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| Lawsuit Against CTA and CVE (Donlan coverup) |
| California Teachers Association (CTA) |
| Chula Vista Educators (CVE) |
| Letter to former CVE President Gina Boyd |
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| OAH documents on page 22 |
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| What Happened at Castle Park and CVESD |
| Illegal OAH/CVESD Decision: fired for filing grievances and a lawsuit |
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| CVESD's Richard Werlin and Libia Gil |
| Grievances |
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| 12. THE DISTRICT ILLEGALLY RETALIATED WHEN I FILE GRIEVANCES I filed 3 grievances In early November 2001. The day after receiving them, the district threatened me with dismissal. This was a violation of the Elementary Education Relations Act (EERA) and other laws. |
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| Letter to former CVE President Gina Boyd Letter to CVESD Supt. Lowell Billings |
| 6. THE FAX THAT CAUSED CVESD TO DO AN ABRUPT ABOUT-FACE On April 3, 2001 I sent a fax to the district. The next day I was abruptly asked to return to work, and at the same time the district belatedly prepared a document to explain why I had been removed from my classroom in the first place. The document contained a new, completely false accusation by Richard Werlin and never mentioned the teacher reports. |
| Not one teacher Maura Larkins' at her OAH hearing. So how were the teachers listed below able to sway the panel? |
August 22, 2003 hearing
Kelly Angell lied to judge
Kelly Angell lied to judge
| 3. THE DISTRICT DECIDED TO COVER-UP ITS MISTAKE There is no chance that the district would have been charged with a crime for its silly little misdemeanor (Labor Code section 432.7), but the district decided it would rather spend $100,000s of tax dollars to pay its lawyers to cover up the mistake than to simply admit it made a mistake. 4. THE DISTRICT CAME UP WITH A STORY The reason given by the district for my removal was that two teachers had called assistant superintendent Richard Werlin at home on a Saturday evening and said they believed I might kill them. Oddly, the district created NO DOCUMENT at this time to explain the reason I was removed from my classroom, nor did it investigate the alarming report. |
| I was removed from my classroom on report (see "A False Police Report" on this page) made by my mentally-ill and substance-abusing ex-sister-in-law. However, the district didn't want to admit this, since using the illegally-obtained police report (no charges were filed against me) was a misdemeanor. |
| Vence Donlan Wireless Facilities stock fraud |
| "Castle Park Five" and PTA Embezzlement |
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| Elizabeth Schulman also refused to point out to the Professional Competence Commission that the district's witnesses contradicted themselves and Richard Werlin. |
| Association say about this? wrong with this. Daniel Shinoff relied on allegations such as these, and the illegal and illegally-obtained OAH decision (which on its face violated Labor Code 1102.5) to defame Larkins. |
| Because Elizabeth Schulman, Maura Larkins' own attorney, and CVESD attorney Mark Bresee agreed to allow notes written by these people to be writers had been sworn in. Why did Schulman do this? |
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| Perjury, Law Enforcement |
| Attorney Elizabeth Schulman privately told her client that Richard Werlin had committed a crime, but mention it because "it would hurt [the client]." Schulman was clearly determined to sacrifice her client to save Richard Werlin's reputation. She indicated that she believed Werlin would have been chosen superintendent if he hadn't done this, and she felt that "losing" thatpromotion was punishment enough. |
| Larkins v. CVESD |
| Maura Larkins v. Chula Vista Elementary School District 2002-2005 |
| This case was the result of an odd confluence of circumstances, and at the same time it was a typical event in the system that prevails at many schools across the United States. This system values politics and personal loyalty among adults over the duty to educate and protect children. Teacher culture is surprisingly similar to high school girl culture. Adults in the school hierarchy value each other above taxpayers and students. Administrators, of course, are usually former teachers, and masters of school politics. |
| Richard Werlin, with the approval of the cabinet (including Libia Gil and Lowell Billings), had triggered an all-out hysteria at my school. Two staff members told me that many teachers were afraid that I was "going to come to school and shoot everybody.” |
| The district took no action on its threats, however, until I filed a lawsuit on March 12, 2002. On May 7, 2002 Patrick Judd, Cheryl Cox, Pamela Smith, Bertha Lopez and Larry Cunningham voted to dismiss me, thus violating California Labor Code section 1102.5 which prohibits retaliation against employees for reporting wrongdoing. This was also a violation of the constitutional right to petition for redress of grievances. |
