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Outrageous Pay Inequality in Gilbert Public Schools
Arizona school districts are moving into employment contract season, which is also the time when high-level administrative employees and coaches announce they are leaving, generally for greener...
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Gilbert Public Schools Must Fix Salary Inequality First!
As Gilbert Public Schools considers a budget for the 2015-2016 school year, we’re seeing more of the same old stuff: Superintendent Christina Kishimoto recommends an across-the-board salary increase...
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Superintendent Christina Kishimoto Rams Her *Vision* Down GPS Throats
Gilbert Public Schools Superintendent Christina Kishimoto isn’t listening to any of the voices urging the district to fix salary inequality first. Nah, that would involve actual WORK or something. It’s...
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Gilbert Public Schools is Holding Employees Hostage
When Superintendent Christina Kishimoto said she was brought into Gilbert Public Schools to stop the exodus of employees, who would have thought she would fix the problem by holding those employees...
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GPS Employees: Furlough Provisions Are in Your Contracts for a Reason
We’re hearing chirps from all directions that Gilbert Public Schools has already planned furlough days for the 2015-2016 school year, starting with the contract days when teachers usually set up...
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More Resignations and Retirements in Gilbert Public Schools
The Great Exodus of 2015 represents quite a learning curve for loyal Gilbert Public Schools employees. Last year, the huge number of resignations and retirements was made out to be the fault of...
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Gilbert Public Schools: Line of Sight and Other Ridiculous Management Strategies
The Superintendent of Gilbert Public Schools, Christina Kishimoto, described herself as “ridiculous” as she rode into the district. Now we’re finding out that Kishimoto’s management style is equally...
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Christina 3-2 Kishimoto’s Second Coronation: Corsages, Cookies and Cake
All hail Christina 3-2 Kishimoto! This gal set up her second coronation ceremony with lots of pomp, circumstance and taxpayer money for goodies such as refreshments, programs and … corsages. We well...
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Gilbert Public Schools and Sneaky School Design Maneuvers
Wouldn’t it be nice if the Gilbert PUBLIC SCHOOL system was actually responsive to the PUBLIC that pays its bills? Wouldn’t it be nice if the Superintendent of the PUBLIC school district gave a speech...
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GPS Recycles an Inequitable Stepless Salary Schedule, Thinking Teachers Won’t...
Some teachers continue to believe that Gilbert Public Schools will come through on the raises that were promised if the 2015 tax override passed. These folks may have “The Heart of a Teacher,” but they...
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Gilbert Public Schools – New Year 2016 Brings the Same Old Stuff
There’s nothing new under the sun in GPS, not with the new crop of Good Old Boys, who run things pretty much the same as the GOBs did under Dave Allison. The difference today is the scalawags and...
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Gilbert Public Schools: Blasts from the Past Threatening to Explode Again
Let’s connect some dots about Gilbert Public Schools in 2015 so that we can move on to what’s coming up in the new year of 2016. “What’s past is prologue” already seems to be the 2016 theme for...
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Anonymous Letter: Gilbert Public Schools Superintendent in Inappropriate...
Something happened after Gilbert Public Schools Governing Board Member Julie Smith stated on December 15, 2015 that GPS employees have a right under GPS Policy GBP to file a complaint with the...
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Superintendent Christina Kishimoto’s *Alleged* Boyfriend Resigns
BREAKING NEWS: Westie had this post ready to publish when word came down that Charles Stevin Smith, aka Steve Smith, the Superintendent’s *Alleged* Boyfriend, has resigned from his position in Gilbert...
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Gilbert Public Schools Screwed Up New Payroll System – Employees Shafted
Under the category of we couldn’t possibly make up anything more ridiculous than what actually happens in Gilbert Public Schools: Add new financial problems to the 2016 List of Disasters. If we...
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Gilbert Public Schools’ Payday Melee Continues – Employees Remain Unpaid
Chaos continues in Gilbert Public Schools: employees have not been paid, have been paid the wrong amount, or were given the wrong paycheck. Computer systems continue to malfunction, crash or otherwise...
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GPS Talent Management: The Boss Isn’t That Into You, Senior Teachers
Gilbert Public Schools will give teachers another piddly raise – up to 7% for a select few – and will continue to lavish money on those oh-so-amazing inhabitants of the White Castle, where the...
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Gilbert Public Schools: Experts at Squandering Tax Dollars
How did Governing Board Clerk Jill Humpherys become the de facto spokesperson for Gilbert Public Schools? The community long wondered when GPS would actually start communicating with the public in a...
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Gilbert Public Schools Will Vote on a New Budget with NO Public Comment Allowed
Has Gilbert Public Schools become an alien life form that devours tax dollars as it spits out the ragged entrails of former employees? Many people say the answer is “Yes,” now that the GPS board has...
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Board President Tram Falsely Claims GPS Budget has $4.5 Million Deficit
Gilbert Public Schools is playing with fire — fanning the flames of discontent and acrimony among good-hearted voters who gave the school district Million$ and Million$ of dollars to educate children,...
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