Cecilia Aguinaga (pictured at right) will not be participating in the Santa Ana Education Foundation SAUSD School Board Candidates Forum, which has been rescheduled and pared down to one forum, not two, on October 26. The incumbents who are running for the SAUSD school board, John Palacio and Audrey Noji, will be there.
I was not happy when I heard that Aguinaga did not turn in her paperwork for the forum, as I was looking forward to finding our more about her, but her consultant, Kim Ward – who did such a great job with Jose Solorio in the primary, says that Aguinaga was not available on October 26.
Ward also filled me in on Aguinaga, as follows:
- She recently received the endorsements of the Democratic Party of OC and the Santa Ana Educators Association.
- She has been involved in Santa Ana community issues for more than 20 years, with an emphasis on education issues.
- She has received many awards and commendations, and served on numerous boards and committees, including: Public Relations Coordinator, Executive Board of Association of Mexican American Educators (AMAE);
- Political Action Coordinator, Classified Employees Union, SAUSD;
- Vice President, Parent Teachers and Students Association (PTSA) at Santa Ana High School;
- Historian, Parent Teacher Association Council (PTA) of SAUSD;
- Vice President, Lion’s Club;
- Executive Committee Board Member, Regional Occupational Program;
- and Chair, Santa Ana Human Relations Commission.
Thank you Kim for all the information! Please let us know if your candidate will be appearing at other community forums.
Cecilia Aguinaga can’t do a simple task; turn in her paper work for the forum or is she not capable of answering questions in a public setting?
For someone who wants to manage the fifth largest school district and hopes to defeat the incumbents, why is she not taking every chance to show the voters why she is the better candidate?
The candidate
I concur with comment #2. There is absolutely no excuse for Cecilia to not show up at a forum/debate. She does not have the luxury of being an incumbent and therefore must use every opportunity afforded her to get her message out. Especially since she is running against two incumbents.
Her consultant is giving her very bad advice to not show up, even if Cecilia does have a strong accent.
By the way, from what I recall, Cecilia announced sometime last year she was going to run for school board. Why hasn’t she bothered to take some classes to help her pronounciate better? She sounds like Charo.
Bloggers #1 and #2 aren’t asking the right questions. The questions that needs to be asked are:
1.)Why is the Santa Ana Education Foundation sponsoring the candidate’s forum?
2.)Why did the foundation’s executive director threatened to shut down this blog?
3.) If the foundation’s website is up to date, why is there no posting of scholarships awared for the 2005-06 school year?
4.)Should the foundation be required to disclose, in a timely manner, how much money they receive, and much they disperse, and to whom?
Ms. Aguinaga’s language skills are an assest. She is equipped to speak to ALL parents!
Ms. Aguinaga has always responded promptly and professionally when any parent, teacher or community member has called upon her for help at a school site. She has been a tireless advocate for the students of SAUSD and she’s actively involved in Floral Park, her neighborhood association.
Why would any candidate appear at a candidates forum that’s been engineered to discredit them? I suspect any campaign manager worth their salt can sniff out a set-up.
I don’t believe Ms. Aguinaga is incompetent because she declined to participate in the forum. I think she’s one smart cookie for sitting this dance out.
You’d have to fool not to read between the lines of posters #1 and #2. The one remaining question remains, why is the executive director of the Santa Ana Education Foundation embroiled in this drama and who is her cohort?
Anonymous Says:
8/14/2006 1:43 PM
The people who scream the loudest have the most to hide. It’ll be interesting to see what Medrano’s been hiding.
That over-the-top vindictiveness to silence is a dead give-away.
#1 and #2 are screaming pretty loud.
Anonymous Says:
7/20/2006 1:41 AM
Could it be that the “Santa Ana Education Foundation”. Is an arm of:
Mailing Address:
SANTA ANA EDUCATION FOUNDATION
1601 E. CHESTNUT AVE
ATTN: DR MIJARES – SUPERINTENDENT
SANTA ANA, CA 927016322
2003 tax return filed a year late, no record of 2004 or 2005 being filed.(503-c’s records are public)
******
This could explain the 2 ads in Above the Mean promoting candidates forum. Many say it’s business as usual and the district comp’d the ads. Others would like to know did the foundation pay full pop?
