Thursday, November 21, 2013

UPDATE: Editorial: Sacramento school board should apologize, return unearned stipends - Editorials - The Sacramento Bee

Editorial: Sacramento school board should apologize, return unearned stipends - Editorials - The Sacramento Bee:

Editorial: Sacramento school board should apologize, return unearned stipends

Published: Thursday, Nov. 21, 2013 - 12:00 am

Editorial: When you attack the SCUSD School Board Members please disclose your association with Corporate Education Reform, Your Membership on a Charter School Board and your continued support of the Mayor's Privatization agenda (Just Sayin')
and if you are looking for an apology maybe you could start by apologizing for your one sided approach to covering Education in Sacramento
Big Education Ape Editorial Board  

Editorial continued: Maybe it is important to note that the Bee had to review minutes of board meeting and video to figure out this one, since they don't bother to attend the meetings that affect the daily lives of thousands of Sacramento residents. If you are gonna bitch about who is and isn't doing their jobs, maybe, just maybe you should show up to do yours.


Don’t show up, don’t get paid – unless you’re on the Sacramento city school board.
As The Bee’s Loretta Kalb reported Sunday, the Sacramento City Unified School District paid thousands of dollars to board members for meetings they missed in at least the last 16 months, apparently violating state law and board policy along the way.
District officials should be mortified they allowed this to go on for so long. Who knows how long it would have continued if not for The Bee’s investigation?
Board members owe a public apology to taxpayers and parents, who have every right to be angry. What’s more, board members should figure out how to return any money they didn’t earn.
Not that they have much choice, but board members appear to be treating this with the

Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2013/11/21/5931414/editorial-sacramento-school-board.html#storylink=cpy