T.-3 22-1623 Approval by the Board of Education of an Employment Agreement By and Between District and Joshua R. Daniels, for the latter to serve as Chief Governance Officer, for the term July 1, 2022 through June 30, 2025, with a base salary of $207,723.72 per year plus additional pay of $10,800, District paid benefits of $45,728.04 and other fringe benefits of $35,734.47 for 2022-23, some of which increase annually.*
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*Disclosure of salary and fringe benefits, for term, is pursuant to Government Code Section 54953(c)(3).
After reading the proposed employment contract, it is clear that Mr. Daniels has fallen short of the performance requirements listed under the Governance job duty "Assures the integrity of the Board’s process by ensuring that the [sic] behaves consistently with its own rules and those legitimately imposed upon it from outside the district" by allowing the board to violate its own decision to provide schools with one year of stakeholder engagement before closing or consolidating schools. Where is the integrity in that?
OUSD cannot use the dishonest pretext of a fiscal crisis to close schools and then turn around and pay exorbitant salaries, including raises, to staff like Mr. Daniels, whose positions exist only to mitigate the district's liability and to antagonize labor - and, apparently, working mothers of color fighting to save their school from closure. OUSD's administrative bloat is exemplified here, with nearly $300K to be paid yearly to someone who has likely never set foot in a classroom. Don't renew Josh Daniels's contract.
What does a governance officer do, and how does it relate to the education of children? As noted in the Attorney General's report, OUSD has a bloated, top heavy budget for its small size. Too much spent on unnecessary administrators and consultants and not enough on teachers and the classrooms. This expenditure is one small example of money wasted on non educational personnel
As a public school teacher, working in person with an n95 and locked doors- 100 children a day, your benefits are more than my salary- i receive around $300.00 a month for benefits- why is your salary so bloated at the expense of our students, teachers and services.
I volunteer to do patrol at my child’s school because we can’t hire minimum wage “culture keepers” to keep our children safe. Allocate the money where it’s needed most- at schools.
After reading the proposed employment contract, it is clear that Mr. Daniels has fallen short of the performance requirements listed under the Governance job duty "Assures the integrity of the Board’s process by ensuring that the [sic] behaves consistently with its own rules and those legitimately imposed upon it from outside the district" by allowing the board to violate its own decision to provide schools with one year of stakeholder engagement before closing or consolidating schools. Where is the integrity in that?
This contract should not be renewed.
OUSD cannot use the dishonest pretext of a fiscal crisis to close schools and then turn around and pay exorbitant salaries, including raises, to staff like Mr. Daniels, whose positions exist only to mitigate the district's liability and to antagonize labor - and, apparently, working mothers of color fighting to save their school from closure. OUSD's administrative bloat is exemplified here, with nearly $300K to be paid yearly to someone who has likely never set foot in a classroom. Don't renew Josh Daniels's contract.
What does a governance officer do, and how does it relate to the education of children? As noted in the Attorney General's report, OUSD has a bloated, top heavy budget for its small size. Too much spent on unnecessary administrators and consultants and not enough on teachers and the classrooms. This expenditure is one small example of money wasted on non educational personnel
As a public school teacher, working in person with an n95 and locked doors- 100 children a day, your benefits are more than my salary- i receive around $300.00 a month for benefits- why is your salary so bloated at the expense of our students, teachers and services.
I volunteer to do patrol at my child’s school because we can’t hire minimum wage “culture keepers” to keep our children safe. Allocate the money where it’s needed most- at schools.