South East High School Needs Their Classrooms Back

Mr. Jose Huerta,

We are following up on the promise you made to the community on March 15, 2018.  You stated that Valiente Charter would be co-locating in South East High School for just two years.  Community representatives had brought to your attention that Valiente Charter:

-Had inflated the list of students they submitted to justify co-locating,

-The co-location would take away the Robotics class, Art room, Woodcraft Rangers After School Program, Advanced placement classes, and free East Los Angeles College classes,

- Valiente had neglected to present a plan to address behavioral problems and a plan to approach special education student needs.

Nothing was done about it and the only consolation was that you promised Valiente would leave after only 2 years of co-location.

Once Valiente Charter opened up our students and parent volunteers witnessed their worst fears coming true.   Valiente took over eight classrooms and had far less students than the 144 students they claimed would enroll in their school.

They didn’t have supervision staff and their students began to run wild all over the school. Valiente kept the computer lab and started telling parents they needed to enroll in their school to have access to the computer room.

LAUSD Local District East Administrators, we are requesting that you keep your word and respect the promises made to the community of South East High.