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@smdailypress @smdailypress Santa Monica Daily Press smdp.com Samohi entrepreneurs compete for cash Students learn business skills through Project ECHO competition

BY JEFFREY I. GOODMAN Management, where volunteer Daily Press Staff Writer judges will determine the winners of a combined $6,250 in prize money. The creators of a tracking app, a The competition is the culmi- solar technology startup and a cos- nation of a monthslong program metics business are all vying for through which high school stu- cash to support their entrepre- dents in five Southern California neurial efforts. And no, they’re not counties come up with business going on “Shark Tank.” plans, harnessing their talents The people behind the fledgling while developing skills that could companies are Santa Monica High help them in the future. School students, and they’re partic- “They’re thinking about what a ipating in a competition organized business is, they’re thinking about by a local nonprofit organization to who’s going purchase their services promote entrepreneurial skills. or goods and they’re learning how The three Samohi teams will be to market to a demographic,” said among about 45 finalist groups at Diane Quast, Project ECHO’s exec- Project ECHO’s event Sunday at the UCLA Anderson School of SEE ECHO PAGE 7 Judge gives Never too tenure victory to pretty California Local boxing club teacher unions owner’s brand tells girls they are never ‘too BY BRIAN MELLEY & AMANDA LEE MYERS delicate’ for anything Associated Press BY JENNIFER MAAS LOS ANGELES California teacher Daily Press Staff Writer unions have regained the advan- tage in their fight to keep the state’s Cary Williams always took it as tenure system. a compliment when she was told The victory came in the form of that she “fights like a boy.” an appeals court decision that “In a sport where you get hit in reversed a trial judge’s ruling that the face, you learn the true differ- found tenure deprived some stu- ence between a man and a dents of a good education. woman,” said the former Olympic- In the reversal Thursday, the style boxer, a coach and owner of DONE AND DUSTED Photos by Morgan Genser 2nd District Court of Appeal said a the Santa Monica boxing club The The Samohi baseball team crushed Hawthorne 15-2 at home Thursday afternoon, completing a two-game sweep group of nine students who sued Stables. “We are biologically differ- to start Ocean League play. The Vikings, who are 9-6 overall, are scheduled to host Lawndale on Tuesday. SEE UNIONS PAGE 6 SEE WILLIAMS PAGE 8 Todd Mitchell “Leader in Luxury Real Estate.” (310) 899-3521 CalBRE# 00973400

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http://apm.activecommunities.com/sa Saturday, April 16 ntamonicarecreation/Activity_Search /50140 or call (310) 458-2239. Cost Master Gardeners at the $10. 1450 Ocean Ave., 2:30 - 3:30 p.m. Market Master Gardeners provide free gar- When Did It Stop Being dening tips, solutions to gardening Fun? problems, seeds and seedlings as well Photographer Pamela Mayers- as their technical expertise based on Schoenberg reveals a world where for- the Master Gardener Volunteer mal education becomes a sole focus of Training Program which provides over-worked, sleep deprived kids bur- intense gardening training emphasiz- dened by unnecessary expectations. ing organic gardening and covers veg- Show opens with a reception at dnj etables, fruits, flowers, shrubs, trees, Gallery. 2525 Michigan Ave., 7:30 p.m. soils, composting, pests and harvest- ing. Virginia Avenue Park, 9:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. Sunday, April 17 Heal the Bay’s Earth Guest House Month Festival 2016 Free tours begin at 11 a.m., 12 p.m. and Volunteer at a beach clean-up and 1 p.m. No reservations needed. explore the SM Pier Aquarium for free. Annenberg Community Beach House, For more information call 1-800- 415 PCH, 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. HEAL-BAY or visit www.healthebay.org. 15500 Lifeguard Aqualillies (Intro) Tower, 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. Synchronized swimming course. $160 per session (5 classes including park- Practice Test for the NEW ing); $35 per class. Annenberg SAT with C2 Education Community Beach House, 415 PCH, Get a taste of the new SAT with this 11:15 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. free proctored test by C2 Education. Limited space; call to pre-register, Printmaking Lab with starting Monday, March 28 at 310- Zeina Baltagi 458-8621 or come by the Youth Laboratory for experimenting and Reference Desk. Grades 9 - 11. Main printing with our 30”x48” Dickerson Library, 601 Santa Monica Blvd., 10 Combination motorized printing a.m. - 2 p.m. press. Printmakers with some experience are invited to sign up for printing Santa Monica Reads time; bring your blocks or everything Author Talk: An Afternoon you need to work on the. Cost $20. with Emily St. John Mandel Register at https://apm.activecommu- Author Emily St. John Mandel pres- nities.com/santamonicarecreation/Ac ents an engaging discussion of tivity_Search?detailskeyword=print- Station Eleven, her past work and her making or call (310) 458-2239. 