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by the board

adjective as in down the drain

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Wilson was given guidelines by the board that included, “Don’t give people advice unless they ask for it,” and, “Work through the CEO, not around the CEO,” the Journal reported at the time.

“The unprecedented decision by the Board to place Villanueva on a ‘Do Not Hire’ was the result of a defamatory charge of discrimination and harassment,” the former sheriff wrote in the June complaint.

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“These improvements will mark a new day in the life of this slipshod academy. Therefore, it is only fitting that the school itself be renamed. After tonight’s official vote by the board of trustees, this institution shall forevermore be known as the Quinzy School for Miserable Girls.”

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An earlier task force suggestion to that effect was discussed by the board but went unheeded, he charges.

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“This model essentially has created forever tuition hikes, with a tuition hike happening every single year, and without a vote being required by the Board of Regents each year. So what we want, if there must be increases, is more oversight and more student input into how these fees are being used and who these changes are affecting.”

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