🐺TONIGHT: Landers Public Hearing — Please stand with our school🐺
Dear Save Morongo Schools supporters,
Tonight is the Landers Elementary public hearing.
This may be one of the most important opportunities for the community to be heard before the Board moves toward a closure decision.
Come. Bring your family, neighbors and signs. Speak if you can — or simply be there with us
This is an irreversible decision about our children and our community.
MUSD has presented $368,000–$908,000 in gross personnel savings, but the public still has not been shown a complete net-savings calculation after transportation, transition, receiving-school and enrollment impacts. The district’s own scenario increases combined Landers/Yucca Mesa bus routes from 6 to 9.
And MUSD’s own Enrollment/7-11 Committee said the opposite of rushing to closure: school closures must remain a last resort, and viable enrollment, retention and operational-efficiency strategies should be implemented and evaluated first.
Landers also serves a particularly vulnerable student population: the latest profile shows 87.1% socioeconomically disadvantaged, 18 students identified as unhoused, and 15.1% students with disabilities. Attendance, meanwhile, has been improving.
A parent’s complaint was forwarded to the California DOJ Bureau of Children’s Justice and the parent was directed to the Attorney General’s statewide school-closure guidance. California’s Attorney General has warned that school districts have obligations to protect vulnerable children from disparate harm when making closure decisions.
TONIGHT — SEPT. 10 · 5:30 PM
Landers Elementary School
56450 Reche Rd., Landers
Come. Bring your family, neighbors and signs. Speak if you can — or simply be there with us
This is an irreversible decision about our children and our community.
SHOW THE NET SAVINGS.
ALTERNATIVES FIRST.
CLOSURE LAST.
Please keep sharing the petition and this information. The decision has not been made yet.
Morongo Parents for Transparency
Save Morongo Schools
savemorongoschools.com