An outside law firm has concluded that San Diego Unified Superintendent Lamont Jackson engaged in misconduct with female staff, sources tell Voice of San Diego.
What’s not yet clear is what that misconduct entailed. For now, the district isn’t commenting.
The next steps for Jackson are also uncertain.
A Thursday afternoon hint: Hours after Jakob McWhinney reported on the investigation, the district posted a meeting announcement describing a Friday afternoon closed session with a single agenda item: “public employee discipline/dismissal/release.”
Backstory: Jackson, a longtime district employee, officially became the district’s top official two and a half years ago after former superintendent Cindy Marten took a job in the Biden administration.
McWhinney previously broke the news that the district hired a Los Angeles law firm to investigate Jackson. The district hired the firm to “represent (San Diego Unified) in sensitive internal investigations” and included language in the contract about a specific probe it expected would cost $100,000.
City College Among Community Colleges Fighting for Four-Year Degrees
Community colleges in California are typically barred from developing bachelor’s or four-year degree programs to prevent perceived competition between institutions. But that’s changing.
A new state law could expand what degrees they can offer, like nursing.
That’s precisely what City College is looking to do, expanding beyond the bachelor’s program it already offers in cyber defense.
But some universities, like San Diego State University, are saying, basically, stay in your lane, community colleges.
Community college degrees typically offer two-year degrees at much cheaper prices than public or private universities. The four-year degrees would also be much more affordable. City College’s cyber defense program costs about $10,500 for all four years.
Read more in Jakob McWhinney’s Progress Report.
In Other News
- Ex-Chula Vista councilmember Andrea Cardenas will avoid jail time after pleading guilty to stealing Covid relief funds and illegally collecting unemployment benefits. (Union-Tribune)
- There’s now more parking at Terminal 1 at the San Diego International Airport. (Times of San Diego)
- Carlsbad is considering cracking down on homeless residents who live in vehicles. (Union-Tribune)
- Two faith-based organizations will share over $43 million in federal dollars to house and care for newly-arrived migrants. (ABC 10)
- Levels of hydrogen sulfide, an odorous gas linked to sewage, were high in San Ysidro around the time the local air pollution cops blamed the International Boundary and Water Commission for causing the stench. The San Diego Air Pollution Control District chief of monitoring said the odor data is too complex to determine whether the gas readings coincide with the plant’s breakdown. (inewsource)
- San Diego County seeks a restraining order against a former Registrar of Voters employee accused of harassing and threatening coworkers over perceived voter fraud. (Union-Tribune)
The Morning Report was written by Lisa Halverstadt and MacKenzie Elmer. It was edited by Andrea Lopez-Villafaña.
If he’s fired for being an incompetent predator I hope they replace him with someone qualified instead of another DEI hire.