Fresno Unified Trustee Susan Wittrup helped facilitate a school community event at Tenaya Middle School to engage parents in their students' education. She focused the event on improving student literacy and achieving the district's goal of having all students able to demonstrate reading skills in the first grade. GV Wire's...
Fresno Trustee Susan Wittrup Discusses Keys to Improving Student Literacy
Fresno Unified Trustee Susan Wittrup helped facilitate a school community event at Tenaya Middle School to engage parents in their students' education. She focused the event on improving student literacy and achieving the district's goal of having all students able to demonstrate reading skills in the first grade. GV Wire's...
Proposed Censure Includes Anger Management for Trustee Slatic
A proposed censure of Fresno Unified School District trustee Terry Slatic would remove him from committee leaderships and bar him from representing the district at public events until he completes a district-approved anger management program. The resolution also puts Slatic on notice that if he fails to comply with board...
Bullard Coach Says Trustee Terry Slatic 'Went Too Far'
Fresno Unified Trustee Terry Slatic threatened to block a Bullard High School assistant wrestling coach from future jobs with the district during a confrontation sparked when Slatic demanded that coaches cancel a wrestling practice, according to an investigative report released Thursday. Slatic, the subject of numerous complaints that he has...
District Probe Faults Slatic in Clash With Army Recruiter
A tense confrontation between an on-campus Army recruiter and Fresno Unified board member Terry Slatic, a retired Marine officer, was conduct unbecoming a trustee. However, Slatic's actions didn't rise to the level of racial discrimination, concludes an investigative report commissioned by the school district. An independent investigator hired by Fresno...
Slatic's Behavior Is 'Not Acceptable,' Says Board President
The only thing that approached the heat of the special Fresno Unified school board meeting dealing with trustee Terry Slatic was the temperature outside Thursday. Nearly 30 people from the public spoke at a meeting called to discuss Slatic’s behavior at his meeting with the Bullard High School cheer team....
Can Fresno Unified Trustees Get Along? They Meet to Find Out.
Officially, the purpose of Wednesday’s (May 22) special Fresno Unified school board meeting was a “governance check-in.” In reality, it was nearly two and a half hours of trustees airing grievances over things like confidentiality, board behavior and agenda-setting. And while no trustee would say as such, the meeting also...
FUSD Broke Open Meeting Rules in Slatic Incident, Says Bullard Student's Lawyer
The lawyer representing a student seen in a physical altercation caught on video with a school board trustee says the district is skirting the law when it discussed the case at a subsequent meeting. On the Jan. 11 afternoon in question, surveillance video showed elected FUSD trustee Terry Slatic engage...
Police Finish Probe of Bullard Confrontation. What Others Say.
The Fresno Police Department has completed its investigation into an altercation involving Fresno Unified trustee Terry Slatic and a student that took place last week and was captured on video. The report, which was being forwarded to the Fresno County District Attorney’s office, does not make a recommendation about potential charges....
Incoming Teachers Treated Like Rock Stars by Fresno Unified
Ever since Taylor King can remember, she wanted to be a teacher. "I grew up with a lot of really influential teachers and it has been a lifelong dream of mine to be a teacher," says King, who is a student teacher at Ewing Elementary School. On Tuesday morning, King and...