1450 future plans. A book sale and signing Ocean Ave., 12 - 4 p.m. follows. Seating is first come, first served. Main Library, 601 Santa Hatmakers Lab with Leslie Monica Blvd., 2 - 4 p.m. Robinson Join milliner Leslie Robinson as she Collage Lab with Amy & works on her own hats in this drop-in Richard hatmaking laboratory. A small number Drop by and collage with Amy Bauer of head blocks and sewing equipment and Richard Hecht of Dreameco provided to share; ribbons, notions, Crafts. Magazines, paper and glue pro- and blank hoods available for pur- vided. Register at SEE LISTINGS PAGE 3

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Main Library as well as a significant discovery she made Main Library public. Seating is limited and on a first Santa Monica Public in her role as an art-history detective while Santa Monica Public arrival basis. Drop-ins are welcome. This doing research for this book. She also pro- event is part of The Living Room…a Library presents ‘An vides tips for those interested in traveling Library hosts ‘The Living place for adults program series. For Armchair Visit to to Giverny. Room presents Game On: more information, visit smpl.org or con- Rebecca Bricker is a memoirist, novelist, tact the Santa Monica Public Library at Monet’s Giverny with travel writer and blogger, who lives out of Board Games and (310) 458-8600. The Santa Monica Rebecca Bricker’ her suitcase but finds herself at home in Coloring for Adults’ Public Library is wheelchair-accessible. Florence, Italy, and Pasadena, California. Her For special disabled services, call Santa Monica Public Library invites you other books are a memoir entitled “Tales Head to the library on Wednesday, April Library Administration (310) 458-8606 on “An Armchair Visit to Monet’s Giverny,” from Tavanti: An American Woman’s Mid-Life 20 from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m., for “Game On: one week prior to the event. The Main a virtual journey hosted by travel writer in Italy” and the novel “Not a True Story.” Board Games and Coloring for Adults” in Library is directly served by Big Blue Rebecca Bricker on Thursday, April 21, This program is free and all ages are the Community Room at the Main Library, Bus lines 1, 7, R7, 8, and R10. Big Blue 2016 at 6:30 p.m. in the Main Library’s welcome. Space is limited and on a first- 601 Santa Monica Blvd. Bus lines 2, 3, 3M, 5, and 9 also stop Martin Luther King, Jr. Auditorium, 601 arrival basis. This is an event of The Living Adults want to have fun, too. Join in within a short walking distance. Ride Santa Monica Blvd. Room …a place for adults program series. for a regular series of programs your bike. Bicycle parking racks are Join us as author Rebecca Bricker takes For more information, visit smpl.org or designed to inspire adults to get in available at the library. us on a tour of Monet’s France, via the contact the Santa Monica Public Library at touch with the big kid inside. Programs - SUBMITTED BY JUDITH S. GRAHAM, PUBLIC SERVICES sights and characters depicted in her new (310) 458-8600. The Santa Monica Public include crafts, DIY hands-on projects, LIBRARIAN book. The Secret of Marie is an art-history Library is wheelchair-accessible. For spe- vintage television show and movie mystery set in Giverny, France, where cial disabled services, call Library screenings, and more. Relax and have Community briefs are informational items sub- Claude Monet spent the last half of his life. Administration (310) 458-8606 one week fun creating, coloring, enjoying refresh- mitted to the Santa Monica Daily Press by resi- Marie was the favorite model of American prior to the event. The Main Library is ments and relaxing to music. This dents, businesses or organizations. The name Impressionist artist and Monet mentee directly served by Big Blue Bus lines 1, 7, month, play board games and enjoy and organizational