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Few details on Sweetwater district's student-data-sharing deal
The FERPA - Family Educational Right to Privacy Act -- law is clear: the Sweetwater Union High School District, or other educational entity, may NOT reveal personal contact information for any of their students without express permission of parents of students who are not yet 18 years of age. It seems the SUHSD has violated the Federal law with their 'data sharing' with South Bay Community Services for whatever purposes. According to Lembo, the SBCS called students' in the 11th and 12th' grades...how did they come by the phone numbers? By the way, Patty Chavez is the former CV council person (who was appointed, never elected) and special friend of former mayor Steve Padilla. Along with former mayor Shirley Horton, she now is part of the SBCS cartel reaping handsome salaries and commissions from the lucrative contracts (more than $1 million per year) from the Sweetwater District.— December 28, 2013 9:05 p.m.
Sweetwater school district invites more suspicion
And David Malcolm will be the puppeteer. So sad.— December 22, 2013 9:23 p.m.
Sweetwater school district invites more suspicion
The plot always thickens when David Malcolm enters the picture. As I recall, as ceo of Suncoast Financial, he once at office building on third avenue near, if not adjacent to, the property the SUHSD now owns. Coincidence?— December 21, 2013 8 p.m.
Sweetwater school district invites more suspicion
yes eastlaker....check out the website for the South Bay Community Services organization and you will see that former mayor Shirley Horton now serves as that organization's director of development/community relations. A former realtor-turned politician, her credentials for such a high-paid job are mysterious. It is the same SBCS that reportedly received confidential student data from the SUHSD to help generate interest in Alliant University.— December 21, 2013 7:58 p.m.
Sweetwater trustee Arlie Ricasa to resign
Per the state's education code section 72400-72423, community college administrators serve at the pleasure of the governing board and may receive contracts up to 4 years in length. Any administrative employee must be given notice by March 15 of the year if their employment will not be renewed for the following academic year (July 1 - June 30.) There is no language in this section indicating termination must be for cause. So it seems to me that Arlie has job security until June 30 and must be officially 'noticed' if the board intends not to renew her contract for the next year.— December 19, 2013 3:49 p.m.
Sweetwater trustee Arlie Ricasa to resign
Arlie is an administrator at Southwestern, and not a tenured faculty member. You might take a look at the College Board Policies (posted on the college website) to see if there is any official policy that might be used to remove her from her current position there, based on her admissions in court.— December 19, 2013 3:17 p.m.
Sweetwater trustee Arlie Ricasa to resign
Sadly, I suspect it is much about her honor's workload...so much easier for Judge Espana to accept pleas and bargain the serious charges away to nearly nothing than to hold those pesky trials where people actually show up and want to see justice happen! The public is left out of the equation when the perps 'cop a plea' as they say, and we members of the taxpaying public have been left out of this process.— December 19, 2013 10:25 a.m.
Sweetwater trustee Arlie Ricasa to resign
Sjtorres ---- OH, but it IS about Brand as much as anything. He aided and abetted the board's behavior and is part and parcel of the cartel of corruption. They enabled his continuing shell games, across the board and balance sheets of the District. You can't sweep Brand's evil deeds under the carpet...he is as much a criminal as anyone else sitting on that dais.— December 19, 2013 9:39 a.m.
Sweetwater trustee Arlie Ricasa to resign
Of course they will opt for an appointment in order to control the free flow of money to Ed's pals. The right thing to do would be to call for an election to let those of us who pay the bills decide who should represent our interests. Again, we must focus on the elections in November....three seats will be up (ricasa's; cartmill's; and McCann's. McCann is a dottering fool, and was so even before his debilitating accident. That will be a board majority and will spell Ed Brand's future.— December 18, 2013 8:05 p.m.
Sweetwater trustee Arlie Ricasa to resign
If that's not bribery, I don't know what is. Anyway, not to look a gift horse in the mouth, if you will. I am troubled by the appearance of staggered resignations, however: that will allow the remaining perps to appoint the successor(s) and therein lies the danger, because we can count on Ed to be managing the puppet strings on the successors. Oh that they would actually seek applications from interested citizens and not go directly to the perp successors - the likes of Burt Grossman and David Malcolm....out of the frying pan into the proverbial fire. We may have to wait until the November elections for true reform, and that will be a war. I have no doubt that the misdemeanor plea bargain will allow Ricasa to keep her six-figure job at Southwestern. It's like getting a traffic ticket. So sad.— December 18, 2013 6:01 p.m.