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OTAY MESA — Montgomery High School Principal Lee Romero sees the $24 million deficit the Sweetwater Union High School District is trying to close in its $320 million budget through layoffs and wonders if there isn’t a better solution.

Such as salary cuts.

Romero said he and his wife, who is a teacher, along with others would be willing to take a pay cut if it meant saving the four instructors slated to be laid off at his school if class sizes grow from 31 to 34 students, as proposed by the district.

“At what point do we do the right thing and take the cuts away from the classroom, because it is going to hurt our kids? Nobody including the district, including the unions, are talking about taking a pay cut,” Romero said. “If we go this route (by increasing class sizes), it is going to be bad for everybody.”

Alex Anguiano, president of the teachers union, said it was premature to discuss the possibility of salary cuts because negotiations on a new contract have not formally begun. But did express dissatisfaction with other areas of the district’s budget.

“Our district is spending money like there is not an economic crisis at all, so if we evaluate economy based on what school board has been approving, then there is not an economic crisis,” he said. “There are already less teachers. Classrooms are pretty overcrowded. That was our contribution to this fiscal crisis. We have already paid significantly.”

Among the teachers Romero expects to lose under seniority rules that come into effect during layoffs is special education teacher Juan Carrillo and county Teacher of the Year nominee Rhea Walker. They have been teaching for four years and 11 years, respectively.

According to Romero, those who could lose their jobs have contributed to his campus seeing an 85-point increase on the state’s performance index.

“To have more students in a classroom means more special ed students in a classroom, and it almost seems impossible,” Carrillo said.

Romero said no one should be laid off.

“In my 24 years of education, I have never seen a teacher released due to their ineffectiveness,” Romero said. “To lose some of the people who work the most or are effective, that’s just not right.”  (True for my 15 years, nor any rotten DO level administrators)

Walker can see both sides of the tenure system. (I can see both sides of a traffic wreck doesn't mean I advocate for causing one)

“Time and again you have proven your worth, but the bottom line is still the dollars,” Walker said. “You are thankful and grateful to have something there to guarantee you have a job, but at the same time it’s a double-edged sword.”

Romero said pay cuts need to be addressed.

“There’s 10 percent unemployment in California and people are taking cuts, but we have not,” he said. (much higher for Socal in general)

About 110 pink slips were issued last year; all but six Spanish teachers were called back to work. Administrators are taking four furloughs this year.

Anguiano said the union will defer to the will of its members in matters such as class size and salary reductions. The bargaining team for the union will be seeking member input through a series of open hearings and a survey, he said.

The district cut $11 million from this year’s budget to help close a more than $23 million deficit. The shortfall was covered with stimulus funds and previously restricted money that the state freed up for use in other areas.

For more than 40 years educators have stated the obvious: for students to be successful in school...

BY P.E. STAFF WRITER   DAYNA STRAEHLEY dstraehley@pe.com
Published: 28 October 2011 10:24 PM


EDITED for this site October,30 2011 by I, Praetorian


For more than 40 years educators have stated what in the classroom is obvious; for students to be successful in school, they need their parents to be involved. Towards that end, the Riverside County Superintendent of Schools said Friday it is opening the second annual Parent and Family Engagement Summit.


The event, which attracted hundreds of parent volunteers to Palm Springs, is part of an effort to raise awareness of and support for parents to be involved in their children’s education, he said.


“There’s only so much the school can do without the parents,” Superintendent Kenneth Young said, adding he includes other caregivers in the word “parents.” “There’s not much a school can do without the parents.”


He cited a University of Arizona study of high school dropouts, who had missed an average of 124 days of school, about three weeks per year, by the time they got to eighth grade.


“They essentially dropped out before they ever got to high school,” Young said. Teachers could see the pattern starting in kindergarten.


“If parents knew what life was going to be like for a high school dropout, they would have made a greater effort to get that child to school and improve attendance,” he said.


More education is the only way to improve the area’s economy, said Angel Meraz, a leader of Pathways to Success as part of the Coachella Valley Economic Partnership.


