President Joe Biden recently nominated San Diego Unified School District Superintendent Cindy Marten to lead the U.S. Department of Education, but despite her title, the education administrator has a long history of mishandling education policy and misconduct.
Not only does Marten want to keep schools closed in the name of COVID, even though science and health officials have warned against extending students' remote learning, but she also has spent years of her career and time writing off concerns about sexual assault, violence, and other problems in San Diego schools.
Under Marten's leadership, SDUSD engaged in legal battles and eventually settlements over multiple sex abuse cases including the district's failure to take action and investigate after a kindergartener was reportedly assaulted by a classmate in a school restroom.
In another set of lawsuits, one in federal district court and one in San Diego Superior Court, Marten, along with other administrators, was accused of firing former investigator Michael Gurrieri in 2014 after he found that the "District was trying to hide sexual assaults on a local elementary school campus" to prevent the indictment of the school's principal for refusing to address the abuses.
In another case in 2016, a student with an extensive history of sexual misconduct admittedly raped a special-needs student in a San Diego high school bathroom.
These new forms of discipline, which were implemented by many California school districts, were strictly endorsed by Marten.
Over the objections of the school police officers union, who said the decision set a dangerous precedent, district officials allowed the student to return to Lincoln the following school year.
Friday, January 29, 2021
Biden’s Education Secretary Pick Has A History Of Covering Up Sexual Assault
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