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September 18, 2003
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Yolo County Education Administrators,
Elizabeth Ruport Stink
To High Heaven!
About a dozen Yolo county administrators
are CASA participants, according to
The Sacramento Bee's 09/14/2003
front page article.
One of these administrators,
Elizabeth Ruport, advised
yours truly, David Scully,
to perjure himself on
credential renewal application.
On 09/16, the Bee reports,
"Citing an urgent need for straight
answers, the Sacramento City Unified
School District board voted uananimously
Monday night to contract for a
rigorous audit of CASA,
its controversial pension system...
"'Thank you for being willing
to examine CASA, to be sure that
the people's money isn't given away,'
said David DeLuz, president of
Sacramento's NAACP.
"CASA is the acronmy of the
California Administrative Service Authority,
a joint powers authority between
the Sacramento district and the Yolo County
Office of Education. It was created
by the district three years ago to provide
an alternative retirement system
for 100 nonunion employees, including
former Superintendent Jim Sweeney.
"Critics contend CASA was created
primarily to enrich the pensions
of top administrators such as Sweeney..."
I, David Scully, was advised by a top
Yolo County Office of Education administrator,
Elizabeth Ruport,
to commit perjury on my
credential renewal application.
After an incredible week-long runaround,
seeking a credentialed educator to sign off
a routine form, the Yolo County Education
administrator,
Elizabeth Ruport,
said "basically, all you need
is someone to initial that they've seen your
transcripts." "Exactly", I replied, stretching
the routine document toward Elizabeth Ruport.
This was my
second journey to Elizabeth Ruport's
office. The first time,
Elizabeth Ruport sent me
to the credentialing department
in Sacramento, where I got delay and runaround.
Since the Yolo administrator,
Elizabeth Ruport, told me to
return to her if my trip to credentialing
was not helpful, I did so. On this second
visit, instead of signing off that my
transcripts indicated I had completed
the required continuing education,
Elizabeth Ruport called someone "high up"
in credentialing and the advice
Elizabeth Ruport was given was for me to just
submit my application online, affirming
that I had my documents signed off,
and that, if I was audited, to get them
signed off then.
Exasperated, I documented the runaround
I went through that week, and finally found
a collegial ESL teacher who checked my transcripts
and initialed my paperwork for me.
I was furious that a Yolo County Education
administrator, Elizabeth Ruport,
after consulting with a friend
"high up" in state credentialing, advised me
to lie on my application, quite casually.
I surmised that it was an attempt
to set me up. Indeed, if I had innocently
gone along with Elizabeth Ruport's advice,
which Elizabeth Ruport refused to put
in writing, I would have had a hard
time indeed to justify my actions if audited.
As you can see, Yolo County Office of Education
Administrators Stink To High Heaven.
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