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school board has selected Glass to fill Daily Post Correspondent PAUSD’s top job after The Palo Alto Unified school board’s Superintendent Don Ausnew pick for district superintendent tin agreed to step down in said he has experience with “standing February. The board will up to the authoritarian impulses of the vote Tuesday on Glass’ MAGA movement.” four-year contract, which “I resigned as Kentucky’s commisincludes a first-year base GLASS sioner of education in late 2023 rather salary of $396,136. than enforce the GOP-dominated state With approval of the contract, Glass legislature’s shameful law aimed at eras- will start his new job on July 1. ing and marginalizing LGBTQ+ stuGlass was previously superintendent [See MAGA, page 18] dents,” Jason E. Glass wrote in an April
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Board warned about deficits
Two former Palo Alto school board members are sounding the alarm that the proposed budget the board is scheduled to approve tomorrow leaves out the true cost of contracts with teachers and other workers. Former board members Todd Collins and Ken Dauber said the school board is preparing to approve labor contracts with its employee unions that will produce
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STANFORD GRADUATION More than 3,600 graduates received their diplomas yesterday at Stanford Stadium and heard an address from Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai. Hundreds of students waving Palestinian flags staged a coordinated walkout. Stanford News Service photo. LO S A LT O S E X PE RT I SE .
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Palo Alto officials say the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission is hoarding water based on unrealistic drought projections, driving up rates and killing salmon. “This is a very serious problem. Very serious,” Councilman Ed Lauing said last Monday. “If it’s not stopped, this could cause severe rate hikes in water, and that is not what this council wants.” Utsav Gupta, a member of the city’s Utilities Advisory Commission, raised the alarm about the SFPUC planning rates based on a drought that hasn’t happened in 1,100 years, according to tree-ring [See WATER, page 19]
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hundreds of millions of dollars in operating deficits, while providing multi-year budget projections that pretend that the contracts are not being approved. Dauber and Collins campaigned against the $800 parcel tax that voters turned down earlier this month, which produced about $14 million in revenue. However, Collins and Dauber say that amount is far less [See DEFICITS, page 18]
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