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The truthfulness and veracity of the clandestine San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD) Superintendent Selection Process has been under the scrutiny of District Deeds since the appointment of Cindy Marten. We have been especially suspicious of the actions of SDUSD Board of Education Trustee Richard Barrera in manipulating that process.
Late last night the San Diego Union Tribune posted an article titled “Long before legal claims, San Diego Unified fielded at least 3 other complaints about its now-fired chief” by Reporter Kristen Taketa.
Here is a quote from that article:
On Aug. 19, 2021 — three months after the board chose Jackson as interim superintendent to take over for Cindy Marten — an anonymous group identifying themselves as staff members of Bethune K-8, a school in Bay Terraces, wrote a letter addressed to the school board.
They alleged that Jackson had hired their principal, Valerie Jurado, out of favoritism. They said they had “reason to believe” that Jackson and Jurado might be having an inappropriate relationship. They also accused her of having lied about her work experience and said she lacked the administrative qualifications for her job.
Jurado declined to comment for this story, referring to the district’s spokesperson.
The letter argued that in light of their allegations, the board should not consider Jackson for the superintendent job. The letter asked the district to investigate their claims.
It wasn’t until 11 months later, after Jackson had been named the permanent new superintendent, that Jackson and Jurado were told in an email that the investigation about them was complete.
The SDUT article then provided the following information:
Petterson and Hazan said they were not told about the Jurado investigation, the July 2023 letter or the hotline report until this week.
Barrera said he had known about the Jurado investigation from the time the Bethune letter was received in 2021, but he didn’t know about the July 2023 letter or hotline report until this week.
In other words, SDUSD Trustee Richard Barrera knew about the accusation against Jackson since AUGUST 19, 2021 and NEGLECTED TO TELL ANYONE ABOUT IT INCLUDING SDUSD STAKEHOLDERS AND EVEN HIS FELLOW BOARD MEMBERS!!!
WOW!!!
And ALL throughout that period of time District Deeds had been declaring that the WHOLE Superintendent Selection process was fraudulent in the $1.4 Billion SDUSD.
Here are some examples:
On May 2, 2021, over THREE MONTHS BEFORE the letter from Bethune K-8 letter was received by Barrera we posted the following:
In that post we provided the “Gold Standard” from the American Association of School Administrators for School District Superintendent Selections titled Superintendent Searches Public or Confidential?
DD NOTE: Luckily we saved a PDF of that article. The original article has disappeared on the AASA website.
In that District Deed post we said:
The last “Sunshine or Darkness” segment of the article says it all. The disastrous selection of incompetent, unqualified Superintendent Cindy Marten epitomized the characterization provided above:
Searches conducted behind closed doors promote the new superintendent as the board’s superintendent, not the community’s superintendent.
The corruption in the SDUSD School Board runs deep and Stakeholder mistrust after the closed appointment of Marten is palpable. The stacking of Board appointed political cronies on the so-called “Selection Committee” has engendered even more widespread mistrust.
The Barrera con job has already begun.
The naming of grossly unqualified Lamont Jackson as interim Superintendent has signaled the direction commanded by Tricky Dick:
A puppet superintendent that will do his political bidding in union contract negotiations and other self-serving financial activities.
On June 20, 2021, TWO MONTHS BEFORE the letter from Bethune K-8 letter was received by Barrera we posted:
District Deeds Sunday Reads – Sunday, June 20, 2021: SDUSD Superintendent Selection Process a Scam? YOU be the Judge!!!
In that post we said:
Last week in Sunday Reads we scrutinized the “Empty Suit” leadership of the San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD).
The big open question for ALL SDUSD Stakeholders is how the current corrupt and dysfunctional district leadership will actually fill the Superintendent “Empty Suit”. This week we will make the distinction of “actually” as opposed to the current propaganda version posted on the SDUSD website.
But let’s establish one irrefutable fact before we analyze the propaganda Superintendent selection process:
The new SDUSD Superintendent has already been chosen by Trustee Richard “Tricky Dick” Barrera.
This is a fact, everything else is propaganda.
In Sunday Reads today we will expose the step by step process that Barrera and corrupt SDUSD Trustees have devised to assure that their predetermined candidate appears to be a district wide “consensus” pick for SDUSD Superintendent.
Little did we know that a month after our post a letter from honest SDUSD Stakeholders at Bethune K-8 would VERIFY our conclusions and potentially blow the corrupt Superintendent selection of Lamont Jackson to smithereens…and Barrera could not let that happen.
So what did he do?
He buried it in an investigation that culminated, according to the article, “11 months later, after Jackson had been named the permanent new superintendent.”
Did Barrera share the fact that Jackson was being investigated for the potential Bethune K-8 offenses to ALL of his fellow Board members and the SDUSD Superintendent selection committee members and communities?
OF COURSE NOT!
It was not even HINTED that there were any issues.
Did Barrera and his fellow Trustees search the complaint archives and his Human Resource file to see if there were any other sexual indiscretions on record?
OF COURSE NOT!
His fellow Board members SHOULD HAVE done that search, but BARRERA ALREADY KNEW what was there!!!
From the Voice of San Diego:
It is up to our readers to decide for themselves both based on the evidence and based on the new revelations regarding Jackson’s improper behavior that seem to be surfacing every day.
Remember, Barrera had heard ALL ABOUT Jackson, most likely from both internal and external sources through his antics with women at the SDUSD central office over at least a 10 year span so…
HERE is the MAIN QUESTION for our Readers and ALL SDUSD Stakeholders:
Do YOU believe that Barrera, a Board of Education Trustee with over 14 years of experience on the Board and an unbelievably WIDE range of personal connections both inside and outside the SDUSD, DIDN”T KNOW ANYTHING about the current and past sexual harassment/cronyism/intimidation indiscretions within the SDUSD of Lamont Jackson?
Based on the evidence we think that…
And IF he did know he should be immediately disqualified from being elected to a new term as SDUSD Trustee in November.
SDUSD Stakeholders have NO OTHER CHOICE than to remove him through the election process for the good of ALL current and future SDUSD Students.
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