The unbelievable turnover rate of SRVUSD administrators is concerning and raises important questions about Dr. Malloy’s leadership and the failure of trustees to hold him accountable. The highest departure of staff ever and enrollment at record lows. How is this “success” “reimagined” or otherwise? No, it’s objective failure. Everyone, students, teachers, administrators, with the means is fleeing SRVUSD. The board of trustees and this publication should both start demanding answers from Dr. Malloy on why no one wants to work with him save political extremists and hacks fired from other districts and why the facts and truth are so often at odds with his public statements.

Supt. Malloy already has an “extended cabinet” of numerous assistant superintendents, executive directors, directors, and assistant directors. The list of such positions and some others (along with salary scales) is posted at Web Link .

Ms. Hurlburt’s appointment as Director of Elementary Education is interesting. Katie Witt, as SRVUSD’s “EXECUTIVE Director for Elementary Education” has been a delegated would-be, go-between fixer, e.g. in failed District attempts to calm parental concern and anger over 2021’s ending of OPT-IN parental-permission requirements for 4th and 5th-grader participation in PRISM (“LGBTQ”) Clubs — and homosexual/transgender-themed read-aloud picture-story books at Country Club Elementary. ).

But Ms. Witt is for some reason no longer listed (at least as I submit this comment) as part of Mr. Malloy’s extended cabinet ( Web Link ), though she’s still listed elsewhere as part of “Educational Services” ).

Rebecca Ingram’s retirement as principal at Diablo Vista Middle School, with Jeffrey Osborn now in that position, is also of interest: Web Link .

One wonders if Ms. Ingram’s departure is related to SRVUSD’s having moved teacher Nicholas Moseby from SRV High School after inappropriate comments to girls there to Diablo Vista MS, where his alleged offenses became overtly criminal — and SRVUSD was then further culpable in losing SRV High complaint records. See Web Link and Web Link .

SRVUSD = schools for scandal, and not in Sheridan’s comedic sense

The management structure within SRVUSD is raising significant concerns, particularly with regard to what some might perceive as an excess of personnel. A key question is whether the Board of Trustees' apparent lack of active oversight under the leadership of President Rachel Hurd is related to her additional role as Executive Director of Leadership San Ramon Valley (Web Link In this capacity, SRVUSD frequently "enrolls" new managers, a process that appears to result in SRVUSD making direct payments to Trustee President Rachel Hurd. As a consequence, the more managers that SRVUSD employs, the more she stands to financially benefit. While it is beyond my expertise to judge if this practice is illegal, it does present a possible ethical dilemma, highlighting a potential conflict of interest. At the very least, it raises questions about the alignment of these practices with the best interests of the local community. The community deserves transparency and accountability in these matters to ensure that the intentions and actions of SRVUSD's leadership align with the broader educational goals and the wellbeing of those they serve.

Also, let's not forget that current Assistant Superintendent Stella Kemp was run out of town in San Bruno and "retired" before being removed in Santa Clara both for being deceptive and disrespectful to the communities there. Web Link

Stella Kemp’s odyssey in educational administration illustrates the leapfrog nature of compensation in that field — and why, no matter how much money is thrown at public education, it’s never enough.

In 2012, her total compensation (salary + benefits) as Executive Director, Educational Services in Coachella Valley, was $112,051 (partial year only?). By 2016 and in any case, as Assistant Superintendent for the Franklin-McKinley District, she’d jumped to $235,216 there.

Ms. Kemp was San Bruno Park Elementary District’s superintendent during partial calendar years in 2017 and 2019. I’m not quickly finding compensation data there for 2018. The San Mateo Journal reported Kemp’s departure, amid school-board “dysfunction” and “infighting” in May, 2019 ( Web Link ).

In calendar 2020 and 2021, now as Santa Clara Unified’s superintendent, Kemp had quantum-leaped to total compensation figures of $369,081 and $385,895.24, respectively. But again, there was turmoil at the top, as “H” indicates, involving Laurelwood Elementary: Web Link ).

Thence, in September 2022, Ms. Kemp came to SRVUSD as Assistant Superintendent for Business Operations, salary alone = $259,765. A general 8.5% SRVUSD increase in January presumably lifted Kemp’s salary to $281,845.

Benefits likely get her presently into the $350,000 total compensation range — for the moment. The current top for her potential salary range alone is $310,734. I’m guessing that a more favorable commute may be involved too.

Present salary schedules for SRVUSD personnel are posted at Web Link . In part, the large compensation figures shown are funding a determined campaign to displace parental authority ( Web Link ).

Seconds after Nicholas Moseby, the SRVUSD employee that was allowed to sexually assault girls on campus with impunity and was then granted a transfer to middle school to harass younger girls, is inevitably found GUILTY, the Title IX lawsuits will be flooding SRVUSD and Dr. Malloy will go the way of Rick Schmitt - quickly retire and evaporate to avoid responsibility. But, not before the equally inevitable retroactive raise. Who will be left holding the bag at SRVUSD? If there is bookie out there taking odds on this type of thing, I have a pile of money saying that bag holder is going to be Stella Kemp.