Unintended Consequences is a group of concerned Los Altos School District residents committed to exploring the critical issues currently facing our district and the children it serves.  This web site features fact-based research and voices from our community that we believe are critical to the historic discussion in which we are all now engaged.

In 2014, the voters of the Los Altos School District approved a $150 million bond measure to build a tenth school site and upgrade existing school facilities. It shocked many of us when the district began considering a proposal that would move the entire campus of Egan Junior High School to a new site on the other side of El Camino Real and dedicate the entire existing facility to Bullis Charter School.

Many of us were relieved when the LASD school board tabled the proposal for further study. 

However, the issue of where and how to house Bullis Charter School, what happens to our neighborhood public schools, and how the $150 million bond measure will ultimately be spent still looms large.

We believe it is paramount that all us—community members, Bullis Charter School officials and parents, and our governing bodies—take a close and honest look at the issues before us, including what has transpired since authorization of BCS by the Santa Clara Country Board of Education in 2003. We need to ask ourselves whether there have been unintended consequences and if the current situation is what we want for our community and our children. If it is not what we want, we need to collaborate to develop a new plan that works for all of us.