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Internal emails show Board President Tina Fredericks built a secret "Consolidation 2027" plan weeks before any public process, privately coordinated with consultant Tahir Ahad before TSS was hired, and participated in a Brown Act daisy chain with fellow board members.
Read more →Text messages obtained through public records requests show Scott Harden privately plotting to close San Rafael High School and boasting that the board "tricked" the superintendent into voting for a resolution they planned to change afterward.
Read more →Emails from October 10–11, 2025 show Board President Fredericks asking Kenne for consolidation research data at 11:21 PM, Kenne complying, and then Kenne forwarding the entire exchange to Harden — a documented daisy chain months before the public process began.
Read more →On November 30, 2025 — the night before a meeting with TSS — Board President Fredericks forwarded Superintendent Blanco's AB 1912 legal memo to Scott Harden, framing it as "what Dr. Blanco is thinking" and reassuring him the superintendent would not be an obstacle to the consolidation plan.
Read more →Total School Solutions designed and administered the community survey, then presented results showing "65% support" for school mergers. The data tells a different story — and every question was built on a framing strategy TSS had coached months earlier.
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