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Category Archives: SUSD
SUSD R&I agenda
Further discussion of a the district’s hoped-for Health Careers Academy is among the items.
Funding is the big issue, as usual.
Here’s the agenda.
Better late than never
I wanted to post this last night during the board meeting, but thanks to the bad 3G signal in the Mausoleum on Madison, I was unable to send the video to YouTube.
Anyway, the student rep speaking at last night’s SUSD meeting was Edison’s Whitney Delafosse. She gave an impassioned speech about how much she has [...]
Blogging live tonight
I’ll be at the SUSD meeting tonight, as usual.
The agenda is here.
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Jack McLaughlin: $240K pension
Here’s a name from the past: Jack McLaughlin. The former SUSD superintendent has been gone since 2008, but his name popped up today in an excellent piece by colleague Zachary Johnson on public employee pensions.Maybe one-third of the way into the piece, there was this paragraph:
“Former Stockton Unified Superintendent Jack McLaughlin cracked the top [...]
PDF of Toliver’s contract
Take a look.
Also, yeah, yeah, I know I just had a week off … but I’ll be out of the office until Saturday (and Sunday).
Toliver: SIG grant reversal of fortune not expected
Last week, colleague Keith Reid reported that SUSD won’t be getting any federal School Improvement Grant funding for its low-performing schools. Bay Area education blogger John Fensterwald then reported that there was at least a possibility the funding might come through, after all.
SUSD Superintendent Carl Toliver said he’s not counting on it.
Back in biz — SUSD agenda attached
Back one day early from vacation. Limited office time this week … pretty much today and tomorrow. Out of the office Wednesday, off Thursday-Friday, working the police shifts Saturday and Sunday. So while I catch up from a week off, here are a couple of things to read:
SUSD Superintendent Carl Toliver’s weekly report.
SUSD meeting agenda [...]

Thank you Mr. Toliver …