There’s more to this than meets the eye.
Medrano file the foundation’s taxes for the last two years, yet?
If not, why not?
You don’t supposed that Bernedette would pull something like this?:
http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5566751&postID=115336726551301145
Now for the bad news. Earlier this year I crossed swords with Bernedette Medrano, (pictured at left) the Executive Director of the Santa Ana Education Foundation. At the time she was opposed to a candidate I was assisting, Lupe Moreno. She invited Moreno for coffee one day and I was not told about it. The meeting turned out to be a setup. Medrano asked Moreno some very tough questions – and Moreno’s responses were not, quite frankly, very good. Later, several quotes from that meeting were used by Moreno’s opponent for the 34th Senate District, Lynn Daucher.
Though I was upset with Medrano over her sneak-attack on Moreno, I later found myself looking for a female blogger, and knowing that Medrano was involved in education, I magnanimously asked her to become one of our bloggers. She accepted. However, after Al Mijares, the Santa Ana Unified School District (SAUSD) Superintendent, quit, it hit the fan here at the Juice. Teachers who had spent the last 12 years being afraid of Mijares and his cronies began to post – a lot – about the problems at the SAUSD. Medrano herself came under attack for not being critical of Mijares and his administration. She quickly got tired of the attacks and asked me to remove her as a part of our blogging team.
http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5566751&postID=115336726551301145
Recently I heard from Medrano again. She was sorely vexed about something that someone written about an SAUSD administrator, on an open thread I set up for SAUSD detractors. She asked me to delete the post – and because it questioned the gender of a Mijares acolyte, I deleted it. We later met and she unleashed her fury on me. In all the years that I have been active in politics I don’t know that I have ever spent a more awkward half an hour with someone. Medrano was so angry that I had to ask her to calm down several times. She kept asking me why I was allowing “trash” to be posted on my blog. I explained, repeatedly, the fact that I do not approve the posts. I can delete them, but I do not have the power to approve them. Nor would I want to do that. I have a life – in fact during the day I cannot post because I am at work. I don’t have the time to read every post.
I explained to Medrano the fact that I and my co-bloggers are huge proponents of free speech. We delete posts that are profane – and those that get into issues that are not germane, such as someone’s gender, or what their family is up to. No matter what I told Medrano, she was not to be mollified. She actually threatened me, repeatedly. She said she has a lot of connections in Sacramento and that she planned to email everyone she knows and tell them not to read the Orange Juice because it is “trash.”
Medrano did not stop there. She also asked me why I was working with John Palacio, a SAUSD trustee. I had to laugh! He beat me when I ran for the SAUSD Board of Education back in 1998. He was an ally of Nativo Lopez, the unethical SAUSD trustee that I helped to recall. I have not seen Palacio in a long time, and I told Medrano that. But she apparently chose not to believe me. I heard today, from a friend, that apparently there are Republican activists in Orange County asking why I am now backing Palacio. I wonder where they heard that?
It seems that Palacio and I are in agreement at this juncture, for different reasons. I have been a very vocal critic of Mijares and his administration – my position is that they had 12 years to improve things in Santa Ana, and they failed miserably. I guess Palacio feels that way too, for his own reasons. And so Medrano now feels that we are somehow allied. And it appears that she might be sharing that information with her friends.
Medrano has made it clear that she intends to “go nuclear” against this blog. Well, consider this a preemptive strike. I, and my blog team, have worked very hard to establish this blog. I am not going to let someone with anger issues attempt to destroy it.
Art,
I notice on your ever-changing blog look that you now have your “search the juice” “recent posts” etc… menu at the very beginning and top of your blog. It looks good. Tidy.
Now that SAUSD educators have returned to their sites and word is getting around about some of the education discussions that have occured on your blog during the summer, could you please consider one more link at the top of your blog: “SAUSD Discussions” and link it to the longest running discussions after Mijares announced his departure?
http://o-juice.blogspot.com/2006/07/sausd-corruption-coming-out-with.html
It is simply too difficult for people to find without doing a search. If it were available at the top, I would expect your blog to get a lot more hits and certainly more comments added.
Thank you for keeping the focus on education and ethical practices. We see good changes already.
I smell a rat with the SAEF and Bernadette Medrano. Cecilia, your have a keen sense of smell. Good luck to you in the election!
