Resignation of Superintendent Aguilar, Overhaul of SCUSD High Level Administrators & Board
Resignation of Superintendent Aguilar, Overhaul of SCUSD High Level Administrators & Board
The Issue
SCUSD has struggled in recent years through a variety of questionable actions and choices made by high level administrators, specifically Superintendent Jorge Aguilar and the school Board. In light of this and the most recent actions taken by Aguilar and the SCUSD Board, we are asking for the termination of Superintendent Aguilar and a reformation of the Board.
The actions of our superintendent and the Board have created an impassable divide between themselves and the community they are purported to serve. Their recent actions are disturbingly tone deaf in relation to the realities many of our students and employees are facing today, and even before Covid-19. Their actions seem to progressively cushion high level administrator salaries while ignoring the fundamental need for great teachers, financially sustainable employee salaries, smaller class sizes, access to needed supplies and facilities and auxiliary staff.
In response to the Governor's directive on Labor-Management Collaboration, the District refused to comply, effectively withholding pay from district employees. A large group of employees have now been laid off. Under these conditions, it seems absurd and almost cruel that Superintendent Aguilar has just accepted a substantial pay raise of 9% or $34,126, thus bringing his annual salary to $414,818. To put this in perspective, Superintendent Aguilar is the highest paid superintendent in the state and makes twice as much as a governor.
He accepted a raised despite his agreement on March 7, 2019 that "District Superintendent, Jorge Aguilar, (has) agreed to forgo any salary increase allowed under his Employment Agreement until the District receives either a qualified or positive certification as defined in Education Code section 42131, subdivision (a)(1)."
My children are students of SCUSD, I am an employee of SCUSD, as are many of my friends. For most of us, working in education is grounded in a desire to serve, and to create equitable educational opportunities for people in our community. It becomes progressively more clear that the Board and Superintendent are not acting in alignment with a true desire to do what is best for the community it serves, and instead operates in a manner that creates untenable circumstances for employees and students alike.
Join me in this movement to create needed change and to correct wrongs being perpetuated by Superintendent Aguilar and the SCUSD Board.
4,492
The Issue
SCUSD has struggled in recent years through a variety of questionable actions and choices made by high level administrators, specifically Superintendent Jorge Aguilar and the school Board. In light of this and the most recent actions taken by Aguilar and the SCUSD Board, we are asking for the termination of Superintendent Aguilar and a reformation of the Board.
The actions of our superintendent and the Board have created an impassable divide between themselves and the community they are purported to serve. Their recent actions are disturbingly tone deaf in relation to the realities many of our students and employees are facing today, and even before Covid-19. Their actions seem to progressively cushion high level administrator salaries while ignoring the fundamental need for great teachers, financially sustainable employee salaries, smaller class sizes, access to needed supplies and facilities and auxiliary staff.
In response to the Governor's directive on Labor-Management Collaboration, the District refused to comply, effectively withholding pay from district employees. A large group of employees have now been laid off. Under these conditions, it seems absurd and almost cruel that Superintendent Aguilar has just accepted a substantial pay raise of 9% or $34,126, thus bringing his annual salary to $414,818. To put this in perspective, Superintendent Aguilar is the highest paid superintendent in the state and makes twice as much as a governor.
He accepted a raised despite his agreement on March 7, 2019 that "District Superintendent, Jorge Aguilar, (has) agreed to forgo any salary increase allowed under his Employment Agreement until the District receives either a qualified or positive certification as defined in Education Code section 42131, subdivision (a)(1)."
My children are students of SCUSD, I am an employee of SCUSD, as are many of my friends. For most of us, working in education is grounded in a desire to serve, and to create equitable educational opportunities for people in our community. It becomes progressively more clear that the Board and Superintendent are not acting in alignment with a true desire to do what is best for the community it serves, and instead operates in a manner that creates untenable circumstances for employees and students alike.
Join me in this movement to create needed change and to correct wrongs being perpetuated by Superintendent Aguilar and the SCUSD Board.
4,492
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Petition created on April 6, 2020