Karen Kiel, who oversees Williams monitoring coordination in the San Bernardino County Office of Education, presented the countywide Williams report for fiscal year 2024 25, covering monitoring visits between July 1, 2024 and June 30, 2025.

Kiel said the office monitored 133 schools (121 district sites and 12 charter schools) and recorded about 1,527 "good repair" deficiencies; 444 of those were addressed on the spot by school staff. The report identified three emergency repairs countywide: a nonfunctional classroom air conditioning system, a brief power outage resolved by a breaker reset, and hazardous playground equipment. Instructional materials shortfalls were rare and concentrated in a single charter school that later closed.

Kiel acknowledged that teacher assignment monitoring remains delayed because statewide reporting systems changed and staff were still finalizing the teacher-assignment component of the report. She said vacancies and misassignments are tracked and that districts are using mentorship and job-fair strategies to reduce vacancies.

During public comment and board questioning, community members raised specific concerns about Etiwanda (also spelled "Etowanda" in public comment) and said a Williams complaint filed March 31, 2024 was not reflected in the report. Antoinette and others urged the board to reject the report until staff updated the data and brought it back under a lawful agenda, arguing the report as presented undercounts or misreports complaints for some districts. Kiel replied that the report covers a prescribed cohort of monitored schools and that staff will check whether a particular complaint was routed through Williams or other uniform complaint procedures.

Board members asked staff to follow up on specific site concerns, including sanitation, restroom access and pest control raised at Upland High School and to confirm whether complaints had been filed and processed through Williams or other district channels. Kiel said reviewers check classrooms for Williams postings and that charter classrooms are treated somewhat differently under current practice.

The Williams report is a required annual disclosure of monitoring visits and is not an action item; the board discussed the findings and directed staff to follow up on the complaints and provide additional details at a future meeting.

Ending: The board requested targeted follow-up on Etiwanda/Etowanda complaints, verification of Williams complaint filings, and additional detail on teacher assignment and vacancy metrics when the credentialing team completes its report later in the week.