Arturo Gonzales must be rakin' it in eh?
Who cares anymore. Lets never stop this and litigate until both coffers are cleaned out and Arturo is hangin' w/ Larry Ellison on Lanai.
I hope this continues on and on and on. I hope when people hear others speak on the topic of "Bullis", they wretch and sneer in disgust. I can't care anymore. "Sue Forrest SUE!"

To Fine: you should care. This legal battle affects thousands of school children in a rare public district which actually succeeds in educating kids. More litigation means fewer taxpayer dollars (presumably some of yours) going to those kids. It also sets a precedent for other high-achieving districts across the state which could end up facing the same issues. California voters made it easy for charter schools to start and expand unchecked without regard to whether they are needed, wanted, or effective in improving the quality of education in their communtities. They have unelected governing bodies that spend taxpayer dollars. We are responsible for this situation, and should care how it affects us.

Hey Fine,

You seem to have only mentioned one of the two lawyers who was quoted at length in the article. I suspect both of them are benefitting from the never-ending lawsuits.

One demand from BCS seems intriguing to me: as their kids are getting older they now want to add middle school grades 7&8 to the BCS program. That is pretty sweet. I have kids at Springer who will be finishing in a couple of years. Instead of having to truck on over to Blach, I too would like to add 7&8th grades to Springer!

I think we have a case here for Springer, in particular, because somehow we seem to have the highest percentage of special needs kids in all of LASD (this number has grown in recently to about 19% of all students, in fact; BCS is <1 or 2%). Seems to be a strong argument for getting charter status, since the law explicitly states that special needs education is required. I need to get in touch with this Arturo Gonzalez, and "lawyer up"!

Quite obviously SWEEPING reforms of the laws surrounding Charter schools are needed. The longer this goes on, the more evident it is.
It public taxpayer money is being spent, the board should never be private.

As long as LASD fails to comply with the law and share facilities equally with the Charter, litigation will be ongoing. I wonder how LASD is going to explain to parents why they have to pay the BCS legal fees as well as their own.

Tom,
Get your facts right. BCS has had a 7th and 8th grade program for a number of years. This year, it's at 75 students. It'll be 100 next year. Quite a large number come from Mountain View.

The blog responses explains why the lawsuits just keeping going on and on and on.

No civility on either side. What a shame.

Hi Ron,

Sorry, I am behind on my facts, they already got 7&8! Your lawyers move quickly! Sweet! I am jealous!

Tom,
No problem, This is the third year of the program.

Look at how delighted Ron seems. Really awful stuff for the community on oth sides. REFORM CHARTER SCHOOL LAWS NOW!
Hello, Mr Simitian...there outta be a law!!!

I'm furious. I hope Gonzalez donates his lawyers fee back to BCS. He expected to lose this lawsuit? Then why the heck did he file it?? This was just a huge waste of money, and Gonzelez is the only one to profit from it. We need to fire him and focus on what the school really needs.

Ron,
Since BCS has so many Mountain View students, may I suggest that you relocate to Mountain View? We don't want BCS in Los Altos. Please go serve some underperforming area of Santa Clara county and leave our top rated Los Altos schools alone.