Then we can all meet where we expected to meet at the regular time for the (emergency closed session with all of the unions—SIG?)

This “Anon” who began posting all over the CC Times blog to defend the MDUSD leadership and try and shift blame to anyone else started doing this at the same time as Sue Brothers was hired and is none other then SUE BROTHERS herself!!!

Her posts have been shown to a couple of dozen of her former colleagues from West Sac/Roseville and all agree its Sue’s writing. By the way, comments about Sue ranged from vile, manipulative, incompetent egotistical control freak to many that are unprintable.

So why is she doing this? Because of the 3 reasons she went to MDUSD: #1, West Sac became (to quote Sue herself) “no longer a comfortable place” for her and her M.O. #2, her benefactor Steve Lawrence hired her to try and quash the CVHS Charter. #3, she has also been hired to fight the info war here on the CC Times to try and protect her savior Lawrence.

Some other interesting information has also come up.

Sue extensively lied in her interviews with Theresa Harrington. She claimed she was only making $125,000 at West Sac when she was at the top of the pay scale there at $145,000 plus benefits. She claimed she spent lots of time in classrooms and sites (when she rarely left the administrative offices until the new Super Dr. Gilleland made her get out last year and start regularly visiting sites/classrooms).

In fact, Sue spent the better part of her 5 years in smallish West Sac building up a personal empire. In her Dpt of Ed Services she had 2 “Directors” at $110,000 each (one of whom was infamous in that district for having been caught having sex at a school site with one of the custodians and with whom Sue tried to give a principalship to by replacing one of West Sac’s best principals with when her one of the Directors positions was cut!). Sue also had at least one other administrator and several “Teachers on Special Assignment” as well as 2 secretaries. So her Dpt had well over 1 million dollars in salaries/benefits in a 1 HS town until the budget cuts of last year.

In fact, Sue was famous for manipulating hiring and the standing committees in West Sac.
She decided who would be hired ahead of time and represented panel interviews were conducted only to go through the motions.

Her record in these matters is less then stellar. A Super of HR who was forced to leave his former district for having conducted a blatant affair with a colleague and having unlawfully fired a teacher was hired by Sue to be a reliable and unethical hatchet man who proceeded to drive up litigation costs to exceed the rest of the districts in that county combined! She also replaced the well respected and successful Continuation HS principal with an incompetent personal friend of hers that took that school from safe to dangerous and ended up expelling like 20 kids in an over-correction.

Meanwhile Sue claims she is this zen-like coach to all the principals in matters like discipline. Well that explains why West Sac’s River City HS had a student riot in late 2009 that was so bad that the Principal suffered severe head injuries and missed months of work. To make matters worse both Sue And Stevie Lawrence lied to the board and called the riot just a food fight and this lie ended up in the Sacramento Bee!
This incident is a main reason that Stevie fled to the MDUSD and now Sue has followed him as she has her whole administrative career.

Sue also said that West Sac has a good relationship with charters. It has only had this since Lawrence left. Sue and Stevie opposed every Independant charter trying to come into West Sac and they both constantly raved about how bad charters were so Anon/Sues post #11 represents Sue’s true feelings about charters, hated competition that puts pressure on a district to reform bad management.

So Forget @ #3, if you want the same treatment for your school that CVHS is now getting to help Sue and Stevie out in co-opting the charter–maybe you should start a charter drive for you school to get this level of attention.

Obviously, while you stir in the District’s mess, wipe it on the walls and try to call it art the Charter is moving forward, happy to no longer have to answer to you or your rhetoric.

Let’s not forget that the folks drawing paychecks and EGO off the shoulders of this District had enjoyed the runaway spending for years, stupidly assuming the well was bottomless; building, buying, adding and expanding. All the while, begging more funds for “declining enrollment”. Keeping their blinders on tight, as long as they were still getting theirs!

Then, finally, broke and gasping for breath, they blindly decided to just throw away a few dollars, a few teachers, a few assistants and two whole schools, and found, when it was all said and done—ooops, no money and no real relief to be found there…we’re still broke!

So now, your continuing chant is “because of a charter — schools will close”, and “I can’t wait to hear the complaints”! How sad!

Do you remember, just a few short months ago when getting the vote for “dollars for solar” was determined to be more important to the leaders in this sick District than putting up a good fight to actually save our schools?

Do you remember when anything even resembling ethics flew out the window while gifts and campaign money (much of it still unaccounted for) flew in?

Do you remember the kids, the people and the two schools that the District just threw away?

Well, honey, the only noise that came from other schools in the district was a great sigh of relief that it wasn’t their school closing. This flailing District purposely pits each school against the other so that each cares only for its own next lifesaving breath, and so we won’t look too closely while Dent digs itself another escape tunnel.

At this point, if another school closes it will merely create another huge sigh of relief from the schools that are spared.

So, do you think now we’ll just sit back and let you blame the next impending drowning wave on charters???—I don’t think so, silly!

I hope the district will provide the public with an outline of Clayton Valley HS costs versus revenues at the Aug. 9 meeting. I don’t see how that information would be considered attorney-client privilege, since it’s public money.

I believe the district does keep track of how much it spends on each school.

During Superintendent Steven Lawrence’s budget meetings, he answered the question: “Do all schools in the district share unrestricted funds equally per student?”

Here is his answer: “If we broke down each site’s funding by its enrollment/ADA, we would find that they are not equal. We do provide the same level of personnel support (teachers, office support, administrators, etc.) at each site depending upon the grade level and size. However, the budgeted dollar amount will vary because the experience level of the personnel will determine the level of expenditures. For example, if you had two elementary schools at 500 students, they both have the identical number of personnel serving on the site, but one site may receive more funding because its teachers have an average experience level of 10 years while the other school’s teachers have an experience level of eight years. The budget for the site with the average experience of 10 years would be higher than the other site. However, because of retirements or teachers leaving the district, these averages could easily flip in the next five years. Sites also receive site funds from the district that are determined on a per-pupil basis based on grade level of the school (K-5, 6-8, 9-12).”

Based on the last sentence of his response, it looks like Clayton Valley may have been receiving more money per student than elementary and middle schools. Therefore, Clayton Valley may cost the district more to operate than elementary and middle schools. This is what charter supporters have been saying all along.

Why doesn’t MDUSD provide the public an outline of the costs for CVHS instead of just issuing scare tactics to the feeder pattern schools? Is it just another case of attorney client privilege or maybe just more records that they are not sure are kept by the district???