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Parents and students press board on Williams compliance and ignored IEPs
Summary
Multiple public commenters urged the board to ensure Williams Act compliance (properly credentialed teachers and safe facilities) and recounted personal failures of IEP implementation; a student said, 'My IEP went almost entirely ignored.'
At the Start‑of‑Schools item, community members urged the board to provide clear data on vacancies and Williams Act compliance and to ensure all classrooms have properly credentialed teachers within the mandated timeframes.
Jen Souza told trustees, "A clean classroom and a qualified teacher are not luxuries," urging immediate remediation of facility hazards and public reporting on Williams Act standards by site. In public comment, Kenji Ellsworth — speaking as a student who said he had an ignored IEP — asked whether the special‑education blueprint will be more than paperwork: "My IEP went almost entirely ignored," he said, and asked whether the new blueprint will ensure follow‑through.
Superintendent Castillo responded with the district's plan for a program review (see related article), stressing stakeholder involvement in the review; the board did not record any site‑level enforcement actions during this meeting.
