Julie Crawford: Moves Forward, Back Doing What She Loves
It is 7 am in mid-July, but the Davis High School girls’ volleyball players are working hard…
Sunday Commentary: The Need For Tenure in the Wake of Vergara
The past month has seen a low-level court (in Vergara vs. California) throw out tenure, basically arguing…
School Board Appointment Candidates Respond to Vanguard Questions
Today at 4 pm, the school board will meet to decide who they will appoint to the…
My View: School District Couldn’t Have Intentionally Devised Worse Investigation System
The good news is that Board President Gina Daleiden has put a review of the district’s complaint…
Analysis: District Complaint Process Lacks Oversight and Transparency
Late last week, the Davis Joint Unified School District finally released four years of data on internal…
Granda and Poppenga Add Names to the List of Candidates
Bob Poppenga seeks school board seat Bob Poppenga, a parent of two, an active parent volunteer, a…
Sunday Commentary: District Should Appoint Replacement Who Promises Not to Seek Reelection
Archaic rules of timing as well as projected costs may have made it a no-brainer for the…
Analysis: District Releases More Comprehensive Data on Complaint Investigations
Examination of Documents Show Law Firm Associated with School District’s Attorney Has Investigated Three Complaints Per School…
Fernandes Throws Hat in Appointment Field As the Field Fills Out
The school board will not have a shortage of candidates. On Thursday we reported that Madhavi Sunder…
Archer Announces for Four Year DJUSD Board Seat; First Candidate for Appointment Emerges
On Wednesday, Barbara Archer, longtime community volunteer and PR professional, announced that she will seek a four-year…
Vanguard Commentary: School Board Needs to Restore Community Trust
Last night, not surprisingly, the school board took what they deemed to be the path of least…
DJUSD Board Looks to Set Policies to Fill Vacancy
It has been a month since Nancy Peterson stunned colleagues and the community when she left the…
Athletic Director Foster Speaks to Vanguard
In the list of administrative vacancies provided to the Vanguard from Matt Best, the Assistant Superintendent of…
My View: Peterson Pulls No Punches, Lands No Blows
It was expected to be a routine meeting of the school board. So much so that the…
Board Approves VSA As Nancy Peterson Speaks Out
Nancy Peterson spoke out passionately against rehiring Julie Crawford this morning at an unusual Friday morning board…
Vanguard Analysis: Community Deserves Answers from the School District
From the perspective of the Vanguard, the closure of the Julie Crawford matter, with the district last…
Analysis: District Prepared to Re-hire Crawford to Coach Girls Volleyball in Fall
In a move that will continue to fuel far more questions than answers, at least one portion…
Analysis: Lovenburg, Allen Tell Community to “Move On”
On Thursday night the Davis School Board voted 3-1 to uphold the district’s decision on not renewing…
Sunday Commentary II: District Needs to Restore Trust
Throughout this process, I have gotten a pretty clear impression that the district does not really have…
My View: The Lonesome Death of Reason and Proportionality
Should We Be Surprised by School Board Decision? – It was a long night on Thursday, sitting,…
