Three top finance and budget administrators resign from Alachua County Public Schools
BY JENNIFER CABRERA
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Three top budget and finance administrators have resigned from Alachua County Public Schools.
Assistant Superintendant for Finance Gabrielle Jaremczuk
On June 11, just days after the school board approved a two-year contract extension for her, Assistant Superintendent of Finance Gabrielle Jaremczuk resigned because she accepted an offer to serve as the Chief Financial Officer for Sarasota County Public Schools. Her start date was May 28, 2024, and her last day will be July 1, 2025.
Director of Budget Deborah Parrish
Director of Budget Deborah Parrish, who listed Jaremczuk as her immediate supervisor, submitted her resignation on June 16; she stated on her resignation form that she was resigning for personal reasons. Parrish’s start date was October 31, 2023, and her last day will be July 10, 2025.
Director of Finance Brandon Esposito
Director of Finance Brandon Esposito, who listed Jaremczuk as his immediate supervisor, submitted his resignation on April 22; he stated on his resignation form that he was resigning to take a position in education at the University of Florida. He was originally hired in 2015 and was rehired to the Director of Finance position on October 25, 2024; his last date was May 21, 2025.
The ACSB ship is slowly sinking, so …
This is the same finance team that forgot to budget for summer and kept saying yes to the school board’s unfettered spending habits. Why would other school districts hire them is a question when you see where ACPS is.
Hey More to Come, That is an inaccurate statement. I’ve watched this from within. The finance team has always fought to keep the budget on track. It’s leadership above them, like the board and others that have a very heavy hand with spending. These finance people are leaving because they are not aloud to keep the SBAC budget under control. Honestly, I’m surprised they stayed this long. SBAC is just a slow train wreck!
WHAT?!? Once again the people tasked with keeping the books are ignored by those tasked with balancing the books.
What other local government entity has the same issue?
Rats leaving a sinking ship. I wish they would spill the tea of what’s really going on.
Assistant Superintendent for Finance Gabrielle Jaremczuk.
Nobody can pronounce her name.
Look who’s talking. What’s
in a name? Honestly.
Maybe this explains it, in terms of corporate culture and spending priorities. What are they doing to our children? What about the Chinese, Korean, and other Pacific Islander/Euro Asian kids? What about the poor children of color? Why immersion? Why culture? Who is teaching this? Is this what they mean about indoctrination? Increased cognitive dexterity? Who even wrote this piece on the SBAC website?
“Terwilliger Elementary School is the first school in Alachua County Public Schools to offer Dual Language Immersion (DLI). Some of the benefits of learning in a DLI model include increased cognitive dexterity and problem-solving skills, embracing cultural awareness and diversity, and enhanced communication skills in both languages.
A DLI model of instruction begins in kindergarten the first year and expands each year until fully implemented in Grades K-5. Additionally, a new group of kindergarten students would begin each year. The program encourages participation by English and target language speaking students. The model of instruction is 50/50 English and Spanish with the goal of developing bilingual, bi-literate, and bi-cultural students.
Admission into DLI requires a long-term K-5 commitment to fulfill our dedication to each student becoming bilingual, bi-literate, and bi-cultural. Programming will be developed in the secondary schools to support students who complete the K-5 program with the aspiration to earn the prestigious Florida Seal of Bi-literacy in middle school or high school.
For more information, please contact the principal, Mrs. McAlhany (mcalhacv) or call the school at (352)955-6717.”
Nutbag
Korean kids???? Are you an idiot??
I was born and raised here;’ I have never witnessed such a mess. The Alachua County School District is currently in a real mess.
I was born and raised here too, back in what appears to be the district’s glory years (1980s & 1990s).
Somehow, this district has gotten worse and all attempts to bridge the achievement gap have failed.
The vouchers and the Newberry charter are symptoms, not the cause.
The public votes them in office. Maybe we should vote for a candidate not the blue color choice
Or red, politics are taking over instead of education.
