A state review found that students at Bayside Martin Luther King Jr. Academy have suffered under years of rapid staff turnover, inadequate class offerings, excessive discipline and substandard academic performance.
The hillside school with the dreamy view of San Francisco Bay seems to practically shoutA racially diverse group of children play an afternoon game of capture the flag. Teachers and parents proclaim their inclusivity with lapel buttons: “All cultures. All faiths. All races. All abilities. All gender identities ... The future is welcome at Willow Creek Academy.”commitment from parents and staff. It has been recognized as one of California’s top charter schools.
Itoco Garcia, superintendent of Sausalito Marin City School District, was hired to implement reforms to address past inequities at Bayside Martin Luther King Jr. Academy. In Sausalito, which is 85% white, parents who put their children in a multiethnic public school say they feel tainted by intimations of racism and frustrated that a desegregation effort their school started years ago has been overlooked.
“There is this simple story that’s been told about rich kids versus poor kids and a rich school versus a poor school,”said Kurt Weinsheimer, 50. “But that’s not the story.”A view of Sausalito, Calif., where Willow Creek Academy, a charter school with a student enrollment of 361, is located. But the closure of several local military bases in the 1990s fueled white flight and declining enrollment. Attendance in the district, once about 600, dipped to just over 200. The school system was in chaos, with students failing at remarkable rates, despite spending nearly three times the state average,Some parents thought they had an answer in a new charter school in Sausalito.
The Sausalito Marin City school board agreed to settle with the attorney general's office, and it will have the final say over how to desegregate Bayside Martin Luther King Jr. Academy. And while many Marin City families sent their children to Willow Creek Academy, others did not want to abandon Bayside MLK, a school that had been a part of their families for generations.
But questions abound: Could all 465 students fit on one campus? Should the district go charter, or operate under traditional public school rules, along with the union membership that usually entails? Would all students fare better if a larger school district took control?
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