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CCSD Board Of Trustees Timeline
CCSD Board Of Trustees Timeline for 2021/2022. October 14th, 2022, 2:45 am p.s.t.
Updated November 7th, 2022 11:11 am p.s.t.
Here we have put together the timeline of events that have occurred regarding the CCSD Board Of Trustees starting from October 2021, to the present.
In order to fully grasp the enormity, depth, and seriousness of this kids4cash racketeering scheme we must go back to October 2021
Back in October 2021 just as the CCSD Board of Trustees Meetings were heating up. With angry parents voicing their grievances. Angry about neglect and lack of education their children are receiving. Angry about the forced Mask Mandates on our children. And so much more. This is where our story begins…
For a really good rundown on the events that occurred on October 28, 2021.
We recommend this article by the Las Vegas Review Journal. It is great coverage on this CCSD Board of Trustees Meeting. In addition it’s short enough of an article yet still gives a thorough and accurate account of events according to the known facts.
Following the October 28th, 2021 CCSD Board meeting.
We segue into the November 18th, 2021 CCSD Board meeting. Where Superintendent Jara weaseled his way back into the CCSD Board of Trustees. Again The Las Vegas Review Journal did another outstanding article on the meeting.
The Next Relevant Date For This Story on the Corruption in the CCSD Board of Trustees Is December 8th, 2021
From an article by Nevada Current
It’s deja vu all over again at the Clark County School district, where Supt. Jesus Jara is still in charge (or maybe was never not in charge) after a protracted negotiation with CCSD Trustees.
Presumably, the negotiation included, “I can do anything I want and no one can stop me,” because that is the gauntlet Jara laid down with this Thursday’s agenda, which came out last week, before he even announced that he was staying.
The agenda item is 5.01. Jara is the only contact. It’s about Service Level Agreements (SLAs)- the part of the reorg law (AB469) that allows schools, with their organizational teams, to hire the contractors they see fit.
Jara wants to take all of those Service Level Agreements away from schools.
Yes, the agenda item starts out giving schools more responsibility for ELL testing, and makes indeterminate determinations about landscaping and trash pickup. Then it ends with this:
…the transfer of responsibility for all remaining responsibilities currently transferred to schools under a service level agreement from schools back to central office, is recommended.
The grammar in that sentence confirms for me why we are one of the worst school districts in the nation. Or perhaps the grammar is confusing and badly written on purpose, so board members’ eyes would glaze over and they wouldn’t really understand its meaning.
This is the meaning: We are re-centralizing everything. We are ignoring the reorganization law. Schools can pound sand.
The reorg law – and SLAs in particular – is the core issue of the recent meetings between CCSD and the State Board of Education, which has been overseeing the rollout of the reorganization. In the past, state board members have been pretty clear they are not happy with answers CCSD has given them about why they aren’t following the law.
We’ll get to that in a minute. First, I want to point out here the similarity between
…the transfer of responsibility for all remaining responsibilities currently transferred to schools under a service level agreement from schools back to central office…
and
Said placement is at the discretion of the Superintendent.
The latter sentence was used in this document to justify $431,500 in annual raises to Jara’s top cabinet members that was announced just days after the vote to terminate Jara on Oct. 28. This sum, which I wrote about before, surprised trustees, who were led to believe the raises for top admin, who do not have a union contract, would be in line with raises given to regular admin that negotiated with their union.
Let’s be clear, trustees were all briefed on the new compensation policy earlier in the fall – in serial closed sessions which I believe violate open meeting law – and some asked HR director Nadine Jones about the “sole discretion” line. As I reported before, Trustee Danielle Ford asked to have that sentence struck, as it was not in any other policy the trustees have seen. Jones told her it wasn’t a “substantial change.”
Jones came out with a $25,000 raise from that “insubstantial” change in policy.
Trustee Lisa Guzman told me last week that trustees had been told that this week’s agenda item on Service Level Agreements was just to answer questions the state Board of Ed had put to them. The accompanying documentation to the agenda does that. The agenda item, with that horribly written sentence, goes much further.
So, again, trustees were lied to. Why am I not surprised?
Look at the Birdie, Look at the Birdie! (Grabs purse and runs.)
Maybe I’ve been watching too many Oceans movies, but it sure seems to me that CCSD leadership – read Jara and Trustee Lola Brooks – are purposefully creating a series of diversions that makes it incredibly hard for people to follow what’s really going on.
