GPS Lawyers’ Perpetual Employment Program and Fake Public Records
The Gilbert Public Schools Governing Board received legal advice in an executive session on August 8, 2017 about appealing the million dollar repayment the State of Arizona demanded after the district...
View ArticleFive-Figure Bonuses for Incompetent GPS District Staffers
Hey, teachers, are you feeling all that awesomeness from the convocation that was supposed to inspire you to achieve greatness for Gilbert Public Schools? Welcome to the real world of GPS where the...
View ArticleGPS Fraud, Waste & Abuse Report #5: Accountability for Fraudulent Schemes
For the past three years, Christina Kishimoto’s GPS superintendency has been marked by willful ignorance and intentional blindness in terms of oversight. One reason Westie is presenting this series of...
View ArticleGPS Fraud, Waste & Abuse Report #2: Red Flags of Fraud in Employee Travel
Employee travel in Gilbert Public Schools appears to be a massive six figure expenditure every year. We say “appears to be,” because tracking all the GPS employee travel is pretty much impossible … by...
View ArticleGPS Must Slash Budget … Who Could Have Anticipated Student Losses?
Gilbert Public Schools has been losing students right and left as their reviled superintendent Christina Kishimoto destroys neighborhood schools in the name of reforms that no one wants. She appears to...
View ArticleChristina Kishimoto Denies Her Staff Admitted GPS Is Being Investigated
Christina Kishimoto wants the Governing Board of Gilbert Public Schools to believe that her flunkie, Chief Financial Officer Tom Wohlleber, actually did not say what he said at the October 2016 GPS...
View ArticleHappy Birthday – Westie Connect is Four Years Old!
As always, we are truly grateful to our audience for hanging in and hanging out with us. This birthday, just like those in the past, comes with the same old stuff from Gilbert Public Schools:...
View ArticleTo Parents of GPS Students: Watch Your Kid’s Chromebook and Your Wallet!
To parents of 8th graders who will be getting their same Chromebook back from last year: check your child’s Chromebook for damage as soon as it is issued to your child. The district had so many damaged...
View ArticleThere’s Still Time to Enroll Your Student! #AnywhereButGPS
It’s almost that time in Arizona: First Day of School coming soon! If you haven’t already enrolled for the 2016-2017 school year, you can be assured of a warm welcome when you do. That’s because...
View ArticleChristina Kishimoto’s Record of Failure in Gilbert Public Schools
The governing board of Gilbert Public Schools evaluated the performance of Superintendent Christina Kishimoto in a super-secret executive session that apparently was held in spite of the fact that...
View ArticleThe Greedy Million Dollar Superintendent of Gilbert Public Schools
Superintendent Christina M. Kishimoto is a Million Dollar Superintendent! “How did she achieve this awesome title?” you wonder. Simple: ANOTHER 3-2 vote, wherein Her Three Votes gave her 100%...
View ArticleGilbert Public Schools Will Vote on a New Budget with NO Public Comment Allowed
Has Gilbert Public Schools become an alien life form that devours tax dollars as it spits out the ragged entrails of former employees? Many people say the answer is “Yes,” now that the GPS board has...
View ArticleHow Corrupt Can Gilbert Public Schools Be? We’ll Show You.
When Westie wondered if Paul Holland’s presence on the GCA committee was a set-up giving cover for the GPS governing board to close a neighborhood school for the benefit of the unique and exclusive...
View ArticleGPS Targets the Most Vulnerable Students: Get Out of our Way, Kid!
Gilbert Public Schools targets vulnerable kids: Special Education students who are turning out to be inconvenient because they need special resources. Never mind that GPS receives additional funds to...
View ArticleGPS Closing a School: Bass Ackwards Planning, but Let’s Vote!
Gilbert Public Schools is having a work study session for the Governing Board where one of the topics will be a new demographic study — so the board can make a decision on April 26, 2016 about which...
View ArticleGilbert Public Schools Screwed Up New Payroll System – Employees Shafted
Under the category of we couldn’t possibly make up anything more ridiculous than what actually happens in Gilbert Public Schools: Add new financial problems to the 2016 List of Disasters. If we...
View ArticleSuperintendent Christina Kishimoto’s *Alleged* Boyfriend Resigns
BREAKING NEWS: Westie had this post ready to publish when word came down that Charles Stevin Smith, aka Steve Smith, the Superintendent’s *Alleged* Boyfriend, has resigned from his position in Gilbert...
View ArticleGilbert Public Schools – New Year 2016 Brings the Same Old Stuff
There’s nothing new under the sun in GPS, not with the new crop of Good Old Boys, who run things pretty much the same as the GOBs did under Dave Allison. The difference today is the scalawags and...
View ArticleThe One Where Westie Lets Others Write the Post
Keyboard, being a three year old, gave the Westies a Christmas list that’s a mile long. Whew! So we can go shopping, we’ll let Silly Jilly Humpherys write this post about all the choices that the...
View ArticleGilbert Public Schools: Taxes Will Increase, One Way or Another!
Gilbert Public Schools is asking local taxpayers to give them more, more and more money. Because: It’s for the kids! The legislature won’t give us all the money we want. We already spent it all last...
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