The call for financial urgency which ultimately saw them give teachers more than they originally asked for to make the whole thing go away
Paying fifty thousand dollars for a motivational speaker (they later cancelled the event)
Paying a hundred K salary to a public relations expert
Having a beach retreat
The whole Duval Partners debacle
Allowing principals to let go teachers without explaining why or even giving them notice
Fighting tooth and nail to retain control of the intervene schools and then giving them away to an EMO just days before the school year began
Voting to give themselves a pay raise (though individually several have said they will turn it down)
Allowing KIPP schools to expand even after the origional one was a first year failure
Finally, allowing a lame duck superintendent to further drag the district down
Not caring about laying off teachers and at the same time hiring more and more and more administrators at $90,000 and above.
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