Parents and staff urge Liberty district to reinstate assistant principal, oppose cuts to reading interventions

Dozens of parents, teachers and staff used the district's public‑comment period to press the Liberty Elementary School District governing board to reverse recent personnel moves, reinstate assistant principal Lauren Velasquez at Freedom Elementary and preserve reading‑intervention positions that commenters said serve hundreds of students.

Speakers described Velasquez as a stabilizing presence and urged the board and superintendent to return him to Freedom now that the school's assistant principal post is vacant. Several teachers, parents and school staff described Velasquez's leadership as a direct driver of recent academic progress at Freedom and asked the board to prioritize continuity in campus leadership.

Teacher and parent concerns about staffing and communications

- Multiple teachers and support staff described late‑notice contract changes and the loss of education‑support positions. One reading interventionist said she and colleagues received late Friday notices about reassignment or nonrenewal and asked the board to consider the instructional ramifications for students who currently receive daily intervention time.

- Commenters said reading interventionists support roughly 750 students districtwide with tiered interventions and that…