Showing posts with label MIGRANT STUDENTS. Show all posts
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Monday, April 11, 2011

Resident fired up over migrant trip

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April 05, 2011 7:21 PM

BY GEOFF FOLSOM

The founder of the Odessa Concerned Citizens Coalition is taking a stand against a planned migrant-student trip to Washington, D.C.

Faye Hall said she is organizing a petition to protest a June 19-24 trip to Washington for the Experience in Democracy Leadership Program’s conference. Hall points to Bert Corona, the founder of the group that organizes the conference, as a potentially negative influence on students.

According to the Bert Corona Leadership Institute’s website, Corona “dedicated his life to fighting economic and social injustice.” He founded the Hermandad Mexicana Nacional, the nation’s largest Latino immigrant organization, with more than 30,000 member families.

But Hall said Corona, who died in 2001, had ties to Communism, and advocated violence when attempts were made to remove him as a teacher at a Los Angeles university. She also fears that students, who she said “may or may not” be in the country lawfully, will hear a position advocating illegal immigration.

“We need to help these kids as much as we can, but not send them to learn how to fight us,” she said. “Not to learn more than our kids learn and to learn how to manipulate our legislators.”

To this point, Hall said has only gathered “five or six” signatures on her website. But she plans to take to the streets to get more people to sign her petition, which calls for the Ector County Independent School District Board of Trustees to rescind the approval it gave for the trip at its March 29 meeting.

Hall said she would like to address the board at its next regular meeting, scheduled for April 26. She attempted to address the board before the migrant student’s 2008 trip to Washington, but said she ultimately didn’t get to because she had family commitments.

While ECISD won’t be paying for the trip this year, Hall said she doesn’t like seeing federal grant money go toward sending students to the conference.

Trustee Luis Galvan said he would be open to hearing from residents who are concerned about the trip, but he wants to make sure they are armed with facts.

“Ultimately, this is a positive, valuable experience,” Galvan said. “Just to have that opportunity is amazing. I don’t see how they can see anything negative, honestly.”

In fact, Galvan was selected to go to Washington as part of a Congressional Hispanic Leadership Institute internship.

“Having experienced Washington, D.C., is a truly wonderful experience, and seeing government explained on a large, large scale,” he said.

While he said he didn’t have all the information on the trip, Trustee Ray Beaty said he is hopeful that the board’s decision to require the students, whose parents work seasonally in agriculture or manufacturing, to get information from sources outside the Corona Institute will be positive.

“Be sure there is a good balance of information the students are receiving from a historical standpoint and a governmental standpoint,” Beaty said.

Repeated calls to ECISD officials, as well as the Corona Institute to get comment for this story were not returned.


http://www.oaoa.com/news/trip-63035-migrant-washington.html

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

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.



Name:

Address:

Phone:

Bob Dornan Election Info

Dornan's district, which was renumbered the 46th after the 1990 census, had always leaned Democratic, but became even more so when it absorbed a considerably larger number of Latino voters than he had previously represented. After failing to win the GOP presidential nomination in 1996, Dornan ran for reelection to the House against Loretta Sanchez, a former Republican who had switched parties and run as a Democrat. Dornan lost by 979 votes.


Following the narrow defeat, Dornan alleged that Sanchez's winning margin was provided by illegal voting from non-U.S. citizens. A thirteen-month House of Representatives investigation ensued, during which Sanchez was seated provisionally, pending the inquiry.[15] A task force found 748 votes that had been cast illegally—624 from non-citizens in addition to 124 that had already been thrown out by California officials. This was not enough to overturn Sanchez' margin of victory and she was allowed to keep her seat.[16] However, in consultation with the INS, the House committee identified as many as 4,700 questionable registration affidavits.[17] The probe was dropped before these affidavits could be investigated.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dornan

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

HERE'S THE LETTER TO THE EDITOR THE OA DIDN'T PRINT

fayehall wrote:
Great story, Dianna Wray. Since I have been the foremost opponent of these kids going to Washington to learn how to lobby our legislators, I will again attempt to explain my objections. First, I will say that my kids were "Navy brats." We moved 58 times in 21 years... actually that was 58 times in 17 years because after that I no longer had to keep track of everyone's whereabouts at all times in order to fill out the 3-inch documentation for security clearances. Navy pay was poor. If I didn't work, our family was qualified for welfare, free lunches, etc., etc. So I worked. I remember counting pennies and mapping out routes to drive to work that would save the most gas. I got angry and discouraged if the kids helped themselves to an extra snack because that meant the food wouldn't last until the end of the month. And keeping the kids current in school work was extremely difficult. That's enough of that.