Those who go to college in Inland Southern California lags the state average and the problem is even more acute in the Coachella Valley, which has one of the nation’s lowest college-going rates, he said. Some 75 to 80 percent of public school students live in poverty, so college seems financially inaccessible, Young said.


Pathways to Success had a contest last year to see which high schools could get the most students to fill out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, which also determines eligibility for state grants and low-interest college loans. Indio High won, with 65 percent of seniors filling out the FAFSA, based on parents’ income tax returns, in early spring. Meraz said she hopes to increase the application rate 10 percent this year. Young said he wants to spread the competition countywide.


Parent involvement in education has to start well before it’s time to figure out how to pay for college. It starts when babies are learning to tell which person is mommy and which one is daddy, said keynote speaker and educational consultant John Antonetti.


Empathy at home is the No. 1 predictor of whether fourth-graders will be mathematical problem solvers, or “how often do they before age 6 explain what they are doing and thinking.”


People learn best when they think for themselves. He reminded educators and PTA leaders to give children time to figure out answers themselves. Telling them the answer too soon steals the opportunity for learning, Antonetti said.
Friday’s summit in Palm Springs, attended mostly by parents, followed a county summit Thursday attended mostly by educators.

Should Private Universities Be Held to the Same Standards for Anti-Discrimination as Public? Are All Student's Backgrounds Checked and including MTV? Are All Students Who Lie on an Application Expelled?

BY DAVID OLSON STAFF WRITER dolson@pe.com
Published: 28 October 2011 08:17 PM
EDITED BY:  I, Praetorian, October 30, 2011

Domaine Javier, 24; stated that Cal Baptist University officials told her she was expelled for falsely claiming on her application form that she is a female. Javier revealed on MTV’s “True Life” that she is biologically male.
Letters the university sent to Javier say she was expelled for “committing or attempting to engage in fraud, or concealing identity,” and for presenting false or misleading information in university judicial processes.


However, Javier, 24, said she has identified herself as female since she was a toddler and correctly clicked the space next to “female” on the online application form.


“I didn’t do anything wrong,” she said. “They said, ‘On your application form you put ‘female.’ And I was like, ‘Yeah, that’s how I see myself.’”
Javier’s expulsion was finalized on Aug. 30, the week before she was scheduled to begin a nursing program at Cal Baptist after transferring from Riverside City College.


In an emailed statement, university spokesman Mark Wyatt wrote, “California Baptist University does not comment on student disciplinary matters or other confidential student information.”


California law prohibits employment, housing, government, insurance and other types of discrimination based upon gender identity. But private universities generally are not covered by the law, said Mark Wood, an attorney with the San Francisco-based Transgender Law Center. The center is not aware of other transgender college students who were expelled.


Transgender refers to people whose gender identity differs from the biological sex they were born with. Some transgender people undergo sex-change operations; others do not.


Javier said university officials told her during expulsion hearings that they discovered her MTV appearance through a background check (Bullshit). They did not say whether that is how they discovered her gender identity, she said.
Javier was on an April episode of “True Life” entitled “I’m Passing as Someone I’m Not.” Cameras showed a man hitting on Javier while she danced at Riverside’s Club Sevilla in a low-cut pink and black dress and putting on make-up in the club’s bathroom. Javier said she only revealed her gender identity to family members.


“I am a girl trapped in a guy’s body,” Javier said on the show.
“When I’m out on a date, the loneliness goes away,” Javier said during a segment of her on one of her dates with a man who cut off the relationship after she told him she is transgender.


She said she applied to appear on the show to raise awareness on transgender issues and let other transgender people know that they’re not alone.
Javier said she was impressed with the nursing program at Cal Baptist, which is three blocks from her Riverside home. A university financial aid form shows she received a $3,500 dean’s academic scholarship. Javier said she was shocked when in July she received a letter that temporarily expelled her, pending hearings.


“I was devastated, because I really, really wanted to attend this campus,” she said.


Javier said the expulsion, that was finalized days before classes were set to begin, will delay her graduation from a nursing program by at least a year. She said she declined an admission offer by Cal State San Bernardino – that as a public university cannot discriminate against transgender students – to attend Cal Baptist.


