Mystery Education Theater 3000

Theresa Har­rington from the Contra Costa Times re­cently wrote a story, West Contra Costa school board blocked well-​known tax­payer rep­re­sen­ta­tive from Bond Over­sight Com­mittee, on the usu­ally silent process of keeping a com­pliant school dis­trict bond over­sight com­mittee in place. (I’ve been a member of this com­mittee since Jan­uary 2011.) In this case it was not so silent. Although […]

I’ve al­ways been an­noyed by the fact that, even though staff makes record­ings of our WCCUSD Cit­i­zens Bond Over­sight Com­mittee meet­ings, no one seemed to be able to get a hold of them. Then (sup­pos­edly) they are de­stroyed after being used to draft min­utes. Not very useful for the rest of us. After a lot of work, I think […]

There are lots of e-​mails I re­ceive that are of gen­eral in­terest to people. Some of them might be the basis for a blog entry…eventually. But, what about now? Or, what if I just want to tweet about it? How do I link to some­thing in the tweet? For these rea­sons and more, I use a public mailbox for stashing var­ious announcements […]

Every West Contra Costa USD Board of Ed­u­ca­tion meeting in­cludes a seg­ment for gen­eral public com­ment on non-​agenda items. In the meet­ings I have at­tended, this can be an in­ter­esting di­rect in­sight into what people are thinking about. There are two prob­lems with this: The min­utes only show the names of speakers, not what they said. The speakers are […]