It is not unusual for people to have questions or concerns when it comes to a public agency. What is unique about Mineral County School District is the corruption runs so deep that it is nearly impossible to untangle. From a string of inept Superintendents, to the most unethical Human Resource person in the entire state, the corruption stacks faster than can be resolved. This website is designed to start informing the public of the theft from the students and school site staff.

Human Resources

The Human Resource Manager of Mineral County School District is the source of the vast majority of issues that exist within Mineral County School District. Many of you may her as Hope Blinco. Her constant illegal, unethical, or otherwise prohibited behavior over the last decade has created the issues we see today. Not many people automatically make a connection that ever since Hope arrived at the district, the tenure of Superintendents plummeted down to around 3 years. The turnover of the District also increased to nearly 50% at times.

If you ever doubt her role in the slowly collapse of public education in Mineral County, I would encourage everyone to apply for a job and see her behavior. You will find from the very first interaction, she is rude, belittling, has no follow up, and will not provide any service whatsoever. I would encourage anyone that attempts to get a feel for her customer service skills to ask her about the benefits. I can guarantee will get a book handed to you written in medical terms and told you would have to call the insurance company if any questions.

What ultimately happens is good candidates walk away, good employees walk away, and she manages to game the system in such a manner that now she simply hires only J-1 cultural visa applicants because the staffing agency does all of her work for her. He also immediately gains a superiority complex because she knows that she can terrorize them into submission with threat of being deported.

I would be amiss here if didn’t point out Hope Blinco is a large reason why Mineral County is still paying for a Principal that cannot work. Administrative pay has been occurring because she managed to botch an internal investigation so badly that the Principal was never able to clear his name, nor was the county ever able to prove any guilt. Her incompetence has cost the community upwards of a $500,000.

She also seems to collect lawsuits like charms on a bracelet. Under her tenure has been numerous lawsuits that were won against the School District. Disclaimer: I have a pending lawsuit for her illegal, unethical, or otherwise prohibited behaviors that were so persistent, I ended up with a trauma diagnosis.

Most people don’t realize that Hope Blinco is so unethical that she went as far as to break the law and gain union protections that she was entitled to. She further managed to use these perks to unethically negotiate top wages for the union that snuck into. Hope Blinco is the reason that the law was put into place barring her from a union, but nevertheless she did it anyway, pilfered top wages and still managed to find time to suppress the wages of other departments for a decade.

Superintendents

I would challenge anyone to name something that Andre Ponder has accomplished that resulted in students benefitting in his tenure at Mineral County School District. Many people would say oh well he spent horrendous amount of our tax dollars lobbying for himself on trips, but that would be it. I am yet to see implementation of anything of any substance.

Diane Rodriguez

If you would like to see a poster child for corruption, Diane Rodriguez is an absolute super model. She has managed to get herself non-competed contracts for almost two years now. The value on these contracts range from $10,000, to $24,999 to escape going to the Board. She was once so upset that her corruption was being exposed that she attempted to get a fictitious restraining order against me. Fortunately, it was thrown out and my quest for the truth has continued since then.