Stipends Skew Salaries in Gilbert Public Schools
With top dogs high-tailing it out of GPS these days, we took another look at stipends that change salaries for the favored few. Yeppers, what we found goes a long way toward explaining how the GPS Good...
View ArticleGood Old Boys Selectively Silence Voices
People have been running up to the GPS offices to read public record emails and making formal requests for public records, then starting a whole lot of Facebook chatter about their discoveries. We...
View ArticleGilbert Public Schools Loses Again, Settles Public Records Lawsuit
Gilbert Public Schools lost another attempt to hide wrongdoing by top-level officials in the superintendency when the Arizona School Risk Retention Trust (ASRRT, The Trust) settled a lawsuit that was...
View ArticleSchool District Stipend Scheme Attracts FBI Attention
Gilbert Public Schools is in “good company” with some of the shenanigans involving the superintendency that have been coming to light recently. The St. Joseph School District, which is slightly ahead...
View ArticleMore Monkey Business with Public Records in Gilbert Public Schools
The Good Old Boys of Gilbert Public Schools continue their monkey business when citizens request public records. You would have thought this would end, seeing as how GPS settled their recent public...
View ArticleGood Old Boys Nabbed in Other School Districts
We have been looking at other school districts around the nation, and we have found plenty of evidence of operations on a Good Old Boy system like what Gilbert Public Schools has become. We were...
View ArticleClean Sweep of GPS Superintendents – Don’t Let the Door Hit Ya!
At last! It’s June 30, 2014 and it’s the last day for the bitter dregs of the Gilbert Public Schools Good Old Boys to inhabit the big white Temple of Doom and receive big bucks from taxpayers for doing...
View ArticleGood Old Boys Designate GPS Admins as “Vendors” in Cash Giveaway
EXPOSED: the bitter dregs of the Good Old Boys made cash gifts to 100 selected GPS administrators in the amount of $350.00 each at the end of June, 2014. It appears that the GOBs intended to go out...
View ArticleGilbert Police Department Investigation Report: Theft – Embezzlement – Felony
We know you’ve all been waiting for the final disposition regarding police reports filed by members of the Gilbert Public Schools Governing Board in 2014. Read the complete police report about “Theft –...
View ArticleSuperintendent Makes GPS Board Meeting Videos Vanish – Westie to the Rescue!
Gilbert Public Schools Superintendent Christina Kishimoto’s explanation for why the Livestream videos of meetings of the GPS Governing Board vanished from the Internet a couple of weeks ago strains the...
View ArticleThe New GPS Board Should Call for a Do-Over of Kishimoto’s Contract Renewal
As 2016 winds down, and the current president of the Gilbert Public Schools governing board prepares to decamp after her bid for reelection was decisively defeated by voters, GPS Top Dogs have...
View ArticleGPS Superintendent Christina Kishimoto’s Secret Farewell Memo, 2016
As the calendar pages of 2016 fall away, many people look back with fondness and conjure up excitement and resolutions for the new year. The superintendent of Gilbert Public Schools can’t seem to do...
View ArticleCelebrating the Future Return of Sunshine to Gilbert Public Schools
National Sunshine Week is March 12-18, 2017, and Westie again awards the Darkest Recesses Award to GPS Superintendent Christina Kishimoto. Karma marked the superintendent’s proclivity for secrecy in...
View ArticleGPS Fraud, Waste & Abuse Report #1: Travel Violates State Law
Westie’s Fraud, Waste & Abuse Reports chronicle deliberate misuse of authority and public funds, abuse of authority, gifts of public funds and intentional violations of Arizona statutes and...
View ArticleGPS Fraud, Waste & Abuse Report #9: Don’t Mess with the IRS
Unreported income is pervasive in Gilbert Public Schools. Gifts of public funds to GPS employees funnel unreported income to select employees. Favored employees, however they are selected, enjoy...
View ArticleGPS Goes Transparent on the Superintendent Search. Bravo!
Giving credit where credit is due, Westie applauds the Gilbert Public Schools Governing Board for making public the results of the superintendent survey. Bravo! This survey is vastly different from the...
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