"VUSD is run by the union!" ANTIs charge

No just the opposite. This district is run by a four out of five person majority on our board that is pro fact based public education. The four majority board members support fact based science, history, and sex ed classes. Our opponents oppose all three.

Jim Gibson is the only board member who supports the ANTI public education position. His children were educated at private schools. He became locally infamous for his attempt to gain political notoriety with a Carrie Prejean Day. His opposition to building a full sized third high school in our district cost our VUSD taxpayers as much as 50 million dollars and five years of delay.

Since the 1994 election a majority of PRO fact based school board members have been elected every two years. The last time the ANTI fact based group in VUSD controlled our board was from 1992-1994 when they made national headlines for their anti fact based actions in the curricular areas of science, history and sex education. (See below)*

If the teacher's union runs the VUSD board as our ANTI friends charge, then our ANTI friends need to be able to explain the following inconvenient facts.
(1)The VUSD teachers have lost ground in both salary ranking in the county and in benefit coverage since 1994. While VUSD once paid the third highest salary and the best benefits of any unified school district in the county, VUSD current rank out of San Diego County districts is 32nd out of 37.
(2) Only five San Diego County school districts have a lower average teacher salary than VUSD.
(3)For the last three years the VUSD teachers have had no contract and no salary increase while those in surrounding districts got both.
(4) There is not one example of a school board action since 1994 that shows any teacher union bias.

*Read more about that 92-94 VUSD board's actions at the Los Angeles Times Archives:
http://articles.latimes.com/keyword/vista-ca-schools

A few headlines about the 1992- 94 VUSD school board majority found at the Los Angeles Times site above:
1. New Vision for Vista Schools: After Recall of Religious Conservatives on School Board, Moderates Are Casting Off Many of Its Policies.
2. Bibles and the Board--a Skirmish Brews : Education: A new religious fundamentalist majority of school trustees in the San Diego County community of Vista raises fears about its agenda.
3. Christian Bloc Ousted From Board : Education: Two members of Vista school panel are recalled after seeking to impose a religiously oriented approach to teaching students about sex.
4. School Board's Creationist Trend Causes Stir in Vista : Education: Members to vote on forbidding 'dogmatic' teaching of science. Test of Christian right's strength seen.
5. Vista Schools OK Sex Education Program With Religious Theme
6. Vista Board OKs Teaching of Creationism

or read about that 1992-94 board actions at the New York Times archives:
http://query.nytimes.com/search/query?frow=0&n=10&srcht=s&query=creationism+Vista&srchst=nyt&submit.x=13&submit.y=7&submit=sub&hdlquery=&bylquery=&daterange=full&mon1=01&day1=01&year1=1981&mon2=01&day2=26&year2=2010

New York Times headlines about VUSD from 1992 to 1994 includes the following:
1.A School Board in California Makes Room for Creationism
2.Political Proving Ground For the Christian Right
3.A City Pulls Its School Board Back to the Center
4.TELEVISION REVIEW; Exploring the Crusade Of the Anti-Darwinians