I notice on your ever-changing blog look that you now have your “search the juice” “recent posts” etc… menu at the very beginning and top of your blog. It looks good. Tidy.
Actually, the “search,” “recent posts,” etc were there from the first day of the new design. It seems a lot of people hadn’t seen them, though. Our eyes sometimes deceive us.
Now that SAUSD educators have returned to their sites and word is getting around about some of the education discussions that have occured on your blog during the summer, could you please consider one more link at the top of your blog: “SAUSD Discussions” and link it to the longest running discussions after Mijares announced his departure?
A good idea. I added “SAUSD posts” to the sidebar underneath the “archives” bar. However, I don’t know of any Blogger tools that will populate that index automatically so I’ll have to add to it manually. Call it to my attention if I miss something. I only went back about a month in collecting old posts but I can add more of them if someone wants to locate appropriate posts.
Someone should tell Medrano that the “Big Set Up” trick might not work anymore. Maybe she can tell her friends Machado, Jones and Byfield, too. It’s way over used in SAUSD.
Here are more links. Thanks for making that little change, Gila:
Will miss candidates forum: http://o-juice.blogspot.com/2006/08/aguinaga-to-miss-sausd-candidates.html#comments
Mijares departure: http://o-juice.blogspot.com/2006/08/whats-up-today-in-oc_27.html
Religious impact in board of ed: http://o-juice.blogspot.com/2006/08/why-religious-zealots-should-not-be-on.html
General comments: http://o-juice.blogspot.com/2006/08/drinking-liberally-pays-off.html#comments
Search for new superintendent: http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5566751&postID=115569457273050096
Verino out of Santa Ana School Board Race: http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5566751&postID=115530599817087913
Announcement for SAUSD candidate forums: http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5566751&postID=115458076526096678
SAUSD Injustices: http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5566751&postID=115366646767171930
Interim Superintendent: http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5566751&postID=115351347382940949
Orange Juice under attack by Bernadette: http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5566751&postID=115336726551301145
Mijares leaving and corruption coming out: http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5566751&postID=115308745590495161
Ethical Governance: http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5566751&postID=115290327148079644
Mijares resigns, by Art: http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5566751&postID=115171331341822870
Mijares resigns by Bernadette: http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5566751&postID=115171300499200449
Avila fibs about books: http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5566751&postID=114058393421276020
Op ED: http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/opinion/columns/article_1008728.php
Valley tried to uncover people blogging over spring break http://o-juice.blogspot.com/2006/04/whats-good-about-no-child-left-behind.html
Chamber to partner w/ valley: http://o-juice.blogspot.com/2006/04/sausd-and-santa-ana-chamber-sign.html
“Cecilia Aguinaga can’t do a simple task; turn in her paper work for the forum or is she not capable of answering questions in a public setting?”
A “simple task”? Like filing taxes for SAEF in a timely manner? Why don’t you call up the forum promoter, Mrs. Medrano and ask what the hold up is?
Cecelia is running for a volunteer position. Bernadette is shirking her paid duties. I hope that outrages you, since you are such a stickler for incompetent behavior.
“By the way, from what I recall, Cecilia announced sometime last year she was going to run for school board. Why hasn’t she bothered to take some classes to help her pronounciate better? She sounds like Charo.”
The Saddleback Principal mocked a parent’s pronunciations in front of a group. It was disgusting. Your brand of criticism is also disgusting and out of touch with the community at large. Cecilia will be a good rep for families and students.
Noji and her flunkies days are coming to an end. run cockroaches.
Ok, anon 11:23 — I added most of those. You’ll probably have to refresh your browser a few times to see them.
Noji came back to run for School Board for one reason and one reason only. There is a little know provision that will allow her an extra retirement/Medical Indurance for LIFE in addition to College Admin. retirement. I don’t know if other current board members will get it but there was a”grandmother” clause that gives it to DR. No for sure….Ask John Palacio to get the facts from the district attorney. Why else would she put her kid in school in Irvine and let still serve in Santa Ana? It’s called $$$$$$..for life!!!!!!!!!
Gila,
You rock!
Thanks
It
No on Cecilia writes …
“For someone who wants to manage the fifth largest school district and hopes to defeat the incumbents, why is she not taking every chance to show the voters why she is the better candidate?”
