Did you know the district has hired three different auditing firms in the past few years? Sure you did. And the savvy among our readers can name them in order: KPMG, Harvey Rose, and most recently FCMAT. Did you know the FCMAT report noted a number of administrative and board member indiscretions when it came to credit card purchases?

Craig Mann loves to write e-mail. He writes to friends. He writes to enemies. He sends messages to board colleagues. He openly attacks teachers for exercising their first amendment rights. And, he contacts members of the press so much that he seems to have become an unpaid Mercury News editorial writer.

The Age of Coto Cronyism is Over. Welcome to the Era of Despotic Nepotism

This management practice needed to change. It’s just ironic that those who led the loudest charge against Coto are now finding ways to use the district to help their relatives.

It's Our Birthday! Come Celebrate!

Did you know that the Did You Know feature is only three months old? Did You Know the Unruly Advocate has been around for almost a year? We’re having a no-host bash at Gordon Biersch on Friday, May 20, from 3:45 to whenever. We hope a large group can show up and celebrate this grand First Amendment experiment. C’mon down, Fensterwald. We’ll buy you a beer: there’d have been no Unruly Advocate without your diatribes. Maybe even Craig Mann will show up. If he does, he can buy us all a round on his credit card.

On December 17 an event happened that took most of the ESUHSD community by surprise. The unruly bunch at Andrew Hill High School took an official vote to submit a letter to the district announcing their intention to covert to charter status by the start of 05-06.