This post was contributed by a community member. The views expressed here are the author's own.

Schools

CUSD's $10,000.00 Donation to Association of California School Administrators Foundation for Educational Administration

leads to more questions than answers regarding Trustee Lynn Hatton-Hodson's conflict of interest.

At the August 17, 2016 BOT meeting on page 26 it shows that CUSD made a $10,000.00 payment to the fundraising arm of the Association of California School Administrators aka ACSA.

Source: At page 26:
http://capousd-ca.schoolloop.com/file/1218998819331/1455438848279/8668587972702149181.pdf

The Association of California School Administrators assembled a team of education experts to form LCAP California. LCAP California's "expert help" consists of three organizations/businesses:

1. The Association of California School Administrators.
2. Progress Advisors
3. InnovateEd (Trustee Lynn Hatton-Hodson's Company)


Source: http://www.lcapca.com/expert-help.cfm

ACSA is partners with Trustee Lynn Hatton-Hodson's education company InnovateEd in LCAPCa.
The partnership between Trustee Hatton-Hoddson's company InnovateEd and ACSA does not stop there.

The California Department of Education has a foundation http://cdefoundation.org/lmi/about/. ACSA is one of the founding partners in the California Labor Management Initiative. The California Labor Management Initiative (CA LMI) is a partnership between the California Department of Education (CDE) and the Association of California School Administrators (ACSA), California County Superintendents Educational Services Agency (CCSESA), California Federation of Teachers (CFT), California School Boards Association (CSBA), California School Employees Association (CSEA), and the California Teachers Association (CTA), coordinated by the Californians Dedicated to Education Foundation (CDEF).
A map of districts and county offices of education that have participated in CA LMI events is available here.



When you read through these web sites and see what they are trying to accomplish it is easier to understand how CUEA, CSEA, Teamsters, District Staff, Superintendent Vital and Deputy Superintendent Clark Hampton all received exactly the same 8.67% compensation increase despite being represented by different bargaining units in separate negotiations.

Read "On The Same Page 2.0 - Field Guide for Implementing College-and-Career Ready Standards through Labor-Management Collaboration" http://cdefoundation.org/lmi/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/On-The-Same-Page-2.pdf

The Trustee has a fiduciary duty to represent students and taxpayers in all matters before the Board. Under this process- the power of Trustees to fulfill their fiduciary duty is extremely limited. CUSD has already seen the result of having all of the adult employees in a district collaborating to put the economic interests of adults above the educational interest of its students and the financial interest of taxpayers. The result four years of consecutive compensation increases totaling over $120 million dollars while student attend school in substandard facilities, with the highest class sizes in the nation, lacking instruction in core educational programs that aligns with minimum State Content Standards and Curriculum Frameworks.

When you look at the people and corporations behind this Foundation and the California Labor Management Initiative - these are the people behind Common Core. The real goal is to undermine student privacy rights. For Profit companies want access to not only your student, but your families personally identifiable data. If every student in CUSD is forced to have a google account and every parent is forced to communicate with the district through an online platform that records every conversation, and if students are forced to take personality test in classes because CUSD has embedded Naviance into English, Social Studies and CCP which are required for graduation, there is no ability for a family to opt out and protect their privacy. By the time our kids go through the public education system they will not have any privacy rights left as an adult because data will have been collected on every student including health data and personality data. When you read the privacy statements for these companies the data is stored on the company server, not at CUSD. That is wrong. If you want to learn more:

Obama's Executive Action to Rewrite No Child Left Behind Modifies Student Privacy Rights- Personally Identifiable Information is now Available to For Profit Companies
http://disclosurecusd.blogspot.com/2016/05/obamas-executive-action-to-rewrite-no.html

No Right to Privacy if you are a Public School Student.
http://disclosurecusd.blogspot.com/2016/07/data-mining-our-students-capistrano.html

From On the Same Page 2.0 page 55

Trustee Hatton-Hodson has a conflict of interest that should force her to step down as Trustee. Her partner Jay Westover is a faculty member for ACSA's 2016 Principals' Summer Institute.

http://www.acsa.org/Educational-Services/Conferences/summerprograms


When you click on Jay Westover's name it takes you here:
http://innovateed.com/management-team/






It appears that Trustee Hatton - Hodson's company is profiting from its relationship with ACSA. I wonder how many CUSD Principals received consensus training this summer?

The views expressed in this post are the author's own. Want to post on Patch?

More from San Juan Capistrano