What I object to is that these kids are being sent to a SELF-PROFESSED MILITANT COMMUNIST-FOUNDED school at taxpayer expense where the school admits to "following" them for at least a year. Actually, they follow specific ones longer and they wind up in our government. I don't understand why ECISD doesn't clearly see my objection to this. I also object to training kids who may or may not be illegal immigrants in how to manipulate our legislators. This is another arm of the pro-amnesty group's attempts to use children to push legislation... just like when they brought out little bitty kids to march in the streets with signs that said, "Don't take my mommy." And this, while I had to explain who Nancy Pelosi is to my grandson the other day and he is 19! Now explain to me why these kids are getting explicit instructions in our government and a senior doesn't even know who Pelosi is.

The plight of migrant kids is deplorable. And they should have people who watch over them, as every kid should. But they have 1700...uh, now 1701 with Una Voz Unida... that are lobbying extensively with the help of federal grants. Oh. Una Voz Unida has not obtained its 501c3 status YET.

I commend the OA's efforts in the illegal immigration area. You've come a long way since several years ago when you presented only the illegal immigrant's side. There's a lot that needs to be done about illegal immigration and it's an entirely uphill battle what with propaganda coming out of Mexico directly. But the SPP is alive and well and remains illegal itself since bills to authorize it have not made it out of Congress. This is the reason I fight illegal immigration so hard. You'll have to cover that if you want to understand why an old Navy woman who took the oath to protect and defend this country is so against illegal immigration. You'll have to cover NAFTA and its effects on Mexico and the U.S. Learn that, then dare to call me a xenophobe.


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I put this in as a comment to the article and then I sent it in as a Letter to the Editor. I see I complimented them too soon on their progress in the area of illegal immigration...


http://www.oaoa.com/news/migrant-42158-aurelio-across.html

Thursday, August 28, 2008

MIGRANT STUDENTS

I've had some family problems. In fact, I buried my mom, my dad, and my daughter in one month. So I haven't been doing anything, but I'm recovering now, I think. I read this article when it came out, but it really seemed insignificant at that time. This is what our opponents do... gloss over and use circular, impaired logic.

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June 13, 2008 - 4:52PM
BY ELAINE MARSILIO
Community dissension hasn't derailed a trip by 14 migrant students and three chaperones to attend a leadership program in Washington, D.C., later this month.
Alma Guerrero, ECISD assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction, said this trip isn't any different from one of the Ector County Independent School District school bands traveling for a concert or program.
She said sending the students to the event will help them gain some necessary skills like public speaking and leadership. Also, they'll have a chance to learn about the democratic process.
Migrant students, which are students who've moved because of a job or a spouse or family member taking a job, plan to attend the Bert Corona Leadership Institute during their six-day trip from June 23-29 in Washington, D.C.
Community member Faye Hall said she doesn't agree with ECISD officials' approval of using taxpayer money (federal grant money) to send the migrant students to attend the institute, which she said was founded by a communist.
"I don't like the whole thing," she said. "We're paying for it, and that's not what the majority of Americans want."
Hall disapproves of the trip so much that she's tried to get the issue on Tuesday's board agenda. An agenda released for the meeting, however, doesn't include a discussion of the trip.
Hall recently researched the institute and wrote a letter to the editor in the Odessa American stating, "Bert Corona died in 2001, but he has left quite a legacy. An admitted communist, he served on the board of the Los Angeles Communist School, helped to organize the Mexican American Political Association (MAPA), formed the Brown Berets and founded Hermandad Mexicana Nacional.
"All of these organizations support the conversion of our form of republican government to that of socialism or communism, the reconquest of the Southwest and, if necessary, the violent overthrow of our government," she wrote.
In a recent phone interview, Hall said she has issues with what the institute stands for as well as paying for non-citizens to have the chance to interact with Congress through this institute, which she said is "using kids to play on Americans' compassion."
"I'm a (Navy) veteran married to a disabled veteran," she said. "That wipes my mind slick."
Guerrero said ECISD migrant students have never attended the institute before and if something inappropriate is presented on the trip then the students will be taken out of the program.
But, she said, ECISD administrators have heard nothing but "positive things about this institute."
"I think it's going to better their understanding of the democratic process," Guerrero said. "Their communication skills are going to improve.
"It's going to hone in on their problem-solving skills," she said.
Guerrero said she answered questions by some community members who had concerns, and it's possible a school board member could travel with the group to Washington, Guerrero said.
But, regardless, she said, the 14 ninth- to 12th-grade ECISD migrant students plan to still go and administrators have discussed the concerns with board members and the Texas Education Agency, which houses the Texas Migrant Interstate Program.
"As far as I know, they're still going on the trip," Guerrero said.

