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VISTA: Members of VUSD committee ask president
to resign
North County Times
By STACY BRANDT
May 24, 2010
After months of chaotic and sometimes
confrontational meetings, several members of a
Vista school committee for parents of English
learners have asked their president to step down.
Fourteen of the 25 members of the Vista Unified
School District's English Learners Advisory
Committee signed a letter they presented at a
meeting Monday, asking President Eduardo
Preciado to relinquish the position he has held
since January.
After the meeting, Preciado said he didn't want to
comment on the letter, because as far as he was
concerned, it didn't exist.
In the letter, the members accuse Preciado of not
following the committee's bylaws, not allowing the
panel to work as a team and lacking leadership
skills, among other things.
Before the committee could discuss the letter
further, Preciado ended Monday's meeting. After a
parent told the group that she thought the
discussions had become more about individual
egos than educating children, Preciado said he
didn't feel he could control the meeting anymore.
Preciado and some of the other parents said at
Monday's meeting that they didn't feel district
officials were listening to their concerns about the
district's Latino students. At school board meetings
over the last several months, Preciado has
complained that district officials have silenced him
and other parents.
Shortly after Preciado was elected in January, it
became obvious that he had different ideas than
past leaders about what the position entails and
what the group should be doing, said Gabriela
Hooshmand, who was president for two years
before Preciado.
Under his leadership, the meetings have been
contentious and unproductive, Hooshmand said.
"We haven't had any progress," she said. "We're
stuck in a hole."
Preciado has tried repeatedly to get the committee
to discuss and vote on topics that are outside of its
jurisdiction, said Matt Doyle, executive director of
curriculum and instruction for the district. This has
included trying to appoint someone to the
committee who doesn't have a child in one of the
district's schools and trying to remove Hooshmand
from the district's budget advisory committee, he
said.
However, Jacqueline Cesareo, a district parent,
said she thinks Preciado is an intelligent leader
and a positive influence.
The District English Learners Advisory Committee
---- better known as DELAC ---- is a forum for
parents to discuss and make recommendations
about how students learning to speak English are
taught. The committees are required by state law
for any school district with more than 51 such
students.
Vista Unified School District has more than 7,000
students learning to speak English. Roughly 95
percent of those are Spanish speakers.
Monday's DELAC meeting was the last of the
school year. The panel will resume in late October
with some new members and will elect its new
president a month or two after that.
Before Monday's meeting officially began,
members of the panel argued for about an hour
about which agenda they should follow, the official
one the district released last week or a longer one
that Preciado and some of his supporters put
together.
They eventually moved forward with the district's
agenda, after a lawyer with the district told them
they had to follow the agenda that was posted at
the district office, published on its website and sent
to the committee's members.
to resign
North County Times
By STACY BRANDT
May 24, 2010
After months of chaotic and sometimes
confrontational meetings, several members of a
Vista school committee for parents of English
learners have asked their president to step down.
Fourteen of the 25 members of the Vista Unified
School District's English Learners Advisory
Committee signed a letter they presented at a
meeting Monday, asking President Eduardo
Preciado to relinquish the position he has held
since January.
After the meeting, Preciado said he didn't want to
comment on the letter, because as far as he was
concerned, it didn't exist.
In the letter, the members accuse Preciado of not
following the committee's bylaws, not allowing the
panel to work as a team and lacking leadership
skills, among other things.
Before the committee could discuss the letter
further, Preciado ended Monday's meeting. After a
parent told the group that she thought the
discussions had become more about individual
egos than educating children, Preciado said he
didn't feel he could control the meeting anymore.
Preciado and some of the other parents said at
Monday's meeting that they didn't feel district
officials were listening to their concerns about the
district's Latino students. At school board meetings
over the last several months, Preciado has
complained that district officials have silenced him
and other parents.
Shortly after Preciado was elected in January, it
became obvious that he had different ideas than
past leaders about what the position entails and
what the group should be doing, said Gabriela
Hooshmand, who was president for two years
before Preciado.
Under his leadership, the meetings have been
contentious and unproductive, Hooshmand said.
"We haven't had any progress," she said. "We're
stuck in a hole."
Preciado has tried repeatedly to get the committee
to discuss and vote on topics that are outside of its
jurisdiction, said Matt Doyle, executive director of
curriculum and instruction for the district. This has
included trying to appoint someone to the
committee who doesn't have a child in one of the
district's schools and trying to remove Hooshmand
from the district's budget advisory committee, he
said.
However, Jacqueline Cesareo, a district parent,
said she thinks Preciado is an intelligent leader
and a positive influence.
The District English Learners Advisory Committee
---- better known as DELAC ---- is a forum for
parents to discuss and make recommendations
about how students learning to speak English are
taught. The committees are required by state law
for any school district with more than 51 such
students.
Vista Unified School District has more than 7,000
students learning to speak English. Roughly 95
percent of those are Spanish speakers.
Monday's DELAC meeting was the last of the
school year. The panel will resume in late October
with some new members and will elect its new
president a month or two after that.
Before Monday's meeting officially began,
members of the panel argued for about an hour
about which agenda they should follow, the official
one the district released last week or a longer one
that Preciado and some of his supporters put
together.
They eventually moved forward with the district's
agenda, after a lawyer with the district told them
they had to follow the agenda that was posted at
the district office, published on its website and sent
to the committee's members.