ties to these other organizations and particularly to pursue the federal workforce investment money. This federal workforce investment money which is CTE money which a lot of you express

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interest in has disproportionately moved to cities away from school boards in the state of California. This is where kids have the opportunity to do summer work to to find careers and it's going over to cities and the cities are building buildings with it rather than helping

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our kids. Similarly, in government relations issues, um next uh board meeting you'll be working on uh over $500 million of these slab buildings that are unsafe for children across the state. Uh this is 100 plus school

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districts and we're apparently the only one pursuing uh what should be pursued by all districts. This is something that legislation should put money aside rather than taking out of the bond. Um nobody pressured the governor over the last 10 years or eight years to do

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anything about it. Instead of spending your bond money, you should be working on on getting legislation to help either match or or legislation. Also, the ER measure it looks like is failing. We failed uh in the school districts to be part of that sales tax. The only way

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that sales tax will pass if it includes the psychologist, nurses, social workers of school districts. So, if it comes back on, you should be there. Finally, the fiscal stabilization and the state monies are coming in. This year's tax revenue is now running 10% higher than the great monies we got last year. It

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should be part of your fiscal stabilization plan. You were told that you wouldn't get a super cola at this board meeting and now you have a super cola. So advocate and pursue. Thank you. >> Thank you for your time, sir. All right. Shall we take the vote on tab one? Miss Newell? >> Yes.

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>> Dr. Ivas? >> Yes. >> Mr. Melvin? >> Yes. >> Miss Grigo? Miss Gonz Ortiz Franklin? >> Yes. >> Uh board presidentson? >> Yes. >> Okay, it passes. >> I have a script to read in the event that it does pass. Um, the board took

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action to wave local graduation requirements pursuant to education code sections 35160 and 51225.3 for >> Oh, I'm sorry. [laughter] I've made two errors today already. One

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was for the um I'm sorry. >> I'll read that one later. >> One more to make. That's it. >> And Miss Ggo is here. >> Welcome. >> Okay. Now we will read I will read the purpose and authority for the close session items. I [clears throat] don't have to read the script. Thank you everyone. Uh under tab two student

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matters pursuant to education code section 35146. Tab three personnel pursuant to government code section 54957 public employee discipline dismissal and release in the superintendent evaluation. Uh tab four conference with legal counsel anticipated litigation

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under uh government code section 54956.9D4. There's four cases under pending litigation pursuant to government code section 54956.9D1. Uh Isaac Keller, VAUSD, Andrew Bennett, VAUSD. John BT Do Laud

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and 1776 Project Foundation via Alberto M. Carvalo at all. All of these case numbers are listed on our website if you'd like to go look them up either at the Superior Court or the Federal Court online access systems. And under tab five, conference with labor negotiators pursuant to government code section

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54957.6. The negotiator is Dr. Murphy. And the employee organizations are Associate Administrators of Los Angeles Teamsters 2010, California School Employees Association, Los Angeles County Building and Construction Trades Council, Los Angeles School Police Association, Los

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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. And now the board will take public comment on

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the items that I've just read that'll be heard in close session. Uh I do not have any public comment for tab two, three, or four. There is public comment on tab five, conference with labor negotiators. Uh they're both listed as call-ins. Uh

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let's see if they are with us. Uh Michelle H, I see you are on the line. Michelle H. Please press star six to unmute yourself and you'll have two minutes to speak once you begin. Michelle Hay Michelle H, please press star six to unmute yourself and you'll have two

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minutes to speak once you begin. >> Hello. Can you hear me? >> Yes, we can. Please go ahead. >> Oh, okay. Thank you. Uh my name is Michelle Hyde. I'm a board certified behavior analyst speaking today on behalf of the California Association for Behavior Analysis which represents over

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37,000 practitioners across the straight across the state. We wish to express concerns about the tenative agreement between LUSD and SEIU Local 99 dated April 23rd, 2026. Specifically about the subcontracting provisions. These

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provisions have the impact of undermining the special education infrastructure in the LA and surrounding areas. NPAs and NPS's are an essential component of the continuum of care for students requiring special education services. The professionals providing

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these services are specialized trained professionals that cannot simply be replaced by PAR educators hired by the district. Further, NPA's provide essential supervision of their para educators, including development of behavior plans, data collection, and