Javier is back at Riverside City College but said she cannot enter the nursing program until next fall.


“This totally ruined my career path,” she said. “I’ve been trying to finish as soon as possible.”


Javier said she knew the university is a religious institution but did not realize it is affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention, the most conservative major Baptist denomination.


“I didn’t know they were that extreme,” said Javier, who attended Catholic schools in her native Philippines before immigrating to California eight years ago.


Cal Baptist’s written policies do not explicitly bar transgender students. But it has generally socially conservative rules, including a prohibition of social dances on university property and a requirement that applicants sign a form agreeing not to engage in homosexual behavior or to cohabit with someone of the opposite sex.


Despite the expulsion, Javier doesn’t regret her MTV appearance. She is buoyed by the support and positive comments she has received from about 200 people, most of them straight, through chats on the street or on Facebook.
“I’m a happier person now,” she said.

Part 1 of Deconstructing Hate Sites

This Information is Provided by the Victim of Such A Hate Site: A Man Still Fighting One Year Later to Clear His Name From the False Accusations of Belonging to Such Hate Based Internet Sewage... I am that Victim along with another outstanding person and Journalist MVgordie (mvgordie.com). I, Praetorian Responding to Online Hate When people see hate on the Net, they just say: "Well, what can I do about it?" And they move on. But the only way people can start to get rid of the hate is by taking some interest in the ways in which we, as human beings, can prevent hate from spreading. A Vancouver Island high-school student MNet’s 2001 survey "Young Canadians in a Wired World" showed that when young people came across a "hateful" Web site, more than a third (36 per cent) simply ignored it. If they received hateful e-mail messages, again more than three in ten did nothing—though a similar percentage told a friend, an adult, or the police. There is no reason to believe that adults’ rate of response is any higher. Granted, it’s not always easy to tell whether hateful online content is actually illegal, rather than just offensive and annoying. Sometimes material can only properly be defined as illegal by the courts. Still, the courts can’t prosecute what they don’t know about—so public response is crucial. If people want to do something about hate material they see on the Internet, there are several options: Contact the Internet Service Provider All over the world, Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are being forced to become more proactive about hate material on their servers. Most ISPs now have Acceptable Use Policies that clearly define the guidelines for using their services, as well as the penalties for violating those guidelines. In Canada, most ISPs belong to the Canadian Association of Internet Providers (CAIP). CAIP’s Code of Conduct states that its members will not host illegal content, and will make a reasonable effort to investigate legitimate complaints about illegal content or network abuse—taking appropriate action, if needed. However, ISPs do not have the legal power to decide what material is illegal; and so most are reluctant to remove suspect content from their servers without official direction from a law enforcement agency. Report online hate to the police Some urban police departments now have a High-Tech Crime Unit to investigate online offences. If none exists, a complaint can be made to the local police. It’s advisable to attach a copy of the offending material to the letter of complaint. File a complaint with the F.B.I. Good for the records otherwise pretty useless unless threats of violence are made. Check out "hate watch" Web sites A number of sites exist to monitor and document illegal material on the Internet. Some notable examples are B’nai Brith League for Human Rights, which hosts a hate hotline; and the Simon Wiesenthal Center, which has identified thousands of offensive Web sites. Its CD entitledDigital Hate 2002 lists sites that promote antisocial and illegal activities ranging from hate music to suicide bombing. The Southern Poverty Law Center is another good resource. Any hate found on a California Web site is now subject to new legislation—though hate encountered on other states sites must be dealt with differently. However, the U.S.-based Simon Wiesenthal Center and the Anti-Defamation League both recommend that surfers alert them to any online hate, so that they can try to get the offending material removed. And since the active promotion of tolerance is one of the best responses to hate, check out the online pamphlet 101 Tools for Tolerance: Simple Ideas for Promoting Equity and Diversity, developed by the Web-based group Tolerance.org. For more detailed information about the organizations mentioned here, as well as information on how to report online hate, see the links in the sidebar.

Freedom of Information Act | Restore Erased Email

Freedom of Information Act : Restore Erased Email

Electronic Records Had Been Discarded Under Interpretation of Retention Policy

Why Allow Deletion If Government Must Later Restore Records?