Nor yours…
Given the fact that the top administrator and boss of the other 2 is leaving to accept a higher position (CFO) with the Sarasota County Public Schools, the logical conclusion is that she actually excelled at her job.
This is not the sign of dysfunction the usual suspects here allege in their knee jerk reaction.
Right, Jazz. She only had the position for a year to boot. Sarasota has fewer issues than ACPS, so stress will hopefully be lower.
Seeing as how her contract was just recently renewed, one can’t help but wonder if there had been an increase in her separation benefits with the new contract.
Didn’t that happen with the prior superintendent before this same group of incompetents decided to fire him? Not saying they don’t deserve such compensation for leaving this discombobulated mess of a school district, but it sure shows the SBAC’s lack of budgetary restraint when they give someone a raise and that person leaves or gets fired. More importantly, it may just show how the SBAC and its leadership is viewed by its employees.
On a related note, looks like the current Superintendent will be riding the SBAC gravy train for a while longer seeing as how the SBAC decided not to begin a search for a new one.
You didn’t vote for it but you also didn’t read the Alachua Chronicle’s article about the last SB meeting, during which certain members expressed disdain while begrudgingly approving her contract. She was smart to get out of Dodge
I did. Point being they did vote for it. Same way they voted to keep Mr. Andrew AND give a raise AND then terminate his employment.
Why exactly are they $20,000,000 short on budget?
She resigned to take a better job in a better district. There is no pay out like when they fired Shane (who would still be Sup if McGraw hadn’t lost her seat to Vu, btw).
I figured they got tired of working for the idiots on the school board here. And living in Harveytown.
Any competent, professional finance person would have quit at the earliest possible opportunity after witnessing the dysfunctional disaster of the June 3rd meeting.
She was excellent.
I disapprove of the exhortation of the salary increases which homeowners will have added to there taxes ..which are too high a $300 k house is paying almost $4,000 a year in taxes
“Exhortation” did you mean extortion? “Which homeowners will have added to there taxes” did you mean their taxes? I hope so in both cases.
Gabrielle Jaremczuk… Would!
She’s too smart for the likes of you, “MILF Hunter”
Don’t blame them for leaving the toxic “leadership” of our Alachua County School Board. ACBS member Tina Certain just can’t stop herself from opening her big mouth and trashing school employees.
She made it clear that she was going to target Jaremczuk after that vote, and so Jaremczuk chose to give Tina Certain the middle finger and leave. Her team saw the writing on the wall and left as well.
Tina Certain is a loud-mouthed loser that would never make it in the real world. She should be mopping floors at Popeye’s, but I’m sure she sucks at that, too.
Maybe you need to join her at Popeyes!!?
Nah. Tina be the French fry lady at mcdonalds.
Lovely but ominous 🥺
Let’s not forget that the state has consistently reduced funding to public school districts, moving public money to private schools. It’s a planned and intended destruction of local public school districts.
It’s not the state reducing funds to incompetent SBs like here; it is people leaving this fiasco of a public school system for private schools, where students are treated fairly, not exposed to undisciplined gangbangers and have a chance to actually learn.
Great!
Long standing GOP plan Double, parroted by many on this comment board.
Are you really blaming the free fall of our local public school system on the GOP? They aren’t even competent enough to do such a thing. You sound ridiculous.
Double and Jazz:
2017-18: $353 million
2018-19: $371 million
2019-20: $423 million
2020-21: $527 mil (fake Covid bribe money anomaly)
2021-22: $477 million
2022-23: $535 million
2023-24: $604 million
2024-25: $570 mil (the great exodus)
You guys are very out of touch. Funding isn’t the problem and you both know it!!
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LOL…Thank you Slice. Too easy to blame Tallahassee and not look inward.
Of course he is ….TDS.
Wrong as usual
Would gillum do a better job???
As opposed to the local school district taking money from the Westside schools and moving it to the East.
As if that was going to fix their issues.