affiliation of the individual Theodore Robinson (1852-1896). Marie R7, 8, and R10. Big Blue Bus lines 2, 3, 3M, relaxing while coloring beautiful images. who sent the information is provided at the end appeared in a number of Robinson’s paint- 5, and 9 also stop within a short walking Games available include Monopoly, Life, of each brief. To submit information, email edi- ings, but little is known about her, which distance. Ride your bike. Bicycle parking Scrabble, Clue and more. All materials [email protected]. has perplexed art historians for years. In racks are available at the library. are supplied; all you need to bring is her presentation, Rebecca shares vintage - SUBMITTED BY JUDITH S. GRAHAM, PUBLIC SERVICES your game savvy and creativity. and present-day photographs of Giverny, LIBRARIAN This program is free and open to the

Homework Help @ Pico a painting by his wife Gerday (Alicia LISTINGS Monday, April 18 Branch Vikander), Danish artist Einar Wegener FROM PAGE 2 A separate study area, basic supplies, (Eddie Redmayne) becomes enamored Animal Shelter Show & Tail and volunteers to assist with homework with his feminine identity and begins liv- Learn how the Santa Monica Animal questions. Grades 1 - 5. Pico Branch ing as a woman. Montana Avenue chase. Some hatmaking experience Shelter works to help save animals, from Library, 2201 Pico Blvd., 3:30 - 4:30 Branch Library, 1704 Montana Ave., required, but beginners can get started dogs to horses to turtles--and maybe p.m. 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. by making a fascinator with Leslie. Cost even meet an animal friend. Ages 5 & $20. Register at https://apm.activecom- up. [A limited number of tickets are Arts Commission Meeting Architectural Review Board munities.com/santamonicarecreation/A given out on a first-come, first-served Regular meeting of the Santa Monica Meeting ctivity_Search?detailskeyword=hat- basis, 15 minutes before the program, at Arts Commission. Ken Edwards Center, The ARB generally meets on the first makers or call (310) 458-2239. 1450 the Information Desk. A ticket is 6:30 p.m. and third Mondays of each month unless Ocean Ave., 1 - 4 p.m. required to attend.] Montana Avenue there is a holiday. Meetings are held in Branch Library, 1704 Montana Ave., Movie Screening: ‘The the City Council Chambers at City Hall 3:30 - 4:30 p.m. Danish Girl’ unless otherwise noted. City Hall, 7 p.m. After standing in as a female model for

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office (310) 458-7737 OpinionCommentary Lead Business Intelligence Developer 4 WEEKEND EDITION, APRIL 16-17, 2016 Visit us online at www.smdp.com for online retailer. Must have MSc CS degree & relevant experience. SMart Thinking Send resume to Just Fabulous, Inc. By SM a.r.t. Send comments to [email protected] 800 Apollo Street, El Segundo, CA 90245 or email to [email protected]. Downtown’s housing conundrum OUR RECENTLY ADOPTED CITY ZONING utilize the street run-off from the City’s Ordinance envisions adding dense new stormwater recycling system for landscape housing in the downtown area. We can now irrigation. However, rainwater is only avail- see how well that housing goal is being met. able on a sporadic basis. It is unfortunate What is undoubtedly true is that recent that the new residential projects’ photovolta- WHEN BAD THINGS HAPPEN housing approvals have been massive. In the ic roof areas are so small in relation to their past nine months the Planning Commission large power demands (elevators, lights, air- has permitted four large downtown mixed- conditioning etc.) that they will generate less TO GOOD PEOPLE BECAUSE use projects (see table on Page 5). than 10 percent of their energy needs. They To put these numbers into context, we are also woefully unprepared for the expect- can now answer some basic questions: ed surge in electric car recharging demand. OF THE CARELESSNESS OR Thus the new buildings are nowhere near 1) HOW BIG ARE THESE PROJECTS? the California stated goal of being “net-zero The new area approved is equivalent to a buildings” that generate as much power as NEGLIGENCE OF OTHERS. second Santa Monica Place being added to they use. our downtown. These additions will sub- stantially change how our downtown is 6) HOW WILL THESE BUILDINGS AFFECT OUR experienced, particularly in the southeast PUBLIC SCHOOLS? corner where two of the projects bracket the Estimating school population is an inex- Free Consultation Lincoln-Colorado gateway. act science. Currently the downtown population contains very few children. We