Let’s look at the last two months:
Oct. 6: Fikisha Miller, who had been holding the Clark County Education Association’s feet to the fire regarding the future of the Teachers’ Health Trust, goes to the trustees and tells them that Jara undermined negotiations behind her back when she was on sick leave to give CCEA more favorable terms. She also tells trustees that Jara created a hostile environment for employees and was retaliatory. This is not the first time trustees have heard these kinds of stories. But it is the first time they have not been able to ignore them. The trustees decide to put Fikisha Miller under their purview so Jara can’t fire her before her 30 days are up, and they start the proceedings to terminate Jara.
Oct. 22: After a few days of writing, re-writing, and haggling with board attorney Mary-Anne Miller, the agenda item for Jara’s termination goes up.
Oct. 22: Hours later, an agenda item to remove Linda Cavazos as president goes up.
Earlier in the day the TV stations were reporting, “They’re terminating Jara!” By that night, the narrative had changed to, “There’s infighting amongst the board.”
Neat how that works, isn’t it?
Let’s continue with our timeline.
Oct. 28: In a 4-3 vote, Jara’s contract is terminated. Trustee Evelyn Garcia-Morales cries. Trustee Katie Williams creates another diversion, then stomps out of the meeting, reportedly going to a bar with the CCSD cabinet members who had just left. Former Assemblywoman and County Commissioner Chris Giunchilgliani – who had attended and spoke at the meeting – sends me a text after the vote: “Check their procedures to make sure they can’t come back and reconsider.”
Nov. 2: An email detailing raises for 16 cabinet positions goes out to Trustees. It starts making the rounds of principals and, that night, Channel 3 confirms with Ford that the email is legit.
I need to cut into this narrative for a minute, ‘cause in the email, CCSD said the raises added up to $408,000. Clearly the admin who put that list together weren’t math teachers. The raises added up to $419,000 and change BEFORE the across the board 3% that the admin union had negotiated were added on. That brought the final total to over $431,500. Per year. For eternity or when CCSD ceases to exist, whichever comes first.
Again, back to our timeline.
Nov. 4: Trustee Irene Cepeda abstains from the vote and, therefore, stops the process for finding an interim superintendent – on the pretense that Ford shouldn’t have shared the email about the cabinet raises.
Team Lola generates outrage about Ford sharing the cabinet raises. Which was sent in an email. Which is a public record.
Trustees Guzman, Cavazos and Ford get bombarded with public records requests from trustees Brooks, Cepeda and Garcia-Morales.
Reality Check: We are no longer talking about Fikisha Miller and the realities of CCSD’s working environment she brought to the board. We are not talking about why Jara would want to undermine the negotiating position of CCSD in favor of CCEA. We are not talking about almost half a million dollars in raises for 16 people. We aren’t even talking about vaccine mandates – which were passed in August. We are talking about infighting amongst the board.
Diversion at its finest.
And it goes on.
Nov. 5: Jara sends out a demand letter, asking for $2.65 million in small bills with no markings and he will go away quietly. (OK, maybe I exaggerated about the small bills.)
Nov. 5: Cepeda puts out an agenda item to rehire Jara on the grounds that HE has faced a hostile work environment from his board – well, really just Guzman, Cavazos and Ford. Well, really just Ford. Because Jara sees women who challenge him as hostile.
Now we are talking about what constitutes harassment under the law, and whether Jara qualifies as a member of a protected class (he does not).
Nov. 18: Jara’s termination is rescinded. Nobody on the board of trustees actually knows what that means. Has he been fired and rehired, or is he just still on the job? Jara does not return emails and texts from Cavazos to clarify.
Let me repeat that: The superintendent has not returned any emails or texts from the president of the board that oversees him. According to Cavazos, he had stopped meeting one on one with her months ago. Now he won’t even answer her emails.
Dec 1: Before his status is even decided, Jara puts out an agenda item in which he gives himself broad powers to ignore AB469, and the trustees get a (non-public) briefing telling them that the agenda item is just answering questions that the state board put to them – exactly what Jara did with the “at the discretion of the superintendent” for the raises.
We are now leagues away from Fikisha Miller, Jara’s interference with CCEA negotiations, morale among teachers, admin and staff – who are leaving mid-year in rates never seen before – and the raises that were given to top admin.