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support the database decision-making that is critical for students accessing special education services. This is provided by board-certified behavior analysts and other M's level clinicians. The tenative agreement does not speak to how this component of a student special

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education service will be provided should subcontracting with NPA's sunset. What is proposed by the agreement is not equivalent to what is provided through the current model which includes NPAs and NPS's and the research is clear. Behavior intervention for students with

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autism requires consistency, clinical oversight, and individualized implementation. A PAR educator who may be reassigned at any moment by a by school personnel and with only an optional 3-day training cannot replicate that. Before you vote, we ask, "What is

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your plan to maintain access to quality behavior and other specialized services for students?" Thank you. >> Thank you for your time. Doug Mo, I see you're on the line to speak remotely. Doug Mo, please press star six to unmute yourself and you'll have two minutes to

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speak once you begin. Doug Mo. >> Hello. Can you hear me? >> Yes, we can. Please go ahead. >> Hello. This is Dr. Mo. can hear me. >> Yes, please go ahead. >> Yes, my name is Doug Mo. I'm a clinical psychologist and board certified behavior analyst giving comment today on

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behalf of the autism business association and the stepping stones group. I want to draw your attention to a fiscal contradiction created by the subcontracting provisions outlined in the tenative agreement between LUSD and SEIU Local 99. Your board has approved a

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fiscal stabilization plan calling for 660 million in savings in the 2728 fiscal year. The same year the proposed SEIU subcontracting provision takes effect designed to phase out non-public agency's role in delivering behavioral support services to your most vulnerable

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students. Our coalition has conducted a detailed financial analysis transmitted yesterday to the district's independent analysis unit documenting that absorbing non-public agency behavioral intervention services inhouse would cost the district an estimated 170 million

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more annually than the current model. That's 26 cents of every dollar you have committed to saving added back by a single provision. In the same year, your own CFO has called the budget outlook a doomsday scenario. We are not here to oppose this agreement. We are here because this board and the students it

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serves deserves a formal fiscal impact analysis before this vote is cast. Before you vote, we're asking for three things, none of which require voting no today. One, a formal fiscal impact analysis of this provision. Two, a legal opinion from district council on LUSD's

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idea obligations. And three, a structured stakeholder process with providers and families before implementation begins. These are reasonable requests. We are prepared to work directly with the IAU and the district staff to validate our findings. The students in this district deserve no

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less. Thank you. >> Thank you for your time. >> Okay, that concludes item specific comment and now we have general public comment. We've got 18 speakers signed up. As is our usual process, I'll call on the folks who listed themselves as

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speaking in person and then we'll transition to those who signed up to speak remotely. Uh, the first speaker is Maria Louisa Palma. Come on down, Miss Palma. I see you're out there. And after Miss Palma is Carol Land Verde. Uh, then Monica Arzola and then Da Guen.

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Right, the mic is on and the two minutes is yours, Miss Palmer. Thank you. Good morning. Well, LA Unified continues to be in quite a fiscal pickle and also also in a reputation crisis and yet your pick to be the figure head the

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superintendent for the district who apparently isn't not with us here today um leaves a bit to be desired and I'm here to provide you some assistance in today's uh evaluation of the superintendent as you go behind closed doors. Uh at a recent meeting that we

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had with Mr. because he likes to tell us that he's meeting with parents. Well, he's met with us. That's true. But he proceeded to lecture us at that meeting and take up all our time going completely off the agenda that we've been following on long-standing issues

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with according to him his remedy to uh the [snorts] fact that this district has made financial promises that it's unable to keep due to the financial situation. uh he proceeded to tell us that you are all including him are advocating in

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Sacramento for more finance assistance from the state but that that will not include taxes additional taxes on consumers but they will be on corporations and at that point in the discussion I did under my breath a little sound like

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this I interrupted and I said yeah I did I disagree with that statement and then he came at me and head while he draws the line and he will not tolerate disrespect. So he's basically intolerant of disagreement. So at that point of course I had to leave

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the meeting. So I'll fill you in on a fun fact. Do you know how government pension plans are funded? Yes, there are contributions from this district and in some cases from the employee. But that requires growth in the [clears throat] value of the securities owned by

