Welcome. The time is now 10:02 on March 2nd, 2026. Welcome to this special meeting of the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education, including close session. I'm going to take role. >> Miss Newell, >> present.
>> Dr. Rivas, >> present. >> Mr. Meline, >> here. >> Miss Grigo, >> here. >> Miss Gomez, >> Miss Ortiz Franklin, >> present. >> Board President Schmeurles, >> present. >> Okay, we have a quorum. I will read through the purpose and authority for the meeting and then we will take public
comment as to the two action items and the board will recess into close session under tab one personnel government code section 54957 public employment superintendent evaluation in general superintendent of
schools I'll note both of these items refer specifically to the acting superintendent uh Mr. Eight. Uh, tab two, conference with labor negotiators pursuant to government code section 54957.6. The negotiator is 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 School Police Management Association, Service Employees
International Union, SEIU Local 99, Teamsters, United Teachers Los Angeles, and District Represented Employees and Contract Management Personnel. You have a statement. >> Mr. Ch has a statement to make.
Good morning, president, board members, colleagues, and members of our school community. I want to begin by expressing my deep respect for our extraordinary educators and employees. That respect comes from serving this community for nearly three decades as an educator,
administrator, and leader. As acting superintendent, my top priority is to keep Los Angeles Unified steady and focused on our core mission, educating, supporting, and caring for the students of Los Angeles. Our schools will remain
places of safety, consistency, and opportunity. Teaching and learning will continue uninterrupted and our plans and priorities will move forward. We remain committed to academic excellence and student well-being.
Our core values remain unchanged. I know transitions can create uncertainty, but our district is strong. We have dedicated leaders at every level and together we will ensure stability and continuity.
During this time, I will focus on supporting our schools and keeping students at the center of every decision. Thank you for your partnership and dedication to the students and families that we serve. Thank you. >> Okay, right into public comment. Under
tab one, we have uh five speakers. is I'm going to call on the folks who listed themselves as being here in person first and then we'll transition to those who have listed themselves as speaking remotely. So the first speaker is Monica Arazzola. Are you here? Monica.
Okay. Miss Arazzola is going to speak in Spanish. So if you'd like to hear what she's saying in English, please put on these translation headsets that are being offered. Okay. Gracias. Then after Miss Arzola will be
Carol end of Verde. Okay. Gracias. >> Buenos. >> Good morning. My name is Monica Rasulli and I am here to tell you that as a mother I am not in favor that the union
is asking more uh salary for the teachers. I don't think that they merit more salary because we have not had good academic achievement. uh 2% is not anything. We want more and if they can give more then we'll see if they get an increase in salary. Right now it's not
the moment to have salary increases because three years ago they had a salary increase and we have not seen results and as I say uh 2% is not anything because the students are not well doing well academically and they're not can graduate with a D when they can
do more than a D and we need to leave that aside from technology so that they can return again paper and pencil and let's have our children use their brain more uh when there is more things on the computer the students are not giving good results. Why? Because they are not
using their brain as they should with a paper and pencil that they move their imagination and that they put the 100% the students are intelligent and we need to take advantage of that moment when they can give more than what the teachers are asking for and the teachers
cannot have them do an easy job when they're not getting good results. So as a mother I am against that there is a salary increase for teachers. this is not the time because they just got a salary increase and we have not seen results. When we have good results academically that they're doing well, I
will be here as a mother to asking your support for teachers but at this moment next. >> Thank you for your time. Carol Verde Carol, are you here? No. Okay, we'll go to the remote callers. First caller is Danna Guen. Miss Gen's going to speak in Spanish. So if you came in and do not
yet have a translation headset, please put your hands up. Okay. >> Bueno. >> Good morning. Good morning, members of the board. With the recess of um Mr. Carvo, here
comes Censure every single time you want to listen to us. even less and now you're just putting five public comments for every single one of the agenda items. It's very convenient for the union especially for UTLA and to put Mr. shapes. The uh union wants to control
everything. The uh salary, curriculum, policies, parent committees and they are suppressing authentic voice of the parents with paid uh groups like parents supporting teachers. That is not a parent group. It's a teacher support
teachers group because it is led by a teacher and also schools beyond screens. We have doubt doubts but in their press release they have declared that they are part of the uh teacher union even more
so it we need to mention students deserve where they use it to manipulate the students and today their other objective is to take away I ready and to get 16% more salary but without any academic achievement from the students
we know that five of you right there right now are for the utility interest and that you seek to manipulate policy as always and you don't care about the academics and even less student safety. Today was Kimberly. How many more Miss Gones? How many more Miss Grigo and how
