MIGRANT STUDENTS 2011

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Bert Corona







ECISD School Board of Trustees, Odessa, TX, again approved the migrant students to travel to the Experience in Democracy Leadership Conference in D.C. June 19-24, 2011. For those of you unfamiliar with this issue, this school was founded by Bert Corona, a radical, Reconquista-minded, self-admitted communist who also:

• Founded Hermandad Mexicana Nacional, the Mexican nationalist organization which was embroiled in the Bob Dornan election fraud issue in Orange County
• Served on the Board of Directors of the Los Angeles Communist School
• Active as an organizer of the Mexican American Political Association
• Responsible for the formation of the Brown Berets
• Taught part-time at Cal State L.A. without a college degree and fomented violence when any attempt was made to have him removed including arson, tire-slashing, cutting of brake lines

Tuition at this school is funded by Title 1c funds….. federal grant funds….taxpayer money. The school provides housing and meals and transportation for tours and Congress. The migrant students have been attending since 2008. In prior years, Ector County taxpayers have paid the airfare. This year, according to the newspaper story in this morning’s paper, the district nor the students will incur any expense. I differ in that viewpoint since I not only pay district taxes, I pay federal taxes which makes me (and you) an underwriter for the Title 1c funds. I have sent ECISD a FOIA request that includes a request to provide the cost and source of funds for the airfare.

The curriculum includes instruction on political matters and how our government works, training in how to contact our legislators and actual visits to them. Their on-line brochure states that the school exposes delegates to the inner workings of government, labor, business, and national organizations combined with training in leadership and capacity development, and real life application to support academic development.

From their brochure:

• Program follow-up is done through newsletters,special mailing, youth board participation, conferences, email, and local support networks.
• Graduates are also encouraged to begin community projects at school and in the community.
• Regional youth summits reinforce the leadership training.
• Internship opportunities are offered.
• Post training modules for continued study.

Sound benign? Remember we’re dealing with a school founded by a radical communist who organized Hermandad Mexicana Nacional, MAPA, and the Brown Berets.

This year, according to this morning’s newspaper article, ECISD has thought to provide the students with “curriculum showing a more conservative point of view before they head for Washington, and also while there, before they attend the more left-leaning parts of the event.”

Here’s a link to the article in this morning’s Odessa American.
http://www.oaoa.com/articles/democracy-62674-hear-students.html

Here’s links to the prior OA articles and Bert Corona.
http://concernedcitizenscoalition.blogspot.com/2008/08/migrant-students.html

http://concernedcitizenscoalition.blogspot.com/2008/05/ecisd-approves-migrant-kids-to-go-to.html

I will be adding info to the Concerned Citizens’ site.

I have prepared a FOIA request for information from ECISD and will once more attempt to get on the school board’s agenda. I would like for as many as can to lend their physical presence at that meeting. I will post info on this on the Concerned Citizen’s site.

I have prepared a petition to have the approval for travel rescinded and it is attached. Please copy and paste into Word, type your name, address, and phone number so they can verify that you are a real person if need be, and e-mail to me at fayehall@cableone.net. I will hand-deliver these to the school board.


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PETITION TO RESCIND APPROVAL FOR MIGRANT STUDENTS TO GO TO D.C.

ECISD, Odessa, TX, has once again approved migrant students to travel to Washington, D.C., to attend the Experience in Democracy Leadership Conference, which is aimed at 9th-12th grade students. The school was founded by Bert Corona, a radical, Reconquista-minded, self-admitted communist who

• Founded Hermandad Mexicana Nacional, the Mexican nationalist organization which was embroiled in the Bob Dornan election fraud issue in Orange County
• Served on the Board of Directors of the Los Angeles Communist School
• Active as an organizer of the Mexican American Political Association
• Responsible for the formation of the Brown Berets
• Taught part-time at Cal State L.A. without a college degree and fomented violence when any attempt was made to have him removed including arson, tire-slashing, cutting of brake lines

ECISD’s attempt to white-wash this action this year includes their providing the students “curriculum showing a more conservative point of view before they go to Washington and also while there, before they attend the more left-leaning parts of the event,” which is an admission by ECISD that they are exposing children to a radical environment. They have stated the district nor the students will incur any expense although at least travel expenses were required to be paid by the district in previous years. The tuition, room, and meals are included in the fee paid by Title 1c funds. The travel expenses are not covered according to the school’s on-line brochure. This petition requests that ECISD School Board of Trustees publicly release the amount and source of travel funds, rescind the approval for travel, and in the future regard federal funds, which come from the same taxpayers’ pockets as district funds, with as much restraint as they regard district funds.



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