Two Capistrano Unified trustees, including the school board president, were found in the superintendent's office looking through papers on a day when all district offices were closed, a district official confirmed Thursday.The Reg has the juicy details. The trustees in question are “Board President Ellen Addonizio and trustee Sue Palazzo.” They were “found” last Friday (the 25th), in Superintendent A. Woodrow Carter's office.
According to the Reg,
Addonizio and Palazzo are part of the five-trustee bloc on the Capistrano Unified school board whose campaigns were endorsed by – and largely funded by – the CUSD Recall Committee parents group. Addonizio was elected in 2006; Palazzo was elected in June's recall election that ousted longtime trustees Sheila Benecke and Marlene Draper. ¶ The five so-called "reform" trustees on the seven-member school board have been outspoken critics of the district's administration, calling for increased scrutiny over district affairs and aggressive investigations to get to the bottom of a number of controversies that have dogged the district in recent years.Now, who do you suppose got these people elected?
Well, that would be Education Alliance, on whose board SOCCCD board president Don Wagner sits.
Naturally, this incident has not gone down well:
“I’ve been in this business for over 50 years, and I’ve never, ever in my entire career seen this behavior by a trustee,” said trustee Duane Stiff, who found out about the incident Monday. “It’s horribly unprofessional. They knew he was out of town and the building was closed. If they needed to talk to the superintendent, they have his cell number.”Stiff needs to get out more. Some of our trustees in the SOCCCD are at least as unprofessional as these two women. Remember Dot Fortune glowering and fuming at the state investigator through a window? Remember the board's "persistent and defiant" misconduct re secrecy? Remember the time Frogue mooned Milchiker?
OK, I made that last one up. I think.
More about Education Alliance: here.
Check out Education Alliance's blog. Search for the name Addonizio (Control + F).
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