Here is something interesting to start your week off as something changed from Friday’s announcement by the Brentwood Union School District Board on disciplinary actions against Superintendent Merrill Grant and three school employees. It appears the Board will be seeking new leadership.
A little birdy informed me of what was coming Saturday night that claimed both papers did not report Board President Carlos Sanabria (pictured above) full statement and that I wouldn’t be surprised by future actions being announced shortly. The source stated more was coming—and of course, it hit the papers today that more is coming!
According to Paula King’s informative article this morning, Mr. Sanabria is now on record in the paper as stating the following:
“We have decided to seek new leadership. That was our reason for this suspension,” board President Carlos Sanabria said Sunday of Grant, who joined the district in July 2007.
“It really is an effort to increase effective communication with our staff, with our parents and with our community. It is something that we found lacking in recent times, and I think that was something that allowed this incident to snowball out of proportion,” he added. “It is something that we have to work on as a board and as a district. We have a commitment to all of the children of Brentwood.”
She is also reporting Superintendent Grant is currently on paid leave.
If you recall, Friday’s announcement coming out of closed session left a lot to be desired as all that was being reported was the Superintendent Grant was placed on administrative leave and three employees were disciplined for their roles in a 2010 incident.
Back in January, the Brentwood Unified School District had agreed to pay a family $950,000 whose 5-year old special needs child was thrown to the floor and kicked/nudged by a teacher nearly 2-years ago by Loma Vista Elementary School Teacher Dina Holder. She was eventually charged with child abuse, but rather than be fired or removed from the classroom, she was simply transferred to another school and classroom with no parents receiving warnings.
Loma Vista principal Laurie James and BUSD Assistant Superintendent Margaret Cruse have been accused of failing to properly notify authorities of the incident that resulted in Holder pleading no contest to misdemeanor child abuse in 2011.
As I reported last Wednesday night, Brentwood Union School District Teacher Dina Holder Teaching Credentials and all Certificates have been revoked effective yesterday. It should be noted, as of yesterday afternoon, she is still employed by the school district—quite frankly, this is unbelievable and unacceptable even if she is now holding a desk job.
The Board will officially decide the Superintendents fate on Wednesday at the District Service Center at 255 Gutrie Lane.
BUSD Agenda
https://www.brentwood.k12.ca.us/district/information/Agenda/agenda.pdf
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It was my understanding when holders licenses were revoked there was a statement she was not to be around students again. Maybe my source was off but she really shouldn’t.
As part of the settlement, Holder was moved to a desk job in January.
Grant should stay, it’s not his fault he didn’t get the information from the bottom of the food chain. Holder, Kruse, and James should all be fired
Silly board
Plenty of blame to go around.
That was only the settlement. I understood as part of the revocation on Thursday she could no longer be around students.
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