many Miss Tanya? How many more Miss Rosio Mr. Melvin in your school recited as your school? So how when will you stop to not put school police? right now. You sent a message where you said that the school police is
reviewing schools. Wow. We want I we like that policy so that the uh school police can be in every single high school and for them to stop these kinds of things happening. We hope that you change and that it really hurt and that you go through the pain that Kimberly's mother is going through because you are
only to apply those policy. We want you to be for the interest of the community. Thank you. >> All right, Maria Duran, you're signed up to speak remotely. Are you in the room? Maria Duran, not here. And uh Norma Gonzalez, I see you're on the line. Norma Gonzalez, uh
please press star six to unmute yourself. And you'll have two minutes to speak once you begin. Norma Gonzalez. >> Cece. >> Good morning. My name is Nora Gonzalez and I am here also to be against the benefits that you are
giving right now. And it's the same thing that we have not seen adequate results for students. And I am also very bothered and intrigued because there isn't a good
training we have seen for administrators in general on special education. There is a topic that is very serious. a specific school on 92nd Street where the administrator is very racist against the Latino
community and the student have a lot of incidents and she just says that I don't know what is happening. I think that she lives in the kingdom of nevermore because she never knows what's going on. And so that is one of my nephews there
and there was a incident this weekend and they don't know why how did they don't know how it happened. The student now is in the hospital and this person did not even make the attempt to call 911 because they said that it was not necessary. He had stopped bleeding and
that it wasn't necessary. So, um there's not safety within the own administration at the school. The training is lousy or it's I don't know maybe they don't do it well. I don't know what's happening with the administrators that they don't train well. not even their own personnel.
Unfortunately, our community is going to always suffer due to these people that are too well that they don't have empathy for our community. And so, right now with the uh leave of absent from the superintendent and this new
interim superintendent, well, really we don't see any favorable change for our community. So please pay attention for safety but also train well and as you say you train them because there is a lack of training even if it sounds like
a little bit convoluted but there is lack of safety in it in it all. >> We'll now move move on to tab two. Let's see. Maria Louisa Palma I see you're here and then after Miss Palma will be Juan Jose Mandi and then Isabelle Gonzalez. So come on up. You have two
minutes to speak. Why don't you begin? I wish I did not know Kimberly Savaleta's name. I wish I had never heard of it because if I had never heard of it, it would mean that she was alive and well today, continued to be treasured by her parents and her family
and her community. But yet, here we are. And thank goodness you've all hired an expert, Mr. Andres, an expert on the safety issues in his role as director of operations previously. You gave him the seat. You gave him the title.
So now what is he going to do? Are you going to let him do his job? Will you let school police come back to the campuses? Here are the signatures that we got for our petition through Red Padres Gurad Scolad to bring back school police. 5,600 signatures. You've been
provided copies of them. These are our originals. I won't be giving these to you today, but this is what we have. We got these on paper. They're all crumbled up from many, many parents, many parts of the city. We've bring we brought them to you. But have you listened? Mr. Chait, we have a long history working
with him on these safety questions, but he didn't provide all the AR data we requested through a public records act request. The data we see here during the committees is conflicting data, which I've pointed out to him never received a response. He likes to tell me Losados
won't let him respond. That's a quote. the secret uh committees, the school safety task force, school climate task force committees. We still we have Zoom meetings. The public can't make comment through Zoom. No questions. We're just watching TV. So today on the agenda, you
have the superintendent evaluation. Which ones? We have two superintendents right now, don't we? So who's going to take the responsibility? Every time we talk to any of you, everybody goes like this on school safety points to somebody else. That's the consistency here. Are you going to empower him to do his job?
Which one of you is going to have the guts, the nerve to look at Kimberly's parents in the face and tell her correlation is not causation? That's what you have all told us here that the fact that we have more incidents does not mean that it's due to the lack of
school police. But this is what the community has said over and over again. Thank you. >> Thank you for your time. Juan Jose Mandi, I see you're out there. Come on down. You'll have two minutes to speak once you begin. Uh Mr. Mandi is going to speak in Spanish. So if you'd like to hear what he's saying in English, please put your hands up and we get you these
translation headsets. You'll have two minutes to speak once you begin, sir. Thank you. >> Good morning. There is a fable that says uh the king is dead. Long live the king. And when there is a lion that falls or
dies covering for other lions, they're thrown to the hyenas. And so today we are here where the hyenas are in mourning, right? We have named someone and we know him.
