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DESCRIPTION:6/12 Press Conference  Don't Sell Off Our Public Schools To 
 Beller/Caliber-Stop Sale Of Richmond Adams Middle School\n\nDefend Public 
 Education/Stop Privatization\nNo Backdoor Deal In $60,000 Sale Of Adams 
 Middle School to Beller/Caliber\n\nSunday June12, 2016    11:00 AM\nAdams 
 Middle School\n5000 Patterson Circle near Arlington Blvd.\nRichmond Ca 
 94805\n\n\nFormer Goldman Sacks Hedge fund operator Ron Beller who now runs 
 the Caliber Charter School Chain  wants a prime property the  Adams Middle 
 School  that is owned by the West Contra Costa County School District. The 
 district is planning to sell the 5 acres for $60,000.\nThey also plan to 
 bring 800 or more students from throughout the region  to the school in an 
 area which already has k-8 schools including Mira Vista. The community, 
 teachers and working people are opposed to this transfer. We need to 
 protect our community schools and not further the privatization and 
 destruction of public education in Richmond being pushed not only by 
 private charter school operators but anti-union developers like Chamberlin 
 Associates. The Aspire school on Hilltop promised the residents and unions 
 that it would be built by union labor. Instead they brought in workers from 
 Nevada who they paid $15 an hour and Beller is refusing to build union. 
 Anti-labor non-union developers and corporate education speculators are 
 taking over land all over Richmond in a land grab that will further 
 gentrification and push working people out of our communities. They opposed 
 unionization of the staff, teachers and maintenance workers who live in 
 this community and need good paying jobs.\nJoin community groups. unionists 
 and others to let the community and the WCCCSD know that we cannot afford 
 this deal with Ron Beller and Caliber.\n\nSponsored by\nFairmede Hilltop 
 Neighborhood Council\nDefend Public Education\nRepeal California Charter 
 Laws\nhttp://www.ipetitions.com/petition/repeal-charter-school-act-of-1992-in-ca-ballot\nUnited 
 Public Workers For Action\nwww.upwa.info\n\nFor more information \n(510) 
 909-2797, (415) 505-2246, (415)282-1908\n\n\nURGENTE MENSAJE A LA 
 COMUNIDAD, PADRES DE FAMILIA, MAESTROS Y TRABAJADORES DE WEST CONTRA 
 COSTA\n\n4 de Junio, 2016\n\nURGENTE MENSAJE A LA COMUNIDAD, PADRES DE 
 FAMILIA, MAESTROS Y TRABAJADORES DE WEST CONTRA COSTA: Las llamadas 
 ‘Escuelas Charter’ se hacen pasar por escuelas públicas cuando en 
 realidad representan intereses corporativos. Utilizar fondos públicos no 
 las convierte en escuelas públicas. La presencia de estas escuelas 
 significa un derrame económico que amenaza la viabilidad de nuestro 
 distrito escolar.\n\nEl ataque más reciente a nuestro sistema de 
 educación pública lo encabeza el especulador financiero Ron Beller. El 
 señor Beller, director ejecutivo de la cadena de escuelas Caliber, formó 
 parte del grupo de especuladores en operaciones de bolsa responsables en 
 parte del colapso financiero del 2008, cuando millones de familias en todo 
 el país perdieron su vivienda. Recuerden que Richmond fué una de las 
 comunidades más afectadas. La cadena de escuelas Caliber quiere adquirir 
 el lote donde se ubica la Antigua escuela primaria Adams en  Patterson 
 Circle # 5000, Richmond, Ca 94805, por la suma de sesenta mil dólares. Lo 
 escadaloso de esta oferta no es la irrisoria cantidad de dinero sino el 
 hecho mismo de intentar vender el patrimonio de nuestros hijos  a un 
 interés corporativo más interesado en obtener fondos públicos que en la 
 educación pública.\n\nEn más de una ocasión las escuelas charter han 
 menospreciado a la comunidad trabajadora de Richmond. Por ejemplo, la 
 flamante escuela  charter Aspire en Hilltop se construyó con trabajadores 
 no- sindicalizados traidos de Nevada a quieres se les pagó un sueldo muy 
 por debajo de la tasa sindical, a pesar de que los dirigentes corporativos 
 de Aspire prometieran que la contrucción de su escuela beneficiaría a la 
 comunidad de Richmond. Además, en todas las escuelas charter las labores 
 de mantenimiento, limpieza, trabajo de oficina y hasta las labors de 
 enseñanza se realizan con trabajadores no-sindicalizados. Y, por si esto 
 fuera poco, la mesa directiva de estas escuelas no está formada por 
 miembros elegidos por la comunidad como es el caso de la mesa directiva de 
 nuestro distrito escolar. Asi pues, ¿ante quién son responsables los 
 dirigentes, la comunidad que los elige o los especuladores que los 
 escogen?\n\nSOLICITAMOS SU ASISTENCIA A DOS IMPORTANTES EVENTOS\n\n1. 
