Protect Morongo Basin Schools from Closures
The Issue
UPDATE — NOVEMBER 11, 2026
The immediate threat of school closures may be on hold. Our fight to protect community schools is not.
For months, families, educators, and residents across the Morongo Basin have organized, studied district finances, attended meetings, and demanded transparency about proposed school closures.
We brought more than 1,200 petition signatures and a proposed school-closure moratorium to the MUSD Board of Education.
We offered a constructive path forward: clear financial evidence, serious consideration of alternatives, and meaningful community involvement before any school could be closed.
On November 10, the Board declined to advance that resolution.
Trustees asked us to take them at their word, warned that written safeguards would “tie their hands,” and even called the proposed moratorium “fiscally irresponsible.”
We gave district leadership an opportunity to rebuild public trust. Instead, we received more empty verbal assurances and no written commitment.
Our communities deserve better than “trust us.”
This petition is not going away.
Our mission is now bigger than preventing one closure. We are building a lasting community effort to protect neighborhood schools throughout the Morongo Basin, demand financial accountability, and ensure that decisions affecting our children are made openly and with public participation.
We will continue scrutinizing district finances, demanding public records, examining alternatives, and holding leadership accountable for its decisions.
Before MUSD closes or consolidates any community school, it must:
- SHOW THE NET SAVINGS. Publish complete, school-by-school financial evidence and community impacts.
- ALTERNATIVES FIRST. Seriously evaluate enrollment, retention, and operational savings before considering closures.
- CLOSURE LAST. Establish written safeguards and meaningful public participation before irreversible decisions.
December 15 — Put It in Writing.
We are calling on the Board to place the proposed moratorium on its December 15 agenda for a public vote.
No more verbal assurances in place of clear commitments.
Sign and share this petition. Stay involved. Help protect the schools that hold our communities together.
This effort belongs to families across Landers, Morongo Valley, Yucca Valley, Joshua Tree, Twentynine Palms, and the entire Morongo Basin.
We are organized now. We are not giving up our schools, our voice, or our communities.
For district records, community research, and ongoing updates:
Morongo Parents for Transparency
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The Issue
UPDATE — NOVEMBER 11, 2026
The immediate threat of school closures may be on hold. Our fight to protect community schools is not.
For months, families, educators, and residents across the Morongo Basin have organized, studied district finances, attended meetings, and demanded transparency about proposed school closures.
We brought more than 1,200 petition signatures and a proposed school-closure moratorium to the MUSD Board of Education.
We offered a constructive path forward: clear financial evidence, serious consideration of alternatives, and meaningful community involvement before any school could be closed.
On November 10, the Board declined to advance that resolution.
Trustees asked us to take them at their word, warned that written safeguards would “tie their hands,” and even called the proposed moratorium “fiscally irresponsible.”
We gave district leadership an opportunity to rebuild public trust. Instead, we received more empty verbal assurances and no written commitment.
Our communities deserve better than “trust us.”
This petition is not going away.
Our mission is now bigger than preventing one closure. We are building a lasting community effort to protect neighborhood schools throughout the Morongo Basin, demand financial accountability, and ensure that decisions affecting our children are made openly and with public participation.
We will continue scrutinizing district finances, demanding public records, examining alternatives, and holding leadership accountable for its decisions.
Before MUSD closes or consolidates any community school, it must:
- SHOW THE NET SAVINGS. Publish complete, school-by-school financial evidence and community impacts.
- ALTERNATIVES FIRST. Seriously evaluate enrollment, retention, and operational savings before considering closures.
- CLOSURE LAST. Establish written safeguards and meaningful public participation before irreversible decisions.
December 15 — Put It in Writing.
We are calling on the Board to place the proposed moratorium on its December 15 agenda for a public vote.
No more verbal assurances in place of clear commitments.
Sign and share this petition. Stay involved. Help protect the schools that hold our communities together.
This effort belongs to families across Landers, Morongo Valley, Yucca Valley, Joshua Tree, Twentynine Palms, and the entire Morongo Basin.
We are organized now. We are not giving up our schools, our voice, or our communities.
For district records, community research, and ongoing updates:
Morongo Parents for Transparency
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Petition created on March 13, 2026