Los Angeles Unified School District

OFFICE OF THE GENERAL COUNSEL 333 S. Beaudry Avenue, 20th Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90017 TELEPHONE: (213) 241-7600; FACSIMILE (213) 241-3316

JOHN E. DEASY, Ph.D. Superintendent of Schools DAVID HOLMQUIST General Counsel

July 15, 2013

Lisette Garcia Judicial Watch SENT VIA ELECTRONIC MAIL info@judicialwatch.org Re: Public Records Act Request

Dear Ms. Garcia: We have reviewed your California Public Records Act request, reference no. 0021256, in which you requested various documents related to: a. Semillas Sociedad Civil; b. Semillas Community Schools; c. Academia Semillas del Pueblo; d. Anahuacalmecac International Prep. University High School; and e. Marcos Aguilar. We have searched, retrieved and are providing documents that were found to be responsive to your requests, excluding communications with Los Angeles Unified School Districts attorneys which are protected under attorney-client privilege and therefore not subject to disclosure (Govt. Code 6254(k) and Evidence Code 954). Given the size of the files, I have uploaded the responsive documents online to www.dropbox.com under a folder titled Judicial watch PRA Response Docs. There are separate subfolders that contain records produced in response to each individual request, also identified in the next chapter below. The documents can be retrieved via the following link: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/h4iurj0rixa0qoa/Q1YNKb9T5N In addition, you will receive a message from DropBox regarding same. Please let me know if you encounter any problems with accessing and/or retrieving the files. In response to your specific requests, we respond as follows: REQ. RESPONSE NO. 1. Please see responsive documents in the subfolder titled Resp. to Req. No. 1 Communications. 2. Please see documents in the folder titled Resp. to Req. No. 2 - Audit, Contract, Grant, Fundraising, Financials.

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Please see responsive documents in the folder titled Resp. to Req. No. 3 - Performance Objectives for faculty. Please see responsive documents in the folder titled Resp. to Req. No. 4 - Performance Objectives for Students. Absent further clarification, there are no records that respond to this request as the District does not have any policies or programming plans or partnerships with the entities or person identified in your request. However, the District has a Charter Schools Policy that may address/respond to that request. This, and other similar policies, are public and available on our website at http://notebook.lausd.net/portal/page?_pageid=33,1112433&_dad=ptl&_schema=PTL_EP Please let me know if there is a specific identifiable record you would like us to search for that may respond to this request.

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As a courtesy, the District is granting a one-time waiver of costs for producing the documents identified and uploaded to DropBox. Please note that charges will apply for any subsequent requests by Judicial Watch. Should you have any questions, please contact the Office of General Counsel at (213) 241-7600 and reference the following OGC Control number: # 0021256.

Sincerely,

Chichi Daniel, MPA Office of General Counsel.

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