This may work, they take the money but they also want the westside students to be bused to those schools because they need them to attract teachers to high poverty areas. They are literally being used as pawns.
Public schools started down the path to ruin in the late 60s
The city and the county should just focus on core services. Let’s focus on great schools, safe roads and low property taxes for once. It’s simple and straightforward. Save our homes and teachers. We don’t need to spend 7 million dollars to build one fire station and 1.3 million to be big brother and spy on our county employees. Meanwhile we can’t fund our schools with a 10 million dollar shortfall and teachers are not a not a priority in Alachua County or the students.
To focus on great schools, we need to fix ACPS structural footprint.
Fix the “cultural footprint”? What does that even mean? And how would you suggest it be “fixed?”
Put your reading glasses on, Steely. “Structural footprint” not “Cultural footprint” ….LOL.
ACPS has too many half empty schools, some of which will never be filled without massive growth on Gainesville’s east side. Certain members are holding out that families in the west will agree to be bussed to them in a mythical rezone reminiscent of 1970. That’s never going to happen, not with vouchers.
They’ll call the parents “racist” because they refuse to believe race has zero to do with it. It’s behavior and distance, simply put.
So, the structural footprint needs consolidate in low growth areas and expand in high growth ones. If it doesn’t, then private options will fill the gap and the district will lose even more students and thus funding
I’m raising my voice against the hidden abuse, fraud, waste, and racism that have infiltrated our school district. It’s alarming to see how the “good old boys” network has allowed capable educators to be sidelined or terminated, all while questionable practices continue unchecked.
Consider this: an athletic director who was instrumental in securing a multi-million-dollar contract with a major sports brand then leaves his leadership role to join the very company that now supplies our school uniforms. This glaring conflict of interest isn’t just a coincidence—it smacks of a system where profit and preferential treatment come before our children’s best interests.
To add insult to injury, hundreds of thousands of dollars have been poured into a facility that, within just two years, has deteriorated drastically due to weather and neglect. Those brave enough to question these decisions find themselves silenced—or worse, forced out. Where is the proper oversight when capital is wasted while voices of concern are dismissed?
Perhaps most heartbreaking is the emerging double standard that seems to affect our minority children. In some corners of our school system, minority athletes aren’t held to the same standards of academic achievement or behavior as others. Instead, the focus shifts solely to athletic performance, as if talent on the field can overshadow the essential need for discipline in the classroom. This is not about pushing a hard path; it’s about exploiting potential and, in the process, engaging in a subtle yet dangerous form of racism—a standard we would never live with if it were our own children.
These are not isolated incidents; they are calls for accountability that should be raised at every school board meeting. I urge our community to demand transparency, fair practices, and a commitment to nurturing every child—academically, personally, and athletically. Our schools must be places of opportunity, not playgrounds for favoritism and neglect.
Let’s stand together and demand change—for our children, for our community, and for the future of our schools.
Hey yalls. We needs the chuckle chestnut chestnut football wopalooza so that the peeps can hang out in luxury.
Kumahla,
If Chesnut wants to use city funds for the stadium and those other ccs agree, them fine. Using ACPS capital funds to build a tribute to mediocrity (err, drop out prevention) is ridiculous. We need to use private money — boosters — to build stadiums for every high school.
Disgruntled, don’t be cryptic…name the athletic director and sports brand. What facility deteriorated in two years? Many, including myself, have no idea what you’re referring to.
The school board is the entity that continues to push athletics as a means to graduate, not educate, students. They speak about this often in board meetings. The reason being is they will lose per pupil funding for students who drop out, so they do all they can to keep the student enrolled, regardless of any academic success. Government schools should have never became a business…they do what they do for money not because of skin color! Our public school system is indeed a mess.
I can’t tell what you are talking about. Who is the athletic director, and where are we spending millions of dollars on uniforms? What is the neglected facility you are referring to? We can’t speak up at meetings without specifics.
I have seen just that a Buchholz HS. Isn’t that track 2 years old. My neighbors kid said the track is falling apart.