| 9. AN IMPENDING ELECTION CAUSED THE TEACHERS UNION TO ABANDON ITS OBLIGATIONS I did not know it at the time, but the teachers union, Chula Vista Educators, was working with my accusers. CVE President Gina Boyd had worked at my school until 1995, and although she did not share the motivations of her friends at Castle Park Elementary, she had her own motivations. She was running for reelection and felt she needed to keep powerful teachers happy in order to win. This effort was supported by California Teachers Association Board of Directors member Jim Groth and executive director Tim O'Neill. |
| 13. THE OAH SEEMS TO HAVE A GIFT FOR COMEDY My dismissal was upheld by the Office of Administrative Hearings. Judge H. James Ahler conducted a hearing that was almost as comical as it was illegal. At one point Judge Ahler jumped up and ordered the panelists to join him in a side room, where he told them to disregard my testimony. I heard what he said because I was sitting on the witness stand a few feet from him. The court reporter and all the rest of us sat at attention during the ten minutes the panel was in the little room, but the judge's words were not included in the transcript because the reporter couldn't hear them. The school district spent many tax dollars, and the California Teachers Association spent plenty of teachers' dues, to get my lawsuit thrown out. Alteration of documents was required, as well as perjury by employees and even the Sheriff of Santa Barbara, but the effort seemed to pay off for the district and CTA when my lawsuit was dismissed in 2005. 14. DISTRICT LAWYERS BRING THE CASE BACK TO COURT IN 2007 As fate would have it, however, my case is back in court. Ray Artiano, the managing director of CVESD’s law firm, Stutz, Artiano, Shinoff & Holtz, decided to bring this case back to San Diego Superior Court in 2007 by filing a defamation suit against me for publishing this website. So it’s still possible that justice and sanity will find their way back to Chula Vista Elementary School District. |
| 8. BIZARRE NEW ALLEGATIONS A week after I returned, Linda Watson, one of the teachers who had called Richard Werlin on February 10, and a new accuser, Alan Smith, came forward with bizarre new allegations. |
7. I WENT BACK TO WORK I went back to teach in April 2001 because it seemed clear that my accusers had been deemed unreliable (either crazy or dishonest or some combination of the two), and I assumed that the fabricated excuse in Richard Werlin's document , was merely an effort by an embarrassed human resources director to cover up his mistake. But I was wrong. It was more than a cover-up; it was, in fact, a set-up. |
| 10. CVESD DID NOT BOTHER TO INVESTIGATE THE MASS MURDER RUMOR THAT CAUSES HYSTERIA AMONG TEACHERS Without making any effort to establish that a Columbine-type event was not in the offing, the district demanded that I come back to work in September of 2001. This time I refused. My lawyer demanded an investigation to clear my name and cool down the crucible that Castle Park Elementary had become, but the district refused. It was clear that anyone could make any accusation against me, and it would be believed and acted on: I was not safe at work. |
| Hamilton later testified under oath that she had called Richard Werlin at his invitation to discuss a planned meeting. |
| 1. I HAD BEEN TEACHING AT Chula Vista Elementary School District FOR 27 YEARS WHEN THE HYSTERIA BEGAN. It started with a family problem: I was co-administrator of my father's estate, and one of my brothers was secretly unhappy about it. Also, his ex-wife wanted to be manager of my father's apartments. The two of them decided to use the police to remove me from my position. |
| CASE SUMMARY: What Happened at Castle Park Elementary by Maura Larkins |
| 2. MY TROUBLED EX-SISTER-IN-LAW WAS TAKEN SERIOUSLY BY THE DISTRICT |
| 5. THE DISTRICT CHANGED ITS STORY Within a month, the district changed its story, saying that only one teacher, Jo Ellen Hamilton, had called Richard Werlin about me. |
| Sheriff's deputy Michael Carlson and his sister |
| Case #2 Stutz, Artiano Shinoff & Holtz v. Maura Larkins 2007 Irony of Stutz defamation lawsuit Stutz law firm worked hard to deceive the court and defame Maura Larkins, but is now crying foul. Unfortunately for Stutz law firm, and for the taxpayers who have provided millions of dollars to the firm, what Maura Larkins says about Stutz is the absolute truth. The shoe is on the other foot, and this time it fits. |
| 11. SCHOOL ATTORNEY MARK BRESEE GETS HELP FROM DANIEL SHINOFF Attorney Mark Bresee, who was then working with Parham & Rajcic and was recently chosen as chief counsel for Terry Grier at SDUSD, had been giving legal advice to CVESD up to this point. When I filed a tort claim on October 4, 2001, attorney Diane Crosier and claims adjuster Rodger Hartnett of San Diego County Office of Education Joint Powers Authority, along with their favorite attorney, Daniel Shinoff of Stutz, Artiano Shinoff & Holtz, became involved. |
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