may Over $25 Million Recovered 2) HOW MUCH WILL THESE PROJECTS INCREASE expect up to 15 percent of the new residents OUR CITY”S POPULATION? to be of school age (16 percent of Los If we assume an approximate population Angeles County’s population is school age). •CATASTROPHIC PERSONAL INJURIES density of 1.7 people per unit (given the With no local elementary school easily •WRONGFUL DEATH higher than typical bedroom count of these accessible within the downtown boundaries, buildings), this represents about an 857-per- many of these new students will have to be •MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENTS son increase, a 1 percent increase in the driven to school each day, thereby increasing City’s current population of 94,000 and is traffic. According to the Downtown •BICYCLE ACCIDENTS actually a 25 percent increase in the down- Environmental Impact Report the closest •SPINAL CORD INJURIES town population. This is a steep increase - in elementary school, Roosevelt, is at capacity, less than a year, equal to 33 percent more and is unprepared for any expansion. •TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURIES than L.A. County’s annual average popula- •DOG BITES tion increase over the last five years. Looking 7) HOW WILL THESE BUILDINGS HELP AFFORD- forward, the Southern California ABILITY? •TRIP & FALLS Association of Governments (SCAG) antici- The good news is that about 23 percent of pates Santa Monica’s population to grow by the units are affordably deed-restricted. about 453 people per year till 2040. By that SCAG would like Santa Monica to build 239 You Pay Nothing Until standard we have just approved housing at units per year till 2021. In fact, in only nine about twice the projected annual growth months, our City has approved two years Robert Lemle Your Case Is Resolved rate. worth of the SCAG housing targets. It should be noted that the 64 affordable units 310.392.3055 3) HOW DO THESE PROJECTS FIT INTO THE mandated for the 500 Broadway project are DOWNTOWN COMMUNITY PLAN (DCP)? planned for a separate parcel on the eastern www.lemlelaw.com The DCP expects to add between 155 and edge of the new downtown. These units are 201 units downtown each year over the next still in the approval process. Thus, they are 15 years. So in less than a year we have not included in the area and parking data of already approved three years worth of new the chart above. housing. Because of the desirability of Santa PRESIDENT SENIOR ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES Monica, increasing the number of units will Ross Furukawa Rose Mann [email protected] 4) HOW WILL THESE PROJECTS AFFECT TRAFFIC? not reduce overall housing prices. The wealthy [email protected] 1640 5th Street, Suite 218 Almost 3/4 of the residents who reside in few will always outbid the middle class or Jenny Medina Santa Monica, CA 90401 PUBLISHER [email protected] OFFICE (310) 458-PRESS (7737) our downtown commute via single occu- poor for any available units that are not deed- Rob Schwenker FAX (310) 576-9913 [email protected] pancy cars each day. We hypothesize that this restricted. This is not unusual when supply is JUNIOR ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE tendency is not likely to change soon for two limited (in our case by being a built-out, very EDITOR IN CHIEF Andrew Oja simple reasons: the EXPO line does not pro- densely populated city) and the demand is Matthew Hall [email protected] vide true connectivity to all the workplaces effectively infinite. Santa Monica is coveted by [email protected] of our new residents, and the high rents the wealthy of the world. We cannot satiate all PRODUCTION MANAGER charged for these new units will be primari- the demand for beachside housing. STAFF WRITERS Darren Ouellette The Santa Monica Daily Press publishes Jeffrey I. Goodman [email protected] Monday - Saturday with a circulation of 10,000 ly only affordable to people who own cars Developers salivate at the possibilities of creat- [email protected] on weekdays and 11,000 on the weekend. The and are inclined to use them. Automobile ing new market rate housing, hotels and Jennifer Maas ASSISTANT GRAPHIC DESIGNER Daily Press is adjudicated as a newspaper of use will increase as more new residents offices in our town while throwing us a few general circulation in the County of Los [email protected] Cocoa Dixon Angeles and covers news relevant to the City crowd into downtown. This is an area bones of low cost housing. Yes, there is an of Santa Monica. The Daily Press is a member already