The better question is: Why should voters extend Noji’s term to 20 years when her past 16 have been littered with the following failures?
Financial mismanagement resulting in nearly $60 million in budget cuts.
Dubious transfer of construction money from fund to fund.
Teachers forced to take a 4-1/2% pay cut and delay in COLA to stop a state takeover.
Refusal to honor the contract entered into by SAUSD and SAEA to repay COLA, this year.
Annual decline of schools to meet state and federal academic standards. Nearly 80% have been designated as failing schools.
Overcrowded classrooms.
Too many long term subs.
Lack of counselors, at the secondary level, despite the Gov’s recent funding for more counselors.
Horrific violations of CA law regarding special ed.
Noji’s ardent support of the failing administrators at Valley, Saddleback, Santa Ana High Schools and Willard.
Her back room deal to lure Russo back to SAUSD with the promise of replacing Mijares.
Her recent attempt to thwart a transparent search for superintendent by recommending the search firm of former SAUSD superintendent Rudy Castriutta.
The burden should be on the incumbent to explain why she believes she warrants the trust of the voters when she has failed them for the past 16 years.
Anonymous Says:
9/02/2006 9:23 AM
Medrano doesn’t seem interested in the welfare of all the students and educational staff.
She seems focused in on keeping things status-quo = inefficient and corrupt.
Pathetic emphasis on her part.
File those taxes for the last few years yet, Bernie?
The No on Cecilia blogger hurls the accusation that Ms. Aguinaga is incompetent, yet Noji has been denied two positions as community president in the last few years. It’s been noted that her lackluster SAUSD track record precedes her. If educators refuse to entrust her to run a community college, why should the residents of Santa Ana “settle” for her?
Join the chorus of those NOT supporting Noji.
SAEA
OC Democratic Party
Santa Ana Chamber of Commerce
Young Dems of OC
http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:xbaGsRGCViwJ:www.csea262.org/meetings/2005/2005-05_minutes.pdf+audrey+noji+Mt+SAC&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=33
Mt Sac Meeting notes: ” Negotiations
OJ Crew –
Thanks for the forum to disuss SAUSD matters and the blooger-friendly format for those wanting to chat it up.
I support the union’s position to endorse Ms. Aguinaga.
Anonymous Says:
8/08/2006 6:57 PM
TO: Dr. A. Noji- President, Santa Ana Unified School Board
Subject: Graduation Waivers
Speaking on behalf of members of the staff of Saddleback High School, we are deeply concerned about the granting of graduation requirement waivers by our school site administrator, Esther Jones. It has come to our attention, from a reliable source, that she was directed by Dr. Lewis Bratcher to take whatever means necessary to increase the graduation rate at Saddleback High School.
Mrs. Jones granted waivers to course requirements for 30 seniors and allowed them to gain their diploma in direct violation of Board Policy. In addition, 15 of those seniors, due to waived course requirements, did not
achieve the mandatory 240 credit requirement directed by Board policy as well.
This situition occurred last year if you will recall, and we, were given to understand thatcorrective action was taken and this type of situation would not occur again. This type of action is not only illegal but also unethical. The diplomas that are given out to graduating seniors, who legiti-mately achieved passing scores and attained credit requirements, lose validity and value. These waivers also usurp the final decision making authority of the teacher. Our fellow teachers have already sited examples of underclassmen saying things such as
“By the way, from what I recall, Cecilia announced sometime last year she was going to run for school board. Why hasn’t she bothered to take some classes to help her pronounciate better? She sounds like Charo.””
I would vote for Charo if she was running as well…guchi,guchi,guchi
Closest we came to having Charo on the board was Nadia Maria Davis Lockyear!
” Anonymous said…
8/23/2006 10:50 PM
I agree, but we also need someone competent, I do not mean Cecilia.
She might have the heart in the right place, but it will take more than that.
We need someone who can make tough decisions, remember Cecilia works for the district.
she is the chief of police community liaison, you can not tell me that she does or did not know the chief’s extra curricular activities when everyone else knows.
Like this thread said,
8/22/2006 3:51 PM
She needs to make it clear, over and over again!
Will she come forward, like Mijares did against NL and pledge that she will rid sausd of this type of scum!
