Poway elementary school parent liaison gets $3,000 surprise

Poway elementary school parent liaison gets $3,000 surprise

When Laura Gonzalez-Garcia, Valley Elementary School’s parent liaison, was told there was an emergency and she needed to report to the Poway campus’ multipurpose room, she feared the worst. “It has been a hard time for my community. … My first thought was that (ICE agents) took someone in our community,” Gonzalez-Garcia said, explaining there have been Poway Unified parents taken in recent months by agents for deportation. So when she walked int…