TUSD to raise taxes, hire more administrators

free peoples bill curtisAt the same time that the Tucson Unified School District Governing will be asked to accept former Mexican American Studies (MAS) teacher Curtis Acosta’s resignation, they will be asked to give two former MAS teachers new administrative positions.

According to sources in the District, Maria Fredrico Brummer and Larry Lopez, both former plaintiffs in the failed “Save Ethnic Studies” lawsuit, are in consideration for two new administrative positions in the Human Resource Department.

Superintendent H.T. Sanchez would not offer a comment on the agenda item, which creates two positions that will, “support the Superintendent Goal related to Customer Service by providing staff timely and supportive action.” It is unclear, according to sources, what exactly that means, or why the District, which is considered administratively top-heavy, needs more administrators. While the two have teaching contracts, Sanchez has slipped them into the administrative positions and is expected to argue that he does not need Board approval.

Also on the agenda is a Notice to Taxpayers that the District will increase taxes, in compliance with A.R.S. §15-905.01.

The Notice reads:

“Tucson Unified School District is notifying its property taxpayers of Tucson Unified School District’s intention to raise its primary property taxes over the current level to pay for increased expenditures in those areas where the Governing Board has the authority to increase property taxes for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2014. The Tucson Unified School District is proposing an increase in its primary property tax levy of $ 1,200,000.”

“The amount proposed above will cause Tucson Unified School District’s primary property taxes on a $100,000 home to increase from $214.7566 to $218.7534.”

Acosta and his acolytes intend to turn the evening into a night to remember. Acosta, whose acolytes tried hard to portray as the tortured Christ-figure throughout the legal battle over the ideologically based “Barrio” pedagogy and Critical Race curriculum, are expected to turn out in full to bid their hero a fond farewell.

Acosta, who comes from a well-to-do entrepreneurial family, has turned his torture into opportunity while on leave of absence from the District. Acosta developed a class an MAS class Prescott College for high school students, and founded the Acosta Latino Learning Partnership.

MAS classroom 2008


 

Maestro Acosta

 

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