She goes public, she will be on the board come NOVEMBER!
What are you going to do, Cecilia?
Show what you are made off!
8/29/2006 10:13 AM”
Bernadette Medrano I know it is you that is picking on Cecilia’s accent. Let it go. She is far more respected than you’ll ever be. I spoke with Cecilia last week and I had no problem understanding her English.
Noji supporters are grasping for straws because they cannot defend her wretched 16 years on the school board.
Noji’s camp refuses to discuss fiscal mismanagement; lack of teachers; overcrowded classrooms; and Noji’s support of incompetent administrators. This is just a partial listing of what’s gone wrong during Noji’s service on the board.
Why should the voters re-elect Noji for another 4 years?
Stop the incompetency.
Vote Aguinaga on Nov. 7.
Anonymous Says:
9/02/2006 9:23 AM
“Medrano doesn’t seem interested in the welfare of all the students and educational staff.
She seems focused in on keeping things status-quo = inefficient and corrupt.”
I think comment #22 requires us to keep a clear mind, after all the foundation has done good work for the students. While their website is sketchy about scholarships, the gala and activities for the 2005-06 school year, it is possible the webmaster has not updated the site.
Why the foundation, or its executive director, has chosen to insert itself in this particular school board race is the question that needs to be asked. At one time, Dr. Noji, with the blessing of Dr. Mijares, attempted to wrestle control of the foundation causing strife between district administrators and the foundation’s executive director.
Has peace been reached between the two entities and at what cost?
Did the foundation execute a plan to shut down the OJ with the purpose of silencing the growing wave of Noji opposition?
English is not Ms. Aguinaga’s primary language and it isn’t the primary language of 80% of SAUSD students. Is this how Noji supporters view our children? Are they merely children of Charo with improper pronunication skills?
It’s disheartening to discover that Noji handlers are resorting to smear campaign tactics.
Surprising? No.
A revisit to Arellano’s 2004 article, Valley Vendetta, is appropo since it’s been reported Valley West has 3 counselors to serve 3,000 students.
—–Beginning of article —–
By Gustavo Arellano
Thursday, March 25, 2004 – 12:00 am
If Virgil took Dante into the ninth level of Hell today, the pair would quickly arrive at the offices of the Santa Ana Unified School District. Already facing a $29.8 million budget deficit, the district
As I sidebar to the posting above, I have cut and pasted this posting from earlier.
Under Mijares the hiring of new teachers was always left until late in the summer when the pickings were very slim. Most districts begin hiring and putting teachers under contract in the late spring. SAUSD waits until August, September, and often October. This accounts for the massive overcrowding in September and this also accounts for the staffing of classrooms with subs instead of credentialed teachers.
Another example is presently ongoing. The state has offered school districts seed money to begin hiring counselors so that the ratio of students to counselors will become 300:1 (SAUSD in the high schools is at 750:1). Irvine District, for example, has been interviewing and hiring counselors all summer long. SAUSD is only now getting started.
In terms of hiring principals, Antonio “Tony” Espinosa, the principal of Valley (Godinez) high school came up through the ranks not on his abilities as an administrator. According to a now retired principal who told me, “In principal meetings Tony was never seen as the sharpest knife in the drawer, but he always volunteered for Mijares’ extra assignments and he always brought donuts to the meetings.”
Espinosa made a mess out of Ceasar Chavez, then he was promoted to Spurgeon where he made a mess out of that school. Finally, he was moved to Valley and Valley is now a PI 5 school.
The teaching and administrative team at Valley has been in total disarray since the arrival of Espinosa in 2001. Schools grow and advance on the basis of staff stability. Valley has lost more than 50% of it’s teaching staff since 2001. In addition the administrative staff has been devastated by Espinosa. Since school sites are never exactly alike, it takes a year or more for administrators to get acquainted with the particulars at each school site. Valley is entitled to 4 AP’s. Only two AP’s have spent more than a year at Valley since 2001. in other words Valley has gone through 6 AP’s in 6 years. No counseling AP has ever lasted more than a year which explains the mess Valley Counseling has been in since 2001.
