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El Rancho Unified Superintendent Karling Aguilera-Fort Will Resign

Karling Aguilera-Fort

BY BRIAN HEWS

Hews Media Group-Los Cerritos Community News has learned that ERUSD Superintendent Karling Aguilera-Fort will resign, taking another position with the Oxnard School District.

The statement from ERUSD read, “Mr. Aguilera-Fort was informed of the Oxnard School District’s decision on June 1st, and informed the ERUSD Board of Education on June 2nd and 3rd.”

Aguilera-Fort’s departure comes in the wake of an exclusive exposé by HMG-LCCN that uncovered a wide-ranging scheme involving over $212 million in school bond funds perpetrated by El Rancho Unified School District (ERUSD) Board Members engaging in pay-to-play politics, financial cover-up, blatant conflicts of interests, and willful violations of California’s Education Code.

The long-running plot has involved ERUSD President Jose Lara and Vice-President Gabriel Orosco since 2015, with newly elected Board member Leanne Ibarra joining the two controversial board members immediately after she was elected in November 2018.

 

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The recipient of Lara and Company’s actions was Jaime Ortiz, a good friend of Lara and Orosco’s, and owner of High Performance Learning Environments, Inc., which was incorporated only five years ago as a two-person company.

 

 

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After the first two parts of the exposé published, the Los Angeles County Office of Education called for a FCMAT audit of the beleaguered district, an audit Aguilera-Fort denied, calling out HMG-LCCN for “mis-information.”

 

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The downfall of Aguilera-Fort might have begun after another part of the exposé caught ERUSD president Jose Lara and  Aguilera-Fort accusing the investigators of corruption, while falsely claiming and posting on social media that  they were responsible for initiating the FCMAT audit.

 

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Just days after the audit was announced, Jaime Ortiz left his contract with ERUSD, with Aguilera-Fort, amidst all the exposed corruption, praising Ortiz for the work he had done.

 

 

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