AVOSSA’S COMPLETE EMAIL TO MCQUINN
Dear Barbara,
Given your recent comments at the board meeting and continued posturing in public and private conversations you’ve had with community members and staff in private — Dr. Johnson, Pat Kaupe — former elected officials — and other status quo protectors that have been shared with me — I will not meet with you in person unless it’s absolutely necessary and only with my attorney present — have a great night and see you soon. Moving forward — please submit all requests for information through the board office — be very careful about comments you’re making about me to community members — they are being relayed back to me — you will be held accountable for them.
Thank you,
Robert Avossa
My attorney Glenn Brock is copied on this email
“I need to understand why we are so unwilling to have someone temporarily take the helm who is working with us and who plans to continue working with us,”
McQuinn said at the time.
Her colleagues rejected the narrative” and “#fake news.” superintendent, was elected notion of an interim super- He later apologized. to the school board in Novemintendent, though. Board “I wear my heart on my ber 2016. In December, she members are expected to sleeve,” he said afterward. rated Avossa as “effective” select a new superintendent “I think anybody who knows on his annual evaluation. March 7. That person would me knows that. I’m an emo- At the time, she wrote that replace Avossa in June under tional person. I care about my he “is to be commended for the current plan. team. We’ve been working ongoing focus on increased
McQuinn declined to so hard to build an authenstudent achievement for all speculate about what pritic relationship between staff students.” vate comments he might and leadership.” But she pointed out that have believed she made but In December, he blasted while the county’s public rejected the idea that she the president of the county schools are improving by was “posturing.” teachers as “hostile” and many measures, they are
“I don’t posture,” she said. “inexperienced” and accused improving more slowly than “If I feel something needs to him of editing videos of con- the state overall. be called out, I call it out.” tract negotiations to deceive “Although the district con
In the email, Avossa iden- teachers about what had tinues to boast the highest tified his private attorney as occurred during the meet- overall performance among D. Glenn Brock, a partner in ing. After the union presiFlorida’s (seven) largest disan Atlanta law firm who spedent denied the allegation tricts, the growth data indicializes in school law. and demanded he retract cates less forward motion
Avossa has had a series of the claim, Avossa admitted compared to the state in sevpublicized blow-ups in recent he had no evidence to superal areas,” she wrote. months. In October, he took port it. to Twitter to criticize a Palm McQuinn, a former high
Beach Post article as a “false school principal and area