Hi

https://www.realclearpolicy.com/articles/2021/03/31/baltimore_city_public_schools_spent_14_billion_budget_and_promoted_straight-f_student_769886.html

What's up with that?

Almost like it is by design...just saying things happen for a reason. Look the patterns nobody wants to admit.

Preach!

Well currently we're not even trying to attract talent, we're just paying someone who isn't delivering. I definitely don't think we attract the right talent by having a reputation of not holding people accountable for their job performance.

>Do you think we'll attract stronger talent if we pay that position less?

"BuT ThE ProCedEs Go tO the sCHooLs"

The signature petitions for the three school board members that got recalled were organized by parents in that district who were pissed. That’s the difference though, I don’t think most people in Baltimore even care. It just is what it is.

It was nationally reported on last year that over 65% of the kids in Baltimore city public schools were failing at least one class. Some of these schools don’t have heat. How can you justify paying a CEO who hasn’t improved schools during her tenure almost half a million dollars while simultaneously saying we have no money to get heat in the schools? And that 65% figure isn’t from Fox or sinclair, that was on CNN and they reported it in WaPo. I’d be happy to pay the school CEO that much if she had results to prove she was worth the money.

Oh, true. That is a huge difference! It’s double the people

I like the draft kings ads in my mobile games you can close them quicker than the FarmVille games or the one where the king is constantly getting murdered.

I've felt for a while that the city basically needs to be placed into receivership, which immediately forces the question of who should administer it. And apparently our entire system of government says it should be federal prosecutors, by the least efficient mechanism imaginable. So rolling that into their life satisfaction strategy should probably go in op's todo pile.

This idea come's from FOX45 >'According to the Baltimore City charter, the mayor, city council president and comptroller could be removed by a verified petition signed by at least 20% of the qualified voters in Baltimore City.'"

IT'S A TRAP!

> it was a pretty grassroots movement

about that...

> In an interview with Chronicle reporters on Monday, Jenkins said she was paid $153,000 for her consulting work with the 501(c)(3) nonprofit Neighbors for a Better San Francisco. [...]

> The nonprofit is connected to the similarly named 501(c)(4) organization Neighbors for a Better San Francisco Advocacy, a political organization that spent millions on the effort to unseat Boudin in June. The two groups share the same address and a board member, William Oberndorf, a right-of-center San Francisco billionaire who helped bankroll the recall.

Why is it infuriating that we pay the schools CEO a reasonable if not uncompetitive salary for a position of extraordinary challenge and responsibility? Do you think we'll attract stronger talent if we pay that position less?

We have audits and we have an independent OIG. I swear to god the folks that complain the most about our fucked government know the least about it.

The voters should be able to recall you if you’re not doing your job and you’re blatantly doing unethical shit. Nick Mosby tried to screw over the taxpayer and make it easier to qualify for cushy government pensions. He’s solicited donations via a gofundme for his wife’s mortgage fraud case and then lied and said he would return the funds, now he’s dragging out an ethics trial. He’s bad at his job and he’s not looking out for the interests of the voters so the voters should be able to fire him. Facts are facts even if they’re coming from Fox45.

I was in costco today and walked past a speaker they were selling that had a radio playing. Fucking draft kings was the first thing I hear when I pass.

I can’t imagine how much additional stuff he’s done that we’re just not aware of…

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Someone needs to run on the sole promise they’ll hire an external auditor to figure out where all the city’s money is going and purge any employees committing fraud. If you want to see something infuriating, please look up the salaries for everyone from Baltimore city public schools in 2021. A janitor was being paid almost $100K. The “CEO” of Baltimore city schools makes like $450K despite graduation rates being abysmal. Some of these schools don’t have heat or AC!

Yea but they also did that to like four people. I’m only thinking we recall the one person. So maybe it’s feasible.

The article I read says it’s in the Baltimore city charter. Porter sounds like someone who’s probably very happy with Mosbys idea to make it easier for her to qualify for a pension we all get to pay for.

I feel like maybe the other members have just become desensitized to scandals surrounding him and no voters seems to be that outraged so why rock the boat? But that’s the entire issue, think of how many scandals Baltimore has had where elected officials were blatantly stealing. It shouldn’t feel normal but it kind of does.

You are dead on about the controversy. His wife sucked at her job for years and managed to get re-elected. If it wasn’t for her fraud charges I’m fairly confident she would still have the job. The voters in this country are low information/high salient. They only pay attention to big events where someone fucks up and then they’ll vote that person out. It’s sad but that’s the world we live in.

I’m no Mosby fan but Fox 45 is being completely unethical. Finance charter amendments. Push them on the news as if they’re being unbiased and now stoke the flames of recalls. I’m sure Sinclair will fund that petition, too.

What about Cohen?