Later Espinosa wanted Santa Ana High and when he did not get it he started to intrigue for Segerstrom. Noji scuttled that bid in favor of Lynn Maher but Espinosa was promised Godinez, which he now has. Why does Espinosa have such strong, although unproven, support among certain board members and Mijares? That same retired principal, who is Hispanic, said that Espinosa’s family is big and powerful in Santa Ana (they own a great deal of rental property in town and in the surrounding cities including property in Mexico), Espinosa was a product of SAUSD and Mijares wanted a poster boy for SAUSD (you know, local boy makes good), and Espinosa was totally loyal to Mijares willing to do whatever Mijares demanded of him.
It is clear to anyone with eyes that Espinosa was a political appointee. Principals appointed for their political credentials are almost always disastrous and Espinosa’s track record proves that.
Under Mijares politics was the highest consideration for promotion and job retention and not professional ability, managerial skill, and human relations. Schools should operate on the basis of the ability to teach kids and a highly refined managerial skill set to administer schools. Under Mijares SAUSD was debased by politics. That explains the districts growing failures. And until politics and political appointees are removed from the ideology and leadership of SAUSD the situation will continue to deteriorate.
Has anyone ever spoken to Alfredo M. Amezcua?
He sounds like Charo,but worse.
“Has anyone ever spoken to Alfredo M. Amezcua?
He sounds like Charo,but worse.”
Everyone has an accent. What does he do in the district?
What does Alfredo M. Amezcua have to do with the school board race and who is he?
Any “viable” candidate knows a candidates forum/debate is merely a choreographed stage for political junkies. Overall the voters who attend these events are supporters of the candidates.
Voters do not want “to stay the course” with Dr. Noji because her course has been detrimental to the students, parents, teachers and Santa Ana.
16 years is enough.
“Anonymous Says:
9/07/2006 7:14 PM
What does Alfredo M. Amezcua have to do with the school board race and who is he?”
I believe he is some type of attorney; he is on the School Board for Santa Ana College.
He is also a Nativo, Palacios crony and soon on the list Cecilia Aguinaga.
Blogger #38
Let’s look at a few of those that are not on Noji’s list.
Santa Ana Chamber of Commerce, Santa Ana Educators Assn., and the OC Democratic Party.
Are you declaring that all of the above are cronies of Nativo and John as well?
But before you respond, don’t forget that the OC Democratic Party, the Santa Ana Educators Assn. and SA Chamber, in the past, have always endorsed Noji. This year the OC Dems and teacher’s union voted to endorse Palacio and the Chamber is sitting out this dance.
Teachers and Educators Support Cecilia Aguinaga for SAUSD School Board.
Goooooooo Cecilia!
Bla, Bla, Bla; Bla!
Look at Cecilia’s profile; what do you see, nothing that would compel me to vote for her!!
“Ward also filled me in on Aguinaga, as follows:
She recently received the endorsements of the Democratic Party of OC and the Santa Ana Educators Association.
She has been involved in Santa Ana community issues for more than 20 years, with an emphasis on education issues.
She has received many awards and commendations, and served on numerous boards and committees, including: Public Relations Coordinator, Executive Board of Association of Mexican American Educators (AMAE);
Political Action Coordinator, Classified Employees Union, SAUSD;
Vice President, Parent Teachers and Students Association (PTSA) at Santa Ana High School;
Historian, Parent Teacher Association Council (PTA) of SAUSD;
Vice President, Lion’s Club;
Executive Committee Board Member, Regional Occupational Program;
and Chair, Santa Ana Human Relations Commission.”
Impressive; Not!
She has been involved in Santa Ana community issues for more than 20 years, with an emphasis on education issues.
In Cecilia
Luis-
Why do you refuse to discuss Noji’s dismal 16-year record as an “elected” SAUSD school board member?
Four times Noji has asked SAUSD voters to elect her and they replied in the affirmative. That’s why her record, as an “elected official,” is germane to the discussion.
The teachers refused to endorse Noji this time around, after endorsing the last four times. For the first time the Democratic Party failed to endorse Noji. The one major endorser she has, Miguel Pulido, announced that the SAUSD school board, under the leadership of Noji, is the WORST in the county! Rings more like an indictment than an endorsement.
You’ve got Politics 101 mastered –
create your own reality and deny, deny, deny.
I support Noji for another 4 years; she will do better and a lot more in the next four years.
Excerpts, Cecilia