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   A tiny high school district in Hawthorne and Lawndale is drawing   
   comparisons to the city of Bell for its superintendent who has   
   made more than $663,000 in compensation last year.   
      
   Centinela Valley Union High School District Superintendent Jose   
   Fernandez drew a base salary of $271,000 in 2013 plus other   
   perks that amounted to almost $400,000, according to a review of   
   documents by The Daily Breeze. Fernandez's district includes   
   four schools.   
      
   By way of comparison, LAUSD Superintendent John Deasy is in   
   charge of 900 schools and draws $389,887 in total compensation.   
      
   When you dig into the details—as The Daily Breeze has—it only   
   gets worse. Fernandez has been getting huge bumps in his salary,   
   but he's only had one formal review since 2009.   
      
   Fernandez also got an insanely sweet loan from the school   
   district in 2012 to buy a fancy house in Ladera Heights: he   
   snagged a $910,000, 40-year loan at just 2 percent interest.   
   That's a pretty rad deal for someone with good credit, but   
   Fernandez has gone through bankruptcy twice.   
      
   Teachers and residents complain that Fernandez was the only one   
   getting huge raises and all sorts of perks at a time that the   
   district was making cuts.   
      
   But the board president Maritza Molina wrote a letter defending   
   Fernandez's compensation, saying that he had brought the   
   district back from the brink of financial instability, helped to   
   make big gains on test scores and overseen the passage of a   
   construction bond.   
      
   Molina took a swipe at people who dared to question his   
   compensation: "Regrettably, concerns about the superintendent’s   
   compensation package have distracted from the District’s core   
   mission of educating our children."   
      
   Like Bell, this all went down in a small district where no one   
   was paying attention. No one even challenged Fernandez for his   
   position in 2013. But now residents are paying attention. The   
   Associated Press says there are calls for a criminal probe and   
   for Fernandez to resign.   
      
   Last night residents came out to protest Fernandez's   
   compensation for the first time since The Daily Breeze brought   
   attention to it.   
      
   Danielle Sevilla told the board, "It’s unacceptable that the   
   superintendent was paid more than $600,000. The money should be   
   put where it’s clearly needed most, the students. You’ve taken   
   advantage of the people least able to advocate for themselves."   
      
   http://laist.com/2014/02/26/663000_salary_for_superintendent_of.   
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   California Democrat thieves in action again.   
       
      
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