projected to have 24 of its 44 studied affordability crisis in Santa Monica. But we STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER OPERATIONS/CIRCULATION/LEGAL of the California Newspaper Publisher’s Association, the National Newspaper intersections operating at “fair” to “failure” must be clear - we cannot produce enough Morgan Genser SERVICES MANAGER Association and the Santa Monica Chamber of [email protected] Josh Heisler level within the next 14 years (15 of them are affordable units for a full spectrum of incomes Commerce. The paper you’re reading this on is [email protected] composed of 100% post consumer content and already operating at “fair” to “failure” level). in our city even if we saturate the city with CONTRIBUTING WRITERS the ink used to print these words is soy based. However the good news is that these projects multiple “Plaza’s At Santa Monica”. CIRCULATION Bill Bauer, David Pisarra, We are proud recipients of multiple honors for have as many bicycle parking spaces as car outstanding news coverage from the California Charles Andrews, Jack Neworth, Keith Wyatt [email protected] Newspaper Publishers Association as well as a parking spaces. So hopefully, increased bicy- 8) IN SUMMARY: WHAT IS THE TAKE-HOME Sarah A. Spitz, Cynthia Citron, Santa Monica Sustainable Quality Award. cle use and the opening of the Metro will FROM THE LATEST ROUND OF DOWNTOWN Margarita Roze Achling Holliday [email protected] PUBLISHED BY NEWLON ROUGE, LLC somewhat mitigate our future traffic woes. APPROVALS? TO ADVERTISE IN THE © 2016 Newlon Rouge, LLC, all rights reserved. A) By any rational metric, Santa Monica SANTA MONICA DAILY PRESS 5) HOW SUSTAINABLE ARE THESE BUILDINGS? is exceeding its housing goals. If we were to IN PRINT OR DIGITAL, These buildings will perform much better approve no other housing for the next two PLEASE CALL than comparable buildings built in the last or three years, we would still be meeting our decade because of stringent new energy fair share of regional housing. 310-458-7737 or email codes. Particular attention has been given to [email protected] AWARD WINNER WINNER water conservation, and some buildings will SEE SMA.R.T. PAGE 5

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TRY OUR NO OBLIGATION TRY OUR NO OBLIGATION $59 EXAM $1 EXAM OR Courtesy graphic INCLUDES AND CLEANING MIXED-USE: The Planning Commission has OK’d four large downtown projects in recent months. For New Patients FULL XRAYS INCLUDES FULL XRAYS should be slowed down to allow our infra- SMA.R.T. structure (in the broadest sense), parks and FROM PAGE 4 schools to catch up. All the costs of this If you don’t like what we have to say growth are eventually borne directly or indi- rectly by the city’s taxpayers and by the envi- we will give you a copy of your B) Our City government must consider ronment we all live in. x-rays at no charge the burden that is shouldered as we provide In conclusion, there is no housing pro- more than our fair share of new housing in duction shortage in Santa Monica. There are DENTAL CARE WITHOUT JUDGEMENT! our built-out town. Our downtown is those who are using the myth of an alleged increasingly impacted and our mobility housing shortage as a Trojan horse. They WE OFFER UNIQUE SERVICES devices (streets, busses, bikes, light rail) have expect to cram an unsustainable amount of *Nitrous Oxide provided as a courtesy not yet proven to be able to absorb this building into our town to increase their *No interest payment plans growth without escalating gridlock. EXPO’s profits at public expense. These developers *Emergencies can be seen today impact is still unknown: it will surely be ben- and their supporters expect our residents to *Our dentists and staff members are easy to talk to eficial over the coming decades but traffic meekly bear the burden of this ruanaway jams in Santa Monica will not magically end unsustainable growth. They want us to AND OF COURSE WE DO on May 20. They may actually increase ignore the sustainability and livability -Invisalign -Periodontist on Staff -Oral Surgeon on Staff because of the train’s effect on intersections. impacts of that burden. -Cosmetics and Implants -Zoom bleaching -and more The City’s water supplies are not growing as fast as the potential water demand. If our Mario Fonda-Bonardi, AIA for SMa.r.t. SANTA MONICA FAMILY DENTISTRY 15TH ST population grows at about 1 percent a year, DR. ALAN RUBENSTEIN WILSHIRE BLVD.# . yet we need to reduce our water consump- Santa Monica Architects for a Responsible Tomorrow 14TH ST VE. tion 8 percent a year to reach self-sufficiency 1260 15th ST. SUITE #703 ARIZONA A by 2020, then this growth does not help our Sam Tolkin, Architect; Dan Jansenson, Architect; Mario (310) 736-2589 . water sustainability targets. Likewise, Fonda-Bonardi, AIA, Planning Commissioner; Ron schools and open spaces are not ready for Goldman, FAIA; Thane Roberts, AIA;; Bob Taylor, AIA; this increased burden. In short, this much Armen Melkonian, Environmental Engineer; Phil Brock, WWW.ALANRUBENSTEINDDS.COM growth, if continued, is unsustainable and Chair, Recreation & Parks Commission

