Hi Sue, How is it going? Where will you be working next year?

West Sac people have looked at the “Concerned Parent” blog posts and state that it is almost certainly Sue’s propaganda and writing style.

She is smart in an evil way and loves to use her knowledge of public education to construct elaborate arguments in her favor or against proposals she disagrees with. In other words, a manipulative evil genius basically.

The West Sac people wanted me to remind Sue that she played the same crap games in West Sac and think about where that got her in the end.

There are plenty of other public servants that are just as smart as her and unlike her, ethical good people.

This is an existing, functioning school, educating almost 1900 students. If it fails due to lack of planning, it will be a disaster for CVCHS’s students and employees, as well as the students and employees in the rest of the MDUSD. Unlike a small startup such as the Flex Academy, that can merely announce it’s going to put off opening for a year and there are no consequences, once final approval is given to CVCHS, it will be impossible to stop the process, no matter now badly it goes. MDUSD will not be able to step in and rescue the school.

I wish the charter petitioners would stop trying to rush the process and put more effort into really thinking through what they want to accomplish and how they plan to do it. Once they’ve done that, then they should present it to MSUSD for approval. It’s more important to get it done right than to get it done quickly. Why are they in such a hurry?

Take a look at the charter application criteria of large school districts, such those in Los Angeles and San Diego, that have approved many charter petitions. After reading the CVCHS petition and looking at what’s done in other districts, it’s clear that the CVCHS petition didn’t begin to meet the standards required. The CVCHS steering committee and its lawyers are attempting to spin this to make it appear as if MDUSD’s requirements are way beyond the law. But keep in mind that it’s a lawyer’s job to advance his clients’ arguments. That doesn’t mean they’re right.

If you look at what’s being done in other districts you’ll see that the real problem lay with the charter petition itself. MDUSD was doing exactly what other districts – who have reviewed and approved hundreds of petitions – are required to do. They aren’t being any pickier than other districts that have reviewed and approved many charter petitions. The charter supporters failed to understand both the level of review that is legally required and the level of effort that they needed to put into the petition.

I also worry about the lack of expertise in school management and finance that is evident in both the steering committee and the governing board. As an example, one steering committee member who has also been elected to the governing board has publicly stated that the charter documents turned in to MDUSD are just a draft and the steering committee does not expect the governing board to be bound by them. This is the same argument (its just a draft so it doesn’t matter) that was put forth after it was discoverd that the two parent representatives on the governing board were appointed rather than elected. (That has since been changed.) After doing a bit of research, I have found that any material revisions to the charter will require the approval of MDUSD. It is not just a draft that can be changed or ignored at will.

http://www.myflsunshine.com/sun.nsf/manual/A342F688127D5AFD852566F30055F8C8

Although this (one of my favorite sites) comes out of Florida; Sunshine Law is Sunshine Law, and there are almost never legal disagreements once precedent is set.

I direct Eberhart and Counsel Cooksey directly to Part 9, and suggest you get someone to read it to you very slowly.

I’m pretty sure, the day you gave authority to your “staff Committee” to, on the Board’s behalf, bargain, make decisions, make changes, or agreements to alter findings on the Charter application, you opened them up to Sunshine Law as they, in effect, spoke “as the Board”.

Anyway, since when are negotiations for anything other than “some” Personnel privacy and Real Estate sensitivity issues allowed to be Secret?

Evidence has shown that once someone disagrees with her “opinion”, you can expect nothing short of a cat fight out of Cooksey. Her Ego is right up there on a par with Eberhart’s, but comes to us with even more baggage.

Rolen has built up a lot of baggage. He also has a whole lot more to lose both personally and financially if he gets caught with his hand any further down that twisted misinformation drain-hole called Dent.