A roundup of recent Broward School Board melodrama, antics and hijinks re misanthropic BTU President Anna Fusco -defending a Broward School administrator who was one of the subjects of a Broward IG report- and more on the latest long-overdue plan to close more under-enrolled and physically-failing public schools.
A very flawed plan but better than the alternative, which seems to be nothing serious but placating special interest groups around Broward County, some who are still in denial about the tens of thousands of students who have fled Broward Public Schools the past ten years.
Below is an expanded copy of an email that I sent out this afternoon to the Usual Savvy Suspects of 200 or so people on my email list, before that list likely gets whittled down some after the election in 20 days.
Broward Teachers Union president Anna Fusco, a subject of SO many critical past tweets and blog posts of mine, opposed the firing yesterday of Jennifer Andreu, a Broward Schools administrator and Plantation city council member whom the Broward IG's Office was, quite correctly, highly critical of, here:
OIG Final Report Re: Mismanagement and Vendor Misconduct in the School Board of Broward County’s Procurement of Computing Devices and Deployment Services, Ref. OIG 25-020-M
This video with Local10 News reporter Jackie Pascale, an Eagles fan, was posted this afternoon.
Broward Teachers Union president alleges First Amendment violation after meeting removal
WPLG Local 10
October 14, 2026
Broward Teachers Union President Anna Fusco said Wednesday that she plans to file a lawsuit against Broward County School Board Chair Sarah Leonardi and others, alleging her First Amendment rights were violated when she was escorted out of a school board meeting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
WPLG Local 10
October 14, 2026
Broward Teachers Union President Anna Fusco said Wednesday that she plans to file a lawsuit against Broward County School Board Chair Sarah Leonardi and others, alleging her First Amendment rights were violated when she was escorted out of a school board meeting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
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I suspect most of you receiving this email can recall why I personally think it's VERY ironic for Broward School Board member Rebecca Thompson to be quoted in yesterday's Scott Travis article saying, "It gives fuel to the accusation people have made about how we act and how friendships and personnel influence our decisions” given her own VERY deceitful performance in the months immediately prior to her election two years ago, when the former Allen Zeman School system secretary posited many things re Torey Alston that were simply untrue -and confirmed as such by an independent investigation that exonerated Alston, despite Zeman's great efforts to ease the election path for his then-newly-arrived, dim-witted protege.
It is what it is, which shows that Thompson has not learned a thing in office, which, candidly, is about what I expected.
South Florida Sun Sentinel
Broward School Board fires administrator named in inspector general report
By Scott Travis, South Florida Sun Sentinel
PUBLISHED: October 14, 2026 at 7:00 AM EDT
A Broward schools administrator accused by the county’s top watchdog of mismanaging the purchase of laptops and misleading the School Board has been fired.
The firing of Jennifer Andreu came despite pleas for leniency from many of her supporters, who told School Board members on Tuesday she had done nothing to warrant the action. Andreu denies wrongdoing.
Read the rest of the story at https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2026/10/14/broward-school-board-fires-administrator-named-in-inspector-general-report/
By Scott Travis, South Florida Sun Sentinel
PUBLISHED: October 14, 2026 at 7:00 AM EDT
A Broward schools administrator accused by the county’s top watchdog of mismanaging the purchase of laptops and misleading the School Board has been fired.
The firing of Jennifer Andreu came despite pleas for leniency from many of her supporters, who told School Board members on Tuesday she had done nothing to warrant the action. Andreu denies wrongdoing.
Read the rest of the story at https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2026/10/14/broward-school-board-fires-administrator-named-in-inspector-general-report/
As for last week's Sun Sentinel story regarding the needed closure of schools, for the record, I don't personally know Chris Canter, the two-time failed Broward School Board candidate from Hollywood mentioned in Scott Travis' article below.
He is described as follows: "Chris Canter, a parent and chair of Hollywood’s education advisory committee, spoke out against closing either school, saying he doesn’t think the district had done proper research.
“I’m not ashamed to say I oppose the closure of every single school on this list. This is a failed process,” he told the board. “Look at what your staff did in West Hollywood. They threw out a bunch of names of schools and then basically said, ‘You guys figure it out.’”
As most of you know from my emails, blog posts and comments at public meetings over the past 19 years criticizing the troubled, leaderless Broward County Schools, where for much of that time I was the #1 person BLOCKED on Twitter by the myriad Superintendents, I have long supported School Choice, but recognize that it's not a perfect solution for every family, just a choice they should be free to take.
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Despite being asked to do so via Lorie Alhadeff, one of his bosses, then-Supt. Robert Runcie refused to ever remove the completely illegal BLOCK placed on me by Broward Schools in 2016 for sharing facts and insight that was completely counter to THEIR preferred narrative.
She told me, "I wanted you to know I did speak to him but nothing is going to change. Sorry."
ICYMI the first time around, my long essay about the "Culture of Corruption & Incompetency by Feckless #Broward #SchoolBoard, General Counsel Barbara J. Myrick & Supt. Robert Runcie in a Nutshell. The special #Florida Grand Jury investigating them will find a target-rich environment: here are examples. #FixIt 
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While I have been complaining publicly for years about the myriad, ever-changing and nonsensical throw-spaghetti-
But Canter proposes no reasonable alternative, and seems to refuse to acknowledge the central inescapable fact: Many Broward schools should have been closed years ago resulting in the Teacher's Union enrollment getting smaller in the future to match the huge drop in student enrollment that so many of the Broward Education Establishment and Downtown Fort Lauderdale Business Establishment that supported ex-Supt. Runcie has continually denied was taking place -even as it took place before their very eyes for years.
Parents have voted with their feet and with their wallets.
Also, for the record, despite Canter having been a candidate while I have lived in SE Broward, I have never once heard anyone -including everyone receiving this email- mention Chris Canter by name in an email, text or phone call to me, nor have I ever read about him publicly discussing the quite embarrassing Jessica Norton ethics/fraud scandal in the School system, one that the Sun Sentinel has NEVER reported on honestly and accurately.
South Florida Sun Sentinel
Broward School Board sticks with plan to close 10 schools
By Scott Travis
By Scott Travis
October 8, 2026
The School Board reviewed Superintendent Howard Hepburn’s proposals to close 10 low-enrolled schools and move students to other schools with plenty of space.
School Board members didn’t make any final decisions during a four-hour workshop Tuesday, but their discussion suggested a desire to move forward with the current proposal, with possibly some tweaks.
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