We are also not talking about what is happening with ARP Covid funding from the federal government. Who is getting it? Who is deciding? Will that information be made public before the money is handed out?
Nowhere are we talking about REAL student mental health, which means hiring more mental health professionals, and looking at district practices which are contributing to the mental health issues of educators and students.
Teachers are still complaining about not being able to get medical treatment with Teachers Health Trust, which has still not paid off doctors. Now, we’re hearing that teachers are having trouble getting medications. But we’re not hearing that from the board of trustees, which putatively oversees the district.
There are seemingly daily reports of students – and parents – found with guns on campus. Trustees have not addressed that. Maybe they’ve talked about that in the numerous closed sessions they’ve held in the last couple of weeks. But judging by Ford’s tweet this week that she’s been kicked out of those closed sessions, we can be pretty sure they’re not talking about actual issues.
Nevada Current article – Chaos is the point, accessed Oct 2nd, 2022
Receiving a lot of questions about an agreement made. I’ll say more at a later time but for now here’s my statement:
— Danielle Ford | Clark County School Board (@TrusteeFord) December 5, 2021
“There are current issues related to me, an elected official, being excluded from Board/attorney meetings, purportedly for violating confidentiality… 1/2
Below is an embedded pdf showing the 16 CCSD Cabinet members who received raises.
If past is prologue, Team Lola is spending all of their time and energy trying to figure out how to get Ford off the board. As Trustee Cepeda has pointed out to me, board policies are so lax, they weren’t able to kick Kevin Child off the board, despite principals being so concerned about inappropriate behavior, they barred him from their campuses. But mark my words, Team Lola will do everything in its power to get Ford off the board before the Nov. 2022 election. They will also work to get Cavazos and Guzman off the board. They have already started that, voting on Nov. 18 to hire an outside investigator to, as Linda Cavazos put it, “target” her, Guzman and Ford.
THIS is the board’s focus at the moment: make sure the people who disagree with Lola Brooks and ask Jesus Jara tough questions are gone. Make sure there are no naysayers, that there are no people standing up for teachers and admin and staff, that there’s no one who points out the diversions and smoke bombs.
Chaos is the point. Diversionary tactics are the point. Getting journalists to chase the birdie is the point – whether they do that by creating sensation or by whispering that sensationalism leaves a bad taste.
We have no idea what is going to happen with the reorg. The Board of Ed is in a holding pattern, waiting to see if trustees even pass the broad language Jara has proposed on Thursday. Ultimately, this will end up with the Legislature. I have confidence that state Supt. Jhone Ebert will keep her team’s eye on the ball leading up to the 2023 session. But what diversions will we enjoy between now and then in the Jara/Brooks universe?
Nevada Current article – Chaos is the point, accessed Oct 2nd, 2022
Let’s Fast Forward to the present.
Where last Thursday Sept 29th, 2022 A Special Meeting of the CCSD Board of Trustees was held and was not announced to the public. I was notified of the meeting just hours before it was to commence. It should be noted that this “Special” Unannounced Meeting Was The Review Meeting for Jara’s Annual Review. The question needs to be asked, “Why was the pubic not informed of this Special Meeting?”. After all it is our Tax Dollars that ultimately fund these folks salary. “What are they trying to hide?”
Below is the Full Live Stream Coverage of the CCSD Board of Trustees Special (Unannounced) Meeting.
CCSD Board of Trustees Special (Unannounced) Meeting – Jara’s Review LIVE COVERAGE – September 29th, 2022, 5:00pm P.S.T.
For the purposes of this article i will specifically be focusing on Evidence that can be found via public domain with a simple google search.
Due diligence has been done by some in this fight and as such it has uncovered what appears to be a racketeering scheme between several local government agencies and institutions and we have the evidence to prove it.
Unfortunately we have been asked to remove this evidence from our article per request.
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You can find the previously presented reference from this portion of the article on the following news3lv article
Unfortunately we have been asked to remove this evidence from our article per request.
We apologize to our readers for the inconvenience of this request as we always prefer to show evidence of our claims to back them up. However when we are petitioned to remove evidence from an article per the owner of said evidence’s request. We take that very seriously and hold ourselves to the highest standard under the law.
Unfortunately we have been asked to remove this evidence from our article per request.
We apologize to our readers for the inconvenience of this request as we always prefer to show evidence of our claims to back them up. However when we are petitioned to remove evidence from an article per the owner of said evidence’s request. We take that very seriously and hold ourselves to the highest standard under the law.
