Saturday, January 03, 2009

Hillsborough County Administrator Is Evading the Florida Public-Records Law

Be patient. We are sending out a giant email to the state-wide school system tomorrow to greet everyone on Teusday morning as they sit down to their desks. If the board and administration have whined about our blogs before, they will have a hissy with this one. We have compiled emails for all over the state with the whole K12 community on it. We are going to blog on down.

This first email deals at length with the board and administration’s terrible management; the next email will deal with Goader’s set up for firing because he has a blog. Lee


From: Anonymous [mailto:noreply-comment@blogger.com]
Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2009 8:36 PM
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Good Luck Lee. Even CTA can't seem to keep up with the smallest task.

Take the salary schedule for employees. They contend the teacher's got a 2% raise but I'll be darned if it is in MY paycheck.

Go to the CTA Website and check the 08-09 Salary Schedule.

The link may say 08-09 but the info is 07-08! It is even labeled 07-08 as though we are too stupid to realize.

For God's sake, you would think that a 2% raise would mean that each of the salary levels would be 2% higher in 08-09 than in 07-08.

They have as much commitment to clear communication as the district does!

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Posted by Anonymous to Lee Drury De Cesare's Casting-Room Couch

Mr. Valdez:

I would like to have these public-information data:

The job descriptions of the three supervisors involved in Steve Kemp's being suspended for alleged child abuse of special-ed children;

The policy manual for the area that teacher Steve Kemp worked in before the administration suspended him on the trumped-up charge of child abuse; please have this manual sent to Linda Cobbe in the Public Affairs Office along with the job descriptions.

The answer to this question: There is a "Kipley" listed third from the top under the supervisor of accounting. The list documents the accounting team for Hillsborough schools. Is this the the husband of Linda Kipley of the Professional Standards Office with only a high school diploma who you assured the board was more qualified than the four candidates with an accounting degree who applied including a disabled woman accountant whom the Disabilities Act covered ? Did you make this decision by yourself, or was it an order from Ms. Elia?

You ignored my first two requests for public information. If you ignore this one, I shall inform the governor, the attorney general, the school commissioner, and the members of the Hillsborough County delegation that taxpayers are paying you a bloated salary to ignore the state public records law. Don't underestimate me, sir. I will keep on this project until I get those records, and I will attribute the evasion of the law to you.



Lee Drury De Cesare




Section 24. Access to public records and meetings.

(a) Every person has the right to inspect or copy any public record made or received in connection with the official business of any public body, officer, or employee of the state, or persons acting on their behalf, except with respect to records exempted pursuant to this section or specifically made confidential by this Constitution. This section specifically includes the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government and each agency or department created thereunder; counties, municipalities, and districts; and each constitutional officer, board, and commission, or entity created pursuant to law or this Constitution.

Who else is covered? Members-elect of boards or commissions are also subject to the Sunshine Law. Private entities doing business on behalf of a public agency may also be subject to the law.


Thursday, January 01, 2009

We Are Not Weenies


We can’t give up. To do so would mean ceding the school system that is supposed to educate our children and grandchildren to some dreadful subset of crooks that the local board has allowed to spawn and has joined itself to.

We are Americans. We don’t give up to dictators of any kind be they political hooligans who pose as school board members or their myrmidons called the administrators.

We have our mouths. We have our emails. We plant ourselves squarely in the holy precincts of the First Amendment.

We have the can-do American drive. We have the state and even national political community to bring in to help us. All that it takes to rally supporters is spending enough time in front of a CRT screen. Remember that the school board is a bunch of politicians posing as supporters of education. We know different. And we can let enough people know through our blogs what is going on. Better people will challenge the crook collaborators on the board and replace them.


We can do that. Would the Founding Patriots have given up to the King George thugs? Never. Nor will we. We arm ourselves with the First Amendment that our democracy gives us and go into battle.

Lock and load.

Lee Drury De Cesare

PS: I need some help compiling the state's PTA emails. I have Hillsborough and Pinellas. Somebody go to the list of counties and get PTAs for the rest of the counties. Get cracking and send me those emails via anonymous.

From: Anonymous [mailto:noreply-comment@blogger.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 10:14 PM
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Subject: [Lee Drury De Cesare's Casting-Room Couch] New comment on Up and at 'em.

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Up and at 'em":

You are right. No one has made a dent in the school district. It is run by the most arrogant and unethical people you can imagine. They will never admit to wrongdoing and never change their ways. These people crave power and could care less about anyone but their pocketbooks.

