Here's something you might be interested in.
Ask a Hipster — Advice you didn't know you needed
Big Screen — Movie commentary
Blurt — Music's inside track
Booze News — San Diego spirits
Classical Music — Immortal beauty
Classifieds — Free and easy
Cover Stories — Front-page features
Drinks All Around — Bartenders' drink recipes
Excerpts — Literary and spiritual excerpts
Feast! — Food & drink reviews
Feature Stories — Local news & stories
Fishing Report — What’s getting hooked from ship and shore
From the Archives — Spotlight on the past
Golden Dreams — Talk of the town
The Gonzo Report — Making the musical scene, or at least reporting from it
Letters — Our inbox
Movies@Home — Local movie buffs share favorites
Movie Reviews — Our critics' picks and pans
Musician Interviews — Up close with local artists
Neighborhood News from Stringers — Hyperlocal news
News Ticker — News & politics
Obermeyer — San Diego politics illustrated
Outdoors — Weekly changes in flora and fauna
Overheard in San Diego — Eavesdropping illustrated
Poetry — The old and the new
Reader Travel — Travel section built by travelers
Reading — The hunt for intellectuals
Roam-O-Rama — SoCal's best hiking/biking trails
San Diego Beer — Inside San Diego suds
SD on the QT — Almost factual news
Sheep and Goats — Places of worship
Special Issues — The best of
Street Style — San Diego streets have style
Surf Diego — Real stories from those braving the waves
Theater — On stage in San Diego this week
Tin Fork — Silver spoon alternative
Under the Radar — Matt Potter's undercover work
Unforgettable — Long-ago San Diego
Unreal Estate — San Diego's priciest pads
Your Week — Daily event picks
A Shocking View into Former Sweetwater Superintendent Jesus Gandara's Past
Image of Jesus Gandara from “Shame On Jesus Gandara” Facebook page
People are wondering: What was the board thinking when they hired former Sweetwater Union High School District superintendent Jesus Gandara? Did the executive search committee not provide boardmembers with enough information? And how many superintendents will the district have to buy out?
In 1991, former Sweetwater superintendent Anthony Trujillo was bought out by Sweetwater trustees and departed for Ysleta, Texas. According to the local La Prensa newspaper, Trujillo was forced to resign “under a cloud of corruption, [and] Grand Jury investigations, which were leading to criminal charges.”
In circumstances similar to Gandara's exit, Trujillo was given a handsome bye-bye package: The Los Angeles Times reported Trujillo was given $116,000 annual salary from January through August 1991. The district also “set up an early retirement plan and continued medical benefits for both Trujillo and his wife.”
When Trujillo landed a job as superintendent in Ysleta Texas, he began to work with…Jesus Gandara. Gandara worked for Ysleta in several positions during the 1990s, including associate superintendent. Gandara even acknowledged Trujillo in his doctoral thesis (titled “Ethnically Diverse Principals and Male Hispanic Superintendents’ Perceptions of the Superintendent’s Leadership”).
According to La Prensa, Trujillo was fired by the Ysleta board in 1998 “on the advice of a Texas Education Agency.”
In 2005, when Gandara was a finalist for superintendent in the El Paso Independent School District, the El Paso Times wrote about Gandara’s tenure in Ysleta: “Former Ysleta Trustee Michael Portillo, who often sided with the group that opposed former Superintendent Trujillo, said he had many questions about the purchasing and bidding process when Gandara was in charge of operations in the district.”
In 2006, the executive search company Hazard, Young and Attea & Associates was paid by Sweetwater over $30,000 to bring Gandara to Trujillo’s old stomping ground. Prior to hiring Gandara, boardmembers Jim Cartmill and Arlie Ricasa flew to Texas to interview Gandara.
In June 2011, the Sweetwater board gave Gandara his walking papers and a generous severance package. On January 4, 2012, he was charged with eight felony counts by the San Diego district attorney’s office.
Activists have questioned whether Gandara might have been terminated for cause and thus saved the public money.
Here's something you might be interested in.
A Shocking View into Former Sweetwater Superintendent Jesus Gandara's Past
A Shocking View into Former Sweetwater Superintendent Jesus Gandara's Past
Image of Jesus Gandara from “Shame On Jesus Gandara” Facebook page
People are wondering: What was the board thinking when they hired former Sweetwater Union High School District superintendent Jesus Gandara? Did the executive search committee not provide boardmembers with enough information? And how many superintendents will the district have to buy out?
In 1991, former Sweetwater superintendent Anthony Trujillo was bought out by Sweetwater trustees and departed for Ysleta, Texas. According to the local La Prensa newspaper, Trujillo was forced to resign “under a cloud of corruption, [and] Grand Jury investigations, which were leading to criminal charges.”
In circumstances similar to Gandara's exit, Trujillo was given a handsome bye-bye package: The Los Angeles Times reported Trujillo was given $116,000 annual salary from January through August 1991. The district also “set up an early retirement plan and continued medical benefits for both Trujillo and his wife.”
When Trujillo landed a job as superintendent in Ysleta Texas, he began to work with…Jesus Gandara. Gandara worked for Ysleta in several positions during the 1990s, including associate superintendent. Gandara even acknowledged Trujillo in his doctoral thesis (titled “Ethnically Diverse Principals and Male Hispanic Superintendents’ Perceptions of the Superintendent’s Leadership”).
According to La Prensa, Trujillo was fired by the Ysleta board in 1998 “on the advice of a Texas Education Agency.”
In 2005, when Gandara was a finalist for superintendent in the El Paso Independent School District, the El Paso Times wrote about Gandara’s tenure in Ysleta: “Former Ysleta Trustee Michael Portillo, who often sided with the group that opposed former Superintendent Trujillo, said he had many questions about the purchasing and bidding process when Gandara was in charge of operations in the district.”
In 2006, the executive search company Hazard, Young and Attea & Associates was paid by Sweetwater over $30,000 to bring Gandara to Trujillo’s old stomping ground. Prior to hiring Gandara, boardmembers Jim Cartmill and Arlie Ricasa flew to Texas to interview Gandara.
In June 2011, the Sweetwater board gave Gandara his walking papers and a generous severance package. On January 4, 2012, he was charged with eight felony counts by the San Diego district attorney’s office.
Activists have questioned whether Gandara might have been terminated for cause and thus saved the public money.
Comments