Mystery Education Theater 3000

One of the static pages I’ve added to the blog is an elec­tions cal­endar for stan­dard elec­tion dates in Cal­i­fornia. As a spread­sheet it can dy­nam­i­cally up­date it­self to show how many days to a dead­line. Here’s a con­crete use for it. I know my school dis­trict (West Contra Costa USD) is thinking of putting a parcel tax on the […]

In restarting my blog, I’ve de­cided to use var­ious of­fi­cial let­ters I send out as con­tent (with a brief header ex­plaining who the re­cip­i­ents are.) I just posted one yes­terday. A let­ters post can then be ref­er­enced in other posts that ex­pand on the is­sues in the post. I’ll put all of these posts under a cat­e­gory called “Letters.”

Joseph Ovick is the Contra Costa County Su­per­in­ten­dent of Schools. Bruce Harter is the Su­per­in­ten­dent of the West Contra Costa Uni­fied School Dis­trict. Charles Ramsey is the Pres­i­dent of the School Board for the West Contra Costa Uni­fied School Dis­trict. (The e-​mail ad­dress shown is wrong. It should be charamsey@wccusd.net.) — — – Orig­inal Mes­sage — — – Subject: Concerns about the Con­duct of the Last WCCUSD School Board Meeting Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 13:39:03 -0700

Yes, I guess I’ll vote for Mea­sure D in WCCUSD (West Contra Costa Uni­fied School Dis­trict) to raise prop­erty taxes by about $48/$10K of as­sessed val­u­a­tion in order to pay for a 5th round of con­struc­tion bonds (the other four are still being paid off through prop­erty taxes) for every­thing and nothing con­nected with build­ings in WCCUSD. You […]