Robin Alcoba has a fourth grader enrolled at Veterans Elementary School. She said that for the past four months, he's been sitting in class not learning the Spanish language arts he needs to pass standardized testing at the end of the year.

“I'm feeling really confused and disappointed in the school district,” she said. “We're already halfway into the year. I don't know what he's learned since July.”

She listened in Chula Vista Elementary School District’s last board meeting as one teacher after another spoke up about the struggles they’ve been having teaching kids without the curriculum they need.

“In January of 2025, we went to a biliteracy training, and we were told and showed all the new [2025] materials and were really excited to get them, and then all of a sudden in May, out of no

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