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The Full List

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For the sake of fairness and in the interest of full disclosure, here is the full list of Fullerton School District’s highest paid employees, including administrators. Naturally, administrators top the list. As you can see, the list is considerably expanded.

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It’s a good thing that FFFF is recording the board meetings of the Fullerton School District. I just found out that Superintendent Mitch Hovey orders the district’s own audio recordings to be destroyed 30 days after each meeting.

How’s that for transparency and accountability?

Anyway, here’s the video from last night’s meeting. All of the recordings are available under the FSD Videos tab above.

Scroll ahead 45 minutes and listen to the union spokesperson pat a few fellow teachers on the back for using one of their valuable weekends to attend a conference at a hotel on educational topics, including… retirement benefits!

How selfless.

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Eighty-Four Underpaid Teachers Who Make Over $90k

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Yesterday one of our blog readers expressed disbelief that any Fullerton teacher made over 80 grand a year. That’s a lot of money for a part time job, and our poor school teachers are supposed to be underpaid, right?

Well, take a look at this list of 84 FSD teachers who made over $90,000 in the 2009-2010 school year.

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But the real kicker is that these folks only had to work for 182 days a year to earn these salaries, while the rest of us slog it out for about 240 days.

When I grow up will I get the summer off too?

So it seems that plenty of Fullerton teachers are doing just fine after all. Maybe it’s time for the school board to stop accepting furlough days as the solution to our budget problems. It’s supposed to be about the children, right?

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Happy Furlough Day from Janny Meyer!

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Check out today’s weepy facebook ramblings from the allegedly-conservative Fullerton School Board Trustee Janny Meyer as she whines about the downsides of furlough days and their effect on all of those hard working teachers:

Keep reading as the sentiment is bounced around the echo chamber by union president Andy Montoya and then the dearly departed Collabricorn, Pam Keller.

So a crew gets all hopped up because a few teachers engage in a little professional development in their time off… something considered perfectly common for every private sector professional I’ve ever met. We just don’t have to hear them making a fuss about it.

No mention by Janny that furlough days are foisted upon us at the insistence of her own teachers’ union as a wonderful alternative to the actual pay reductions that the rest of us in the real world are taking. Maybe someone should remind Janny and her union pals of this important fact: today every kid in Fullerton will go without the day’s ed-u-ma-cation because teachers chose to take a day off instead of receiving a small pay cut.

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School Board HD

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OK, so our first foray into school board broadcasting was a little underwhelming. Low quality video, barely audible audio. It was better than nothing, but not really good enough for us.

So FFFF raised the bar a little bit. Here is this week’s meeting presented in glorious high-definition 720p with Dolby digital surround sound. The whole enchilada. Enjoy.

Download the February 22, 2011 agenda

Unfortunately FSD employees sitting behind the Great Firewall still won’t be able to watch their own board meetings. Oh well.

We’ll keep all of the recordings here under the “Archives” menu above. Click the “Fullerton School District Recordings” link for the list.

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ACCESS DENIED

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The other day I used a super secret password to utilize the Fullerton School District’s wireless network, for no particular reason. While connected, I tried to access some of my favorite and least favorite local blogs and news sites. Here’s what I discovered from behind the FSD firewall:

LiberalOC blog – allowed
Red County blog – allowed
Voice of OC blog – allowed
Orange Juice Blog – allowed
OC Register blogs – allowed
Fullerton Observer – allowed
Friends for Fullerton’s Future – BLOCKED

It appears that Friends for Fullerton’s Future has been singularly snuffed from teacher and staff access at the Fullerton School District. Now why wouldn’t the administration want anyone to read our blog?

Maybe they didn’t appreciate our cold look at the ramifications of heavy child-Internet immersion back in 2009. Or maybe they were offended by our unraveling of the Fullerton Collaborative conflict-o-sphere. What if they were upset about blogger Chris Thompson’s spectacular ascension to the Fullerton School Board?

"War is a game that is played with a smile."

Whatever the reason, things are starting to look pretty political over at the Superintendent’s office. OK we get it, Doctor Hovey.

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Finally, Fullerton’s First School Board Broadcast

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The Fullerton School Board doesn’t show its meetings on cable or the Internet. In fact, they don’t even post the audio recordings online. The only way to find out what really happened is to drive over to the district headquarters and ask for a CD.

Well that’s pretty sad, especially given the board’s constant bloviating about their total technological immersion programs for little kids. Shouldn’t the self-appointed exhibitors of the next YouTube generation be a little more eager to put themselves online?

We can do better. And so the Friends are going to bring some extra transparency to the Fullerton School Board meetings by broadcasting them and posting the archives online for the benefit of the public. Here is the first recording of last night’s meeting:

View the agenda

Most of the meeting is spent “giving out gold stars” just as commenter Fullerton Rudy predicted, but there are a few interesting items in the video:

  • Discussion and approval of Board policy on Charter Schools – 1:37:00
  • Discussion and approval of lawsuit against OC Health Care Agency regarding state funding changes  – 1:41:30

Our hope is that the district will ultimately take the reigns and opt to broadcast and record their own meetings, but in the meantime we promise to archive them here at FFFF for all to see (and comment on.)

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School Furloughs: Who’s Paying the Price?

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Here’s what happens when your school board doesn’t stand up for kids:


There are now only 14 school days in November. Why? Because the school union demanded days off instead of pay cuts.  Sadly, your elected trustees didn’t have the spine to go against them.

Here’s the funny part: the school closures were negotiated by our fainthearted board to prevent some sort of union strike.

So we traded days off due to a strike for…  days off.

No. That can't be right.

But rest assured, undereducated children… it was all done in the spirit of “working together,” and only in an effort to do “what’s best for the kids.”

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2010 Fullerton Election Results

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Updated Thursday, 5:00 pm.

There are an unknown number of absentee ballots yet to be counted.

CITY OF FULLERTON Member, City Council, Full Term

Vote Count Percentage
* DON BANKHEAD 9,391 21.1%
DOUG CHAFFEE 8,068 18.1%
PAT MCKINLEY 8,038 18.1%
GREG SEBOURN 4,907 11.0%
BARRY LEVINSON 4,722 10.6%
MARTY BURBANK 4,305 9.7%
JESSE LA TOUR 3,678 8.3%
JOHNNIE ATKINSON 1,393 3.1%

CITY OF FULLERTON Member, City Council, Short Term

Vote Count Percentage
BRUCE WHITAKER 9,021 37.7%
ROLAND CHI 7,076 29.6%
AARON GREGG 5,552 23.2%
ANTHONY N. (TONY) FONTE 2,255 9.4%

FULLERTON SCHOOL DISTRICT Governing Board Member

Vote Count Percentage
CHRIS THOMPSON 12,728 28.1%
JANNY CATLIN MEYER 12,252 27.1%
* BEVERLY BERRYMAN 10,992 24.3%
AARUNI THAKUR 9,257 20.5%

FULLERTON JOINT UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT Governing Board Member

Vote Count Percentage
* ROBERT A. “BOB” SINGER 19,800 23.7%
* ROBERT N. “BOB” HATHAWAY 19,531 23.3%
* MARILYN BUCHI 19,115 22.8%
VICKI R. CALHOUN 15,594 18.6%
NADIA SANCHEZ 9,656 11.5%

M – Fullerton, Term Limits

Vote Count Percentage
Yes 21,252 79.8%
No 5,380 20.2%

View the complete results at the Orange County Registrar’s website. The next update is scheduled for 5:00 pm tomorrow.

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