Update 3/5/08: This post now has 2,003 comments! However, it has exceeded the capacities of our server and has been truncated recently at about 1,529 posts. But one of our readers has stepped up to the plate and painstakingly copied all of the comments into three NEW posts:
- SAUSD-Mijares corruption thread, 2008 Comments
- SAUSD-Mijares corruption thread, 2007 Comments
- SAUSD-Mijares corruption thread, 2006 Comments
We have also started a NEW open SAUSD thread, which I hope our readers will post to regarding new SAUSD news and views.
You can also go to our home page and go to the right column. Click on “SAUSD Posts” and you can get links to ALL of our past SAUSD articles.
I must say, I am amazed at the stories that have been posted on this blog in the wake of Al Mijares’ exit from the Santa Ana Unified School District. I am posting this item merely to give SAUSD bloggers a place to post their comments. Post away my friends – we have an opportunity now to finally do away with the corruption left over from the Mijares regime. Change is at hand, but we must remain resolute.
I noted that someone affiliated with the SAUSD administration recently posted a threat on this site – alleging possible legal action against SAUSD employees who post anonymously on this site. That is despicable and a form of terrorism. Do not let fear restrain any of you from revealing the truth.
The final challenge we face in Santa Ana is to replace Mijares with someone competent. We won’t have another opportunity like this anytime soon. This process must be open and focused and whatever else happens we must keep Audrey Noji out of the Superintendent’s position. As a member of the Cerritos College faculty and a member of the teacher’s union at that campus I opposed her when she tried to get a job at our campus. If she goes after the SAUSD superintendent post I will do so again. I know we can do better!
All of my children are in the SAUSD system. For their sake and that of all schoolchildren in the district, I urge those who are rebelling against the last vestiges of Mijares’ broken empire to keep the information flowing and to do whatever it takes to ensure that our next superintendent will be up to the task. Mijares certainly was over his head throughout his doomed tenure.
That is an interesting conclusion to make. Just because I have the facts you can not argue with does not mean I am a former employee or angry. Possibly I am a current employee and angry that your department always gets a free pass when the rest of us get job cuts. It is about time you guys owned up to what the rest of us have to face
#1980
Anything else that you would like to accuse me of after reading the latest on our newest administrator?
Just to ease your mind. You have a lot of chatty dispatchers, fingerprint technicians and a few officers that are not thrilled with your department or the reputation it has. So don’t make assumptions. Your dog and its officer, the detective, and your two sergeants are a waste of money when you have a perfectly good lieutenant who could be running the department and conducting investigations instead of playing around on his department motorcycle. How much money would that save? Maybe $500,000?
Free pass? Gee, working for comp time for the hundreds of extra overtime hours doesn’t sound like a free pass. Covering for frozen positions and lay-offs (yes) doesn’t sound like a free pass. Furlough days and no raise is not a free pass. Working an entire twenty-four hour shift is not a free pass either.
You don’t have all the facts. Your anger is misdirected. Critizing other positions or departments doesn’t justify yours.
#1985
Now I can not speak for your department but I can speak for mine. Our department follows the board and administrative rules along with the CSEA contract.
Those rules and contract state clearly that any comp time not taken within the next pay period has to be paid out to the employee. Are you saying that your department has a log of compensation time that is not reported to payroll? No wonder you are angry. That is illegal. You deserve to be paid or given the time off you have earned. Or is your department excluded from these rules some how?
Hey #26,(1985) the police compesation time log was supposed to be a top secret!!! Now Mr. Angry is going to call in the union because he thinks its illegal. Maybe the perfectly good lieutenant will investigate. Employees who actually care about helping the district must be stopped!
#1987
Top Secret? Well somebody let the cat out of the bag so to speak. As a matter of fact it is illegal under labor code law unless you all agreed to it and negotiated it with the union. If you are content with that arrangement why would I take it to the union? It is your problem, not mine. I get paid for my OT or get the comp time off. I could not care less if you work for free and are not being compensated properly or legally.
“Perfectly good lieutenant” is a phrase about the position, not the person who has it.
“Employees who actually care about helping the district”? Is that what you are about? I thought you were around to help the kids and staff. In retrospect I guess you are about helping the district more than the people since you spend a lot of time all over town writing tickets and impounding cars for district money in place of being at the schools where you belong. Thank you for clearing that up for me.
What was I thinking?…I thought I was conversing with intelligent, logical, well informed people. As I said, you don’t have all the facts. You are only about mud slinging to justify your anger and your job.
What position is it that you occupy? I’m sure I could find something to criticize since every department within the district has lazy, incompetent employees.
CSEA???? That’s another joke.
