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Resident asks San Marino Unified to prioritize interdistrict transfers for wildfire‑displaced students
Summary
At the board meeting a resident and San Marino High graduate urged the board to prioritize students displaced by recent California wildfires under the governor's executive order, asking the district to place the item on a future agenda for consideration.
Anthony Ho, a resident who said he graduated from San Marino High School in 2001, asked the San Marino Unified Board of Education on March 11 to prioritize interdistrict transfer requests for students displaced by recent wildfires.
Ho described the devastation he said thousands of families were facing and quoted the governor's directive urging school districts to "extend every effort to support and facilitate the enrollment of students displaced by fires, including but not limited to facilitating completion and approval of interdistrict transfer requests." He asked the board to prioritize children whose homes or schools were destroyed "within or above the current priority categories of interdistrict transfer" and requested the board place the topic on an upcoming meeting agenda so it could be discussed formally.
Ho acknowledged the governor's order is not mandatory and said he was asking the board to "do the right thing" by example. He said he would forward written materials to the district office after the meeting.
Board procedure note: Board members did not discuss the request on the record at that time; the speaker specifically asked for an agenda item at a future meeting.
Ending: The district did not take immediate action during the meeting; the request was recorded as public comment and the speaker said he would submit supporting materials by email.
