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Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: On the removal of Principal Zoila Garcia from Whittier Dual Language School

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: On the removal of Principal Zoila Garcia from Whittier Dual Language School:


On the removal of Principal Zoila Garcia from Whittier Dual Language School


Parents, teachers, and community members meet to protest the removal Principal Garcia. (Photo: Un-Official Whittier Dual Language School)
To the extended Whittier Dual Language School Family

Whittier Dual Language School, under the direction of Zoila Garcia, was visited before she was abruptly removed by PLV Network Chief Steve Zrike, with no input from the LSC or Whittier School Community, by the one of the national authorities on Dual Language, The Dual Language Education of New Mexico, who participated in an all day instructional round observation in nine classrooms. The DLeNM is an organization that knows more about dual language education than anyone in CPS.

In the report, they wrote the following of our principal, Ms. Zoila Garcia:

"School principal, Zoila Garcia, possesses an exemplary understanding of dual language instruction and