Copy of Superintendent’s Contract

EMPLOYMENT CONTRACT  BETWEEN  McKELL WITHERS  AND  THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF  SALT LAKE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT  ———— This Employment Contract made and entered into this 28th day of June 2012 by and  between the Board of Education of Salt Lake City School District (“the BOARD”),and McKell Withers (“SUPERINTENDENT”) The PDF link below includes a letter I submitted at the last school board meeting, an email exchange and a copy of the superintendent’s employment contract. The … Continue reading

Superintendent: Breach of Contract (Letter)

  TEXT OF LETTER: 15 October 2013 DELIVERED VIA ELECTRONIC MAIL Kristi Swett, President Salt Lake City School District, Board 2256 South King Street Salt Lake City, UT 84109    Re: Breach of Contract  Dear President Swett, This letter is to inform you that I will be voting against going into closed session this afternoon for the purposes of evaluating the superintendent. I was only made aware this past Saturday that the evaluation would take … Continue reading

Cub Scouts Invited Back to Mountain View Elementary!

  Michael Clara received a letter from the U.S. Department of Educations’s Office for Civil Rights, advising him that the School District has reversed its position on the Cub Scouts and will now allow them to return to Mountain View Elementary. “OCR believes that the response of the District corrects any prior misapplication of the District’s policy with respect to this Cub Scouts troop and would be consistent with the corrective action that OCR would require if … Continue reading

Clara: Educators’ Pessimism Doesn’t Help Students (Tribune)

Clara: Educators’ pessimism doesn’t help students BY MICHAEL CLARA PUBLISHED: SEPTEMBER 14, 2013 01:01AM In recent days, many oppositional voices have been raised over Utah’s new school grading system. Mine was not one of them. As a local school board member, one of my statutory responsibilities is to “use progress-based assessments as part of a plan to identify schools, teachers, and students that need remediation and determine the type and amount of federal, state, and … Continue reading

District Launches Poorly Written Webpage on School Grading

  TEXT OF LETTER I SENT TO THE SUPERINTENDENT:  1 September 2013   DELIVERED VIA ELECTRONIC MAIL Mr. McKell Withers, Superintendent Salt Lake City School District 440 East 100 South Salt Lake City, Utah 84111-1891 Re: School Grades and Accountability Website Dear Dr. Withers, I wanted to expressed my opposition to the current tone and format of the proposed School Grades and Accountability link on the school district’s web site, that you referenced in your … Continue reading