The following line appeared on nj.com in a story about
the Jersey City teacher strike:
The
nine-member school board has met three times this week in an effort to come to
a deal, most recently on Thursday, when it convened until 12:30 a.m. Friday. It
voted 4-2 to approve a contract offer — three board members cannot vote because they were endorsed
by the teachers union in November's elections — but by that time
teachers had already been told the strike was on.
Why do rules apply everywhere else but not in Lodi?
The
LEA endorsed 5 candidates in the November election. Four of those candidates are on the
Board. Two of those candidates
negotiated the teachers’ contract.
At the January 24th meeting, I told the
Board that they needed to disclose this conflict on its resolution for “Doctrine
of Necessity”. Other districts disclose
it. The majority of the Board
refused. A few LEA big mouths yelled
from the audience that there were no endorsements and that I was a liar.
I attended a personnel meeting on Monday, October 16,
2017. After I left that meeting, I had
multiple text messages and voice messages stating that the LEA made
endorsements. It was firsthand information coming from LEA members.
The LEA officers endorsed the following: Donald
Scorzetti, Joe Leto, Nancy Cardone, Bob Marra, and Sharon Salvacion.
How can the public trust a process in which the LEA is
lying about endorsements just so those it endorsed can negotiate right after an
election?
Below are two posts that went up at the time in question. None were disputed at the time. Why?
