Alum Rock Union School District board fires Superintendent Hilaria Bauer after a decade on the job

Dr. Hilaria Bauer, Superintendent, is photographed during board meeting at Alum Rock Union Elementary School District in San Jose, Calif., on Thursday, January 11, 2018.

Last week, the district’s board of trustees voted 3-2 to terminate Bauer’s contract, with Trustees Minh Pham, Andres Quintero and Linda Chavez voting in favor, and Trustees Corina Herrera-Loera and Andrea Flores Shelton opposing the decision. “This was absolutely not a joyful decision,” he told The Mercury News. “There was a debate and there was much deliberation and unfortunately the vote turned out the way it did. It was a decision made with a lot of sorrow and with a heavy heart and there was absolutely no joy out of this.”

Bauer was hired in 2014 and faced termination several times during her decade with the district. In January 2018, supporters of the superintendent worried that her time was coming to an end afterwas placed on the board’s agenda. The item caused an uproar among parents, but Esau Herrera, a trustee at the time, dispelled it as just a “political rumor.”

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