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GPS Employees: Furlough Provisions Are in Your Contracts for a Reason
We’re hearing chirps from all directions that Gilbert Public Schools has already planned furlough days for the 2015-2016 school year, starting with the contract days when teachers usually set up...
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More Resignations and Retirements in Gilbert Public Schools
The Great Exodus of 2015 represents quite a learning curve for loyal Gilbert Public Schools employees. Last year, the huge number of resignations and retirements was made out to be the fault of...
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Gilbert Public Schools: Line of Sight and Other Ridiculous Management Strategies
The Superintendent of Gilbert Public Schools, Christina Kishimoto, described herself as “ridiculous” as she rode into the district. Now we’re finding out that Kishimoto’s management style is equally...
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Why Would Parents or Students Choose Gilbert Public Schools?
Remember the secretive marketing plan that was to showcase Gilbert Public Schools as the *District of Choice* for parents and students in the East Valley? The reason taxpayers came to know about the...
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Crocodile Tears from Top Dogs Gilbert Public Schools
It’s really crazy when the top administrative officials in a public school district moan and groan about how little money they’re paid. It’s almost as bad as watching the highest paid public school...
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Gilbert Public Schools and Chromebook – Worst Technology Rollout EVER!
You know it’s bad in Gilbert Public Schools when students are chirping to Westie. Whoever thought this Chromebook initiative would work without having a rollout plan and the fifty thousand known...
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Gilbert School Board On the Run from Public Eyes
When the going gets tough, the Gilbert Public Schools Governing Board runs away, led by Superintendent Christina 3-2 Kishimoto. The board is taking their next public meeting 30 miles away from the...
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What They Were Trying to Keep Secret at the GPS Governing Board Retreat
We posted about the Gilbert Public Schools’ Board on the Run a while back. Now we’ll examine some of the information the board reviewed during that schmooozy little getaway hosted by Grand Canyon...
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Gilbert Public Schools: Marketing Failures and a 200 Day School Year
The Gilbert Public Schools administration and governing board are in a holding pattern as far as doing any real work this year — they’re waiting for the November mail-in election to be over so they can...
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Gilbert 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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The 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...
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Gilbert 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...
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Superintendent 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...
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Gilbert 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...
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GPS 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...
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GPS 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...
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How 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...
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Gilbert 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...
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The 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%...
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Christina 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...
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