 CONFERENIA DE PRENSA el domingo 12 de Junio en el local de la Antigua 
 escuela Adams (5000 Patterson Circle, Richmond Ca, 94805) a las 11 a.m. 
 denunciaremos ante los medios de comunicación este burdo intento de 
 apropiación de los recursos públicos.\n\n2. REUNIÓN MESA DIRECTIVA DE 
 WCCUSD el miércoles 15 de Junio a las 6:30 p.m. en el salon multiusos de 
 la escuela Lovonya DeJean, la mesa directiva de WCCUSD decidirá si procede 
 o no la venta del predio a la cadena Caliber. Esperamos su presencia para 
 rechazar esta intentona.\n\nPara firmar la solicitud exigiendo la 
 revocación inmediata de la Ley de 1992 autorizando las escuelas charter en 
 California acuda a la siguiente dirección 
 electronica:\nhttp://www.ipetitions.com/petition/repeal-charter-school-act-of-1992-in-ca-ballot\n\nUnited 
 Public Workers for Action: www.upwa.info\n\nPara mayor información sirvase 
 llamar a los números: (510) 909-2797 o (510) 222-8632\n\n\nUnited Teachers 
 Of Richmond UTR CTA/NEA Resolution Opposing More Charters and 
 Privatization\nhttp://files.ctctcdn.com/c5bd42c6001/6b873bf4-5f20-4c5a-80f3-10405aecf0ef.pdf\n\n\nThe 
 United Teachers of Richmond CTA/NEA strive for high quality universal free 
 public education for every student. UTR CTA/NEA advocates for 
 well-resourced, community-centered, publicly funded and democratically 
 managed schools. UTR CTA/NEA believes in teaching the whole child a broad 
 curriculum that prepares them to be productive and critically thinking 
 citizens. UTR CTA/NEA knows this requires a qualified, caring, diverse and 
 stable workforce. We know that parental, family and community engagement 
 are also key. All of this is only possible with sufficient, equitable and 
 consistent funding.\n\nTherefore:\n\nWhereas offering parents the "choice" 
 of charter schools removes attention from the real problems facing our 
 educational system - Poverty and inequitable funding.\n\nWhereas charter 
 schools do no better and often worse academically than traditional public 
 schools.\n\nWhereas charter schools take away funding from traditional 
 public schools creating a wasteful parallel school system.\n\nWhereas 
 charter schools increase segregation both racially and socio 
 economically.\n\nWhereas charter schools are unaccountable to the duly 
 elected members of the community school boards.\n\nWhereas charter schools 
 are largely not unionized and therefore represent a means of weakening 
 unions.\n\nWhereas charter schools are less transparent then traditional 
 public schools leading to such things as cheating on state 
 tests.\n\nWhereas charter schools are allowed to choose how students are 
 admitted and can kick out students that are more difficult to teach, 
 leading to "cherry picking" and creating a two tiered educational 
 system.\n\nWhereas charter school choice is supported by special interests 
 who seek to privatize and profit from our schools.\n\nWhereas charter 
 schools often impose a business model that is completely inappropriate to 
 public education.\n\nBe it resolved that the United Teachers of Richmond 
 CTA/NEA opposes charter school expansion in the West Contra Costa School 
 district and the nation.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/06/08/18787323.php
SUMMARY:Don't Sell Off Our Public Schools To Beller/Caliber-Stop Sale Of Adams Middle School
LOCATION:Adams Middle School\n5000 Patterson Circle near Arlington Blvd.\nRichmond 
 Ca 94805
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