A county's formal policy on e-mail destruction failed to save it from the cost of recovering deleted e-mails in a lawsuit under Ohio's Public Records Act. Like FOIA laws in other states, Ohio's Records Act requires state government agencies like counties to disclose records to citizens upon request.

The case in question is a decision by the Ohio Supreme Court, State ex rel. Toledo Blade Co. v. Seneca County Board of Commissioners, 2008 WL 5157733 (Ohio Dec. 9, 2008).  Plaintiff sought e-mails of county commissioners concerning demolition of an old courthouse.  The county turned over some e-mails, but plaintiff managed to show that some relevant e-mails were missing because they had been deleted. It made this showing by analyzing the e-mails that were turned over and proving some logical gaps appeared within them.  Also, some commissioners admitted they had deleted some of their relevant e-mails.

The county's written policy allowed each user to delete e-mail that the user deemed to be of "no significant value." (Some people call such e-mails "non-records".)  Such a policy is a version of the make-a-decision style of e-mail (text and instant message) records management, where users are expected to decide the destruction/retention fate of each message.  

After the court determined that some relevant e-mails must have been deleted, it observed that through the use of forensics measures some e-mails might be recoverable from commissioner hard drives. The county argued it should not be required to restore deleted e-mails because they had been deleted in accordance with the county's record retention policy, which the county had adopted in good faith. Further, the county argued that forensics measures are excessively expensive.

The court disagreed with the county. The court ordered the county to undertake costly forensics steps to search for and restore deleted e-mail records that met certain criteria – all at the county's expense.

Gadzooks! If a government agency is required under a FOIA to incur great expense to recover deleted e-mails after officials had determined -- under a formally-adopted policy -- that the e-mails were of "no significant value," then it makes no sense to let officials delete e-mails in the first place.  Such a make-a-decision style of policy is unworkable because it will cause the government regularly to employ expensive forensics to recover deleted records.  As a policy matter, the government is wiser just to archive copious records and take decision-making out of the hands of individual users.

I have long questioned e-mail retention policies (the make-a-decision policies) that emphasize a user examining each particular message and then deciding whether to destroy it or to keep it.  But some learned people disagree with me.  An argument they sometimes make in favor of the make-a-decision style policy is that it mimics how paper was handled. With paper, they argue, lots of documents came across the desk of each official. The official would decide whether to throw the paper in the trash can, or to place it in folder A, or folder B or folder C.

Yet this Toledo Blade case demonstrates that e-mail is different from paper. Even after e-mail is deleted, it can still be recovered forensically.  The cost of recovery can be high, but this court forced government to incur that cost.

Technical footnote: The court ruled the commissioners had probably violated the county's policy by deleting e-mails that were of significant value, when the policy said that onlyinsignificant records would be deleted. However, this detail should not change our understanding of the case's import.  From the point of view of someone writing records management policy, the risk is ever-present that a court will second-guess users after-the-fact.  Looking back at past decisions, a court can always say, "user should not have allowed that e-mail to be deleted" or "user should have placed that e-mail in retention category X rather than retention category Y."  Users always make records management mistakes, and thus leave an enterprise constantly exposed to the threat of having to employ forensics (after-the-fact) to reverse user decisions.  Therefore, the policy writer is motivated just to remove users from retention/deletion decisions.

Background:  One of the purposes behind Freedom of Information Acts -- and public records acts generally -- is to enable citizens, FBI, police and internal auditors to investigate public officials for fraud, waste, corruption, embezzlement, conflicts of interest and misappropriation of funds.  The ever-present possibility of such a probe motivates officials to be fair and honest.

–Benjamin Wright

The Self Harm Cycle

Latest Evidence Suggests

Self-harm is most common in children over the age of 11 and increases in frequency with age. It is uncommon in very young children although there is evidence of children as young as five trying to harm themselves.


Self-harm is more common amongst girls and young women than amongst boys and young men. Studies indicate that, amongst young people over 13 years of age, approximately three times as many females as males harm themselves.


