Brian Sarvis was the pits as Santa Barbara schools superintendent, flubs and mistakes were his trademark...he was well liked by slumlord pot houser and News-Press writer Lanny Ebenstein...David Cash is the new Santa Barbara schools superintendent... Lanny likes him too and wrote a glowing op-ed piece about him....Cash was schools chief in the town of Clovis near Fresno and he has some baggage...and plenty of controversy surrounding his career as an educator..especially interesting is the sex education program in Clovis where they taught abstinence over biology, ie rightwing religious indoctrination, and issues he had with students getting drunk on a bus after the prom and sexual assaults on the wrestling team!! "We can’t leave a single child unnoticed in any school,” Cash said...... or any bus apparently....the question is why did Cash "retire" two years into a four year contract...to intercept his imminent firing by the Clovis school board??
will he be just another incompetent overpaid official in the Santa Barbara schools system...so far, it doesn't look good..the board did not do their homework!!! I am hoping that Monique Limon will take a bigger role in the future vetting the people who are responsible for educating kids...
from the Fresno Bee fresnobee
Cash's sudden departure is as surprising and mysterious as that dead leopard shark turning up in a Clovis canal. Three weeks ago, a confident Cash was selling the district's performance and beating the drum for a possible $300 million bond measure to spiff up Clovis Unified's fabulous -- but aging -- facilities. Next thing you know, the district is robo-calling news of his retirement to staff.
What happened behind the scenes is anybody's guess. Perhaps dozens of small board concerns grew into a tsunami of regret over Cash's hiring or the direction he was taking the district.
"the board served Cash with notice on Thursday that they would schedule the Friday meeting to discuss a range of options for Cash's future, including discipline, suspension, dismissal or release.
But before the meeting started, Cash said, he called the district's lawyer to say he was retiring.
Cash, 55, said he was asked by the district's lawyer not to attend Friday's meeting but to be available by telephone. He would not discuss details of the evaluation.
But Cash said that, contrary to some news reports, issues at Buchanan High School involving the wrestling team and students who were caught drinking alcohol on a chartered bus after the prom two weeks ago had nothing to do with his decision to retire.
The board voted 7-0 Friday to accept Cash's decision to retire, said Hovsepian.
The same board members voted 7-0 to make Cash the superintendent in 2009.
Lanny's got Eureka and Cash has got Clovis...and the local media will have none of it!!
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Hey Mick. Here's another one that the media didn't/wouldn't report: Why Santa Barbara Fire Chief Ron Prince announced his retirement just one day before the DA's office said it would not prosecute the Tea Fire Ten for the wildfire. All we got were the press releases. He wasn't here that long. Did he really retire, or take another job elsewhere? Did the DA's decision have anything to do with his decision to leave? We'll probably never know.
So both David Cash and Ron Prince left their jobs via "retirement." Cash, however, didn't really retire. And we don't know about Prince. What does this mean regarding pensions?
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