A $25-billion-a-year public agency is on the way to being taken over by management, with the public’s representatives sidetracked and silenced, while former Homeland Security honcho Janet Napolitano gets the ability to run the place as she pleases.  Lurking beneath the bureaucratic language of the revision of the by-laws lies a gigantic power-grab by a bureaucracy seeking even less scrutiny, much less accountability.  On Wednesday, the Regents are scheduled to discuss the proposed changes. Writing on these pages, former Regent and UCLA professor Velma Montoya has twice analyzed the coup d’état being run through the formal processes of by-laws revision.   Now, The California Association of Scholars has stepped forward with an insightful analysis of what is wrong with the changes.  I reprint it in its entirety below.  But for now, consider: Two proposals appear inconsistent with the fundamental purpose of a Board of Regents....(Read Full Post)