A study in Oxford found that approximately 300 per 100,000 males aged between 15 and 24 years, and 700 per 100,000 females of the same age, were admitted to hospital following an episode of self-harm during the year 2000. Community based studies report higher rates of self-harm than hospital based studies.


A national survey of children and adolescents carried out in the community found that 5 per cent of boys and 8 per cent of girls aged 13-15 said that they had, at some time, tried to harm, hurt or kill themselves.
In the same national survey, rates of self-harm reported by parents were much lower than the rates of self-harm reported by children. This suggests that many parents are unaware that their children are self-harming.


A study carried out in schools in 2002 found that 11 per cent of girls and 3 per cent of boys aged 15 and 16 said they had harmed themselves in the previous year.
Greater incidence of self-injury amongst gay and lesbian young adults; five times more likely than their heterosexual counterparts. A greater number of occurrences of self-injury exist among those with physical disabilities and epilepsy.


The UK has one of the highest rates of self-harm in Europe, at 400 per 100,000 population. It is estimated that there are at least 170,000 cases of self-harm which come to hospital attention each year. Many more incidents of self-harming behaviour probably take place but are not included in any statistics because people may choose not to seek medical help.


New estimates have been made about the most common form of Self Harm
Cutting: 72 percent
Burning: 35 percent
Self-hitting: 30 percent
Interference w/wound healing: 22 percent
Hair pulling: 10 percent
Bone breaking: 8 percent
Multiple methods: 78 percent (included in above)

If you would like to email Stop Self Harm, to ask for help or advice email us at stopselfharm@hotmail.co.uk or leave a message in our guestbook and we'll get back to you.

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This is COURAGE - YOU NEED TO KNOW WHY. As Educators We are Loosing the Promise of Public Education at the Hands of Very Similar Types of Criminals! Its Happening All over the State.

Please understand this is a 70+ year-old former U.S. Prosecutor! This man, Dr. Richard I. Fine is my hero and model for my fights to come with Moreno Valley USD. You'd be surprised how many attorney's have no clue who he is or what he's done. 


MVUSD is one of the most litigated school districts of it's size in the inland empire. For over 20 years the corruption spearheaded by the personalities of the COWARDS and BULLY BOYS RUNNING MVUSD'S HUMAN RESOURCES has rotted the structure of our district.  One of the former HR bully boys participated in felony misuse and theft of public funds as well as an act of agrregious criminal nepotism as defined in California State Educ. Code. Another, former HR thug, a felon convicted  of firing an unregistered pistol at a car fleeing his house with his own daughter and her girlfriend inside. He was and is still employed and partially running a MVUSD middle school, dealing with children daily, in spite his extraordinarily explosive temper. The current HR coward is mentioned as helping to cover up directly or indirectly the theft of  or miss use of  student funds that totals in the multiple $100,000s in cash  EVERY YEAR.


The man most responsible for this system wide cover-up, a man who lied more than once to me when I was looking for help with the apparent criminal activity I stumbled upon, was fired early this year then allowed to stay on with a double demotion to assistant principal. The Board was afraid that out and out firing would tempt him to tell all. 


Due to years of cover up i.e. elimination of positions with the power of oversight by some of the Superintendents and their assistants, including Bob Crank who was one of the key players, most area taxpayers are paying twice over for there child's education without knowing and some of that money is stolen in cash! Watch for the documentation and names to come.  BUT lets not forget the School Board who hires these people, among which contains a documented CHILD MOLESTER (who as part of his duties regularly visits elementary schools unescorted) and a yet to be charged; a criminal who used the power of the office for... well, come back and see. Another is on the payroll of a local Developer and member of the shadowy Jewish "Gold Trust" and its silent charter. An organization and individual who's home is somewhere in Beverly Bills, CA. I have fired off a letter to the Jewish Defense League* asking point blank if they are associated... Wow did I get an answer. They hacked, I believe my anonymous email account. Showed me what league I was playing in.

Folks I lack the imagination to make this stuff up. I was as disbelieving as you probably are. Worse yet, there is considerably more than eluded to herein.


