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EL SEGUNDO HERALD June 13, 2019 Page 3
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El Segundo Art Walk is COMING!
Starting on June 20th, July 18th and
August 15th from 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM.,
look to Downtown El Segundo for Art,
Food Trucks, Live Music and Lots of Fun!!!
Tighten the Rules for Launching
Charter Schools, Panel Suggests
By Rob McCarthy
An advisory panel to Gov. Gavin Newsom
has offered a compromise that could change
how charter schools are approved or denied,
starting next year. The governor’s task force
on June 6 issued a set of recommendations
that include giving charter school applicants
more time to complete the process to open an
independently run campus.
In return, a local school board’s decision
to deny a charter school application would be
harder to overturn. The compromise is noteworthy
Community Briefs
ESPD Personnel Pick Up the Torch
Last week, El Segundo Police Department
members carried the Special Olympics torch and
flag while participating in the Special Olympics
Law Enforcement Torch Run. They picked up the
torch from the Manhattan Beach Police Depart-
ment and ran it through El Segundo before handing
it off to the Los Angeles Police Department.
– Source/Photo: ESPD
Pavement Rehabilitation Project
The City of El Segundo’s Fiscal Year 18/19
Pavement Rehabilitation Project will begin on
June 17 and should be completed sometime
in July, weather permitting. Construction
work hours will be Monday through Friday
from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m.
June 17- 21: Mobilization Period (field
layout, tie off monuments and utilities, renotify
affected residents/businesses, install BMPs
and call for USA).
June 24 (begin cold-milling), June 25
(begin resurfacing):
- El Segundo Blvd. (between Aviation
Blvd. and Isis Ave.)
- Cedar St. (between Imperial Ave. and
Walnut Ave.)
- Walnut Ave. (between Cedar St. and
Main St.)
June 25 (begin cold-milling), June 26
(begin resurfacing):
- Maple Ave. (between Sheldon St. and PCH)
June 26 (begin cold-milling), June 27
(begin resurfacing):
- Nevada St. (from Mariposa Ave. to
southern terminus)
- Oregon St. (between Mariposa Ave. and
Pine Ave.)
- Mariposa Ave. (between Center St. and
PCH)
- California St. (between Mariposa Ave.
and Pine Ave.)
June 27 (begin cold-milling), June 28
(begin resurfacing):
- Center St. (between Imperial Ave. and
Mariposa Ave.)
The project includes removal and replacement
of the top two inches roadway surface
with new asphalt concrete, manhole and
valve cover adjustments, pavement striping
restoration and traffic loop restoration. Local
access to driveways will be maintained. The
contractor will post “No Parking” signs in
the work zone, in advance of the work being
performed. The City of El Segundo requests
that citizens refrain from running excess water
in the gutters during the construction period.
For any questions or assistance, please contact:
1. Sebastian Rivas, Hardy & Harper Project
Foreman - (714) 620-5548
2. Arianne Bola, City of El Segundo Project
Manager - (310) 524-2364
– Source: City of El Segundo •
because of the timing of the report’s
release and because charter school organizations
and public school districts worked together to
draft the recommendations.
Currently, the State Legislature is considering
several charter school reform bills. It’s unclear
whether any of the task force’s recommendations
will find their way into the bills’ language.
Newsom has demonstrated he’s open to bringing
charter schools, which receive district funding
yet operate free of district control using nonunion
teachers, more in line with the rules
and requirements the Legislature has placed
on California’s public schools.
The governor in early March signed into law
a Senate Bill 126, which holds all schools that
receive taxpayer funding to the same standards
for accountability and transparency. “It’s common
sense. Taxpayers, parents and ultimately kids
deserve to know how schools are using their tax
dollars,” the governor said in a signing ceremony.
He hinted of more regulation coming for the
charter school movement, which is opposed
by teachers unions. SB 126 requires charter
schools and charter management organizations to
adhere to public records and open meeting laws,
and conflict of interest provisions. It takes effect
on Jan. 1 and supporters say the law is long overdue
and addresses the concerns of teachers, parents
and local school boards that charter schools are
becoming profit centers for privately managed
companies. The U.S. Secretary of Education
Betsy DeVos has been a vocal advocate for
charter schools, arguing they offer parents more
choice in selecting a public school within their
district that’s right for a child.
Newsom in March asked the California
Schools Superintendent Tony Thurmond for input
into the debate over how charter schools operate.
Critics of them insist that charter schools in the
past have accepted the most promising students
in a district, and rejected students who don’t
perform as well in the classroom and on
achievement tests. The California Charter School
Policy Task Force looked at the issues of funding
and management over a two-month period and
recommended at least changes that its members
unanimously agreed could be adopted.
Members of the task force were asked to put
aside their differences and look for common
ground for the good of California’s school kids.
The superintendent of schools said in his report
to the governor that it was the task force’s hope
See Charter Schools, page 12