Spring 2025 Parent Survey: How much do you feel the school values your opinion? – 54%.

An important function of Board oversight involves keeping District operations attuned with parent concerns. The survey response—only 54% of parents with children in our schools feel their school values their opinions—should be regarded with alarm. We have had glimpses of the possible reasons for this at public Board meetings, where parents’ concerns have been openly attacked by District employees. This is unacceptable and must be remedied.

Referring to the 160-page 2025-26 Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP), please see page 69.

At the August 12, 2025, public Board Meeting, the Board was asked to approve a State of California grant to implement a school-linked mental health clinic that would bill family health insurance policies but would hide the insurance Explanation of Benefits (EOBs) from both parents and students (blind billing)!! (see the video here)

This is abhorrent to our community and has no place in our schools. (Two of the sitting Trustees defended and voted to approve this scheme.) The community expects our schools to be places of academic learning and not secretive medical facilities.

Our community expects the district to steward taxpayer funds wisely, with transparency, and in compliance with the law.

In Summer of 2024, Murrieta Valley Unified School District asked the Board of Education to place before voters a Proposition 39 bond to be funded by Murrieta taxpayers. This type of bond requires a detailed and specific Project List. The Project List was SO vague (not citing even a single school site), it included: “Examples included on this list are not intended to limit the broader types of projects described and authorized by this measure.”  This is why, as a MVUSD trustee representing my community, I voted against placing this bond on the 2024 ballot.

• Proposition 39, a constitutional amendment passed by California voters in 2000, lowered the voter approval threshold for school bonds from 67% to 55% on bond proposals with certain taxpayer protections. One of these protections was inclusion of a specific and detailed project list.

• MVUSD is currently engaged in the process of working with the community and the Board of Education to develop a specific and detailed Project List for the Board to consider for the November 2026 ballot.