Support Healthy Learning Environments at Fuerte Elementary

Support Healthy Learning Environments at Fuerte Elementary

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The Issue

Fuerte Elementary is a school filled with dedicated teachers, hardworking staff, engaged families, and wonderful students. As parents and community members, we want to ensure that our campus continues to provide the healthy, safe, and well-maintained learning environment that every child deserves.

 


Over the past school year, concerns have been raised regarding facility maintenance and campus conditions. Community members have reported issues including water intrusion, indoor environmental concerns, pest activity, aging infrastructure, and other maintenance needs. While some concerns may already be under review, many families would appreciate greater transparency regarding assessments, planned repairs, and long-term facility improvements.

 


With students almost out for summer break, we have a unique opportunity to address maintenance priorities before the new school year begins. Taking action now can help minimize disruptions and ensure students and staff return to the healthiest possible learning environment in August.

 


This petition is a positive call for collaboration, communication, and timely action. We support our teachers, staff, school administration, and district leadership, and we hope to work together to ensure that Fuerte Elementary receives the attention and resources needed to meet the needs of its students.

 


By signing, you are expressing support for:
• Timely evaluation of reported facility concerns
• Summer maintenance and repair efforts where needed
• Transparent communication with families
• Continued investment in healthy learning environments for students and staff

 


Together, we can help ensure that every child returns to a clean, safe, and welcoming campus this fall.

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Recent signers:
Kelly and 19 others have signed recently.

The Issue

Fuerte Elementary is a school filled with dedicated teachers, hardworking staff, engaged families, and wonderful students. As parents and community members, we want to ensure that our campus continues to provide the healthy, safe, and well-maintained learning environment that every child deserves.

 


Over the past school year, concerns have been raised regarding facility maintenance and campus conditions. Community members have reported issues including water intrusion, indoor environmental concerns, pest activity, aging infrastructure, and other maintenance needs. While some concerns may already be under review, many families would appreciate greater transparency regarding assessments, planned repairs, and long-term facility improvements.

 


With students almost out for summer break, we have a unique opportunity to address maintenance priorities before the new school year begins. Taking action now can help minimize disruptions and ensure students and staff return to the healthiest possible learning environment in August.

 


This petition is a positive call for collaboration, communication, and timely action. We support our teachers, staff, school administration, and district leadership, and we hope to work together to ensure that Fuerte Elementary receives the attention and resources needed to meet the needs of its students.

 


By signing, you are expressing support for:
• Timely evaluation of reported facility concerns
• Summer maintenance and repair efforts where needed
• Transparent communication with families
• Continued investment in healthy learning environments for students and staff

 


Together, we can help ensure that every child returns to a clean, safe, and welcoming campus this fall.

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Healthy SchoolsPetition StarterWe’re a parent lead advocacy group focusing on collecting data, official report submission and transparency for a healthier Fuerte Elementary Community

The Decision Makers

Cajon Valley Union School Board
4 Members
2 Responded
Emily Schworm
Cajon Valley Union School Board - Area 3
To our committed stakeholders - Thank you for bringing these concerns to my attention. While I am unaware of any facilities complaints from staff, I will continue to follow up with our Superintendent and advocate for public accountability. I have been assured that our staff has already begun and will continue conducting a thorough investigation, including mold testing. While our District is working to address these issues, I want to assure you that Williams UCP complaint results will be reported to the complainant within 45 working days (per CA EdCode 35186(b)), and a quarterly public report to the Board shall be carried out per the same code section (e). The complaints and written responses (when they have been completed) are also available as public records and therefore can be shared. Like Trustee Carnevale, I believe our District does not need a bond to conduct these repairs. Rather, as one of the few Districts in the state with increasing enrollment, we should be focusing our ample funds on the essential services we provide for our students, which are dependent on school facilities that are clean, safe, and maintained in good repair. Please join with me to continue to advocate for fiscal responsibility. "Lily" Emily Schworm CVUSD Area 3 Trustee
Anthony Carnevale
Cajon Valley Union School Board - Area 1
Hello � I’m one of five elected members of the Cajon Valley Union School Board. Back in 2022, parents at Fuerte (and Crest) were told they’d need to pass a bond - i.e., a 30-year property tax - to fix the stinking septic systems at those schools. That was absurd and untrue. This summer, Fuerte’s septic issues are scheduled to be fixed by connecting the school to the public sewer system. Crest’s septic system was repaired last year. Your elected five-member school board is responsible for being good stewards of your public school properties and tax dollars. We have a fiduciary obligation to the students of this district to ensure a clean, safe learning environment. We also have a responsibility to provide safe working conditions for your public employees - teachers and school staff. The board ultimately makes the budget and maintenance decisions, which are carried out by the superintendent - whom we hire, evaluate, and can fire. Your school board is essentially all three branches of local government in one, with you, The People, at the top. We are your representatives overseeing your tax dollars, your schools, and your public employees. I applaud what you’re doing. This is exactly the kind of grassroots advocacy our system of local control was intended to produce. It shouldn’t have gotten to the point where kids and school employees are exposed to these conditions, but sometimes local government needs to be reminded who they serve and whose money they’re spending. RESIST bureaucratic gaslighting. Water intrusion and pest issues are serious health and safety problems that require real remediation and repair. I’m proud that, with strong community pressure and parent voices, I pushed the district to act on the septic system repairs and the proper remediation of a serious water intrusion issue at another school - after the superintendent’s initial “just put blowers on the visible mildew or mold growth” response in a TK classroom. Keep it up. I’ll keep fighting from my side of the table to direct more of your tax dollars toward repairs & maintenance - instead of travel, bureaucratic self-promotion, and other misuses of public funds. Feel free to contact me anytime. Please direct maintenance requests and documentation of issues to the superintendent’s office. I will request that they are shared with the full board, and that we publicly share our plan to get our schools back into good repair and maintain them within our existing ~$380M annual / ~$24K per student budget. There’s no excuse for failure here. Best Regards, Anthony Carnevale [Note: The Change.org Community Connection Team reaches out to decision makers to let them know about petitions in their community and to help facilitate engagement with supporters. The above was an email response we received regarding this petition.]
Karen Clark-Mejia
Cajon Valley Union School Board - Area 4
El Cajon City Council
3 Members
Phil Ortiz
El Cajon City Council - District 4
Gary Kendrick
El Cajon City Council - District 1
Steve Goble
El Cajon City Council - District 3
William Wells
El Cajon City Mayor

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