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In 2013 the San Diego Unified School Board chose Cindy Marten as the new superintendent behind closed doors, hours after then-superintendent Bill Kowba told the board he would retire and before the general public knew the board needed a new superintendent.
Community members criticized the move as a closed-door appointment that violated open meeting laws and denied them the chance to give input.
Almost eight years later, the superintendent position is up for grabs once more as Marten is expected to be officially named U.S. deputy education secretary next month, pending Senate confirmation.
Now a coalition of community groups is telling the school board it should not choose the next superintendent the same way it chose Marten.
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Advocates of a popular southeast San Diego charter school, Gompers Preparatory Academy, say a San Diego Unified proposal would force some of the charter school’s founding employees to make a difficult choice: stay at Gompers and lose the district’s prime health benefits, or be reassigned to a district school.
Some Gompers supporters worry the choice could cause the employees to leave the 15-year-old charter school and jeopardize the school’s stability and success in a neighborhood that they say needs a quality school.
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8:23 AM, Jan. 13, 2021This article has been updated to reflect that of the four on-loan employees, one is an administrator and three are classified employees.