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Barrera, Beiser, Cindy Marten, Foster, McQuary, San Diego Unified Board of Education, San Diego Unified School District Superintendent Cindy Marten
Following the lead of incompetent Grand Jury Accomplice Superintendent Cindy Marten, Trustees Barrera, Evans and Grand Jury Accused Marne Foster decided to ignore overwhelming Stakeholder opinion and the heat stroke risk of over 130,000 SDUSD Students and voted to approve a Pre-Labor Day Start Date in the 2016/17 school year.
By coincidence Trustee Beiser was not present at the meeting to vote…not that it made any difference.
The lone “No” vote came from Trustee McQuary who actually appeared at community meetings and heard the wide outcry against the Pre-Labor Day start date directly from the SDUSD Stakeholders. Thank you Mr. McQuary for not selling out to cronies on the Board and actually standing up and representing the majority of the SDUSD Stakeholders!
After many Stakeholder statements at the meeting opposed to the decision, the incompetent Marten and her Board cronies Barrera, Evans and Foster stabbed the SDUSD Stakeholders in the back…again…and then asked for MORE Stakeholder Fauxllaboration to convince us that they were right despite overwhelming facts to the contrary.
Marten, Barrera, Evans and Foster REALLY THINK THAT WE ARE THAT DUMB!
Never forget…especially at the Ballot Box in 2016!!!
More to follow…
District Deeds 
Thanks for covering this last school board meeting. It was like nothing I’ve seen in the time that Cindy Marten has been superintendent.
First, it was SEVEN hours long. Seven..meaning it went to midnight.
And of course, the reorganization of the central office was saved until last. Many speakers, saying raises were given to Cindy’s friends, little money given to classrooms. Extra supervisors in Special Ed and Counseling, extra tasks given to Counselors and not much assistant time given for Special Ed..
But I’ll start at the beginning, when a public commenter, Heather Montgomery, was warned by Marne Foster, not to take more than one minute…then Marne, in a loud and bullying voice, cut Heather off in mid-word. 4 minutes 40 seconds into the tape, if you care to watch it.
Next, Mitzi Moreno started to present the plan to change SDHS back to one principal, but public commenters said the district already made this plan before they listened to the stakeholders. Many unhappy speakers on this.
Around 3 hours 20 minutes, the LCAP was reviewed. Both Barrera and Evans said the accountability plan was not understandable to the public. They said there was too much jargon, should be written in plain English.
Evans added that the plan was not specific and showed no results. Cindy went from defensive to blaming the format and others who wrote it.
The calendar was discussed five hours into the meeting, the time, ten o’clock. Still, the speakers stayed and voiced their feelings about not being listened to…especially in McQuary’s area. Good for him, voting no.
Then came the reorganization discussion. Even though it started at 5 hours and 30 minutes into the tape, it went until until 6 hours and 54 minutes.
And this is where Cindy’s train went off the rails.
At 5 hours and 52 minutes, Barrera, for the first time since he compared her to Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. and crowned her superintendent, Mr. Barrera criticized her. Said he was very concerned that the stakeholders, who commented during the meeting, felt mislead, disregarded and said the money and support was going from the classroom to the central office. He said there was a lack of transparency, a lack of trust and in the future, he wants to have board meeting reports from classified and certificated employees.
But the best was saved for last. If you don’t want to binge-watch all seven hours, just move your cursor on the video to 6 hours and 29 minutes.
Marne Foster meltdown, after telling public input speakers they could only talk for one minute, she spoke for an hour…(beginning at 6 hours)…and was very, very…did I mention VERY unhappy with the central office reorganization. I can’t begin to describe how passionate, angry, insistent she was that the appointments be changed. She even referred to the information you wrote about the quality people, Phil Stover, well five who have become successful superintendents. Then Marne insisted the board vote on something that was not even on the agenda. Crazy.
Sad…for the stakeholders, for the children, for all the dedicated employees..
Again, thanks for reporting on all of this.
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Hi Erin! Thank you for the synopsis. I was at the meeting until about 7:30 and then came home to watch the rest…then watched it all the next day all over again. You outlined many of the items that I am in the process of writing for the blog. Cutting Heather Morgan off and then getting in the argument with another speaker during the LCAP comment was totally inappropriate and shows that there is general disarray and finger pointing inside the inner sanctum of the Board and Superintendent. I had to laugh when Marne Foster basically repeated what I had wrote months ago…maybe we all are getting through! Thank you for your fine summary and I will be taking a shot at it this week with supporting documentation.
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