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Teachers at East Palo Alto Academy urge board to pause interim principal appointment over transparency concerns
Summary
Multiple EPAA teachers and staff urged trustees to remove item 13.3 from the consent agenda, saying the superintendent appointed an interim principal who was not in the applicant pool and that the principal-selection committee was not consulted; the board approved the consent agenda without pulling the item (vote 5–0).
Several East Palo Alto Academy teachers and staff urged the Sequoia Union High School District board on April 24 to delay or reconsider an interim principal appointment they say bypassed the community-led selection process.
"The strategy is bait and switch," said Orem Ramirez, a member of the EPAA interview panel, describing a process he said lacked transparency and that "undermined our shared decision making." Ramirez urged the board to remove the item from the consent agenda and…
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