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    Kristi Swett forwards a letter from anonymous district and school administrators expressing no confidence in the superintendent of Salt Lake City School District. The letter cites concerns that the superintendent has not produced meaningful work in the past year, has disregarded students, teachers and families, and has hired individuals who lack skills and have faced ethics violations. It asks the school board to address these issues, as the administrators feel the superintendent's leadership is damaging the district.

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    Kristi Swett forwards a letter from anonymous district and school administrators expressing no confidence in the superintendent of Salt Lake City School District. The letter cites concerns that the superintendent has not produced meaningful work in the past year, has disregarded students, teachers and families, and has hired individuals who lack skills and have faced ethics violations. It asks the school board to address these issues, as the administrators feel the superintendent's leadership is damaging the district.

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    Kristi Swett forwards a letter from anonymous district and school administrators expressing no confidence in the superintendent of Salt Lake City School District. The letter cites concerns that the superintendent has not produced meaningful work in the past year, has disregarded students, teachers and families, and has hired individuals who lack skills and have faced ethics violations. It asks the school board to address these issues, as the administrators feel the superintendent's leadership is damaging the district.

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    From: Kristi Swett

    To: Melissa Ford; Nate Salazar; Joan Andrews


    Subject: Fwd: Letter of No Confidence
    Date: Monday, May 23, 2022 6:30:54 PM

    This was in my spam report, I am assuming it went in everyone’s, but thought a I should
    forward it to you three, and then you can forward to board members

    Kristi 

    Begin forwarded message:

    From: l kass
    Date: May 23, 2022 at 6:28:21 PM MDT
    To: Bryce Williams <Bryce.Williams@slcschools.org>, Jenny Sika
    <Jenny.Sika@slcschools.org>, Katherine Kennedy
    <Katherine.Kennedy@slcschools.org>, Nate Salazar
    <Nate.Salazar@slcschools.org>, Mohamed Baayd
    <Mohamed.Baayd@slcschools.org>, Melissa Ford
    <Melissa.Ford@slcschools.org>, Kristi Swett <Kristi.Swett@slcschools.org>
    Subject: Letter of No Confidence

    
    Dear SLCSD Board Members, 

    We write this on behalf of many district and school administrators. It is without


    our signatures because of the very real threat of retaliation from this
    superintendency.  

    Our primary commitment is to meet the mission and vision of the board. As such,
    we have always worked to follow the directives of the superintendent who the
    board has selected to lead us. Now that we are almost a full year under the
    leadership of the current superintendent, we must voice our no confidence in his
    leadership and our current direction. 

    The past year has seen talented, innovative, highly skilled, and successful leaders
    ignored and often stifled. Structures that have taken years to establish have been
    dismantled without cause, purpose, or offer of replacement. Institutional
    knowledge has been completely devalued or ignored. Disorganization and lack of
    communication have become the norm. Building leaders feel unsupported and are
    frustrated. Worst of all, so much damage has been done to our organization that
    students and families are now suffering the consequences as evidenced by the
    chaos of summer school roll-out.

    Some specific examples of our concerns:

    1) There has been no notable production of work by this superintendent. The


    superintendent has been present in this district for one year with no forward
    movement. This has never been the case in the past with other superintendents.
    Even with the previous interim superintendent, initiatives were implemented and
    board goals were supported. 

    2) Disregard for students, teachers, principals, and families is palpable across


    communities. Morale in the district is very low as evidenced in the employee
    survey deployed last winter. Specifically of note were the superintendent’s overall
    low approval ratings and the feedback for leadership of the School Leadership and
    Performance department. 

    3) This superintendent has brought in several people who lack technical skills and
    have been released for ethics violations, fraud, or for job performance (Gwen
    Johnson-White, Leeson Taylor, and Kimberly Mackey.) Now there is evidence
    that two of them, Leeson Taylor and Kimberly Mackey, along with the
    superintendent have violated the Utah Public Officers and Employees Ethics law
    and that Kimberly Mackey made fraudulent assertions about her educational
    credentials. We have also learned that Gwen Johnson-White lost her
    administrative license due to ethical violations in Florida and therefore should not
    be eligible for licensure in the state of Utah.

    The goal of this letter of no confidence is to ask you to act on the issues we have
    outlined above. We care deeply about the students and families we serve. We are
    committed to the district's vision and mission, yet fear that the lack of skills and
    ethics of the current superintendency is inflicting serious damage on our district. 

    Respectfully,
    District and School Administrators

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