SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) — Mother and father and lecturers within the South Bay are sharing their frustration and shock after a superintendent’s firing simply weeks earlier than faculty begins.
Two weeks in the past, Superintendent German Cerda was posting movies about preparing for the primary day of faculty.
Now, he’s out of the job.
On Thursday night, the Board of Trustees for the Alum Rock Union Elementary College District made the surprising announcement.
Cerda was there through the assembly, and never there once they returned from closed session.
“Unilaterally terminating the superintendent’s contract of employment with out trigger.”
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We spoke with Sandra Rivera, President of Alum Rock Educators Affiliation.
She mentioned it she was in disbelief when he came upon.
“Having let go of a earlier superintendent, having to rent a agency to do a seek for this present superintendent and now being proper again the place we have been lower than a yr in the past it’s irritating,” Rivera mentioned.
The explanation, Board President Linda Chavez did not clarify. On Friday, she launched a press release that mentioned partly, “That call was made after a lot consideration and deliberation.”
We spoke with Delia Oseguera Navarro, her daughter is getting into the sixth grade at Adelante Twin Language Academy.
“Personally, I don’t suppose he had sufficient time like I wished to see not less than one full yr him as a superintendent with out having to take care of the closings,” Oseguera Navarro mentioned.
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As a result of finances points and declining enrollment, the district closed six colleges and consolidated three.
“We’re solely on the midway level, you understand we closed the faculties and we have packed up all of the lecturers and their stuff is meant to be shifting and now we’ve to unpack and begin the college yr off,” Rivera mentioned.
“There was so many guarantees, a lot we will make this work higher, we will this all that and we’re shopping for into the hoopla and saying yeah lets do that, lets do that, after which this occurred, and it is like- it occurred 12 days earlier than faculty begins,” Oseguera Navarro mentioned.
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The college district is holding a particular assembly on Saturday morning.
“This isn’t a one and carried out, attend the conferences, keep up a correspondence with the conferences and get entangled in these committees, they are going to be doing once more to do that once more. And actually maintain the board to the fireplace,” Oseguera Navarro mentioned.
Late Friday night, San Jose Metropolis Councilmember Peter Ortiz mentioned he’ll be there to advocate for clear subsequent steps.
“I would stand up and talk about we want stability,” Rivera mentioned.
The primary day of faculty is August 13.
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