#school-district

#school-district

The board appointed Assistant Superintendent Sandra Garcia as acting superintendent during an emergency meeting to address the firing of superintendent German Cerda.

"Everybody is losing sleep these days," Catherine Stuckey told 7 On Your Side. "It's very country out here...there's crickets...the wind in the cottonwood trees."

Now is the time for us to ride and rise together.

"By doing so, Kobata and Ghysels were able to please the superintendent by providing him with additional, misappropriated funds for use in purchasing luxuries such as retained massage therapists, expensive Cuban cigars, expensive food and travel, etc.," Facciano's lawyer, Stanley Apps, said in the brief.

"For a special needs child, to change an environment for that child they've been thriving in, and also affect staff that are being very effective, disheartens me," he told San José Spotlight. "To receive an email ... that just said Special Day Class will not be offered next year, and your child will be going to another school ... feels disempowering as a parent when ... you've been told by the district it's a partnership."

MDUSD is consuming more electricity and experiencing maintenance requests, despite a $50 million energy-savings project aimed at lowering utility bills and improving classroom climates.

"Kids made this trek across the slide during the times when it was dark, when it rained, when it was foggy. They felt exhausted."