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Calsters and Calpers based on what? What do you think? They're based on profits, corporate profits, mostly on large corporations and other uh types of investments from Wall Street. We need to make sure Mr. Chade is aware

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of this. Thank you. >> Thank you for your time. Carol Land Verde, are you here? Come on down. Miss Land Verde, you'll have >> Okay. Miss Liver 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'll get you these

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translation headsets. >> Okay, gracias. >> Thank you very much. >> Good morning. I came really fast in the car. [snorts] I'm here for something very important

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and my child already has four weeks. He hasn't been to school. Due to the simple fact that a teacher's assistant tried to touch my child inappropriately,

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my child made a report to the Russian principal. The we had a meeting with the principal, but they haven't taken done anything. I've sent two emails to the school district and to this moment I

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haven't received anything. They've left things as they are and in reality I'm at the point where I want to go to a higher point. If the board isn't going to help me then I am going to go to higher legal things because it is not right what is

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happening. My child has a disability with special education. He has light autism and thank God he reported that he does not want to go to school. He had two incidents in which I took him to the emergency room because he has light

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autism and he has diabetes type one. He has asthma. The child when he feels that something is going on, he feels suffocated, he can even die. And in reality, I am a leader parent and I have always liked for things to be how they

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are. And I will say something and it's not because I am here. The only person I'm scared of is God. And I respect every single one of you. I respect you. But it is not right for people that are working inside the school district are doing things that they should not be

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doing. Please do something about the issue. I've sent two emails and my child has been missing school and that person has not been removed. The principal tried to help, but there is not a job that the district can do. You have me

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this way and you have done nothing. Please take this into consideration. I would appreciate it. Thank you. >> Thank you for your time. Uh Monica Rzola, are you here? I don't see Miss Razola. Diana Guen, I see you're out there. Come on up. You'll have two minutes to speak once you begin. Miss

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Guen 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 translation headsets. Okay, gracias. >> Buenos. >> Good morning. First,

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I want to uh congratulate Miss Gomez and Mr. Meloy that will be here for four more years, part of the board. And of course, Miss Rosio Rivas, who with 8 $199,000

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that the syndicate gave to her, she will be here compared to the teacher that was going against her with $2,000. a teacher who's had 20 years of experience. But the politics of this district earn

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and what matters is the money. It doesn't people don't matter. Money matters. And I will read a little bit about what is your responsibility because you are not doing what you're supposed to be doing here. You vote to lie to people. You lie. You vote to lie

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to teachers and employees. Your responsibility as elected members is to supervise the annual budget and the responsibility plan which you read once a year. Then making decisions about student

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curriculum and security. Here Miss Carla Grego will be another making another resolution on the 16th for what to for the community of LGBTQ. But that is not one of the responsibilities that you should be

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doing. That is your responsibility to see the programs, the academic programs for our children. And we have not seen that. And I'm also curious to see how you are lying to the public. Miss Grego, you sent the parents an email saying

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that there are three three point three billion dollars that the government has in regards to a proposition, which I don't know exactly which one it was, but it's not true.

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What is not true is that those $3.9 billion is for the whole state, not for the school district. and you only get like 180 [snorts] million dollars. The 3.9 billion is for the whole state. Stop lying to the parents because that money

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isn't only for you. >> Okay, the next speaker is Steven Brenda Ortega. Oh, wait. That's a call in. Jacqueline Chavez, Jacine Chavez, come on up. You have two minutes to speak once you begin. Good morning. Uh, members of the board,

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my name is Jacqueline Chavez and I'm a clinical supervisor at Center for Behavioral Educational and Social Therapies and I'm also a parent of a high school student who has relied on both district assigned and NPA behavioral services throughout their education in this district. I am speaking today on both in both roles as

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a clinician and as a parent because this agreement affects me on both sides. As a clinician, when a district assigns a pareducator, that person goes wherever administration directs them to any student to any task. When an MPA assigns a behavior technician, that person

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serves one student implementing a specific behavior plan under clinical supervision. They are not the same. As a parent, I have watched what consistent specialized NPA support has meant for my child's development and dependence. The notion that a reassignable district

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employee delivers the same outcome is simply not true and no parent of a child with significant needs would believe it. I'm asking this board before you vote. Please explain both. Thank you. >> Thank you for your time. All right. Katie Pace, are you here? Katie Pace,

