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Dubious Awards and Squandering Tax Dollars
This is fun – WestieConnect has been around long enough to have archives that show how everything old is new again. Take our post about Dubious Awards for Errant Superintendents last year. In the...
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Gilbert Public Schools and Monitoring for Civil Rights Violations
Many people think it’s big news that Sheriff Joe Arpaio is being monitored for compliance with constitutional requirements after U.S. District Judge Murray Snow found the sheriff’s office engages in...
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Indemnity for Good Old Dave Doesn’t Pass the Smell Test
When Westie is Superintendent, accountability will be a touchstone in Gilbert Public Schools. We’re going to stop discrimination, harassment and other wrongdoing and set a shining example for managing...
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Crocodile Tears in Gilbert Public Schools
We were surprised at the crocodile tears shed at a recent school board meeting about the district’s likeliness of being sued because the board approved prayer before board meetings. Three-two vote....
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Gilbert Public Schools: In GOBs We Trust
When Westie is Interim Superintendent during the 85 days between when Dr. Keegan leaves and Dr. Kishimoto arrives, there will be an opportunity to repudiate what the Arizona Schools Risk Retention...
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Was the Zero Tolerance Policy for Drugs Ignored at Meridian Elementary School?
You would think the sky is falling with all the noise about how Gilbert Public Schools is going to the dogs because a few administrators are leaving ahead of a new superintendent taking over the...
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Gilbert Public Schools Loses Again, Settles Public Records Lawsuit
Gilbert Public Schools lost another attempt to hide wrongdoing by top-level officials in the superintendency when the Arizona School Risk Retention Trust (ASRRT, The Trust) settled a lawsuit that was...
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Clean Sweep of GPS Superintendents – Don’t Let the Door Hit Ya!
At last! It’s June 30, 2014 and it’s the last day for the bitter dregs of the Gilbert Public Schools Good Old Boys to inhabit the big white Temple of Doom and receive big bucks from taxpayers for doing...
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ASRRT, The Trust: Flushing Tax Dollars Down the Toilet
$280,000.00. That’s what The GPS Governing Board President said it cost for the Arizona Schools Risk Retention Trust (ASRRT) to litigate an employment lawsuit that settled in favor of the employee....
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Gilbert Public Schools Violates Laws … Again! On Purpose!
The new boss, Superintendent Christina Kishimoto, is the same as the old boss – listening to the same old pet lawyer from The Trust, who is not an employment lawyer, which is part of their problem....
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Holiday Greetings from Gilbert Public Schools
Gilbert Public Schools sent out holiday wishes via social media. This bit of silliness, which apparently was supposed to make recipients feel festive, had quite the opposite effect. The nicest thing...
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Christina Kishimoto’s Record of Failure in Gilbert Public Schools
The governing board of Gilbert Public Schools evaluated the performance of Superintendent Christina Kishimoto in a super-secret executive session that apparently was held in spite of the fact that...
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Christina Kishimoto’s Legal Problems from Hartford Linger, Two Years Later
Who would have thought that when Gilbert Public Schools hired Christina Kishimoto as superintendent two years ago, her legal problems from her time as superintendent in Hartford, Connecticut would...
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GPS Gets Sued in Federal Court for Discriminatory Hiring Practices
Here’s a wild prediction: the GPS governing board is going to be asked to approve Christina Kishimoto’s selected acolyte to be principal of Highland Junior High School. That’s not too much of a...
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Let’s Kill the GPS Lawyers Perpetual Employment Program
Shane McCord now is the newly appointed superintendent of Gilbert Public Schools. The previous Reign of Shane cost hundreds of thousands of dollars in attorneys fees for lawsuits and investigations...
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GPS Fraud, Waste & Abuse Report #14: School Bus SNAFUs
Parents of Gilbert Public Schools students got a wake-up call a couple of weeks ago. Allegedly, just before national School Bus Safety Week (during which GPS was closed for fall break), Oscar, a GPS...
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