The same holds true of trips made by Huff and the Joplin R-8 School District's executive director of communications and community relations Kim Vann to expand Bright Futures USA, a non-profit organization which is supposedly not connected with the school district, but which operates out of the Administration Building at 32nd and Duquesne.
For the first time board members are checking to see if these trips are being taken on vacation or off time or if they are being done at times when Huff and Vann are supposed to be working for the taxpayers.
Information has been provided to state auditors that claims Vann has created two calendars, one for the public and the media and the other to help Huff keep track of his various outside speaking engagements and activities that are taking place to aid the expansion of Bright Futures USA.
That separation also seems to be designed to keep Board of Education members blissfully unaware of the extent of non-school business, seemingly designed to build C. J. Huff's brand name, conducted on the taxpayers' dime.
A partial list of C. J. Huff's 2014 activities is printed below:
Thursday, Jan. 23- Wisconsin Association of School Boards
Thursday, Feb. 20- Columbia- An Evening With C. J. Huff- Council of PTAs
Tuesday, June 3- Bright Futures USA training session for Hazelwood Bright Futures
Monday,July 14, -Wednesday, July 16- National School Public Relations Association, Baltimore, Maryland. (panel discussion)
Thursday, July 17- Bright Futures USA presentation in Beaufort County, North Carolina
Tuesday, July 22 Tenth Annual Arkansas Safe Schools Conference, North Little Rock
Monday, August 11- Bright Futures USA morning speech in Pea Ridge, Arkansas
Friday, September 5- Mid-morning speech at Kansas City Rotary Convention
(Upcoming)
Thursday, September 25, Friday, September 26- Speeches in Chicago, Illinois
Monday, October 13, Tuesday, October 14- Bright Futures USA Conference, Missouri Southern State University, Joplin
Tuesday,November 18- Saskatchewan School Boards Association
(Photo- C. J. Huff speaks at a meeting at the Pea Ridge School District for Pea Ridge Bright Futures.)
If a teacher ends up on jury duty, they have to either be docked the day or turn in the jury pay. What does Huff have to give up for speaking engagements?
ReplyDeleteIf a teacher wants to do something in the daytime that makes money, like referee a state tournament, that teacher has to forfeit his pay for the day. And he has to pay for his sub, but that won't matter because he'll be forced out anyway. But the superintendent and his employee who's supposed to be looking after Bright Futures can run around together all over the place and no one says a word. Good job, school board!
ReplyDeleteMama must need a new pair of shoes. She heard Imelda Marcos had more than she does. Got to break that record too.