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come on down. You have two minutes to speak. Why don't you begin? My name is Katie Pace and I'm here representing a group of parents with students in grades 6 through 12. A group that felt so hopeful when you passed the using technology with intention resolution. We have since however read the draft of the policy and feel that

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you are completely overlooking our children. As parents, we cannot continue to sit by and watch this age group of students continue to be the guinea pigs for tech use within LUSD. They were in elementary school when given Chromebooks for online learning during a pandemic that no one ever took away from them. They went to middle school and were sent

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home with YouTube, a new IR Ready experiment, and a screen addiction in their backpacks. And now these high schoolers are being told that three hours a day, threequarters of their statemandated instructional minutes is somehow a limit. I keep hearing, "Well, high school is tricky. It's more nuanced." Yet, there is nothing in this

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policy demonstrating any sort of nuanced guidelines. There's no mention of how teachers are to coordinate time limits among a student's course load, and no reference to how this may apply to homework. So, it seems like it's not that it's actually nuanced. It's that you think it's okay for teens to spend hours on a device. You took away their

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cell phones, but yet the Chromebooks are even worse because they're now they are now the same all day distraction just disguised as education. There needs to be maximum time limits for middle and high schoolers, not simply recommendations in this policy. The minimum should be removed as no student, regardless of age, should be required to

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use a screen daily. The limit should be set by subject per week, not daily, with middle schoolers set at 45 minutes per subject per week and high school at 1 hour. The passing period device ban needs to be extended into high school as there is still no reason for high schoolers to be in in a screen instead

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of a conversation during lunch. The policy also needs to discourage screen-based homework and have homework factored into the screen time limits. Every night we police screen addictions masquerading as homework. Lastly, we need you to enact a complete moratorium on all student use of AI. Every day we learn of its new harms to children. And

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yes, these teens are still children. We cannot continue to let tech companies sink their teeth into this group of students. This period of adolescence is the second largest period of human development next to the first year of life. This is the time when they are forming all of their executive functions. And so far, they're only learning how to function with the

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screen. >> Thank you for your time. Next in-person speaker is Mike Boio. Mike B, come on down. You'll have two minutes to speak once you begin. Diaz. Uh, dear board, my name is Mike Boio. I am a concerned parent with just

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a few reminders about how classroom technology hinders learning. Not talking about coding or video making. That's different. First, as you already know, over a decade of research confirms that literacy and reading comprehension declines on screens. Reading on paper

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triggers that spatial awareness and memory from the page needed for deeper learning and is lost with the shallow screen skimming. Second, have you noticed how writing by hand forces deeper and more deliberate thought? The subtlety of tactile variation writing

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big, small, dark, or curvy, straight connects body and mind learning in ways that wrote mechanical typing never can. And third, humanto human empathetic synchronicity. I see you. You see me. We're looking at each other. Essential

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for nuance learning between students and teachers is absent when staring at the screens. Lastly, regarding attention and distraction, surveys tracking the digital habits of third through 12th graders reveal about half of every hour

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on screens in class is spent off task. When the very same tool students use for playing games, watching shows, media, scrolls, and private chats is put in front of them for watch for schoolwork, how can they be expected to remain on

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task in the classroom? They can't. Most adults can't. And their learning is undermined. And yet, of the 300 minutes per day of instructional time required by the district for secondary students, minutes that include recess and lunch, the new screen time guidance draft recommends an average of

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half the day spent on screens. This is outrageous. If this school district is serious about giving the next generation of students a fighting chance at scholastically outperforming their predecessors, please amend these district guidelines to

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recommend of course no screens through second grade, but cap middle schoolers at 60 minutes and high schoolers at 90 minutes per day. That dear board would force using screen time with intention. Thank you for listening. >> Thank you for your time.

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Okay. Now I will transition to those folks who listed themselves as speaking remotely. Stephen Brenda Ortega, are you on the line? Steven Brenda Ortega on the line. Are you in the room, sir? Steven Brenda Ortega. Uh Takur Singh, I see you're on the line. Please press star six to unmute

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yourself and you have two minutes to speak once you begin. Takur Singh. Mr. Singh, I see you're on the line. There you are. >> I can hear you. >> Yes. Perfect. Great. Great morning everyone. Happy happy Friday members of the board.

