LTE: There's a new special interest group in town
FUEL — Families Unified for Education in Laguna
- Published:
- 2025-04-15
- Retrieved:
- 2026-05-13
FUEL letter to the editor by FUEL President Shaheen Sheik-Sadhal, posted on the FUEL site by Emily Rolfing. An early FUEL self-introduction reframing the 'special interest group' label and describing FUEL as 'Families United for Education in Laguna, a 501(c)(4) non-profit advocacy group.' Published in the period between FUEL's February 2025 public launch and its later 2025-26 advocacy escalation.
Key points
- April 15, 2025 letter by FUEL President Shaheen Sheik-Sadhal, posted on the FUEL site by Emily Rolfing two months after FUEL's February 7, 2025 public launch.
- Reframes the 'special interest group' label as a deliberate FUEL identity: 'one singularly focused on the best interests of our children.'
- Describes FUEL as 'Families United for Education in Laguna, a 501(c)(4) non-profit advocacy group' — using the 'Families United' wording recurring in early FUEL self-descriptions.
- Claims a base of 'a powerful force of 300 and growing — parents, caregivers, grandparents, doctors, lawyers, business owners, homemakers and neighbors.'
- Frames the November 2024 LBUSD board election as the 'wake-up call' that catalyzed FUEL's formation and ongoing accountability work.
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We are FUEL—Families United for Education in Laguna, a 501(c)(4) non-profit advocacy group—and we are just getting started.
FUEL President Shaheen Sheik-Sadhal's April 15, 2025 LTE posted on the FUEL site by Emily Rolfing, reiterating the same 'Families United' wording (versus the site's standard 'Families Unified') two months after the February public launch.