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Home and Office Delivery NOW AVAILABLE! *Please bring an empty container for your water or you may purchase a container at the store SAT Local CITY OF SANTA MONICA 6 WEEKEND EDITION, APRIL 16-17, 2016 Visit us online at www.smdp.com REQUESTS FOR PROPOSALS (RFP) extremely troubling and should not be NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of Santa Monica invites Consultants to complete UNIONS allowed to occur, but it does not inevitably and submit proposals for the: FROM PAGE 1 flow from the challenged statutes.” The closely watched case highlighted ten- Chain Reaction Renovation Project the state had failed to show California’s hir- sions between teacher unions, school lead- SP 2338 ing and firing rules were unconstitutional. ers, lawmakers and well-funded education “The court’s job is merely to determine reform groups over whether policies like ISSUE DATE: APRIL 7, 2016 whether the statutes are constitutional, not if tenure and firing teachers with the least sen- QUESTIONS DUE: APRIL 19, 2016 they are ‘a good idea,’” presiding Justice iority keep ineffective instructors in the SUBMITTALS DUE: MAY 3, 2016 @ 2:30 PM Roger Boren wrote in the 3-0 opinion. classroom, particularly in already low-per- A Los Angeles Superior Court judge who forming schools. Proposals shall be delivered to the City of Santa Monica, Architecture Services, found evidence to “shock the conscience” Teachers have long argued that tenure 1437 4th Street, Suite 300, Santa Monica, California, 90401, not later than 2:30 p.m. had sided with students two years ago who protects them from being fired on a whim, on May 3, 2016, to be publicly opened and read aloud at 2:45 p.m. on said date in the claimed that incompetent teachers were preserves academic freedom and helps Large Conference Room at 1437 4th Street, Suite 300, Santa Monica, California 90401. almost impossible to fire because of tenure attract talented teachers to a profession that Each proposal shall be in accordance with the Request for Proposals. laws and that schools in poor neighborhoods doesn’t pay well. were dumping grounds for bad teachers. Attorney Michael Rubin, who defended Request for Proposal documents may be obtained by logging onto the City’s bidding The ruling was stayed pending appeal, so teachers unions in the case, said the court’s website at http://www.smgov.net/planetbids. Consultants wishing to be considered must it never went into effect, but if upheld had decision was “huge.” submit Proposals containing all information required pursuant to the City’s Request for threatened to shake up public schools that “It puts to rest — we believe forever — Proposals. teach more than 6 million students from the constitutional attacks on job security for kindergarten through 12th grade statewide. teachers,” Rubin said. A lawyer for the plaintiffs said they were The Vergara v. State of California lawsuit, disappointed, but called it a “temporary set- including Beatriz Vergara among the public back” and expected to appeal to the school student plaintiffs, was backed by NOTICE OF AVAILABILITY OF California Supreme Court. Students Matter, a nonprofit group founded PROPOSED FY 2016-17 ONE-YEAR ACTION PLAN “The Court of Appeal’s decision mistak- by Silicon Valley entrepreneur David Welch. enly blames local school districts for the Attorneys for the state and teachers ALLOCATING FEDERAL CDBG AND HOME FUNDS egregious constitutional violations students unions had argued that the case was never are suffering each and every day,” attorney about helping students and should be over- Notice is hereby given that the City of Santa Monica has developed the Proposed FY 2016- Theodore Boutrous Jr. said in a written turned because no evidence was presented 17 One-Year Action Plan. The One-Year Action Plan is submitted annually to the U.S. statement. “The irrational, arbitrary, and showing the disputed statutes were the