🌱 Why are El Cajon parents demanding changes at EJE Academies now?

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In today's newsletter:

• Why are El Cajon parents demanding changes at EJE Academies now?
• How Borrego Health’s collapse is still hitting El Cajon wallets today.
• What a new court ruling means for El Cajon’s plate-reader fight

Also on today's calendar: Coffee & Talk.

Today's riddle: What do you get when you cross an elephant with a rhinoceros? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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• Thursday: Partly sunny, temps: high: 89, low: 66.
• Friday: Mostly sunny and very warm, with a high of 93 and low of 66 degrees.

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📰 News we're reading

• Parents and teachers confront El Cajon dual-language charter school officials (daylightsandiego.org) — Parents and teachers at El Cajon’s EJE Academies are pressing school leaders over teacher dismissals, at‑will contracts, and a lack of Spanish-language access at a tense June 29 board meeting. Unionized educators and families say instability and limited transparency are hurting students, while administrators defend their hiring decisions and emphasize improving English proficiency for the largely bilingual community.
   

• Borrego Health trust paying millions to lawyers, consultants while creditors go without, records show (sandiegouniontribune.com) — El Cajon figures are deeply entwined in the fallout from Borrego Health’s bankruptcy, as court records show local businessman Daryl Priest and dentist Husam Aldairi among those tied to settlements and remaining charges. While lawyers and consultants have received millions from the liquidating trust, unsecured creditors—including small businesses and a company owned by El Cajon’s mayor—are recovering less than twenty cents on the dollar.
   

• California appeals court finds that license plate data collection alone is not harm (eastbaytimes.com) — A recent California appeals court ruling says simply collecting license plate data doesn’t count as legal harm unless there’s misuse or a breach, a decision that shapes how privacy laws are enforced statewide. That’s especially relevant in El Cajon, where the state Attorney General is already suing the city over its police department’s sharing of automated license plate reader data with other states, keeping local surveillance practices under scrutiny.
   

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