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If Trustee Martha McNicholas Votes for CUSD's $2 Billion Dollar Bond She is Breaking Her Campaign Promise to Taxpayers!

Vote No on CUSD's $2 billion dollar School Facilities bond.

Dawn Urbanek, Neighbor
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HOLD
MARTHA
McNICHOLAS
ACCOUNTABLE
FOR HER
VOTE!

She Promised Not To Increase Taxes-



If Martha McNicholas votes yes on CUSD's $2 Billion Dollar Bond she has broken her promise to Taxpayers!



CUSD has the largest class sizes in the State and in the Nation.




CUSD facilities have not been maintained for 15 years. When CUSD implemented School Work Dude CUSD had 16,000 plumbing work orders backlogged over 90 days and had cut staff down to 3 plumbers.
Proof: http://patch.com/california/sanjuancapistrano/cusd-facilities-report-16000-plumbing-work-orders-3-plumbers-staff-no-williams-complaints-file

Trustee McNicholas voted not to approve Global Business Academy and Orange County Academy of Arts and Sciences - both Charter Schools.

CUSD has no Honor's Geometry Class - the only District in South Orange County not to offer Geometry Honors.
Proof: http://patch.com/california/sanjuancapistrano/lack-honors-classes-puts-cusd-students-disadvantage-college-admissions


Did you know that CUSD Math Scores are in free fall?
Students wishing to attend a UC or Cal-State school (not Community College) must complete Algebra 2 by the end of 11th grade. In 2013, the number of students that were "College Ready" or "Conditional" in Algebra II was 28%. In 2014 that number dropped to 16% (a 12% decline).

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Ready for College by the end of 11th grade Algebra II
2013-14 College Ready (6%) + Conditional (22%) = 28%
2014-15 College Ready (3%) + Conditional (13%) = 16%



There is no STEM without Math and CUSD no longer has high level academic math programs which allow students to show rigor in middle school putting students at a great disadvantage to students in other districts when it comes to competing for college entrance and scholarship money.

There is no STEAM with out art, music and science.

Did you know that CUSD no longer funds art and music or science for every student? Those schools that are unable to fundraise enough money for art, music and/or science programs no longer receive minimum instruction that aligns with minimum California State Standards and Curriculum Frameworks. That is because under "Local Control" instructional content and curriculum frameworks are "recommendations", not "requirements". Instructional content and instructional class time are left to the discretion of the individual classroom teacher, the school site principal and district.

In English- if class sizes are so large that a teacher is unable to teach all the chapters of a math class that is OK. The student will not know until they take their college entrance exams and find that they haven't seen some of the required material before.

Proof:
Slide Presentation to CUSD Board of Trustees January 27, 2016 http://www.slideshare.net/DawnUrbanek/fundraising-for-core-educational-programs
Board Audio at 2:28:0 to 2:47:45
http://cusd.capousd.org/cusdweb/boardaudio/1-27-16/CUSDBoardMeeting.January.27.2016.mp3
http://peopleforstudentrights.com/index.php/complaint/count-16


Trustee McNicholas promised to ensure that the local control and accountability plans meet the needs of students and the communities

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While Trustee McNicholas has broken everyone of her campaign promises she hasn't broken her promise to the Teachers Union who paid for and endorsed her campaign.

CUSD has increased employee compensation every year for the past four years. This year was an 8.67% across the board compensation increase for every employee.












Trustee Martha McNicholas
Drank the Kool Aid...

Now 89% of every CUSD dollar goes to employee compensation...
Where did the Lottery Money Go? ... Employee Compensation

CUSD is on Board with the State Plan to use California's public education system to steal more tax money and to promote the political agenda of wealth redistribution- California has a vested interest in seeing that our K-12 public schools remain underfunded into perpetuity.


The State plan has been presented at every school board budget presentation since 2012 when "Local Control" was implemented.

The Road to recovery for students is as follows:
  • Taxpayers must vote to:
  • Make Prop 30 taxes Permanent
  • Pass the State's $9 billion dollar State Facilities Bond
  • Pass CUSD's $2 billion dollar School Facilities Bond (Cost as high as $60 per $100,000 accessed home value - a million dollar home will be taxed as much as $600 more per year)
  • Continue to pay Mello Roos taxes on top of the Bond and other taxes
  • Assembly Bill 464 increases to 3% (from the current 2% cap) the maximum sales tax rate that can be levied by local governments.
  • Parents must continue to fundraise for Art, Music and Science
  • Students must continue to pay illegal fees - like paying to park at school

California is enjoying record high revenues over $125 billion so why does the State's new education funding formula limit per pupil funding to 2007-08 levels + inflation? In 2007-08 State revenues were $103 billion.

Our State is taking surplus revenues that should be going to benefit our kids and using that money to create new programs and entitlements that are not Constitutionally mandated for example:

California's 2015- 16 5-year Infrastructure Plan contains -0- dollars for K-12 Public Education (the States #1 Constitutionally mandated expenditures) That is by design. The State expects local school districts to raise local tax money to fund facilities maintenance (after it has allowed districts to deplete deferred maintenance funds to fund employee compensation) and will no longer provide matching funds for new construction unless voters approve the $9 billion State Facility Bond.

The Governors infrastructure plan does not allocate a single penny for facilities funding for K-12 Public Education stating that it is the intention of the State to provide greater flexibility for Cities, Counties and local school districts to borrow money, or raise taxes to fund K-12 infrastructure projects.



Taxpayers should know...

$51 billion of the $55 billion dollar plan is going to Transportation aka "High Speed Rail".

WillIt is time that Trustee McNicholas stands up for students and taxpayers.

Tell her to VOTE NO on putting the proposed $2 billion dollar bond on the ballot.
Hold our elected leaders accountable for their promises to our kids.

CUSD has been planning this bond since 2012 - why hasn't Trustee McNicholas ever mentioned this to the Laguna Niguel City Council?

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