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Community speakers urge stronger equity measures, special-education attention and election transparency
Summary
Parents, site council members and students at the April 29 PAUSD study session urged clearer accountability on equity goals, improvements to special-education supports (including co-teaching), and district policy to make student-council elections transparent. Speakers cited data gaps, declines in Latino student outcomes, and the need for clearer communications to families.
Community members and students used the April 29 study session to press the Palo Alto Unified board for concrete accountability measures on equity and to raise procedural concerns.
A parent and site-council commissioner who testified for Fletcher Middle School said a petition with more than 200 signatures calls for district-wide student-council election rules that make winners verifiable by student council members and advisers, require…
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