{"id":92976,"date":"2015-10-20T09:39:14","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T15:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=92976"},"modified":"2015-10-20T09:39:53","modified_gmt":"2015-10-20T15:39:53","slug":"key-players-in-the-mora-superintendent-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2015\/10\/key-players-in-the-mora-superintendent-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"Key players in the Mora superintendent scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s more about the key players in the case of Mora Superintendent Charles E. Trujillo <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2015\/10\/working-the-system-former-ped-bureau-chief-now-mora-super-faked-credentials\/\" target=\"_blank\">faking his credentials<\/a>:<\/p>\n<h3>Fidel Trujillo<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Highlands dean of students, and Charles Trujillo\u2019s cousin<\/strong><br \/>\nSent employment verification letter to state Public Education Department on university letterhead asserting that Charles Trujillo had been employed by Highlands as the deputy director of the New Mexico Work Program from 1995 until 2002. He actually served in that position for a much shorter period, from Jan. 12, 2000 to Aug. 3, 2002.<\/p>\n<h3>Debbie Trujillo<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Luna Community College administrator<\/strong><br \/>\nSent a letter to PED asserting that Charles Trujillo was employed as a \u201cfull-time Adjunct professor\u201d at Luna from January 2003 through August 2009. Charles Trujillo never worked for Luna before the fall of 2004, and documents in his personnel file suggest that he worked only as an adjunct instructor at Luna for three full years. In addition, there is no such thing as a full-time adjunct instructor.<\/p>\n<h3>George Trujillo<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Chairman of the board of the Mora Independent School District; Charles Trujillo\u2019s uncle<\/strong><br \/>\nCast the tie-breaking vote to hire Charles Trujillo as the Mora superintendent on a three-year contract.<\/p>\n<h3>Michelle Lewis<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Public Education Department education consultant<\/strong><br \/>\nSent letter to Mora Independent School District in May vouching for Charles Trujillo\u2019s fraudulent transcript.<\/p>\n<h3>Matthew Monta\u00f1o<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Public Education Department Educator Quality Division director; Charles Trujillo\u2019s former boss<\/strong><br \/>\nSigned off on Charles Trujillo\u2019s administrative internship. Oversees division that polices educators.<\/p>\n<h3>Hanna Skandera<\/h3>\n<p><strong>New Mexico education secretary<\/strong><br \/>\nOversees the state Public Education Department. Her signature is on the four PED licenses Charles Trujillo was issued in 2013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s more about the key players in the case of Mora Superintendent Charles E. Trujillo faking his credentials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[125,107],"class_list":["post-92976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-education","tag-roundhouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}