WHAT IS A MIGRANT STUDENT?
>> A migrant student is a child who's a migratory agricultural worker, which includes a migratory dairy worker or migratory fisher, who in the past three years has moved to obtain temporary or seasonal work and moved from one school district to another.
>> A child is also considered a migrant student if their parents or spouse are a migrant worker and moves to be with them.
>> The full definition is stated in Title 1, Part C of the No Child Left Behind Act, according to the Texas Education Agency.
SOURCE: TEXAS EDUCATION AGENCY

FACT FILE
>> Federal money through the Title 1, Part C of the No Child Left Behind Act pay for the trip to Washington, D.C., trip for ECISD migrant students. The trip costs $24,900 for tuition and registration and $11,056.80 in airfare.
SOURCE: OFFICE OF ALMA GUERRERO, ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT FOR ECISD
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fayehall wrote:
"Alma Guerrero, ECISD assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction, said this trip isn't any different from one of the Ector County Independent School District school bands traveling for a concert or program."

Interesting comparison. Non-citizen children going to communist-founded school to learn how to and to actually lobby our congressmen for something 80% of Americans have said they don't want. And the Americans pay for it. Same as the band going out of town.
8/28/2008 4:51:20 AM

www.oaoa.com/news/students_18088___article.html/institute_trip.html - 65k - 2008-06-13

Friday, May 16, 2008

JASON MOORE'S RESEARCH ON DC SCHOOL FOR MIGRANT STUDENTS


This is who the founder of this group is that is heading up this trip to Washington DC; a radical Latin America, Reconquista minded Pied Piper!!! -- Jason

L.A. Times photo caption reads "Bert Corona in the classroom. He says he is widely suspected of instituting the violence at California State University, Los Angeles (Times 5/24/82). The photo on the left was not published in the L.A. Times (VCT archive photo).

[NOTE: This is an item archived by VCT in 1982 - many of the links may not work. Our apologies.]

Bert Corona - Founding Father of Hermandad

"I call for the replacement of the present economic system by one which is based on worker's control of the work place..." (People's World, September 12, 1970)
    • Served on the Board of Directors of the Los Angeles Communist School
    • Active as a organizer of the Mexican American Political Assocation (MAPA)
    • Responsible for the formation of the Brown Berets

HERMANDAD MEXICANA NACIONAL FOUNDED BY VIOLENT COMMUNIST "PROFESSOR"

Bert Corona is the father of Hermandad Mexicana Nacional, the Mexican nationalist organization which is embroiled in the Bob Dornan election fraud issue in Orange County. The Santa Ana building which houses HMD is named after him. He is also known for instigating violence at the Cal State Los Angeles in the early 1980's.
According to a Los Angeles Times story of May 24, 1982:

"Professors in the Chicano Studies Department at California State University, Los Angeles, have found their cars set afire, brakes cut and tires slashed during a period of bitter faculty in-fighting over jobs and tenure."
"There have been no arrests in any of those cases.
"But Los Angeles Fire Department arson investigators probing the January blaze noted in a report that "there has been much infighting between two main groups of Chicano factions....over who is promoted over whom 'Attempted termination's of faculty...have caused violent acts is the past,' the report said. 'And Cal State police therefore believe that one of these factions is most likely responsible for this incident.'
"The report did not name any suspects.
"But the faculty member leading the department's dominant faction, Bert Corona, said he is widely suspected of instigating the violence."
'There is a war going on at the university,' he said, 'Any time there's tension in the department, somebody's tires get slashed, brakes are cut, a car is set aflame or a garage is burned.'
A self-described militant, the 63-year-old Corona is an energetic man with a booming voice and a Marxist-Leninist viewpoint. "Although he lacks a college degree, Corona has taught part-time at Cal State L.A. for a decade, surviving the University's attempt to fire him for liberal grading practices."

SO HERE WE HAVE A MEXICAN COMMUNIST WHO TAUGHT AT A CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY WITHOUT A COLLEGE EDUCATION AND WHO IS IMPLICATED IN FOMENTING VIOLENCE AGAINST ANY ATTEMPT TO REMOVE HIM FROM HIS ILL-GOTTEN POSITION.
HE IS THE HERO AND FOUNDER OF HERMANDAD MEXICANA NACIONAL.
SEE THE ATTACK ON VCT BY CHICANO COMMUNISTS
ARE YOU WAKING UP YET AMERICA? -- Jason
Here's the brochure on the program put out by FCLI. Be sure and take a look at the daily scheduled itinery.
Program brochure