Hold Superintendent Jorge Aguilar Accountable for Mismanagement

Hold Superintendent Jorge Aguilar Accountable for Mismanagement

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Superintendent Aguilar has continuously demonstrated his mismanagement of the Sacramento Unified School District and exploitation of its lowest paid, essential workers by calling for more pay cuts while granting a thirty-five thousand salary increase to himself. Our community is fed up and demands an end to this cycle of sabotage. Remove Jorge Aguilar as Superintendent of SCUSD give our community the leadership we deserve.

 

Superintendent Aguilar has continuously demonstrated his mismanagement of the Sacramento Unified School District and exploitation of its lowest paid, essential workers by calling for more pay cuts while granting a thirty-five thousand salary increase to himself. Our community is fed up and demands an end to this cycle of sabotage. Remove Jorge Aguilar as Superintendent of SCUSD give our community the leadership we deserve.

 

SCUSD Community Holding Superintendent Aguilar Accountable for Mismanagement

Superintendent Aguilar’s ongoing lack of leadership has resulted in an extreme waste of resources and funds. The most recent example is the loss of six million dollars by purchasing more than 600 formaldehyde-leaking air filters which cost the school district over six million dollars in wasteful spending! The students, workers, and communities of Sacramento City Unified School District are justifiably outraged by this.

Year-after-year, Superintendent Aguilar makes baseless reports to the community that the District is operating at a deficit as a way to justify cuts to student services. The opposite is true. The District has a wealthy reserve and $200 million in new revenue. SCUSD needs to reject cuts to the student services and the unnecessary cruelty of continually threatening its lowest paid workers with layoffs. This tactic not only impoverishes SCUSD students but aims to further degrade the standard of living for the workers in our communities that live in conditions that are best described as “from hand to mouth”.

On top of the deceitful reports of the district budget and costly mistakes, Superintendent Aguilar has not hesitated to accept large salary increases while simultaneously calling for cuts to the wages and benefits of the frontline essential workers who have worked tirelessly to keep our schools safe. This kind of behavior is atrocious and should not be tolerated by our communities. 

We are holding Superintendent Aguilar and the school district accountable for the portable air filter debacle and we will pursue an official hearing on the matter to gain full transparency around how this happened. We demand that the school district move with integrity and put an end to the lies, budget cuts, and false reports so we can focus on safely re-opening schools for our students, our teachers, our workers, and our communities.

 

 

Dear Sacramento City Unified School District Board of Supervisors,

I am writing to you on behalf of the students, workers, and communities of Sacramento City Unified School District to express the concern and justifiable outrage we feel due to Superintendent Aguilar’s ongoing lack of leadership, his decisions over the years regarding the school district matters, and the continued intentional misrepresentation of the district budgets.

To say we are appalled by the extreme waste of resources and funds that went into the purchase of more than 600 portable air filters, costing the school district over six million dollars would be an understatement. Making an essential decision that directly affects the health and safety of our students and workers without the necessary research to determine if the units were safe is grossly negligent. The district’s research was incurious and failed to obtain all the necessary information to make a knowledgeable purchasing decision.

The school district and the Superintendent should be held accountable for this decision especially considering the recent findings that the portable units may leak formaldehyde and have since been removed from classrooms possibly never to be used. The necessary and costly safety testing of the portable air filters by industry experts is yet another example of Superintendent Aguilar’s costly blunders and mismanagement of the school district’s funds.

The second source of our outrage stems from the baseless claims that presently SCUSD has been operating at a deficit and as far as memory can stretch, in its attempts to further justify cuts to student services. We have seen that year-after-year, the Superintendent reports to the community that the SCUSD budget is in terrible shape with huge deficits and year-after-year the District magically ends up with money in the reserve. Once again, we have discovered that there is no budget crisis this year, in fact, there is a healthy reserve. It may come as a surprise but 2020 closes out with a new record high in the reserves!

With more than $200 million dollars in new revenue, the Sacramento City Unified School District (SCUSD) needs to reject cuts to student services and the unnecessary cruelty of continually threatening some of its lowest-paid workers with layoffs. This approach not only impoverishes SCUSD students but aims to further degrade the standard of living for the workers in our communities that live in conditions that are best described as “from hand to mouth”.

On top of the deceitful reports of the district budget and costly mistakes, Superintendent Aguilar has not hesitated to accept large salary increases while simultaneously calling for cuts to the wages and benefits of the frontline essential workers who have worked tirelessly to keep our schools safe. This kind of behavior is atrocious and should not be tolerated by our communities.

We are holding Superintendent Aguilar and the school district accountable for the portable air filter debacle and we will pursue an official hearing on the matter to gain full transparency around how this happened. We demand that the school district move with integrity and put an end to the lies, budget cuts, and false reports so we can focus on safely re-opening schools for our students, our teachers, our workers, and our communities.

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