Su-weet!

I didn't make it to the Marysville School Board meeting last night, but I did hear some really good news about it.

The latest crap the superintendent was giving the district was to eliminate a whole bunch of EAs from the district. EAs are Educational Assistants who provide valuable instruction time to students. As reported on December 3rd from one of the EAs affected: "I have just found out that my position, along with several other Vocational EA's, has been eliminated. It affects approx. 8 EAs with an excess of over 110 years of seniority."

Well, the new board members were notified, and the activists in the district were up in arms, and the result: "Carol thank you so much for putting a motion forward to pay the EA's out of LW's budget. I wish some of the EA's that spoke at the meeting last night were still there when you sent this motion out. I'm sure they all know by now though." Yup, the board voted 3 to 1 (one member wasn't there) to pay the EAs out of the superintendent's oversized budget!!! They also voted to "have the Districts Human Resources Dept send out an apology letter to those EA's who were put in a terrible spot last week." HA! Someone is actually holding the administration accountable for their abuse!

The board also confirmed the calendar (finally) and decided to hire an outside consultant to look into the district's funding, using the district's emergency funds. I'm opposed to that move in a lot of ways, because the district already has a financial person who is supposed to be doing that, but I understand that the new board members do not trust the guy, as he has a shady background and was hired by the superintendent. Getting someone from outside to look at the books may be the only way to sort out what is going on with the district.