cause Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). It delineates the City’s specific abominable laws at issue in this case shackle of educational inequalities. projects and activities for one-year use of Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) school districts and impose severe and The case has inspired others like it. and HOME funds in order to meet the City’s overall housing and community development irreparable harm on students.” After the trial court ruling in Vergara, a needs as specified in the 2015-19 Consolidated Plan adopted by City Council and sub- In reversing that decision, the appellate suit was filed in New York contending that mitted to HUD in May 2015. The City is seeking community comments on the Proposed panel said the trial highlighted problems teacher tenure and layoffs by seniority One-Year Action Plan. with tenure and layoff statutes and showed deprive students of a sound, basic education the “deleterious impact” of staffing decision as guaranteed under the state constitution. Copies of the Proposed FY 2016-17 One-Year Action Plan are now available to the public on poor and minority students. But it said Lawyers for New York’s teachers union have for a 30-day community review period ending April 30, 2016. Copies are available at City state law wasn’t to blame. asked for the case to be dismissed. Hall and on the web at http://www.smgov.net/hsd or you may contact the Human Services “Some principals rid their schools of Before the ruling came down, a similar Division, 1685 Main Street, Room 212, Santa Monica, CA 90401, telephone (310) 458- highly ineffective teachers by transferring lawsuit was filed in Minnesota by a group of them to other schools, often to low-income parents and a national education reform 8701; TDD (310) 458-8696. Please send your written comments to schools,” Boren wrote. “This phenomenon is group. [email protected] or to the above address by April 30, 2016. 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Courtesy photo ENTREPRENEURS: Samohi students have crafted business plans for Project ECHO’s competition.

aspiring entrepreneurs form groups, develop ECHO formal business plans and figure out how FROM PAGE 1 they would sell their products and services. About 75 teams attended the semifinals utive director. “They’re learning how to March 13 at Loyola Marymount University. research where they want their business to The remaining finalists are now vying for be and how to run a social media campaign. top-three recognition in three separate cate- “For that kid who’s a quirky doodler who gories: technology, retail and food/beverage. didn’t know what they could do with their At Samohi, Amy Matsushima, Emily Flavin drawings, now they’re the person behind the and Leslie Vasquez devised software called marketing platform and creating a logo. The Attendachip that would digitally track school girl who was a math genius, she’s now the attendance. Coby Sayyah and Mike Choi con- CFO. Whatever their skill is, they know what ceived Solartron, which would harness solar they can do with that skill when they gradu- energy to control vehicle temperatures. And ate from high school.” Madison Ambriz and Emily Dorsey came up Santa Monica has played a major role in with Healthy Skin Cosmetics, which includes the growth of Project ECHO, an acronym an aloe-infused moisturizer for sensitive skin for Entrepreneurial Concepts Hands On. and a concealer that features tee tree oil. Samohi was one of the first area high schools Samohi teacher Mariam Shafiey serves as to partner with the organization, which was their advisor. Evan Milnor, an MBA candi- launched 20 years ago. date at UCLA, has been available as a mentor. With the help of the nonprofit, which was Real-world business leaders will serve as originally created to help high school stu- judges at the upcoming contest, assessing the dents start on-campus businesses, Santa students’ written proposals and oral presen- Monica High students launched a flower tations to decide which projects they would santa monica shop, a catering company and a valet service. be most likely to fund. malibu A former Samohi teacher, Terry Jones, “A lot of coaching and mentoring goes on later helped Project ECHO develop the cur- between the leaders and the students,”Quast riculum that it now offers to high school said. “It’s a phenomenal networking oppor- throughout the region. tunity.” Starting each school year, students attend business boot camps and mentor days. The [email protected]

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