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Shadowy “Great Schools” Group To Address OB Town Council Meeting – Wed July 28th

Shadowy “Great Schools” Group To Address OB Town Council Meeting – Wed July 28th

Shadowy “Great Schools” Group To Address OB Town Council Meeting – Wed July 28th

by DOUG PORTER on JULY 28, 2010
HimelsteinScott Himelstein, the spokesman of the newly named “San Diegans 4 Great Schools”, has been visiting various civic groups around the city spreading the word that his group is disappointed with test scores in San Diego Unified schools and that “governance” is the problem.
Tonight, Wednesday, July 28th, at 7 pm, he is slated to address the OB Town Council in a meeting to be held at the OB Masonic Temple (1711 Sunset Cliffs Blvd). (See here for ourearlier report.)
Last week this group held a press conference to announce the results of a consultant’s report that they had commissioned. Although the information in the report was a year behind in reporting test scores, and it failed to acknowledge that the previous Superintendent of Schools had been