As a Los Angeles Unified School District insider and whistleblower, I certainly know where the bones are buried. The LAUSD’s complicated relationship with charter schools in the District has often been the subject of quiet conversations in dark corners. The Office of Inspector General and its leaders played a pivotal role in the scheme.
This became abundantly clear in October 2015, when during a “all hands-on deck” meeting, then Deputy Inspector General Frank Cabibi admitted to his investigators that he had been holding onto over sixty investigations requested by Jose Cole Gutierrez, Director, Charter School Divisions, for over a month. The Board of Education expected this needed source material in a timely manner, to assist in approving new charter schools and re-certification of existing charter schools. The lack of timeliness and presentation of those investigations by the IG Ken Bramlett to the Board Members had been a constant source of friction; not only with the Board but also with the Bond Oversight Committee.
Hearing of the fraud and misrepresentations on the status of the requested investigations by Cabibi to Cole-Gutierrez, I immediately shared the information regarding the delayed investigations in a meeting with then Superintendent Ramon Cortines and Deputy Superintendent Michelle King.
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