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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Up and at 'em":

Hey, Lee--
I want that T shirt!
Pam

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Posted by Anonymous to Lee Drury De Cesare's Casting-Room Couch at 10:39 AM

I got it at the Seminole Mall in a card shop. The sales women say they sold out for Christmas. I am not surprised. I have sent off for a bumper sticker that says “EVE WAS FRAMED.” She was. All those holy guys in the Heavenly Senate right up to God the Father blamed everything on Eve. lee

Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Up and at 'em

If you have some extra time, look up PTAs over Florida for me. Get a list of the counties by keying in “List of Florida counties” in Google. I want to give the board and administration the publicity that they are so terrified of and should be. Happy New Year. lee

From: Anonymous [mailto:noreply-comment@blogger.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 9:19 AM
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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Happy New Year; Get Ready to Rock and Roll the Sch...":

The Gates Foundation seems benevolent, but it is really greed driving it. If you can get kids to use Microsoft PCs and software you get them possibly hooked for the rest of their lives on using those products. Gates wants to create a monopoly and squash mac or other computer companies. It pretends to help others while simply trying to use another route to filling its pocket book.

Pepsi does a similar thing. It gives its products away at such low rates to the school district so that kids will grow up with Pepsi (even though it is an inferior product to Coke) and buy Pepsi products later on in life.

Don't trust anyone or anything. Money is the driving force behind EVERYTHING in this world unfortunately. People have found out how to use kids and taxpayer dollars to make a fortune. It is the Republican way. Screw everyone and make a fortune for yourself.

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Posted by Anonymous to Lee Drury De Cesare's Casting-Room Couch at 6:19 AM


they had the will power. But Hillsborough’s can’t even stop no-bid contracts.

I have worked for women’s rights for 45 years. But I don’t believe that most men are evil. Quite a few are, however, when it comes to women’s rights. And those Arab guys all need a horse whipping for such practices as honor killing. I bought a tee-shirt to send to my old-time women’s rights friends for Christmas to salute our years in the women’s rights work together. It said, “Three wise men.” Second line: “Be serious.” The Publix male manager, a nice old guy, stopped me for a long conversation about the relationship of the sexes. We are making progress in changing minds in that fight.

I don’t think we have yet made a dent in the school board and administration. I send out a magnum opus for the January opening of the schools. So we’ve got that going for us.

Put a comma after “software” in the second line of your piece for introductory adverbial clause. I have a twit accusing me of not correcting the punctuation of my favorites. He’s engaged in blog stalking. I think he has a granny fetish. Such characters are out there. Some sick souls get off on dead bodies. Lord, lord.

You are a good writer. Your work has drive and pace. Style is hard to teach. It usually comes to people who read a lot. If you read enough good stuff, the magic of words gets in your bones, and you write well. If you don’t read anything but pap, you don’t write well. It’s as simple as that. I am reading geology now. Some of these geologists can write like a house afire. I just paid $400 for a first edition of a geological classic. I must be crazy.

Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Happy New Year; Get Ready to Rock and Roll the School Board and Administration in 2009. lee

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Have a happy New Year. This picture is from last year. My husband and I spend New Year's at home because we are afraid to get out on the streets and get murdered.

This coming year is going to be our Blog Blast year. The administration and board have complained so much about how evil blogs are that we know that we are getting to them.

I am sending out a long new year's message about how rotten the board and administration are. I have assembled with help an email list that covers the Florida education community.

The other parts of the Florida education community need to learn how not to run a school system by our exposure of Hillsborough's rotten- from-the-top methods designed to impede the teachers and students and to make things easy for the administration and board.


Hip, hip, hooray. lee


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Lee, do you realize that if a public school teacher were to post a picture like yours holding a glass of wine, we'd be run out of town on a rail and called bad role models. The same rules simply don't apply to us.

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Posted by Anonymous to Lee Drury De Cesare's Casting-Room Couch at 11:21 AM


My god, you are right. We have our work cut out for us: to make teachers human beings. lee


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Maybe you should put the Gates Foundation on your list.


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Posted by Anonymous to Lee Drury De Cesare's Casting-Room Couch at 1:10 PM

I am thinking small. You are thinking big. I will put Bill and Melissa Gates on our list if I can find an email. I like the way they spend their billions to help the world, mostly education. See if you can find an email and send it to me. lee


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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Happy New Year; Get Ready to Rock and Roll the Sch...":

Happy (and safe) New Year, Lee! We're doing the at home thing, too. Best wishes for a better 2009!!
Pam

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Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 7:30 PM
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GreyGhost has left a new comment on your post "Happy New Year; Get Ready to Rock and Roll the Sch...":

Why not add Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and the Tooth Fairy? Now there's a trifecta you don't want to mess with. I would wager you might even getter a better response from these three.

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Posted by GreyGhost to Lee Drury De Cesare's Casting-Room Couch at 4:30 PM

I am not smart enough to know what you mean, Grey Ghost. leeAnonymous has left a new comment on your post "Happy New Year; Get Ready to Rock and Roll the Sch...":

Maybe he/she means that the "powers that be" are about as nebulous as this "trifecta".

Maybe he/she means that, just as the acts of these fictitious characters are carried out by others, so are the strings of the puppets of education being pulled by someone else.

In any case, I applaud you for your efforts.

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Posted by Anonymous to Lee Drury De Cesare's Casting-Room Couch at 5:19 AM

Thank you for the exegesis. Sometimes my readers are so much smarter than I am that I get lost. lee