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Um I'm again today to to speak I'm get here today to speak um on the matter that I brought up yesterday at the committee meeting in meetings prior which is matter of Jesus Gulo Maria Sotoayor and Latasha Buck. These individuals are still um employed by

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LUSD. They are still paid by taxpayer dollars. Again, these are people who locked a student in a room who reported a rape. They locked her in a room for hours. Um, and then then they were promoted and now earn over $200,000 a

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year of all of our money, including yours. And then there's Latasha Buck who said that rape was okay since it was 20 years ago. These are spokespeople for the district. Why are they still working for LUSD? And I understand there's been conversations had. We of course you know

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don't know the extent of these conversations. We don't know what action will be taken. Um and uh of course there are the regul district regulations around um um you know fully disclosing actions taken but we ask for at least some sort of update and we we know that

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these at the very least we know that these people are still employed by LUSD. They should be fired or they should resign. Um this I mean you know just imagine what this does to LUD's reputation. And again as I mentioned yesterday I learned that their names

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have been mentioned on in the national media and Maria they have been mentioned in the national media and that's of course on top of recent um allegations against L USD in you know in terms of investigations and such. So please I ask the board to consider is this are these

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the people who represent your values? Are these the people who you want working on your dime? Please consider consider that and I think you would agree that the answer is no. and then please fire them immediately. Thank you. >> Thank you for your time. The next

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speaker is Briana Hernandez. Briana Hernandez, I don't have you on the line. Are you in the room, Brianna Hernandez? No. All right. Abigail Deator, you're signed up to speak remotely. I don't have you signed in right now.

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Abigail D. No. Uh, let's see. Christa Esta Torres. Christa Torres, not on the line. Are you in the room, Miss Torres?

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No. Right. Jamila. Jamila, are you on the line? You're signed up to speak remotely, but I do not have you online. Are you in the room, Jamila? Amanda McCarthy, I see you are on the line. Please press star six to unmute

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yourself and you'll have two minutes to speak once you begin. Amanda McCarthy. >> Good morning. Can you hear me? >> Yes, please go ahead. >> Good morning. My name is Amanda McCarthy Yaguchi. I'm a parent and educator who's part of the LUSD community. I currently

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work for one of the district's option schools, City of Angels, where an independent study school where many students come because they're unable to attend traditional school. In the years following the pandemic, our school community has grown to include students whose mental health is severely impacted

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and the vulnerable students affected by ICE activity. Our school has maintained classrooms at Belleview Primary Center in Silver Lake for over 15 years, building relationships in the community and with local feeder schools. Our campus also serves and houses other

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programs for vulnerable student groups, including the low incidence program, which provides services to children with disabilities such as hearing loss, visual impairment, and orthopedic impairment. We understand that there's a proposal being voted on at some point this month

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to convert our classrooms at Belleview Primary Center into a medical clinic of some kind. Groups of people from facilities and student medical services have pushed into our classrooms throughout the semester during instructional time taking photographs and talking about their construction

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plans which appeared to be very costly. A colleague overheard a member of their team saying that our location had the best view and that's why they were choosing it. My understanding is that the school-based health centers are usually housed on traditional campuses where they can reach a maximum number of

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students. The decision to take over our small campus that serves such a specialized population is confusing, especially considering how many vacant properties and space LA USD has. The programs that would be impacted by this displacement are asking you to please

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reconsider the building of a clinic or medical facility at Belleview Primary Center and help keep our programs intact and operating out of this campus. Thank you for your time. >> Thank you for your time. The next speaker is Kate Brody. Kate

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Brody, I see you're on the line. Please press star six to unmute yourself and you'll have two minutes to speak once you begin. Kate Brody. >> Hello. My name is Kate Brody. I'm an elementary I'm an English teacher and parent of two LA USD students. I am here representing scores of elementary school

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parents who are deeply concerned that although the new technology resolution creates muchneeded restrictions on onetoone devices for TK to1, it falls short in addressing the proliferation of short form video content on platforms such as YouTube. So-called brain break

