SAN FRANCISCO — After a spirited campaign, cheerleaders in California won the right Friday to return to high school football fields — and cheer. Three days after the California Department of Public Health quietly banned cheerleading squads from attending sporting events, the agency reversed its decision Friday, bowing to an...
FUSD Superintendent Says Board Should Deny Slatic Censure Claim
Fresno Unified Superintendent Bob Nelson is advising trustees to deny a claim for damages submitted in February by trustee Terry Slatic, who maintains that his board censure was unlawful. Update: The board voted 6-0 Wednesday evening, with Slatic absent from the dais, to deny the claim. Slatic said previously that...
Fresno Unified Board Considers New Censure, Complaint Rules
The Fresno Unified School District board tabled a vote on a new bylaw detailing procedures for trustee censure at Wednesday's board meeting, just two weeks after the board took the rare step of censuring a fellow trustee. Board members said they wanted more time to review and provide comments on...
Fresno Unified Board Censures Trustee Slatic, Says He Needs Anger Management Course
The Fresno Unified School Board voted 6-0 to censure trustee Terry Slatic, a rare public condemnation of a fellow elected official, and to strip him of leadership functions until he successfully completes an anger management course. The vote was met by thunderous applause from the packed audience, many carrying signs urging...
What Might Censure Mean for Fresno Trustee Slatic?
The Fresno Unified School Board will consider taking the rare step of publicly reprimanding one of their own at next Wednesday's board meeting. But there seems to be disagreement among the trustees as to exactly what impact a censure might have on trustee Terry Slatic. Slatic, who represents the Bullard...
Slatic Defiant as Investigations into Trustee Come to Light
The results of two internal investigations into the controversial behavior of Fresno Unified trustee Terry Slatic soon will be made public, the school board's president says. Slatic, meanwhile, was defiant following a special board meeting Thursday called to consider disciplinary action against him. Asked about calls for him to resign...