Lawsuit Against CTA and
CVE
(Donlan coverup)
California Teachers
Association (CTA)
Chula Vista Educators
(CVE)
Beverly Tucker faxes
Letter to former CVE
President Gina Boyd
Boyd practiced law
Boyd perjury re Aug. 13,
2001
California Teachers Assoc.
OAH documents on
page 22
What
Happened at
Castle Park
and CVESD
Illegal
OAH/CVESD
Decision:
fired for
filing
grievances
and a lawsuit
1  Letter to Gil regarding
Werlin's behavior
2  Offer to meet with Dr. Gil
4  To Dr. Gil regarding ban
3  To Werlin regaring ban
CVESD's Richard
Werlin and Libia Gil
Apr 3 01  to Werlin
Apr 4 01  from Werlin
Grievances
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.
Blog: Obstruction of
justice at CVESD
School Board Smear
Peggie Myers, CVE
PTA Embezzlement
Embezzlement cover-up
Comer program
Castle Park Elem. PTA
Principal Ollie Matos
Principal Carlos Ulloa
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
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.
Law Enforcement
Vence Donlan Wireless
Facilities stock fraud
"Castle Park
Five" and PTA
Embezzlement
Robin Colls Donlan 432.7
violations
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?
August 2007 threatening
letter from Stutz
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 et al calendar
Larkins v. CVESD
Maura Larkins
v.
Chula Vista Elementary School District
2002-2005
Law Enforcement
Castle Park Elementary
OAH Hearing
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.
mauralarkin.com
Maura Larkin's
San Diego Education
Report Blog
SITE MAP
Maura Larkins Case
List of School Districts
Lawyers
Public Entities & Press
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.
Atty. Deborah Garvin  
perjury

Carlson perjury complaint
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.
Atty. Elizabeth Schulman
Schulman Appeal
Atty. Mark Bresee
Castle Park Elementary
What went wrong at CVESD

Chula Vista Elem. Sch. Dist.

Stutz Artiano Shinoff
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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