#1989
I don’t know where you ever got the idea we were logical or intelligent. We are just lowly district employees you guys like to follow around, give tickets to, or try to get fired. Don’t expect a lot of sympathy for cuts the rest of us have been taking for years.
Does anyoneknow if the classes will increase for the 1st. to 3rd grade next year?
#1991
No one around here has mentioned this but you might try the main OC blog then click on SAUSD posts. That will take you to the newer thread where a lot of teachers are posting. Maybe they have heard something.
to #1989 – No one was asking…
#1993
That is true. He was just whining after finding out even they can be cut.
Art, you really need to get this subject sorted out by topic. It is simply too big and too disjointed to follow along.
Good work for its overwhelming success that has made it difficult to navigate. Keep it up!
March 11, 2008
March President
Chalk Talk:
http://www.sateach.org/ChalkTalk01-08.pdf
Coming up:
Teachers & The Law Seminar-March 26
CTA lawyers Marianne Reinhold and Carlos
Perez will speak to SAEA members concerning
issues in work or union activities. Members will
also learn to determine which concerns are
reasonable (and which are not) and how to
protect ourselves from litigation. As time allows,
topics will include harassment, temporary vs.
probationary vs. permanent status, acceptable
use of district technology, vulnerability to
lawsuits arising from school and field trip
assignments, discrimination issues, hazardous
working conditions, student or parent threats,
and protection in state and federal law for
educators
Greetings
I am an educator in California. In an effort to discover more about
what might be an unaddressed problem in the school workplace, I am
conducting a research study on the presence of workplace incivility
in K-12 school workplaces in California. Workplace incivility is
harmful behavior such as, but is not limited to, gossiping,
undermining, sabotaging, demeaning language, and misrepresenting the
facts…Instigators could be superintendents, principals, VPs,
parents, other teachers, and staff…
I’m seeking participants who have either been a witness or a target
of workplace incivility in K-12 schools.
The link to the online questionnaire is
http://survey.constantcontact.com/survey/a07e28zfrscfd42vd62/start…
or http://www.theeducationworkplace.org
If your entry is selected, then I will send you a $25 stipend in the
mail…
Thank you…until Rhea.
#1998
Good luck with that. One of the reasons people post anonymously is to prevent retaliation. For all anyone knows you are an administrator looking for targets especially since you fail to name your district or your name.
#1998
I did some internet research and Ms. Settles seems legitimate. Check here:
http://www.bullyfreeworkplace.org/id3.html
and here:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2211244883274911625&hl=en
It appears I owe # 1998 an apology. I have watched the video and this does seem to be a valid study of bullying by employers.
Dear readers,
One of our readers has copied all of the comments from the first year of the Mijares corruption post, and you can read them in order at this post, “SAUSD-Mijares Corruption Thread, 2006.”
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WELL NOBODY IS WILLING TO POST THE NEXT:
WHY THE DISTRICT IS PAYING NADINE RODRIGUEZ 20.000 OR 30.000 DLS TO DO WHAT?.COWORKERS FROM MY DPT HAVE TRY TO CONTACT HER TO SEE IF SHE CAN HELP WITH SOME ATTENDANCE ISSUES. AND THE LADIES IN ATTENDANCE DON’T KNOW HER COMINGS AND HER GOINGS. PRETTY SAD FOR A DISTRICT THAT IS CUTTING SO MANY JOBS, AND HERE WE ARE WASTING IT LIKE THERE IS NO TOMORROW. JUST IN THAT DPT ALONE THEY COULD SAVE LOTS OF MONEY.
ROSA RODRIGUES THE SO CALLED “OUTREACH CONSULTAN” WHAT ARE HER DUTIES ? WELL AT THE BEGINING OF THE YEAR WAS TO MAKE SURE HER DAUGHTER GOT A GOOD DEAL TO ASURE HER A GOOD PATH TO A GOOD COLLEGE,
NOW THAT HER BABY CLEAN HOUSE WITH ALL THE GRANTS SET ASIDE FOR STUDENTS THAT REALY NEED IT AND WORKED VERY HARD WITHOUT MOMS HELP.
WELL IS SUBREAL STUFF.
REMEMBER ROSA CASTRO “ATTENDANCE TECH” JA JA JA JA JA JA JA JA JA JA
SHE IS PHONE TECH OF FAMILY AFFAIRS HER OWNS OBVIOUSLY.
MAYBE THE NEXT PRINCIPAL WILL LISTEN TO All THIS JUICE DETAILS
BECAUSE THERE IS PLENTY. THE DSO’S WELL NEXT POSTING WILL BE A REAL SHOCKER.