Sunday, November 20, 2011
Rivera gives his resignation during a special meeting
By Raul Garcia Jr. / Nov.20, 2011
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| WISD vice president Ivan Perez, superintendent Dr. Richard Rivera and Board president David Fuentes at the Sept.. 21 meeting discussing extending term limits to 4 years. |
Protesters gathered in the Weslaco Independent School District’s board chambers in effort to keep Dr. Richard Rivera on as Weslaco’s Public Schools superintendent.
That came after the board voted not to extend Rivera’s contract.
Newly elected school board member Oscar Caballero was the deciding 4-3 vote in not keeping Dr. Rivera as the superintendent of schools in Weslaco and some of his supporters were disgusted by his vote.
Dr. Rivera has spent most of his professional career in Weslaco’s Independent School District working his way up the ladder from a teacher, assistant principal and superintendent of schools since 1996 after starting his career in Weslaco forty-five years ago.
Rivera’s current contract pulls in $215,000 dollars a year for his experience.
However at the September 21 board meeting there was discussion of the possibility of skipping the next election and extending school board member terms from three to four years. Thus changing elections from May to November.
WISD school board seats One, Two and Three are up for election in May 2012. If the Board gets a resolution passed by Dec. 31 to amend their charter to extend school board terms they would not stand for re-election until 2014.
“To me this particular plan is almost undemocratic to deny a community an election,” said Dr. Robert Sepulvida. “I was elected last year for three years and if you do this your going to add three and a half years to what I already have.
“I wasn’t elected for five and a half years I was elected for three.”
# posted by Raul Garcia Jr. @ 8:17 PM 
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