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Disabled students and classes disappear once again from MiraCosta's program catalog

Apr 28, 2019
5 min

Disabled students and classes disappear once again from MiraCosta's program catalog

Oceanside, CA - Despite numerous public comments over the past year alleging discriminatory practices against students with developmental disabilities and requests that these students also be represented on MiraCosta's class catalogs like other students, MiraCosta continues to ignore these students' pleas. Job postings and other public materials of the community college claim to value diversity, but practices and programming shows that this neuro-minority continues to be disc

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MiraCosta's administration continues to hide complaints by the public.

Aug 15, 2018
5 min

MiraCosta's administration continues to hide complaints by the public.

Oceanside, CA - Since November 2017, members of the public, students and faculty have publicly raised concerns about MiraCosta's leadership and policies, but sadly the Board's minutes, which its President Sunny Cooke controls, continue to sanitize the public's comment to the point where the summaries in the minutes fail to reflect the actual nature of what is being said. Minutes are supposed to reflect what happens at a Board meeting to help the Board be transparent and accou

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Dean tells disabled students behave or we might have to call the police on you. Attendance impacted.

"False narratives," and disregard of students' needs continue to be at the forefront o

May 17, 2018
6 min

"False narratives," and disregard of students' needs continue to be at the forefront o

Oceanside, CA - Concerns continue to mount over the lack of MiraCosta administration's responsiveness to the needs of students, concerns of the public and staff contract negotiations. Cuts in tutoring, false narratives by administration, lack of an associate faculty contract, and discriminatory practices are but some of the frustrations emerging over the past several months. Despite emotional pleas and concerns raised in countless public comments since November 2017, the minu

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MiraCosta admits use of adult ed block grant to pay for a $71,000 grant supervisor for federal WIOA

Mar 12, 2018
4 min

MiraCosta admits use of adult ed block grant to pay for a $71,000 grant supervisor for federal WIOA

After months of public comments challenging MiraCosta's use of its state Adult Education Block Grant (AEBG) to pay for its grant supervisor for the federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunty Act (WIOA) grant, MiraCosta has publicly acknowledged that funding of the WIOA position was "not an allowable expense." Board action is expected on March 15, 2018 to eliminate the position after an internal review by a representative from the California Community College Chancellor's of

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State's review finds that MiraCosta's AEBG Consortium failed to follow public meeting requir

Feb 23, 2018
5 min

State's review finds that MiraCosta's AEBG Consortium failed to follow public meeting requir

Oceanside, CA – After numerous complaints from the public since November 2017 regarding the failure of MiraCosta’s Adult Education Block Grant Consortium to have public meetings, Watchdog learned this month that the State had launched an investigation in an effort to ease the ongoing concerns. However, in a document titled "Program Review," dated December 19, 2017 -- released to the public two months later on February 20, 2018, the state investigator validated the concerns ra

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Public questions MiraCosta's use of state funding to pay for salary of federal grant administrat

Administrator's explanation for failing to follow grant plan refuted by consortium's minutes

Dec 20, 2017
3 min

Administrator's explanation for failing to follow grant plan refuted by consortium's minutes

Oceanside, CA - December 1, 2017, members of the public and students appeared before the Academic Senate for MiraCosta urging it not approve the faculty rankings approved by the Academic Affairs committee because the list failed to rank the faculty request for the Adults with Disabilities (AwD) program or mention how the position had funding behind it through the MiraCosta led adult education block grant consortium. A faculty request had been submitted to MIraCosta because f

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Public exposes how MiraCosta's block grant consortium failed to hold state mandated public meeti