Mesa Schools For Scandals > Breaking-Down The Details on Sally Downey

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Just catching-up on this story from two days ago . . .

Don't know where East Valley Tribune staff writer Jim Walsh might be going with this new story, but the featured image opening the article with Dr.Downey reaching out to former Mesa Mayor Scott Smith, current President/CEO of Valley Metro, has this caption: "During her 19 years as superintendent of the East Valley Institute of Technology, Sally Downey made many powerful political allies, including former Mesa Mayor Scott Smith."

It is inevitable that Walsh connects EVIT and political allies  

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Jack Sellers and Jon Kyl

Political firestorm engulfs Mesa schools, EVIT chief        

By Jim Walsh, Tribune Staff Writer

East Valley Tribune | 2019-04-06T01:30:00-07:00

A bitter election full of charges, countercharges, conspiracy theories and threats last fall soured an already tense relationship between the East Valley Institute of Technology and Mesa Public Schools.
The outcome was catastrophic for longtime EVIT Superintendent Sally Downey, who is on the verge of losing her once influential and lucrative position – possibly as early as Monday, April 8. . .
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It didn't turn out so "catastrophic" for former Mesa Public Schools Superintendent Michael Cowan - he just conveniently got a calling to go on an undetermined mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of The Latter-Day Saints.
Here's Dr. Sally Downey [at center] with Michael Cowan at far right, and Jared Taylor, business manager of charter school Heritage Academy in downtown Mesa.
Mesa Leadership learns about challenges of local education
17 Feb 2016 Special to The Arizona Republic
Contributed by Jill Adair, a freelance journalist and an associate faculty member at Arizona State University’s Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

". . . February’s Mesa Leadership class, held Feb. 5, started in the morning with speakers and a tour of the ATSU campus and concluded in the afternoon at the East Valley Institute of Technology campus, 1601 W. Main St. . . After lunch the class heard from Mayor John Giles, who recently announced that Arizona State University is planning to open a satellite campus in downtown Mesa.

ASU already has a Polytechnic campus in east Mesa, but Giles said after several months of meetings, University President Michael Crow and other officials are in the process of determining what would be a good fit for ASU downtown.

“Those discussions are fairly far along,” he said. “We’re getting close to deciding what that is, but deciding what that is, is, frankly, just the beginning of this process because then you have to figure out how to pay for it.”

Reference > https://jillbadair.wordpress.com/2016/02/17

 

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Details in Jim Walsh's story. There's more than quite a few to provide kindle to what he calls "Firestorms". How hot can it get?

East Valley Tribune : Political Firestorm Engulfs Mesa Schools