Sincerely,
I, praetorian

*The Jewish Defense League or JDL is a Jewish nationalist and far-right organization whose stated goal is to "protect Jews from antisemitism by whatever means necessary".^[1] While the group asserts that it "unequivocally condemns terrorism", and claims to have a "strict no-tolerance policy against terrorism and other felonious acts,"^[2] it was described as "a right-wing terrorist group" by the Federal Bureau of Investigation^[3] in 2001, and as a hate group involved in "anti-Arab terrorism" by the Southern Poverty Law Center.^[4] According to the FBI, the JDL has been involved in plotting terrorist attacks within the United States.^{[3] Outside the FBI, the}  Anti-Defamation League (ADL)^[2] and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).^[3 are the largest watch dog organizations monitoring hate groups in the U.S.  

Podcast #7 - Much Ado about Nothing... and More

Amber Alert

THE DEFINITION OF COURAGE. YOU NEED TO KNOW.

Please understand this is a 70 year-old former U.S. Prosecutor! This man, Dr. Richard I Fine, PHd is my hero (see video series below, courtesy of Full Disclosure) and model for my fights to come  with Moreno Valley USD  also one of the most litigated school districts in the inland empire. For over 20 years of corruption spearheaded by the personalities of the COWARDS and BULLY BOYS RUNNING MVUSD'S HUMAN RESOURCES.  One of the former participated in felony misuse and theft of public funds, one a convicted felon who used an unregistered pistol firing at a car fleeing his house with his own daughter inside the car. He is still employed and partially running a MVUSD middle school. This school was formerly the flagship of the entire district. The current coward is helping to cover up directly or indirectly the theft of  or miss use of  student funds that totals in the multiple $100,000s in cash  EVERY YEAR.


The man most responsible for this system wide cover-up, a man who lied more than once to me when I was looking for help with the criminal activity I stumbled upon, was fired early this year then allowed to stay on with a double demotion to assistant principal. The Board was afraid that out and out firing would tempt him to tell all. For years covered up by some of the Superintendents and their assistants, including Bob Crank who was one of the key players Most area taxpayers are paying twice over for there child's education without knowing and some of that money is stolen in cash! Watch for the documentation and names to come.  BUT lets not forget the School Board who hires these people, among which contains a documented CHILD MOLESTER and a yet to be charged criminal who used the power of the office for... well, come back and see. Another is on the payroll of local Developer and member of the shadowy Jewish "Gold Trust" and its silent members. An organization who's home is somewhere in Beverly Bills, CA. I have fired off a letter to the Jewish Defense League* asking point blank if they are associated... 

Did I mention the possible cover-up of an alleged murder of a 17 year-old student at the hands of a former school district employee? One of whom was working here until two years ago. I am still working on this. Time and the efficiency of the alleged cover-up has made it hard to follow.
Sincerely, I, Praetorian.

*The Jewish Defense League or JDL is a Jewish nationalist and far-right organization whose stated goal is to "protect Jews from antisemitism by whatever means necessary".^[1] While the group asserts that it "unequivocally condemns terrorism", and claims to have a "strict no-tolerance policy against terrorism and other felonious acts,"^[2] it was described as "a right-wing terrorist group" by the Federal Bureau of Investigation^[3] in 2001, and as a hate group involved in "anti-Arab terrorism" by the Southern Poverty Law Center.^[4] According to the FBI, the JDL has been involved in plotting terrorist attacks within the United States.^{[3] Outside the FBI, the}  Anti-Defamation League (ADL)^[2] and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).^[3 are the largest watch dog organizations in the US monitoring hate groups. 

TESTSCORES

September 28, 2011|By Brad Lendon, CNN; editedby Praetorian
7 arrested in allegedSAT cheating scam in New York

Authorities have arrested seven people in an, high schooland are investigating whether the cheating extends to other schools. SamuelEshaghoff, 19, of Great Neck, New York, was arrested Tuesday on felony fraudcharges that could result in four years in prison if he's convicted, the NassauCounty District Attorney's Office said.

Six students face misdemeanor charges. Their names are notbeing released because they are minors.