Next i want to point out some connections made regarding CCSD’s Director of Compliance
According to our source..
“who do we know from Hawaii and an ex-AG? Daniel D. Ebihara.
Anonymous Source 10-2-2022
What Jeff was working on for me for my son’s case and John Smith from the Las Vegas Review Journal newspaper the man in question was on the list of funds here and part of the organizations I have been tracking down since we met Mark. why this happens to us I wanted answers, why the ruthless attack for 4 years straight to cover up his arrest from Fremont. Judge Voy’s retirement was not by choice. He had both my son’s cases name said in march, then retires in may. This goes back to the help of southern Nevada saga how we met and that Youth League is with the Las Vegas Global Economic Alliance”
Bob D. Sweetin, why we got sold down the river. And my son was ignored. That means Bob D Sweetin and Daniel Ebihara know each other too. 1 year after Daniel Ebihara into the picture, so did Bob D Sweetin. is that not strange the timeline on all the arrivals seems strange don’t you think Mark? In 2013 the Las Vegas Global Economic Alliance was created and would require an attorney general to make this happen. Hey look we have one Daniel D. Ebihara. Man this seems really strange on all the coincidences that pop up on this case …… you need to be aware of and I will be filing in federal court tomorrow civil/criminal and a nice stack of warrants for you to enjoy I know the desk gets stuffy. can I be there to watch please so they know it was me and my son who finally did this? ccsd needs to be fixed badly man it’s really bad”
Anonymous source Quote 10-2-2022
Can You Say “R.I.C.O.” (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) Statute – Implications for Organized Labor
Next we have the pdf document which pertains to Campaign Contributions.
These are Contributions received by parties involved in other positions of influence which reflect a clear conflict of interest.
Up Next in our chain of evidence is regarding the Las Vegas Global Economic Alliance.
According to a recent discussion with our Anonymous Source we had regarding our source’s sons case and the results of our source’s own investigation. Our Anonymous source had the following to say
“The Las Vegas Global Economic Alliance and the Achievement and Professional Development Task Force controls the legal system and has their fingers in the Election Community, Attorney General Offices, C.C.S.D. And the Nevada State Bar & Ethics community which is why 15 reports i have filed have not touched Jara.”
Anonymous Source Quote 10-2-2022
After some further digging i came across this page which lists The LVGEA Board of Directors.
Well look what we have here. Below the list of directors under People we see Dr. Jesus Jara. Hmm
If you look on the Investors Page of the Las Vegas Global Economic Alliance Website
You will see second largest investor on the list right below Cox Cable is the Nevada Governor’s Office of Economic Development. The paragraph to the right of the Governor’s Office Economic Development Logo Says…
LVGEA has been designated as one of eight Regional
Las Vegas Global Economic Alliance Investors Page
Development Authorities (RDA) in Nevada by the
Governor’s Office of Economic Development (GOED) for
2021-2022. Each RDA receives oversight and major
financial support from GOED.
Isn’t this a clear conflict of interest? If the Nevada Governor’s Office of Economic Development is responsible for Oversight of The Las Vegas Global Economic Alliance. Then how can they be trusted let alone impartial to their own special interests.
Remember folks this is clear evidence of Racketeering by several local Government agencies, Including Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak. As well as several private sector corporations.
There is one last piece of evidence i want to include in this article regarding the Upcoming CCSD Board of Trustees Meeting Being held on Wednesday October 5th, 2022, at 9:00 am.
It is titled Jara-Contract. From what the document shows it is clear that they are trying to orchestrate the continuing reign of Tyrant Jara outside of the purview of the public or the law. Based on the fact that they held last Thursdays Sept 29th, 2022 In Secret with no public announcement says everything.
They are attempting to do it again. We The People Cannot Allow This.
For further context on this you can check out Channel 8 news now’s article on this
One thing i would like to point out is that Channel 8 news now’s article is very biased. Based on the article headline “Jara up for $76K raise after ‘highly effective’ CCSD evaluation”. The headline itself is completely misleading. I was there covering this meeting live. I did not see channel 8 there at all, nor did i see any other legacy news outlet.
Let’s take a look at what the people that were there had to say about Jara’s Review.
There is so much more to cover on this topic and as a result we will be doing a follow up article to this as things progress.
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