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Multiple teacher\/coaches at El Camino Real have been placed on administrative leave in the latest example of turmoil at the Woodland Hills charter school.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll I can confirm is that there is an investigation,\u201d El Camino Real\u2019s interim executive director, Emilie Larew, wrote in an email. \u201cI am unable to comment on details related to a pending investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n
Brad Wright, chairman of the school\u2019s board, said he was unaware of which coaches were under investigation even though he was on campus earlier this week.<\/p>\n
Parents confirmed that multiple coaches were escorted off campus Thursday. One of them was El Camino Real\u2019s decorated baseball coach, Josh Lienhard, who has guided the team to five City Section championships. Lienhard was not at school on Friday and declined comment in a text message.<\/p>\n
Coaches who are also teachers will be receiving help from United Teachers Los Angeles representatives.<\/p>\n
Parents have been concerned about the school since the summer when executive director David Hussey and assistant principal in charge of athletics Jason Camp were ousted. Hussey, a former soccer coach, had been the executive director for 10 years.<\/p>\n
Parents are waiting to see if the coaches will be reinstated before deciding what action they will take.<\/p>\n
During Wright\u2019s tenure, El Camino Real has replaced the football, boys and girls basketball coaches, the tennis coach and the athletic director. El Camino Real\u2019s acclaimed softball program lost its coach.<\/p>\n