Prosecutors allege Eshaghoff impersonated sixGreat Neck North High students between 2010 and 2011, charging between $1,500and $2,500 to take the SAT test for them.

Eshaghoffwould take the test at schools other than Great Neck, where proctors would notbe familiar with the students' identity, and present fake, unofficialidentification, prosecutors say.

Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Ricesaid authorities uncovered the scam after hearing rumors of cheating, comparingthe test scores of suspects to their school grade-point averages, and finding a"wide gulf" in the cases of the six suspects.

The district attorney's office said it isinvestigating possible cheating scams at two other Nassau County high schoolsas well as possible further instances involving Eshaghoff.

Eshaghoff's attorney, Matin Emouna, said hisclient pleaded not guilty in the case.

And he said cheating on tests is something thatshould be handled in schools, not in criminal courts.

"At what point are you going to draw theline?" Emouna asked during a phone interview with CNN Wednesday. "Noone has had a case like this in the U.S., and I think attorneys are going tohave a field day with it."

The victims in the case are other students whoare denied admission at the colleges of their choice by the students whocheated, Rice said Wednesday on CNN's "American Morning."

"Honest kids should not be bumped out ofcollege slots by kids who cheated," she said.

Rice called on the Educational Testing Service,the nonprofit entity that administers the SAT nationwide, to establishprocedures to combat cheating, including photographing students as they takethe test and attaching the picture to the answer sheet.

"We need ETS to tighten security they haveat these test centers," Rice said.

She also called on ETS to inform colleges ifcheating is suspected. ETS currently deals with suspected cheating by cancelingtest scores and offering refunds, retests or arbitration, according to thedistrict attorneys office.

Rice said authorities have no evidenceimplicating parents in the cheating scandal.

Great Neck North identifies itself as ahigh-performing high school, with a 97% graduation rate and almost 97% ofstudents planning to pursue higher education.

The mean scores achieved by Great Neck Northstudents on SAT tests in 2010 were well above the national average, accordingto the profile.

Eshaghoff, a 2010 Great Neck North graduate,tested in the 97th percentile, Rice said. He is now enrolled at EmoryUniversity in Atlanta after attending the University of Michigan for hisfreshman year, the prosecutor's office said.

The next SAT test dates are this weekend, andRice said authorities will be vigilant.

"These arrests should serve as a warningto those taking the SAT this Saturday that if you cheat, you can face seriouscriminal consequences," Rice said.

Campaign Season 2011: More importantly, the reals fights of right and wrong are less than a year away

We are less than two months away from Campaign Season 2011. More important, the big fights will come in about one year. That's why I thought it important pull up this old Press-Enterprise article (below). The thing that Dan Lee couldn't say (and keep his job) was that the $300,000 that Ieedo put into the front organzation. "Moreno Valley Taxpayers Association," was used in one of the most ugly and legally questionable smear campaigns since Carl Rove. It is estimated that only $10,000 were actually used to unseat White and 30,000 to unseat West who had stood up to the "developer" and "Israeli Ex. Pat." Ieedo Benzeevi in public session. The rest was easily channeled to other campaigns to skirt Campaign Finance laws and then the majority back to Benzeevi who probably got the tax write off anyway. Further, it is rumoured that Ieedo Benzeevi is on a "Home Land Security" watch list. Hmmmm!

 For those that don't remember Carl Rove, the brain (God knows Bush needed one) and executioner for the George W. Bushees run for the RNC nomination for the Presidency in 2000. Rove who dodged Vietnam, thus the name "Chicken Hawk" accused an actual veteran, John McCain of being dishonest and dishonorable in serving his country (Remember the "Sift Boat" Veterans ad?). Utter bullshit and the prelude for Bushes entire presidency.  McCain of course was a Vietnam Vet who spent many years as a POW, tortured regularly by his captors, and who came home via a prisoner exchange.

On the local Moreno Valley Front:

Beware conflicts of interest among newcomers, departing Moreno Valley councilman says

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By DAN LEE
The Press-Enterprise MORENO VALLEY - A departing city councilman expressed concern Tuesday about the influence that development ()and real estate interests might have on the council in light of this month's election.

