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San Diego Unified revokes then reinstates benefits for Gompers Prep founders
Read what I said:. This is about school board president Richard Barrera trying to decapitate Gompers Preparatory School by breaking a "lifetime" salary guarantee from the school district to Vince Riveroll, the school's charismatic founder and principal. Riveroll and the community built this 20-year-old Gompers charter from the shambles of its former incarnation into arguably the most academically aspirational secondary school in southeast San Diego. I believe Gompers recently may have voted to unionize. Teachers unions, which once approved public charters, lately target them for vendetta.. Sabotaging Riveroll's salary would have been quite a coup toward that end. Good thing the shameful attempt failed.— January 21, 2021 8:13 p.m.
San Diego Unified revokes then reinstates benefits for Gompers Prep founders
Actually, the "gold-plated benefits package" belongs to outgoing Social-Worker-in-Chief Cindy Marten who was elevated from grammar school to superintendent by Richard Barrera seven long years ago. Marten's annual salary is $332,404.— January 19, 2021 7:58 p.m.
San Diego Unified revokes then reinstates benefits for Gompers Prep founders
I am sick at heart to read this report about de facto Superintendent of Schools Richard Barrera, (actually a trade unionist and four-term school board shoo-in for lack of election opponents,) going after Vince Riveroll, founding head of Gompers Preparatory Charter School and three other staffers. Barrera threatened to renege on **lifetime** on-loan employment commitments from San Diego Unified School District to people who have devoted their professional lives to creating a rare seriously academic secondary school in southeast San Diego. I well remember the transformation of Gompers from a low-performing dispirited and dangerous place to a charter school with strong community support, volunteer commitments from UCSD educators and a talented, devoted, charismatic leader in Vince Riveroll. Charter schools are legal public schools, but when they are successful, they become targets of teachers' union opposition and harassment if not union takeover. Barrera attempted a union win in this shameful end-run.. Gompers Preparatory is one of the most effective charter schools in our city. Under Principal Vince Riveroll, Gompers actually educates its students, encourages them to attend college, follows them along the way, works positively against tremendous socio-economic odds at every turn.— January 19, 2021 7:50 p.m.
Campaign staffers get Todd Gloria patronage jobs
No surprise thst Mayor Todd Gloria's staff has lots of crossover from the Chamber of Commerce which supported him and with whom he has so much in common. We won't be seeing any clean government crusades from this mayor or from Council President Jen Campbell either. Seeing Gloria and Campbell side by side, wielding ceremonial scissors at the opening of the new Mission Bay bridge, drove home just how much has been lost in our recent elections.— January 11, 2021 9:22 p.m.
Recall pending, Faulconer pivots hard against Newsom
You sound a little curmudgeonly, Socks, but clearly you are a Good Citizen and deserve all the best in this new year of 2021.— January 2, 2021 1:22 p.m.
Recall pending, Faulconer pivots hard against Newsom
We have a lot of undisciplined scofflaws, Socks, and a huge population. You may no longer be a Democrat, which I certainly understand, but I hope you are wearing a mask and not dining and drinking at places that are supposed to be offering takeout only.— January 2, 2021 12:08 p.m.
Recall pending, Faulconer pivots hard against Newsom
Correction: Make that Faulconer's Hepatitis A outbreak. I think C is different.— January 1, 2021 8:32 p.m.
Recall pending, Faulconer pivots hard against Newsom
Kevin Faulconer was infamous for happy-talk while ignoring San Diego's Hepatitis C-infected homeless population until the disease spread north to Orange County and Los Angeles. His term in office also included a few gruesome railroad-spike murders of hapless street-sleepers. Faulconer and a whatsisname businessman from Rancho Santa Fe want to recall and replace pandemic wildfire hero Governor Gavin Newsom? I'm betting on Gavin to prevail.— January 1, 2021 7:26 p.m.
Will a Landmark ruling save the Ken?
Valiant efforts here from Friend of San Diego Film, Scott Marks, but I too am left wondering: will the Ken be open on March 23? (I don't care who the owner is.) All things considered, it seems a long-shot since the pandemic will still be with us and, if few people patronized the Ken before the 'rona, even fewer will be prepared to be indoors until the virus has been vanquished. Parking is difficult, but not as bad as in Digital Gym's precincts, and it is a great before-or-after-movies restaurant and cafe neighborhood. I'm hoping, but on re-reading, the answer seems to be based on "Randi's reassurance" rather than Scott's sterling promise.— December 14, 2020 6:42 p.m.
Toronto real estate giant is funder behind killing height limit
I appreciate Canada and its national temperament, envy their education system and admire the handsome prime minister and wide open spaces. I guess I didn't know Ernie Hahn of UTC fame and the briefly glorious Horton Plaza was Canadian, but I do know Bosa was/is Canadian and he sure developed the heck out of sleepy downtown San Diego. Maybe San Diego is the playground for snowbird Canadian developers. How can San Diegans know what lies behind the numerous propositions that appear before us at election time? Two intelligent diligent citizens in the last week told me they were flummoxed by the language and true intent of many of the propositions on this 2020 ballot -- informational pamphlet notwithstanding. One was an 18-year old first-time voter and the other was an 80-year-old naturalized Briton with a doctorate in astrophysics from Cambridge University. It's really hard to be "informed" when campaign cash is king and journalists like Matt Potter (and Jeff McDonald at the U-T) are few and rare. But now that we do know the score, we must be sure to Vote No on Prop E.— October 27, 2020 9:59 p.m.