And I will give you the commendation you gave him, Mr. Ch. Two things you said. I can tell you how it was that I I was to preview what would happen in the agreement when you left this Mr. the ones that you have been supporting as
superintendent because it looks like you want to forget about him and the first thing that I told you is that to review his closet to see what he has hidden because the attorney general will certainly look for it and the same thing
Mr. She told me one time about the issue about the Cassandra syndrome and I wrote something about what would happen and listen you uh I am right and we're going to be right and we're going to name a interim superintendent but I did not know that it was my friend but be
careful beware you are surrounded by people that will throw you to the lions too and if we don't do anything here comes the issue what are we doing for the parents what are we doing to improve education What are we doing to improve safety?
What are we doing so that we at this juncture we are continue living in that darkness that you agree in a black mass that you're the only one knows what you're negotiating. The uh unions are manipulative and they
will continue to impose this agenda because you are you're you are their result. You don't respond to the workers or parents. You respond to the community. you respond to unions and the politicians that have placed you there because they give you money to finance your campaigns and it is time that you
do something about it or else this will be even worse and I hope that you have a clean closet. >> Thank you for your time. Isabelle Gonzalez, come on up. Miss Gonzalez. Isabel Gonzalez comes. Come on down. You'll have two
minutes to speak once you begin. Thank you. >> Bravo. >> Unanimously 70. So that we can have the superintendent leave of assist with pay. And what's surprised is that you are in all agreement there. 70. But for student
safety, no, you don't care about that. You don't care in agreeing on anything, not even voting for it. Here a list so that you are able to have it on hand. Melani Ramos. Melanie Ramos, 15year-old
dead by a weapon of mass destruction, fentinel, because we need to call it just that, weapon of mass destruction. She died inside of her school Bernstein in September of 2022. A student was found dead inside of the pool in Miguel
Contra is very close to here. We don't know if he was suffering bullying or not because you hide the information and you hide the crimes. Jayen Mahia, 16-year-old. She w died due to a uh injuries at manual arts in 2024 at
school's grand student was shot and killed in front of a school in 2022. During June, Hollywood High School, a stu 15-year-old student was stabbed in January 2025. The same thing in that school. Van nice in November 2023. South
and Monte High School, March 2023. John Marshall High School October 2023, Grand Hiko September 2022nd and many more. I couldn't finish all today mentioning all of them. Recently, the death of Kimberly
Sabaleta, 12 yearear-old due to bullying, [gasps] her injuries at Rita Middle School. It is incredible. How many more deaths do you need so that you return to school safety with school police at
district schools at at LA Unified? Stop being complicit. Stop student death. Stop of allowing weapons of mass destruction just like fentinel in schools. And stop of abuse of our students. Stop destroying families. Stop
truncate student lives. The safety of our student needs to be the thank you for your time priority just like you here. Please place our students first and then my question is Mr. >> What will you do now?
>> Comment that you the comment was muted. >> Thank you for your time. Thank you for your time. >> The next speaker is Maria Daisy Ortiz. I see you're online with us. Miss Ortiz, please please press star six to unmute yourself and you'll have two minutes to speak once you
begin. Mr. Te is Miss Ortiz is going to speak in Spanish. So, if you need a translation headset, please put your hands up. Good morning everyone. My name is Maria Ortiz and really I come to say that
of everything that is going on with the investigation of the actions of the superintendent. for me. All of you, every single one of you should be investigated because you are uh helped and you're the ones that
approve taking away money for programs that our students need and you have allowed the corruption because you are corrupt yourselves. You do not listen to parents, parents who come here. On the
contrary, you uh retaliate against us, moving us away from the committees, censure censoring censoring their voices because you do not want to hear what bothers you because you have a political agenda that is full of corruption. We
are people that pay taxes, members of the community and the investigations. And I will call all my representatives to for every one of you to be investigated because you pay for positions as political favors, programs,
books, and everything related to technology. Let's not even go that far away. John Dy did the same thing, a great robbery that you supported. Now Mr. Garvalo fell, but you are even more guilty because you
approved it. You lack transparency. You because you do not want to move your political agenda. You that cover up crimes, safety, academic achievement. You just uh blind them. Now you put another person right
there so that we are censored. You have an administrator that takes away parent voice and are move them from the committees altering the uh state guidelines that parents and members of the community cannot participate. They
you pay them as an administrator and does not have a uh authorization as second administrator has to stop. All of you have to fall. Thank you. >> Thank you for your time. >> That concludes public comment on the items on the agenda. The time is now 10:24 and the board is going to recess
directly into close session and uh we will come out and report any items if any reporting is required. Thank you so much. All right, welcome back. The time is now 21:17 on March 2nd, 2026. The board is
going to recess this close session until March 10th at 900 a.m. Thank you very much. Have a good one.