Charles White , who was defeated in his re-election bid Nov. 4, noted that developer (and Israeli Ex. Pat.) Iddo Benzeevi and real estate broker Jerry Stephens donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Moreno Valley Taxpayers Association. The group, which is headed by city Planning Commissioner Michael Geller, campaigned strongly against White and Councilman Frank West.


"Because of developer and real estate broker relationships with the planning commissioner and council (and now the school board), I am concerned that money has taken control of our city," White said at the end of Tuesday's council meeting. "I believe conflicts of interest do exist."



Conflicts of interest, illegal campaign financing, threats and arson... the list of accusations goes on. I want to know is it true the now nearly bankrupt developer and Israeli Ex. Pat., Iddo Benzeevi is on a Homeland Security Watch List? Really? More will be revealed this time next year. I predict a surprisingly well-funded resurrection of the MPA a racist organization that never really went away and of course Vickie E. Baca or one of her (31 known alias.)

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Tuesday was the last regular council meeting for White and West, who represented the 1st and 3rd council districts, respectively, for the past 12 years. New council members Jesse "420" Molina and Robin Hastings will be sworn in Dec. 9 at the next regular council meeting. None of the council members responded publicly to White's concerns. Mayor Bill Batey did not attend Tuesday's meeting because he was working at his firefighting job. Council members Richard Stewart and Bonnie Flickinger thanked White and West for their service on the council.
"I think we can be collectively proud of what we have been able to accomplish together over the past 12 years," Flickinger said after White spoke.
The Moreno Valley Taxpayers Association sent out a barrage of mailers to voters before the election, saying White and West had failed to stop crime and traffic from increasing.
The councilmen said they were targeted because White had opposed naming eastern Moreno Valley "Rancho Belago" -- which Benzeevi had supported -- and West opposed Benzeevi's plans to build distribution centers there.
Geller said White was merely bitter about being defeated. The planning commissioner also disputed the notion that Benzeevi and Stephens might have undue influence at City Hall with the election of two new council members.
"Ultimately Jesse and Robin are going to make their own decisions," Geller said by phone Wednesday. "Anyone who thinks otherwise hasn't talked with them."
During the campaign, Hastings and Molina said they would act independently of Geller, Benzeevi and Stephens.

Geller, who is also a local attorney, also said he does not have any conflicts of interest. He said he personally has never taken any money from Benzeevi and does not take a salary from the taxpayers association. Geller added that he abstains from voting when Stephens' projects come before the planning commission, because he has done legal work for Stephens.

Benzeevi said he had the highest respect and admiration for White's dedicated service to the city and expressed hope that the councilman would continue to remain involved in the community. "I wish him all the best," the developer said by phone. He declined to respond further to White's comments about his potential influence at City Hall. Stephens did not return a phone call seeking comment Wednesday.

White also brought up the issue of Molina's campaign signs, which said, "Elect Jesse Molina, He's One of Us." He said he thought that was a reference to Molina's Latino background.
"I thought, 'What would have been the reaction if my signs had read, 'Vote Right, Vote White'?" White said. "We do not need racism in our city elections ... Hopefully, we have seen the last of it."
Molina, White's successor, attended Tuesday's council meeting and said the "He's One of Us" slogan was not meant to imply anything racial. It was meant to convey that he was part of the working class, he said.
"It's sad to think people felt that way," Molina said after the meeting. "I wish he could have taken it another way."

Meanwhile, candidate Mike Rios, who finished second in the 3rd District behind Hastings and ahead of West, told the council that he plans to remain active in city issues, vowing to fight proposals to build warehouses in eastern Moreno Valley and "special interests" like Benzeevi and Stephens, and starting his own city watchdog organization.

"Mike Rios is not going away, so get used to my face, because I'm not leaving," Rios said. "I will not rest until I give this city back to the people of Moreno Valley ... This is Round One. I've still got 11 rounds to go, and I will take that championship belt from Iddo Benzeevi."
Benzeevi said he appreciated everyone's participation in community affairs.
West did not make any departing remarks at the end of the meeting.

"(White) did a very dramatic and moving statement that should stand alone," he said afterward.

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