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videos have become widespread in the youngest grades and they are anything but a break for young brains. At some point in the last decade, they were foisted upon teachers as a necessary or good educational tool. But they are another example of for-profit tech company infiltrating teacher training

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programs and co-opting the language of education and wellness to show their own highly addictive products. And it's time for us to correct the record. What was previously a rarity, like a movie party once or twice a year, is now part of many youngest learners daily school routines. Talk to parents in our

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district and you'll hear, "My kindergartenner wants to be a YouTube star because he watches Danny go at school." Or, "My child says her favorite part of the day is watching TV." You will learn about hamster videos and slime videos and books and all variety of internet slop. This

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LA USD is currently suing YouTube and other gaming and social media platforms for being addictive and harmful to children. The resolution calls for banning studentled use of YouTube on onetoone devices. But if students are still regularly subjected to YouTube videos via projector or smartboard, the same harms remain.

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Only videos with clear curricular values should be shown in the classroom per the standards outlined in bulletin 14579. This bulletin was circulated in 2023 and pertains to digital tools, but at the moment it appears to be largely ignored. It defines instructional materials as materials designed for use by pupils and

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their teachers as a learning resource that helps pupils acquire facts, skills, or opinions to develop cognitive processes. The language of this bulletin needs to be incorporated into the final technology policy recirculated ahead of the new school year along with communication that makes it crystal

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clear that the district's guidelines apply to short form and internet-based content as well as films with MPAA ratings. School administrators and teachers have told SPS that they are looking to the district for guidance around acceptable classroom and this is our opportunity to define and

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communicate what that looks like. Thank >> Thank you for your time. The next speaker is Sandra Martinez Row. I see you're on the line, Miss Row. Please press star six to unmute yourself and you'll have two minutes to speak once you begin. Sandra Martinez Row.

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Hi. Hello. >> Hi. Please go ahead. >> Hi. My name is Sandra Martinez Row and I am the mother of a fourth grader in an LA USD school and I would like to talk

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about the AI task force avoiding compl conflicts of interest. We have reviewed our four the four AI task force meetings which convened September 2023 May 2024 and we did not find a single mention of protecting students from the harms of AI

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or discussion of AI's educational benefit. Indeed, the presentation decks from these meetings read like sales pitches for code.org and an infamous ED chatbot program. The resolution clearly identifies the need for input from

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independent experts. Yet it also states that the new AI ad hoc committee will collaborate with the superintendent's existing task force to develop recommendations for best practices and guard rails for the use of AI in schools. This is not possible. The

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existing task force includes representatives from Google as well as code.org IST and other tech lobby lobbyist groups and trade organizations. Given these representatives obvious financial stake in the outcome of any

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LUSD tech policy as well as a federal investigation into the previous superintendent and his relationships with tech vendors, any AI task force convened during the previous administration must be disbanded. Any future task force must not include

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members with a conflict of interest or the appearance of a conflict of interest regarding district tech policy. This is how we got here. Thank you for your time. >> Thank you for your time. Let's see. Stephen, Brenda Ortega, I see you're on the line with us now. Please press star

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six to unmute yourself and you'll have two minutes to speak once you begin. Stephen Ortega. >> Hello. Can you hear me? >> Yes, please go ahead. >> Good morning board members and intern Superintendent Shay. My name is Stephen

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Ortega, alumni from LUSD, Esabanto High School, and director of youth organizing with inner city struggle. I'm here today to demand that the board fully protect Sunny and BAP funding, fully protect our schools, and stop moving in fear and stand up for our youth. Now more than

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ever, we need our leadership to fully step up and fight against these racist bigots in office who are trying to kill our communities. We need you all to fight against this racist, transphobic, xenophobic agenda that should not be reflected in the physical stabilization

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plan. Since high school, I have been organizing and fighting for our schools to have programs and funding so young people can feel safe and seen in their second home. BAP creates spaces for black students to be seen, fully supported throughout their education

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journey and mental health. We have just celebrated five years of BAP and to now hear that this beautiful program will be cut 80% 80% taking away resources from our students and pushing white supremist agenda. Senny supports our highnee

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schools to bring in the resources and the staff who know how to support our students for success. Sunny is the answer to the inequitable funding that our high need schools needed. Both BP and Sunny were what were what the community has fought for and created and

