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Can Taxpayers Afford the Teachers Union?
The continued wasting of taxpayer dollars
that robs our kids.
Opinion
We saw a lot of union funded signs in the 2024 election that said" Save the Schools". Below is a list of costs incurred
by the union that appear to be contradictory to that slogan.
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Cost of investigator: $530 per hour, $21,000 per week, $85,000 per month. The cost to taxpayers of an union-backed investigation of Superintendent Dr. Alex Cherniss and Assistant Superintendent Dr. Issiac Gates remain on administrative leave.
Estimated cost could be $340,000.
Estimated Costs for Administrative Leave for a total of 7- In December, seven administrators were paid to stay home. In December and January 2024, the union-backed majority school board led by President Marilyn Anderson placed seven administrators. At a special meeting of the PYLUSD school board on Thursday, January 24, five administrators were approved to return to work. Dr. Cherniss and Dr. Gates are still sitting at home.
Resignation of Dr. Gates, Head of the Charter School.
Cost to our kids, our district, or reputation, unknown.
Costs to be Determined- Jon Matson, was placed on administrative leave in November due to admitted sign theft in the 2024 election. He has taken an early retirement. A union member who cost the district money.
20% More for an Additional Attorney- In December 2024 the union-backed majority school board, led by President Marilyn Anderson, hired an additional attorney who is said to favor the union. There are additional future unknown costs with this attorney. Union- Not saving money. Union- Spending money.
$3,000,000 - Linda Manion, APLE Union President, doing union-only business and not teaching since 2004. Her contract required that she be in the classroom 50% of the time, which she was not. Average cost per year $150,000.
Union- Costing taxpayers millions while depriving our kids.
$5000 on frivolous legal maneuvers. On Monday, November 19, 2024, a judge denied an attempt by a retired union member, and the members of the Anderson, Janssen, Quintero campaign team, who attempted to file a temporary restraining order preventing a school board action to change the terms of Dr. Cherniss's contract. The judge stated that it was an attempt by a group to stop a vote by duly elected officials.
Union- Costing taxpayers
Costs to be Determined- Union-backed Marilyn Anderson contacted the following agencies to try to slow down, or stop, the Universal Sports Institute: the Division of State Architecture, the AQMD and a bird sanctuary. Legal fees incurred by the union shenanigans cost the district and taxpayers thousands of dollars. USI was paid for by City Building Fee, a state grant and Average Daily Attendance.
Union- Costing taxpayers
$439,000,000- A financially irresponsible union-backed school board, including member Carrie Buck, borrowed $48.5 million with a total repayment of $439.2 million. Now illegal, beginning in 2042, the bonds must be paid back in just 8 years at $35 million per year.
Union hamstrung taxpayers for the future which could bankrupt the district.
Read More
School Board Sellout- OC Register original articles
https://acrobat.adobe.com/link/review?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:61ef68b0-88d2-3a24-bef3-e163d0f9e648
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The union slogan in the 2024 election was "Save the Schools" as they inaccurately accused the 2023-2024 majority grassroots school board of overspending.
The above union-backed spending list shows the continued waste of taxpayer dollars which ultimately robs our kids.
Nancy Rikel
Opinion
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