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OPS president keeps job

By   /   August 6, 2012  /   16 Comments

Full house on hand for Gray’s ouster vote

As expected Omaha School Board President Freddie Gray kept her job tonight when the 12 member board voted 8-4 not to oust her.

Freddie Gray

Gray was accused of withholding information from her fellow board members during the Nancy Sebring saga.

Tonight’s meeting attracted a full house. Among those testifying against Gray was former state Sen. Ernie Chambers of Omaha.

Chambers was one of 17 members of the public who spoke to the board. Nine said Gray should be removed from the president’s post, eight urged the board to keep her at the helm.

Ernie Chambers

Prior to voting several board members weighed in. Shirley Tyree backed Gray although she said mistakes may have been made. 

Justin Wayne, who said he had yet to hear Gray admit any mistakes, voted against her.

Wayne, Kersten Borer, Sandy Jensen and Nancy Kratke voted to remove Gray.

Gray, Tyree, Bambi Bartek, Mary Ellen Drickey, Marian Fey, Nancy Huston, Mary Morrissey, and Barbara Velazquez voted for Gray.

Reported by Joe Jordan, joe@nebraskawatchdog.org. 

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  • G$

    Now that vote is pathetic. A bunch of political light weights. Can this person be impeached or otherwise removed from the board. Terrm limits at least. The feeding at the trough continues.

  • Jazzee

    Gutless wonders surprise surprise. So typical and these are the adults!

  • givegame

    Why they need to shrink the size of the board!

  • Bev

    Did you honestly think they would oust her. Early on the vote was already in. This is pathetic. Shame on you.

  • John

    Omaha Public $chools$, the corrupt school doesn’t care about their students. The Fascist Administrators and the Communists Teachers Union only care about one thing, power (Freddie Gray, I know you are reading this).

    All parents who are trapped by OPS, unschooling or home-schooling is your only hope.

  • Watching_From_Lincoln

    You must have had a home schooling education. Fascism and Communism are diametrically opposed philosophies and you wouldn’t find the two of them coexisting in the same organizational structure. However, you do get a score of 3.1 out of a degree of difficulty of 15.50 for your feeble attempt at a rant.

  • Kevin

    Part of the problem is that many of the board members have been there since the Clinton era. Wayne only wanted Gray to admit she made a mistake. She could not even do that.

  • Kevin

    Furthermore, The vote should have been the other 11 members.

  • ips

    it’s time to reassess the viability of the ops school board

  • is

    hey, i have a great idea, why not just eliminate all the other board members, because they just want to feel protected and not have any views, and just leave freddie gray to make all the decisions. what a time saver!!

  • D. Mark

    What could you expect from this bunch?

  • gotv

    The school board members are duly-elected public officials. They were voted in by their districts’ constituencies and would have to be recalled by the voters in their districts. And what “trough” are you speaking of? The school board positions are unpaid.

  • resistwemuch

    Watching For Lincoln:
    Things that liberals approve of are, by their definition, good and anything good can’t be facist by simple virtue of the fact that liberals approve of them.
    The major flaw in your assertion is that facism, properly understood, is not a phenomenon of the right at all. Instead, it is a phenomenon of the left. This inconvenient truth is obscured in present time by the equally mistaken belief that facism and communism are opposites. In reality they are closely related.
    These two isms or factions are historical competitors for the same constituents, seeking only to dominate and control the same social space. It was Stalin who stumbled on the brilliant tactic of simply labeling all inconvenient ideas and movements as facist. Additionally FDR’s “New Deal” emulated a facist regime.
    Finally, WFL, whose definition of “facism” do you adhere to? George Carlin’s, Roger Griffin’s, Roger Eatwell’s, Emilio Gentile’s, Ernst Nolte’s R.A.H. Robinson’s, or perhaps Stanley G Payne’s?
    Please enlighten us. Thanks.

  • resistwemuch

    17 hours later and still no response from WFL!!!!

  • resistwemuch

    28 hours and still no response from WFL. Waiting patiently.

  • resistwemuch

    WFL: Richard Brautigan penned it best in “Confederate General from Big Sur.” “The silence is deafing.”