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Part 3: Affidavit – What went down at Treem
November 6, 2020admin Statement by whistleblowing teacher James OliverThus Treem, when I was hired, was already a school in turmoil. What I would soon learn, however, was that it not...
Part 2: Hidden realities of CCSD
In mid-October 2018, the newly licensed elementary teacher James Oliver reported for duty at Harriett Treem Elementary School. Two months earlier, the principal of a different elementary school, Eva G....
Sidebar: Purple Boris and Other Dragons
Institutionalized negligence For over 30 years, the Clark County School District has evaded fulfilling the expensive federal service mandates for IEP children — which the district accepted when accepting the...
Part 9: Grade-changing, the exploded view
his graphic shows how CCSD’s version of the Infinite Campus grading software-ensemble allows largely transparent layers with false grades to be created and placed on top of blank, base layers,...
Part 10: The learning failures went beyond math, into reading and writing
o, second-grade students in the fall of 2018 at Treem Elementary were not learning math. However, their learning difficulties were not limited to that basic subject: Common Core reading instruction...
Part 7: Oliver’s alternate route to licensure
After working intermittently as a substitute teacher from 2014 onward, James Oliver achieved his state teaching license early in 2018 through Nevada’s Alternative Route to Licensure process. The ARL program...
Part 8: Test pages, real and bogus
IMG 3184: A blank test page (Note: Kids’ names are coded, in this public version. Law enforcement, et al, receive full identifiers.)This is a test page for a classroom in...
Part 6: Evidence in plain sight
On several occasions during the years he’d worked as a day-to-day substitute teacher at CCSD, James Oliver had seen evidence of the sort of cheating this report details. Until it...
Part 10: The learning failures went beyond math, into reading and writing
o, second-grade students in the fall of 2018 at Treem Elementary were not learning math. However, their learning difficulties were not limited to that basic subject: Common Core reading instruction...