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Sweetwater School District Discovers $30 Million Hole in Annual Budget By Sandra G. Leon South Bay middle and high schools could face budget cuts after the district found it had $30 million less than it expected. The District made the issue public at a monthly meeting of its Board of Trustees this Monday. “When our staff was finalizing this [budget] report in late August, we detected some cause for concern of a potential shortfall in closing our financial books for the 17-18 school year,” reads a statement from its Board of Trustees and Superintendent Karen Janney. The budget miscalculati...

Taxpayer Group Sues County Schools Chief By Eduardo Rueda – Investigative Reporter  The California Taxpayers Action Network (CalTAN) has filed a lawsuit against San Diego County Board of Education Superintendent Randy Ward and Assistant Superintendent Lora Duzyk, alleging the schools chief rigged the process to allow himself to approve his and Duzyk’s salary increases without performance reviews, including a recent raise they took last week on July 1st. CalTAN filed its lawsuit Thursday, July 7th, and immediately issued a “Request for Preservation of Evidence for Use in Litigation” a...

San Diego Union Tribune John Collins,the former Superintendent of Poway Unified School District, was arraigned in court Thursday on four felony counts stemming from allegations he withdrew vacation and sick pay without the approval of the school board, and for using school district funds for his own use. Collins was fired from his position as Superintendent on July 9, 2016, after an internal investigation revealed he had taken $345,000 from the school district through unauthorized payments. At the time, Collins was one of the highest paid school administrators in the state, with a total annua...

By Mario A. Cortez Teachers in the San Ysidro School District are calling for the resignation of San Diego County Board of Education (SDCOE) Superintendent Randy Ward and Assistant Superintendent Lora Duzyk, and asking for them to repay teachers’ lost wages. This Wednesday, a group of San Ysidro teachers gathered at the San Diego County Office of Education to send a message to SDCOE’s board members that Randy Ward and Lora Duzyk have engaged in fraudulent activity at their  expense. Teachers held signs demanding money back from the SDCOE. Grievances from San Ysidro teachers stem from occ...