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are the district needs to continue on protecting. To see that there are no cuts being made to school police with over $70 million in their budget, including $20 million for central office staff does not sit well with me. The district should not be spending millions

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of dollars in edtech contract contracts that truly does not support our youth um achieving in our schools but instead harms them and criminalizes them. Now more than ever our schools need sneap. We need the district to protect these programs that have shown student

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success. Invest in our students and parents. Right now we need more resources and support in our schools. Thank you. >> Thank you for your time. The next speaker is Sophie Ryan. Sophie Ryan, you're listed as calling in, but I do not have you on the line. Are you in the

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room, Miss Ryan? No. And Anna Mexen. Anya Mex, I see you are on the line. Please press star six to unmute yourself and you'll have two minutes to speak once you begin. Anya Mex. >> Hi. Uh, my name is Ana Mexen and I'm the deputy director of schools beyond

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screens. We have been calling for a moratorum on student use of generative AI until the ad hoc AI committee provides its detailed guidelines to guidelines to the district. In response to this, we have been told that the district already has an AI policy in place titled guidelines for the

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authorized use of artificial intelligence or bulletin 15113. We have reviewed this policy in detail and want to unequivocally state for the record that this policy is nowhere near sufficient to protect students from serious lasting harm. Our most pressing

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concerns are as follows. The current AI policy fails to acknowledge any of the proven harms of AI including cognitive offloading, confidence erosion, cheating, the spread of misinformation, the development of unhealthy emotional attachments attachments to chat bots, intellectual property theft, and

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identity and image theft. The policy assumes that AI usage in a school environment is a necessary educational tool with no data to support such an assumption, relying instead on tech industry talking points. The policy section lacks specificity and guidance

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for both student and teacher use of AI. It calls in multiple places for future additions and yet in the two years since the bulletin was posted, no such additional guidance has been provided. Furthermore, all of the OC's associated with the policy have been removed from the district website and now present as

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dead links. The policy prohibits students under 13 years old from using AI, but we know for a fact that this prohibition is not being enforced with many reports of children under 13 being routinely exposed to Google Gemini as well as embedded AI chat bots within

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programs like Adobe Express and Canva. And we have many reports of AI platforms and apps currently in use at LUSD which have not been vetted or approved by the district at all which also violates the policy. In light of these issues and the significant well documented dangers to

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children's emotional, cognitive, and behavioral health from using LLM, a ban on student use of generative AI pending the findings of the ad hoc committee is both reasonable and absolutely imperative. Thank you very much. >> Thank you for your time.

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All right, that concludes general public comment. Um, board member Grigo, I need to come back to you for your vote on tab one. >> Yes. >> Yes. Okay. Six eyes so far. All right. The board is now going to recess into close session. The time is 9:42

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[clears throat and cough] 9:42 a.m. Hello, welcome back. The time is now 3:48 on June 5th, 2026. The board is reconvening close session. Uh we have a quorum. We've got uh board member Newil,

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Dr. Rivas, board president Schmeerlson, and board member Grego here for quorum. I'm going to report out on matters upon which the board took action. Tab two, student matters. The board of education approved the waiver of local graduation requirements. The vote was seven eyes. Uh here's what I am to read. The board

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took action to wave local graduation requirements pursuant to education code sections 35160 and 51225.3 for a student who is terminally ill and has met all state graduation requirements. The board directs the school The board directs the school the

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student is currently attending to issue a diploma to the student in accordance with this action. Under tab three uh personnel public employee discipline dismissal and release. The board of education authorized the demotion of one certificated employee. The vote was six

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eyes and one no from board presidentson. The board of education authorized the dismissal of two classified employees. Uh the vote was six eyes and one no. Board President Schmurson. The board of education authorized the dismissal of two classified employees. The vote was seven eyes. Under tab four, conference

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with legal counsel. The board of education authorized the settlement in the following cases. Keller va uh Bennett va USD and John BT Do LUSD. The vote with seven eyes in all matters. Terms and conditions will be available

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upon the finalization of the agreement. Uh the time is now 3:49 and the board is going to recess this close session meeting until 61026. That's July 10th, 2026 at 9:00 a.m. June

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10th. June 10th, 2026 here in this room at 9:00 a.m. Thank you.