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

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

Over the last 10 days, a MiraCosta dean has visited classrooms of students with intellectual/developmental disabilities to inform them that

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