The Merc’s Editorial Board sends props to San Jose Police Chief Rob Davis for firing officers involved in a drunk driving coverup and their own Sean Webby for watch-dogging the news of imminent firings. This won't be received well (we guess) from the good folks at Protect San Jose.
As (self-imposed) furlough days go…. Palo Alto workers were all in purple as they marched outside City Hall to protest contract cuts. The Merc’s (union member) Patty Fisher is sympathetic though she shares the words of Pamela Polos wondering about the wisdom of striking these days "Instead of demonstrating for their own benefits, I wish they were out there marching for national health care reform." You and the Palo Alto City Council Patty...
Sunnyvale recycling workers received an unexpected surprise among the grimy cardboard and soda cans - $100 bills rained from the ceiling. If you think the mystery money is yours, call the Sunnyvale Public Works Department.
"Warehousing kids does not teach them what family is all about," said foster youth advocate/former warehouse resident Hemal Sharifzada. And so, Santa Clara County prepares to close the 132-bed children's “warehouse” and move abused and neglected kids to “wrap around” care facilities.
Former Mountain View Mayor Rosemary Stasek passed away in Afghanistan where she was working with the women of Afghanistan with A Little Help in Kabul. Sad story. We like Rosemary a lot...
More sad economic news comes from the Merc’s Sal Pizarro. Silicon Valley FACES ditched their fundraiser.
Swine flu fears have caused the (official) demise of Stanford’s kissing frenzy, Full Moon. How else are shy first-year students supposed to get any action then?
San Jose MetBlogger Matt Bruensteiner celebrates the demise of the plastic bag and sends San Jose’s City Council kudos.
Mission City Lantern executes a little time traveling fable drawing in the Mission City’s neighbor to the South.
San Jose Insider/Santa Clara County Board of Education Trustee Joseph DiSalvo looks for an Education Governor and tosses his support behind new Dad/ Gubernatorial wanna be Gavin Newsom. We are certain that this should put Newsom over the top...
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Showing posts with label county office of education. Show all posts
Friday, September 25, 2009
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Morning News Round-Up – 9.15.09: What do plastic, bail bonds and Wet have in common...
Good News – Silicon Valley schools rank high in California. Bad News – Silicon Valley Latino and African American students do worse than state averages.
Vincent Cardinalli, Sr. thought he’d found the ideal way to scam money until the law caught up and handed him 157 felony counts. Always thinking creatively, Cardinalli instead sued one of the witnesses for $4.5 million, and won judgment. If only the Godfather thought of it first...
Candidates for Palo Alto City Council are unhappy interviews to take over the Police Chief gig happened behind closed doors.
San Jose’s Coyote Creek has the dubious distinction of landing on Save the Bay’s Top 10 “Bay Trash Hot Spots.” Plastic bags floating down Coyote Creek to join the 1 Million that land in the Bay each year garnered the creek this (depressing) honorific.
Gubernatorial hopefuls come calling in Silicon Valley looking for some love.
The Merc’s Sal Pizarro shares the news that San Jose Downtown Associations Scott Knies is getting canned by the city. Don’t worry about Knies, it just means the city won’t be paying Knies $160,000 (on top of the $69,000 from the association). Instead, the San Jose Redevelopment Agency will add $100,000 to the Downtown Association coffers.
Sunnyvale Mayor Anthony Spitaleri is pissed he (and Sunnyvale) have landed in a payment dispute between the Sunnyvale Mixed Use LLC and the folks (formerly) doing the build.
San Jose celebrates going solar at 6 city facilities, a $500,000 lands in the form of solar panels.
Oops, the Morgan Hill Unified School District discriminated against special education student Jessica Perez forcing her to stay in school longer and miss graduating with friends. At least, that’s what the State and Perez say.
Those fun loving folks on the Gilroy City Council may have goofed when they voted behind closed doors on raises for the city manager and clerk. Secrecy be damned, numbers for your review in the Gilroy Dispatch. You gotta wonder, who advises these guys…
Sports, sherry and dark chocolate sustained Wimbledon player/wild woman Dorothy Crichton who passed away at the age of 104 in Palo Alto.
PoliticonValley sends kudos to County Supervisor Ken Yeager for landing the State Senate confirmation to the California Air Resources Board.
Protect San Jose’s Ed Rast is one pissed off number cruncher. Rast is (apparently) mad that some non-profits receive city funds.
(also pissed off) San Jose Insider/Councilmember Pierluigi Oliverio is mad affordable housing projects don’t pay into the city’s park fees. Oliverio and Rast should get together for a mad fest. Also Inside, Santa Clara County Board of Education Trustee Joseph DiSalvo wants kids to have the same teacher for more than one year.
Vincent Cardinalli, Sr. thought he’d found the ideal way to scam money until the law caught up and handed him 157 felony counts. Always thinking creatively, Cardinalli instead sued one of the witnesses for $4.5 million, and won judgment. If only the Godfather thought of it first...
Candidates for Palo Alto City Council are unhappy interviews to take over the Police Chief gig happened behind closed doors.
San Jose’s Coyote Creek has the dubious distinction of landing on Save the Bay’s Top 10 “Bay Trash Hot Spots.” Plastic bags floating down Coyote Creek to join the 1 Million that land in the Bay each year garnered the creek this (depressing) honorific.
Gubernatorial hopefuls come calling in Silicon Valley looking for some love.
The Merc’s Sal Pizarro shares the news that San Jose Downtown Associations Scott Knies is getting canned by the city. Don’t worry about Knies, it just means the city won’t be paying Knies $160,000 (on top of the $69,000 from the association). Instead, the San Jose Redevelopment Agency will add $100,000 to the Downtown Association coffers.
Sunnyvale Mayor Anthony Spitaleri is pissed he (and Sunnyvale) have landed in a payment dispute between the Sunnyvale Mixed Use LLC and the folks (formerly) doing the build.
San Jose celebrates going solar at 6 city facilities, a $500,000 lands in the form of solar panels.
Oops, the Morgan Hill Unified School District discriminated against special education student Jessica Perez forcing her to stay in school longer and miss graduating with friends. At least, that’s what the State and Perez say.
Those fun loving folks on the Gilroy City Council may have goofed when they voted behind closed doors on raises for the city manager and clerk. Secrecy be damned, numbers for your review in the Gilroy Dispatch. You gotta wonder, who advises these guys…
Sports, sherry and dark chocolate sustained Wimbledon player/wild woman Dorothy Crichton who passed away at the age of 104 in Palo Alto.
PoliticonValley sends kudos to County Supervisor Ken Yeager for landing the State Senate confirmation to the California Air Resources Board.
Protect San Jose’s Ed Rast is one pissed off number cruncher. Rast is (apparently) mad that some non-profits receive city funds.
(also pissed off) San Jose Insider/Councilmember Pierluigi Oliverio is mad affordable housing projects don’t pay into the city’s park fees. Oliverio and Rast should get together for a mad fest. Also Inside, Santa Clara County Board of Education Trustee Joseph DiSalvo wants kids to have the same teacher for more than one year.
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
(Craig) Mann is this an interesting story...
Well, there is more to the East Side Union stuff reported here last week...
In that Watch Dog story, there was a very brief mention of (former Terry Gregory Chief of Staff/former East Side Union High School District Board Member/former San Jose City Council Candidate) County Board of Education Member Craig Mann. Well, that Mann-mention opened the floodgates...soon after the post, a flurry of tips came rushing into Watch Dog -- so thank you. Mann seems to generate a lot of interest...
Thanks to one Watch Dog tipster we first learned that Craig Mann was elected as president of the Santa Clara County Board of Education (Anna Song was made vice-president.)
A separate tipster sent something a bit more Watch Doggie...
In Mann's biography and in campaign information last year, he lists his job as a "teacher" in the (embattled) Ravenswood School District in East Palo Alto. But Mann doesn't appear to be a full-fledged teacher in Ravenswood (or anywhere else for that matter)....
According to the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing, Mann has an "Emergency 30-Day Substitute Teaching Permit". (Click on the snippet at left to see a 'screen capture' of the Commission's website with Mann's credential status.)
With teacher credentialing an important issue affecting schools -- Watch Dog finds it a bit ironic that Mann calls himself a "teacher" but doesn't have a credential. In fact, the "Emergency 30-Day Substitute Teaching Permit" doesn't appear to allow him to teach in the same classroom more than 30 days in a given year...
Don't get me wrong -- I love substitute teachers -- and teachers (often) love substitute teachers...but, substitute teachers calling themselves teachers usually doesn't fly, especially when the substitute teacher calling himself a teacher is the new President of the Santa Clara County Board of Education...
And just for fun...this isn't Mann's first run-in with controversy...
(the image below is a cut-out from columnist Scott Herhold's piece about local elections...click to see the entire anti-Mann mailer courtesy of the San Jose Silicon Valley Chamber of Commerce)
In that Watch Dog story, there was a very brief mention of (former Terry Gregory Chief of Staff/former East Side Union High School District Board Member/former San Jose City Council Candidate) County Board of Education Member Craig Mann. Well, that Mann-mention opened the floodgates...soon after the post, a flurry of tips came rushing into Watch Dog -- so thank you. Mann seems to generate a lot of interest...
Thanks to one Watch Dog tipster we first learned that Craig Mann was elected as president of the Santa Clara County Board of Education (Anna Song was made vice-president.)
A separate tipster sent something a bit more Watch Doggie...
In Mann's biography and in campaign information last year, he lists his job as a "teacher" in the (embattled) Ravenswood School District in East Palo Alto. But Mann doesn't appear to be a full-fledged teacher in Ravenswood (or anywhere else for that matter)....According to the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing, Mann has an "Emergency 30-Day Substitute Teaching Permit". (Click on the snippet at left to see a 'screen capture' of the Commission's website with Mann's credential status.)
With teacher credentialing an important issue affecting schools -- Watch Dog finds it a bit ironic that Mann calls himself a "teacher" but doesn't have a credential. In fact, the "Emergency 30-Day Substitute Teaching Permit" doesn't appear to allow him to teach in the same classroom more than 30 days in a given year...
Don't get me wrong -- I love substitute teachers -- and teachers (often) love substitute teachers...but, substitute teachers calling themselves teachers usually doesn't fly, especially when the substitute teacher calling himself a teacher is the new President of the Santa Clara County Board of Education...
And just for fun...this isn't Mann's first run-in with controversy...
(the image below is a cut-out from columnist Scott Herhold's piece about local elections...click to see the entire anti-Mann mailer courtesy of the San Jose Silicon Valley Chamber of Commerce)
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