Mr. Cunningham comments at
Nov. 16, 2010 CVESD board
meeting
...Congratulated Board Members Luffborough
and Smith [and, implicitly, himself] on the results
of the election.
Thanked everyone who supported them
during the election...[Maura Larkins
comment: Wait a minute. This isn't the
place for that, Mr. Cunningham. You do
that at your campaign headquarters, or at
some other political or private event.
When you're at work, you're not supposed
to be playing politics.]
The San Diego Union-Tribune was a good friend to Larry Cunningham and his cronies. It was odd for
the UT to cover the 2004 transfers of five teachers out of Castle Park Elementary, when it failed to
cover lawsuits involving many of these same teachers, lawsuits for which Pamela Smith authorized the
expenditure of $100,000s of taxpayer money.
Larry Cunningham was a good friend to teacher Robin Donlan: he supported Donlan with hundreds of
thousands of taxpayer dollars, hiding the truth about Donlan's wrongdoing. After calling the shots for
so many years, and having board members like Larry Cunningham jumping to their tune, the teachers
that controlled Castle Park Elementary were out of control.
But since Mr. Cunningham and the other four board members (Patrick Judd, Pam Smith, Bertha Lopez
and Cheryl Cox) were complicit in Donlan's crimes, they could not allow the truth to be told about what
was really going on at Castle Park Elementary. The board's unanimous decisions pressured
employees to perjure themselves in the PERB arbitration regarding the Castle Park 5 transfers, just
as they had in the Maura Larkins lawsuit.
Larry Cunningham
Chula Vista Elementary School District Board Member
The pursuit of political power at the expense of education at CVESD is exposed in the Ana Stover
v. CVESD lawsuit, which was triggered by Pamela Smith's election campaign. Ana Stover was in line to be
superintendent of Chula Vista Elementary School District, but was illegally and maliciously sabotaged
because she supported Russell Coronado instead of Pamela Smith in a school board election. Board
member and Pamela Smith ally Bertha Lopez played a role in bringing election politics into the CVESD district
office.
This case was fought by attorney Daniel Shinoff, but was eventually settled privately. Russell Coronado
eventually won a seat on the board by defeating Pamela Smith crony Pat Judd.
Does Larry play politics with personnel?
San Diego
Education Report
Shouldn't Larry recuse
himself from teacher salary
decisions since his wife,
Jan, teaches in the district
(second grade at Olympic
View)?