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The principal and three other employees at a popular southeast San Diego charter school are likely to stay now that the San Diego Unified School Board has voted unanimously to let them keep their benefits.
The vote came Tuesday, after lobbying by leaders, parents and other supporters of the school, Gompers Preparatory Academy. Some supporters had feared the four founding employees would leave Gompers if they were to lose their benefits.
But critics say those benefits the founding employees get from San Diego Unified are more generous than what Gompers gives its employees, and that Gompers should improve benefits for all of its employees.
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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.
Over her decades teaching at San Diego State University, Shirley Weber made a habit of asking students early in her fall classes: “How many of you are registered to vote?”
The numbers would vary, but if a student answered “no” they were tasked with getting registered or helping someone else register if they were under-age.
Weber, who helped found the Africana Studies Department at SDSU, did this because she fundamentally believed in order to be a good student in her class you needed to be part of an active and concerned citizenry. She was so adamant about it that some of the older students began jokingly warning other students considering taking her class.
Gov. Newsom to submit Assemblymember Dr. Shirley Weber nomination for Secretary for State
Dr. Weber isn t doing this for herself or for her ego, said Mayor Todd Gloria. She does it because she believes in the work of public service. Author: CBS News 8 Team, Richard Allyn (Reporter) Published: 4:05 PM PST December 22, 2020 Updated: 11:57 AM PST December 23, 2020
SAN DIEGO Governor Gavin Newsom on Tuesday announced that he will submit Dr. Shirley N. Weber to the State Legislature as the nominee to be the next California Secretary of State, filling the seat that will be vacated by Secretary of State Alex Padilla once he assumes office in the United States Senate.
SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – Gov. Gavin Newsom Tuesday nominated Assemblywoman Shirley Weber, D-San Diego, to serve as the next California secretary of state, a move that would make her the first Black woman to ever hold the position.
Weber would replace Alex Padilla, who was appointed by Newsom earlier Tuesday to fill the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. Weber’s nomination is subject to confirmation by the state Legislature.
“Dr. Weber is a tireless advocate and change agent with unimpeachable integrity,” Newsom said. “The daughter of sharecroppers from Arkansas, Dr. Weber’s father didn’t get to vote until his 30s and her grandfather never got to vote because he died before the Voting Rights Act passed in 1965. When her family moved to South Central Los Angeles, she saw as a child her parents rearrange furniture in their living room to serve as a local polling site for multiple elections.