Acton Agua Dulce Unified School District Committee Data

The highest and best uses for the Acton school

7-24-04 The highest and best use to Acton school is to educate the children of Acton.

Because of past failures of the school district over one-third of the students in the district do not attend the local school. These parents have clearly voted their nonsupport of the school district. Both the parents and the community continue voting that nonsupport in their overwhelming defeat of three consecutive bond votes.

The best use of the Acton school can only be achieved by a long-term plan to stop and reverse the continued to rejection of the school which has led to the unprecedented loss of some of the brightest and best in the district.

This cannot be done quickly by insulting the community with forced busing, school closures and the elimination of class size

As a stopgap measure the Acton school can be turned into a district sanctioned charter school to accommodate some of the thousand kids that been pulled from the district. This school will have only two community and district impose conditions and that is that 90 percent of the students must come from within the district and that its operations must conform to Acton standards District.

The Acton Charter School would be run under state law by a board elected from the student’s parents. The existing school board would have no control of the charter schools day-to-day operations. The charter school does not have authority to tax the community so its management would concentrate exclusive when on quality of education for it students.

The Acton Charter school would pay the district a fee to use the school site and would directly pay all the teachers, it administrators, staff, and expenses to run school.

This fee is entire profit to the district to without any expense. The community would gain a quality school for those students who do not trust the existing public education system in the community. Property values would radically increase because of this quality school.

The competition created by the Acton Charter school would also served to raise the quality of the existing Acton and Agua Dulce schools and possibly could bring the students back into the district by creating equality between these two competing school systems.

Please do not tell me with a quality school system exists now because the fact one-third of the students are pulled from it clearly shows it could be better.

This charter school could also co-exist on the same campus with nighttime adult education, community use, and the existing district office use along with proposed special class's for our students that cannot meet the disciplinary standards in the district

This is clearly best use of the school and fully conforms to the public hearing, which showed education use as the highest and best use for the Acton school site.

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