SUPERINTENDENT JOHN DEASY'S IPAD SCANDAL- JUST THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG
(Mensaje se repite en Español)
Given the present iPAD scandal that in reality is just the latest incarnation of a long list of corrupt practices at the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), one can only hope that finally the curtain will be opened on illegal practices to expose a long history of enumerable improper actions taken by LAUSD Superintendent John Deasy, administration, and his immediate predecessors Ramon Cortines, David Brewer, and Roy Romer. Hopefully, this will finally lead to an independent and in depth audit of both financial and pedagogic decisions they have taken with rather questionable legal motives.
What follows in this article are just a few of these corrupt actions that such an independent investigative audit might be well advised to look into. Feel free in the comment section to augment this list. Maybe this latest iPad scandal with Pearson Education and Apple will final cause a light to be shined on Deasy and his predecessors' shenanigans, so that critically necessary and long overdue real reformation of endemically corrupt LAUSD can finally be implemented. It is not enough for Deasy to lose his job, if all that takes place is his replacement by another over paid public school privatization advocate, whose greatest loyalty is to Broad, Gates, Walton, and the other foundations seeking to privatize public education for profit and not the public school student, teachers, and their families.
1. For every teacher at the top of the salary scale that LAUSD can force out by any means with fabricated charges, LAUSD will save approximately $60,000 in combined salary and benefits savings, when they hire a teacher fresh out of college on an emergency credential with no experience. Some of the ways this is accomplished are:
a. Fabricating false morals charge violations under California Education Code Section 44939, which has the immediate effect of eliminating a teachers right to the collective bargaining protections and remedies of grievance and arbitration. Everything LAUSD does is designed to force the teacher to quit, whatever they have to do to accomplish this.
b. both students and teachers are coached in making false statements- subornation of perjury- against the teacher in the case that the teacher's superiors are knowingly fabricating to justify this tenured teacher's removal.
c. Exculpatory evidence is ignored as "not relevant to the charges against [the teacher]."
d. Teacher due process is completely ignored in the removal process:
- None of the charges against the teacher are verified and under oath as required by law, which would subject the person making them to perjury charges- a felony- if they were;
- Legal limits as to how long a teacher can be kept out of teaching as defined by both the Collective Bargaining Agreement, state law- 60 days- and LAUSD's own Bulletin policy- 120 days- are completely ignored, so that teachers are often incarcerated at district offices or their homes for more than four years in a manner designed to create both mental and physical illness in an attempt SUPERINTENDENT JOHN DEASY'S IPAD SCANDAL- JUST THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG - Perdaily.com:
