Turbulence Intensifies Between Smith, School District
A week after her removal from the ballot, the activist is back battling with officials at a board meeting.
Local activist Kate Smith and the Santa Barbara School District have never been on good terms, but the past week has been particularly turbulent.
Yet, all the events of this week portray a pattern with Smith and the district that seems to repeat itself every few years.
A week ago, the Santa Barbara County Elections Office disqualified Smith as a Santa Barbara school board candidate because she lives outside the district’s boundaries.
She has also received another letter from Sarvis rebutting her claim that the Elections Office was wrong about her home address being outside the district.
And finally, on Tuesday night, Smith’s tendency to stand behind the podium and speak to the board on as many as 10 separate items in a night prompted a board discussion about whether it can rein in a single member of the public without punishing everyone else.
On Tuesday, the board learned it can take some hard-line measures that would curtail everyone’s right to speak, such as shortening the length of comment time to two minutes from the current three. But the board instead decided to try be more diligent about pounding the gavel when a speaker’s soliloquy strays from the topic at hand.
For her part, Smith says she is fighting to “expose corruption,” and will not allow herself to be silenced.
On Tuesday night, following the board discussion on public-speaking privileges, she approached the podium — for the fifth time during the meeting.
“I’m going to guess you had this on the agenda to talk about me,” she said. “So, I want you to know: I’m not here to make friends. … I’m here to expose corruption. I don’t care if you don’t like me, and don’t want me to speak. I’m here to reform education. I don’t care that you scorn me, humiliate me, vilify me, dismiss me. I am passionate about democratic education. I am a patriot, and I love my country.”
Smith has also been butting heads with the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors. During Tuesday’s meeting, she was escorted out of the building after uttering a profanity at the podium.
But the school district and Smith have a long, acrimonious history.
It started about 10 years ago, when she was arrested four times for repeatedly violating a restraining order requiring her to stay 100 yards away from Roosevelt School. Smith claimed her daughter was the victim of emotional abuse and mistreatment by Roosevelt special education staff, according to a 1998 newspaper article.
She later filed a complaint with the state Special Education hearing office, charging that the district was providing inadequate special-education services for her daughter. The district appealed in federal court, then wound up settling the case for $400,000. Smith, who drew money from a trust, received the $400,000, but said that the money covered only half of her attorneys fees. The restraining order against her was later expunged.
Also in 1998, Smith was disqualified as a school board candidate on the same grounds as the current situation: Her address in the 3400 block of Gibraltar Road in the mountainous frontcountry of Los Padres National Forest was outside of the district’s boundaries. (This year she was disqualified for listing the same address.)
At the time, Smith tried to argue that because the district allowed her daughter to attend Santa Barbara schools from that address, she was eligible to run for the board. The Elections Office rejected that argument. That year, elections officials caught the discrepancy in mid-August.
This time around, the illegal filing was caught late in the game, on Oct. 20. As a result, the Elections Office — which learned of the situation from a Noozhawk article — was obligated to spend about $25,000 mailing letters to 50,000 vote-by-mail residents informing them that Smith is not a viable candidate. It is also allowing anyone who has already cast a ballot for Smith to vote again for the Santa Barbara school board race, which now has five candidates for three seats.
In addition, on Election Day, every voter in the district — that is, from Montecito to Goleta — will receive, along with a ballot, a memo explaining that Smith is not a viable candidate.
Last week, Chief Deputy Registrar of Voters Billie Alvarez acknowledged that the Elections Office bears some responsibility for the oversight, but said her office does not have the resources to catch every irregularity that comes along.
“I’m not at all trying to say we’re lily white,” she said, “but we’re not an investigative agency. …. We’re here to administer the election, not to see if somebody is lying.”
Smith also has produced a somewhat cryptic, one-sentence memo from 1998, apparently written to Alvarez by the Santa Barbara School Districts’ then-director of student services Diana Rigby, stating that Smith’s Gibraltar Road address is within the district boundaries.
Both Alvarez and Sarvis say they do not know why that letter was written, and do not have it on file.
Meanwhile, Sarvis’ letter to Smith warning her to stop interrupting the work of office employees also wasn’t the first of its kind.
In it, Sarvis quoted a 2004 letter to Smith from Superintendent Debbie Flores, his predecessor: “Your visits have been unannounced, have no clear purpose, are very distracting to the employees in the various offices, and consume an inordinate amount of staff time.”
Sarvis added: “I am particularly concerned about your frequent disruptions, flooding the staff with questions, demanding that staff meet your deadlines, and your yelling for district staff to meet with you.”
And in yet another example déjà vu, Smith prompted a board discussion on what to do about abusers of public-speaking privileges four years ago. The board decided to adopt a policy that allows speakers who stray off point to be gaveled down.
On Tuesday night, the district’s frustration with Smith seemed to manifest itself in the verbal explanation of the board’s options by the district’s legal counsel, Craig Price.
While describing to the board the option to shorten time limits for public speakers, he said: “It is unfortunate when one has to go to that length in order to curb someone’s appetite for infringing on the rights of so many people in the community.”
But the discussion left Smith undeterred.
Smith has accused schools of inappropriately plucking Latino students with learning disabilities out of the regular school system, and placing them into what she calls “jail schools,” such as El Puente Community School, which serves mostly expelled students. She often refers to this phenomenon as the “school-to-prison pipeline.”
On Tuesday, she said she plans to file a “petition for declarative relief to the judge.”
“They will never be able to do this to me again — to abuse their power,” she said. “And I will run for the board in two years.”
Click here for then-student services director Diana Rigby’s 1998 residency letter.
Click here for the Elections Office’s 1999 Gibraltar Road residency memo.
Click here for the Elections Office’s Oct. 20 notice of removal.
Click here for Superintendent Brian Sarvis’ letter of Oct. 23.
Click here for Superintendent Brian Sarvis’ letter of Oct. 24.
Noozhawk staff writer Rob Kuznia can be reached at .
» wrote on 10/29/08 @ 02:45 AM
Restraining Order, Part Deux?
» wrote on 10/29/08 @ 05:47 AM
Kate Smith - please stop! You’re wasting time, money, energy and not exposing corruption. Our students lose out when you waste Board and staff time. If you really want to do some good, go help out at the Rescue Mission or do graffiti clean up. Your persistence could do good elsewhere.
» wrote on 10/29/08 @ 06:01 AM
Rob-you’re a great reporter but you missed it--yesterday at the Board of Supervisors morning meeting during public comment, Smith’s choice of language actually shut down the meeting. Eventually she was escorted off of the fourth floor by uniformed Sherrif deputies.
» wrote on 10/29/08 @ 07:11 AM
Well obviously the 1998 “letter” from Diana Rigby was forged by Ms. Smith. Why would the elections office accept a terse, two line “memo” that doesn’t have Ms. Rigby’s signature and job title at the end, OR doesn’t have Ms. Rigby’s initials in the “From” memo line? That is standard practice for the originator of the memo to sign their initials at the top by their name, to show it’s really from them, they’ve read it, and accept it.
Let’s see, Ms. Smith was “always” at the District? They have letterhead all over the place, obviously she picked some up at one of her many opportunities to do so. Are people really that naive? I can’t believe the elections office would accept that bogus letter in the first place, and then not follow up with Ms. Rigby to verify it was authentic, especially without any signature or initials on the memo from Ms. Rigby? Wow.
» wrote on 10/29/08 @ 07:29 AM
I’ll bet dollars to donuts that this whack job is in the inner circle of Joan Esposito.
» wrote on 10/29/08 @ 07:32 AM
Get another restraining order NOW. We don’t need her nonsense. Let the board and the staff conduct its business. I’m sure she’s so proud of herself. If I were her, I’d be getting after her lawyers who took her for 800K. Leave the school board alone.
» wrote on 10/29/08 @ 07:41 AM
As a parent of two children in the district, I wish this woman would send her crazy somewhere else. The District has enough issues to address without wasting time with her rants.
» wrote on 10/29/08 @ 08:04 AM
Dear God, make this woman go away! She is an attention hog who is NOT concerned about education. She is petty, nasty, mean, vile and seriously in need of medication.
» wrote on 10/29/08 @ 08:57 AM
“loquacious and persistent” .. that’s a fairly benign description. other words that might be used include disruptive, offensive, rude, frightening, off-base and confused.
» wrote on 10/29/08 @ 09:01 AM
She is so out of touch with any sense of reality. While her child received services from the district, she sued and cost taxpayers precious dollars. She blurts innuendos and falsehoods on a continuing basis. Wake up, SBSD. Registering to run while living outside the district while her off spring continue to attend the district is an outrage. I am paying precious tax dollars to support not only her child, but her verbal outrage. She has no right to have her children in the district. Put an end to this lunacy!
» wrote on 10/29/08 @ 09:44 AM
Why is this nut job given the time of day.
» wrote on 10/29/08 @ 10:03 AM
Ms. Smith is mentally ill. Unfortunately her illness has institutionally infected the School Board and frequently renders it dysfunctional.
It’s scary to see what one sick puppy can do to the whole pack. For years.
» wrote on 10/29/08 @ 12:50 PM
So wait, she ran for the school board in 1998, and was disqualified because she listed an address outside the school district boundary. Then this year the *same* person lists the *same* address, and they missed it, costing taxpayers $25,000? Nice job, guys.
» wrote on 10/29/08 @ 03:48 PM
What? No Kate supporters! She won’t get an inch of support from me either. Please, Kate, double your anti-depressants immediately. You are nothing more than your own worst enemy. I am glad to hear you were escorted out from the recent Supervisors meeting by law enforcement. The school district would be very smart if they had police presence at every open meeting, too. You are frightfully scary--even when it’s not Halloween.
» wrote on 10/29/08 @ 05:39 PM
“The district appealed in federal court, then wound up settling the case for $400,000.”
And this settlement money went where? Knowing the terms of the settlement would be informative.
» wrote on 10/31/08 @ 10:23 PM
Dear Noozhawk.com,
Please note that the boundary line, drawn in the 1800’s, used a lateral line that was below the crest of the mountain road, East Camino Cielo, so as not to divide the houses on one road into two school districts. That, of course, is untenable.
The mistake was discovered on August 12, 1998, and Billie Alvarez said that the decision rests with the school district, so she requested clarification. Diana Rigby wrote the letter you posted and there are page numbers from four lawsuit evidence packs, so it is beyond me why Brian Sarvis can’t find it---this was a central issue in Emily Rose Smith vs. SBSD and SELPA.)
Oh, now I remember, those files were shredded by Diana Rigby, the first school administrator in the United States to be found personally guilty of violation of IDEA and ADA. That same year, she was promoted to Assistant Superintendant and she was awarded State Superintendant of the Year. COE Superintendant Bill Cirone is chairman of the State Superintendants Awards Committee.
Diana’s letter is the truth, my family lives within the SBSD and dozens of children from this address, which used to be simply “Flores Flats on Gibraltar Road,” have been schooled at Roosevelt. This is the old Sunburst commune; there are twenty cabins.
This was a sacred Chumash site, then a fish hatchery, then a doctor’s retreat. It is just above Climbing Rock, and below Hanglider’s Skyport. It can be seen from all of Santa Barbara.
The Valley Consortium will write a letter to explain that my children cannot be in their district---it would be unconscionable to put them on a bus for four hours a day when a school site exists at the bottom of the mountain, fifteen minutes downhill.
That Bill Cirone hand-picks the Boundary Line Committee, and that they don’t want me to run, so are using this ploy after the judge already admonished them for being so RIDICULOUS to attempt to reneg on their contract as the Lead Educational Agency (LEA) will be the subject of my vindication.
What is important to note in that Diana Rigby letter is that she changed my children’s school to Cleveland. She tried to do the same thing the year before, when she called in a California Department of Education mediator to resolve what she said was a year-end Individualized Education Plan (IEP) dispute about placement, i.e.school.
Superintendant Mike Caston had told her to get our family out of Roosevelt because he planned to place his mistress, Sally Kingston, as principal of his flagship, Roosevelt School.
The mediation turned out to be rather psychotic in that I had been arrested at the end of the school year (under a statute giving authority to school principals to arrest drug dealers, pimps, and child molesters---but parents of school children were clearly excluded) so Child Protective Services (CPS) advised me to keep my children home.
Because of the arrest and removal of my children from school, there was no year-end IEP. Diana had taken the previous year’s meeting and whited out the dates. The mediator was horrified; Rick Seward, ALPHA Advocacy Director, was outraged.
Me? It was just the beginning of an epic battle that is coming to a stunning conclusion. This is my doctoral dissertation. It is The Way of the World. The administrators will do exactly what they did ten years ago, but this time, they nation will be watching. When they attack me, I will be ready to expose their humorless arrogance, illusory prestige, brute force and primeval stupidity. Thousands of families have suffered in this county, and millions have suffered in the nation.
And it will end where is started.
I cashed out 1.2 million dollars and then had to pay $350,000 in capital gains tax to the IRS. If my father, 93, dies before I am vindicated, my inheritance will be under trusteeship, and all petitions for legal funds will be automatically denied.
Maureen Graves is the nation’s number one special education attorney, and our due process proceeding, which was “the most expensive, most complex, and---according to the Office of Civil Rights---the most pathetic case in the history of the United States.”
We changed the course of special-education litigation.
Unscrupulous tax-payer paid attorneys will no longer be allowed to attack parents with impugnity. The judge sanctioned Maureen’s last opponent---he accused the school district lawyer of malpractice! That’s unheard of!
Sharon Watt, (SELPA lawyer), received a $200,000 yearly salary for twelve years; all lawsuit expenses were paid on top of that---by the tax payer. She would litigate everything---a request for a $1,500. assessment cost a school district $50,000 in legal fees!
Bill Cirone’s personal credit card was paid, every month for twenty years, sight unseen, by the Joint Powers Agency. Up to $6,000. I want to see them. I will ask the Board of Supervisors to demand that the Bank of America provide them, as Dick Douglas, JPA President, refuses to release the statements.
Whistleblowers are writing their hearts our and soon, the nation will be confronted by one of the biggest scandals in history. That the school administrators would betray our trust, criminalize our children, embezzle educational funds to create a self-aggrandizing bureaucracy, attack the parents, retaliate against critical staffers and then pass the guilty parties on to unsupspecting districts will make the Catholic Priest Scandal look like a mere frolic.
My children were the first in the county to receive a Truancy and Parent Accountability Program notice---and they were in the first and third grades. The next machination, The Gang Task Force, is the Truancy Program on Steroids, and it will infiltrate every school in the county with and undercover policeman who will intimidate our children and turn them into “snitches.”
Gangs kill and beat “snitches” because it can destroy the brotherhood. Please don’t let this program happen.
The reference to the June 2, 2002 letter is fun. Tony Fischer told me that a budget meeting was scheduled for 2:00 pm on June 1, 2002, so I arrived customarily early and sat down in the board room. The meeting, it turns out, was at 3:00 pm. The door to Superintendant Debbie Flores’ office was open, and I heard a fifteen minute conversation about....ME!
It was shocking. Their plans included orders to stalk me if I entered the building, stop me from meeting with staff, refuse to answer questions, document my every move so that they could charge me with harassing the admistrators, wasting their precious time. They transcribed all of my voice messages. They conspired and colluded; they were going to get! They’ll show me---and that damn cell phone she carries.
One related the day that I scheduled a meeting to discuss my daughter’s SB High classwith Jeff Gabrielson. I was unhappy---the teacher didn’t have her IEP; they sold junk food to the regular students.
One staffer laughed as she recounted following me up the stairs and then told interrupted my meeting with Jeff, saying he was late for a staff meeting.
I had had enough after fifteen minutes---I felt physically sick. The laughter struck me as so diabolical---so I walked in the room.
I stared at Brian Sarvis. Debbie had her back to me so she kept talking. When she realized I was there, she jumped to her feet and shrieked. “Get out of this room!”
That’s the “unethical and illegal” behavior mentioned in her June 2, 2002, letter. I walked in her office and caught her, a minister’s daughter, being so mean-spirited, so vile, so vicious. And now, Brian Sarvis is repeating the same, ill-advised scheme.
Michael Gonzalez and Christine Robertson have spent days documenting my every move. They are transcribing voice messages. They are going to get me good! Bring it on, Brian. I can’t wait.
I will expose you, Cirone, and your vile programs; I will make the job descriptions, complaint procedures, and dress code that Michael Gonzalez wrote the laughing stock of the nation.
It was in that same office that I met with Debbie before the lawsuit settlement. The SBSD appealed the case because the lawyer’s bill was $800,000. The SB News-Press reported Fred Rifkin as saying they wanted to settle but SELPA Director, Marcia McClish, wouldn’t let them. They were forced to file SBSD vs. Emily Rose Smith.
Debbie was being forced out of her position by Bill Cirone and Marcia McClish, who did not like the SBSD threatening to cancel their contract with their SELPA-funds management. (The Santa Ynez Valley superintendants were so disgusted with the SELPA malfeasance that they formed their own SELPA---the Valley Consortium---and SBSD wanted to do the same.)
I was attacked by the district because I dared to stand up to them and say, “You can’t hit my child!” There are laws in our land to protect our children from abuse (Hughes Bill) but Bonnie Switack was above the law, and she didn’t like Jews, especially uppity Jews.
“Could you take down the Happy Easter sign and replace it with Happy Spring?” I queried. Bonnie was incensed.
“I’ve joined a Special Education Advocacy Organization,” I declared, “Mothers From Hell.” Bonnie was apoplectic.
During an after hours phone call, I said, “Bonnie, the special education teacher who you brought with you from your last district (which, by the way, had a lawsuit that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court) is an f&%#ing mental retard!”
That was it. I was doomed. That’s why I used profanity at the Board of Supervisors. Serious situations call for strong language. Please print my article about that---because the same day, a police officer put his hand on his gun and threatened to arrest me for saying the word, “donut.”
Debbie, Diana Rigby, Bonnie Switack, and Carolyn Appleton perjured themselves in declarations to get a restraining order against me. The judge asked Debbie Flores if she knew the difference between “hearsay” and “personal knowledge.”
“Yes,” Debbie replied. “The principal told me what happened at her school, so that became my personal knowledge.”
The judge stopped her from incriminating herself further. She was non compus mentis; unable to distinguish between “fact” and “fiction,” “right” from “wrong.”
I met with her to negotiate the settlement. I would not take her to the D.A. for perjury and destroy her life. I demanded that she pay my legal bills, make a public apology, write a letter to my father to vindicate me, expunge the restraining orders and the arrest record, and change the boundary line so that I could run for the school board.
I got none of that. The SBSD is in breach of the settlement contract. I ran for the school board to expose the criminal element in our school system. And the SBSD vs. Emily Rose Smith now stands as an Anti-SLAPP case---and if Chuck Tobin is out there, please get in touch with me!
I’m one of the lucky ones. My children are grown and we have survived. There are parents whose children were killed or killed themselves. At the end of all this, when the truth is known and the criminals are in prison, I will bring before the community a man and a wife who lost their son to this vile and vicious machination.
The community will weep, and then I hope that we all fall to our knees, beg their forgiveness, and pray for redemption. Woody and Aileen have a tragic tale to tell. My grandchildren shall know the name of their son, Cameron.
» wrote on 11/01/08 @ 06:58 AM
To Kate Smith,
There’s more than one way to skin a cat. You’re acting like a fool. It seems pretty obvious to me, you trying to find another lawsuit.
» wrote on 11/01/08 @ 09:12 AM
I hope the board doesn’t waste any more time or resources on this person.
» wrote on 11/01/08 @ 09:39 AM
Looking forward
I am looking forward to the day when people come together to care, support, nurture, and encourage our children and each other.
I know it won’t be around blame, or the game of ‘he said she said’.
I am looking forward to the day when we can focus our energies as a community on working together to do the best job possible for our children.
I know it won’t work if we stand angrily on each side of the room and find fault. Educators make mistakes, parents make mistakes and these are opportunities to learn and to celebrate all the things we do well.
I am looking forward to the day that every child is respected, honored and loved for the unique individual that they are…and feels that they have a place in this wonderful community.
I know it won’t work if we label, categorize and separate ourselves.
I am looking forward to the day that gossip is extinct, that communication is clear and transparent, from the heart with a touch of intellect, a dash of wisdom and a bit of education.
That day is today and we can make it happen. This is the time to drop the masks, let go of old structures and beliefs that no longer work, let go of the ‘old stories’ of how we have felt ‘wronged’ and recreate our community into a place where there is care, compassion, love and joy. With love and blessings to all.
» wrote on 11/01/08 @ 10:00 AM
Smith’s responses are so “her.” Rambling, accusatory, defaming, threatening and most of all, absurd. Imagine having to sit in an elected position (supervisors, trustees, Cirone, et al) and listen over and over and over to this nonsense. The words “gag order” describe what she needs.
» wrote on 11/01/08 @ 08:29 PM
Wow.. Has ANYONE done a background check on this woman?? Does she have a history of mental illness? She is so intense and disturbed, there is probably a good chance she will pop and come in and start shooting people.
They need to get a restraining order asap! She is a danger to the community.
» wrote on 11/02/08 @ 01:46 AM
Interesting to hear that she was disqualified in 1998. That must have taught her that she needed to change her address in the system because she ran again in 2000 and according to smartvoter.org, more than 13,900 people were foolish enough to vote for her--she came in 5th out of 9. I bet she’s kicking herself that she revealed that she’d changed her address back to her actual residence.
» wrote on 11/02/08 @ 03:12 PM
She’s lost any and all credibility. Time to re-invent yourself Smith.
» wrote on 11/02/08 @ 05:35 PM
She definitely sounds disturbed and has probably ruined forever any chance she ever had to make a difference because no one will take her seriously. Nevertheless some very well informed special ed teachers say that her actualy charges about special ed policy in our district aren’t far from the truth. And I don’t begrudge the district one iota from disqualifying her from the schoolboard race; after all she admitted that she was an “illegal candidate” that night at their own forum, and they have to think of all the other people who want to speak. If she weren’t such a rabid animal about her complaints, whatever they are (and even after actually reading her Kosinskian screed above I can’t tell what her exact complaint is), there might be something serious there. I mean, just because she’s nuts with the bellicose non-sequiturs doesn’t mean the district is innocent.
» wrote on 11/03/08 @ 07:15 AM
TO SB Teacher
No offense, but there are plenty of things wrong in education not just in SPED classes. But what she’s doing is unacceptable. And what about this blog..you said it yourself, who the heck knows what she wrote in her blog/dissertation. You don’t communicate in a blog the history of a complaint like that. She either copied and pasted it in (I hope), or she sat down and wrote it (OMG). If she did the latter, she is really pretty clueless. The point is she is acting like a selfish, time sucker. No one has right for anyone to corner people and ramble on and on. She has alienated herself beyond doing any productive efforts. Just because she has nothing better to do with her time, she excuses this behavior as finding corruption. Give me a break.
» wrote on 11/03/08 @ 03:37 PM
I totally agree with your comments, motormouth. She’s made herself less than useless towards any effort at finding corruption. She has made herself the issue, and thereby lost her cause, if she ever had one.
» wrote on 11/08/08 @ 01:47 PM
I have met her, you, Kate Smith. Your/her rants on this comments page; you don’t think anyone really read all that nonsense do you? Seriously… You are one of those people that just looks to leech off others. What really happened to all that money you got? You certainly didn’t use it to “clean up” your… anything.
Public: we all know the school board sucks these days especially, but are we out there being crazy? NO! I am very curious to know what can be done to tame this behavior, b/c it is not out of concern for her special needs child to the whole extent or wholly for social justice; it is about attention. Even negative attention is getting attention. I am really very concerned with this woman. It frightens me that a crisis may occur b/c I feel, as many of you do, Kate Smith is mentally unstable. The recent man on the la Cumbre overpass is enough for me to say legal action needs to take place on someone who many feel are an endangerment to themselves or others.
First though, pay the aides more :)
» wrote on 11/08/08 @ 10:21 PM
Wow....all I can say is I really feel sorry for her children!
» wrote on 11/10/08 @ 04:47 PM
re:HMMMMM WoW, I would have voted for Smith (absentee). To be honest I had no idea who Smith was, but since I could pick three she was one. Yikes!! How did her name end up on the ballot? I feel SO foolish.
So, what if she would have ended up remaining on the ballot as an oversight and been elected? Then what, Lawsuit Time. Or is it now? Why is it people want to hurt? Is it human nature? Where is the Love? Who are you trying to get at Smith? Your behavior is dispicable. There will be change and you will see it. I guess it is human nature to achieve regardless of cost, but not for me, I do my best to be frugal and create goodness.
» wrote on 11/13/08 @ 10:14 PM
Bravo SPED Aide..You guys are in the trenches every day, hats off to the work you do.
Reggie D Voter - Let’s hope your boy Obama’s change theme transcends the federal government and trickles down to our local governmental agencies. Bottom line, unacceptable. Did you get your apology from Holland yet, or Kate Smith? Don’t hold your breath..it’s business as usual in the recorder’s office. They’re gloating over the percent increase in voter turnout. As for Smith, anybody see her lately? When’s the next board meeting?
» wrote on 12/31/08 @ 06:58 PM
Hello. The Special Education Director resigned in November because there was a parent uprising against systematic and systemic violations of IDEA and ADA.
SBSD Board Member Bob Noel called for Superintendent Sarvis’ resignation, so Billy-Boy Cirone and his Cronies called in some groupies to tsk-tsk Bob Noel.
Uh, school corruption is listed as a national concern on the FBI, ACLU, NAACP, Children’s Defense Fund, and http://www.yankeeinstitute.org.
Nobody noticed the two SB News-Press articles that exposed El Puente as a poisonous waste site and then called for Cirone’s resignation after his cover-up attempt.
That Cirone didn’t threaten to sue Wendy McCaw for libel is interesting, isn’t it? Bernie Madoff’s whistleblower was unheeded for nine years; my colleagues and I have been at it for eleven. LMAOWTPLME!!!
Have a nice uprising, Santa Barbara! Happy, Healthy, Prosperous New Year!