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Parents, residents urge more supports for Native students, CTE and urgent review of special-education placement
Summary
Public commenters at the Garden Grove USD board meeting called for stronger Indian education supports and independent investigative authority for administrator complaints; a parent requested urgent review of a first-grade placement after repeated violent outbursts disrupted class.
Three members of the public addressed the board during the public comment period, raising long-run equity concerns and an urgent student-safety request.
Resident Lupe Lopez praised the district's past efforts on Indian education and urged continued allyship, saying Native students continue to face historical trauma. "Native Americans have experienced something called boarding school where it was forced education," Lopez said, and asked trustees to support federal Indian education funding and ongoing…
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