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May 25, 2007
The worst kind of Supe
What kind of guy can go from being state superintendent of the year to an indicted fellow who may be facing four years in the slammer? Try former Capistrano Unified Superintendent James Fleming. Last August, Fleming (once the highest-paid education chief in all the Orange land), retired amid acc ... More >>
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February 6, 2006
Have you impugned your local librarian today?
Those wascally wabble wousers at Dissent the Blog, your duly elected South Orange County Community College District watchdogs, have posted for our listenting pleasure a snippet from a recent Board of Disgustees meeting where (Dis)Trustee Don Wagner calls the American Library Association, based on hi ... More >>
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April 11, 2006
Muzzling Troy
Troy High School in Fullerton has a lot going for it. The combined public and magnet school is known for its high SAT scores, Troy Tech and International Baccalaureate programs, its wins or high placements in the U.S. National Science Olympiad and Western Regional Science Bowl sponsored by NASA/JPL, ... More >>
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June 4, 2008
Primary Election Results
Here are the latest, unofficial results from interesting primary races in Orange County: 29th Senate District Bob Huff 68.4% Dennis Mountjoy 31.6% 33rd Senate District Mimi Walters 73.6% Harry Sidhu 26.4% 60th Assembly District Curt Hagman: 59.8% L ... More >>
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July 21, 2008
Bowdlerizing Santa Ana's Past (Canto CXVIII)
Students of history can only expect so much from Images of America, those slender books of historical photos published by Arcadia Publishing. Most of the people who compile the pictures in this book are well-meaning antiquarians (of the philosophical and age variety), and the people who purchase suc ... More >>
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December 11, 2008
No Need To Hide, SAUSD
Thank God for screen grabs. Without them, and without Orange Juice Blog's muckraking, we wouldn't be able to share the (tricky) little hide-and-seek game Santa Ana Unified School District played with its constituents yesterday. Art Pedroza, over at Orange Juice, caught the district in hideout mode w ... More >>
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February 18, 2009
Why Doesn't Westminster Commemorate Mendez vs. Westminster?
A faithful reader recently wrote in a question for my ¡Ask a Mexican! column wondering why the city of Westminster doesn't acknowledge Mendez vs. Westminster, the landmark desegregation case that allowed Mexican kids to attend school with their white peers and served as a precursor to the much-more ... More >>
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March 20, 2009
Spa Getaway Bites Ex-Superintendent in the Butt
Late yesterday the Capistrano Unified School District released a 54-page termination report detailing the charges that led to ex-superintendent Woodrow Carter's firing on Monday March 9. Carter's spa getaway weekend-- paid for partially by the district and by an architectural firm which was later aw ... More >>
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August 20, 2009
Teaching Museum Uses Adventure Films to Help Fund Mendez v. Westminster Exhibit
Jonathan Copp, RIP.What do the plucky Museum of Teaching and Learning, an internationally acclaimed film festival and the landmark Mendez v. Westminster School District case of 1946 have in common?All three could learn you something.The Fullerton-based Museum of Teaching and Learning (MOTAL) is s ... More >>
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November 5, 2009
OC's Famous Desegregation Case Finally Gets Its Historical Due, But One Family Feels Left Out
Jonathan Copp, RIP.What do the plucky Museum of Teaching and Learning, an internationally acclaimed film festival and the landmark Mendez v. Westminster School District case of 1946 have in common?All three could learn you something.The Fullerton-based Museum of Teaching and Learning (MOTAL) is s ... More >>
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March 24, 2010
Activist Who Tried to Get Mao Tossed From Nixon Library Now Takes on School
KaiChenForum.comKai Chen and his daughter Alex, then a Yale basketball player, at home in 2005. Los Angeles-based, Chinese-American activist Kai Chen, who last September organized demonstrations against the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda for including in its permanen ... More >>
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April 22, 2010
Traffic Report: Avoid Objects Waving Picket Signs Around Capistrano Schools
CUEA.orgWhile dropping kids off at Capistrano Unified School District's 55 campuses this morning, parents were forced to avoid unmovable objects:Striking teachers.
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August 19, 2010
Local School Districts Caught Up in New Study Showing Millions Blown on Litigation
The Peabody-winning educational program South Park aired an episode the other night that took lawsuits against public school districts to despicably hilarious new heights.The real-life cartoon plays out publicly--and locally--in the Capistrano, Santa Ana and Long Beach unified school districts.
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August 26, 2010
Activists to Ask Orange Unified School District Tonight to Name School after Local Civil Rights Icon Lorenzo Ramirez
Nearly a year after the Weekly wrote a story on Lorenzo Ramirez--the El Modena resident who sued on behalf of his children in the legendary Mendez, et al v. Westminster, et al school desegregation case but whose family felt received the short shrift by the case's most-zealous advocates--education ... More >>
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September 8, 2010
Rodney King Can Just Get Along With Juror He's Marrying After Newport Beach Hook-up
RadarOnline.comFrom the Strange Bedfellows File comes word that Rodney King--yes, that Rodney King--has found love with a juror who awarded him a multi-million dollar settlement in wake of the infamous 1991 beat down he took from LAPD officers.In fact, the love birds are getting married.But here' ... More >>
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September 10, 2010
Fees Charged Students in Tustin and Long Beach Cited in ACLU Lawsuit Against State
Fees charged to public school students in Tustin and Long Beach are part of the evidence the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is citing in a class action lawsuit filed today against the state of California and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.The suit contends the state is violating the Californ ... More >>
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November 3, 2010
Orange County Register Confirms to its Readers School Salary Database is on the Way
The Orange County Register today confirmed for its readers what we had already told our readers last month: that the Santa Ana daily intends to publish the names, work locations and salaries of employees at 27 local school districts and the county Department of Education.That would involve 72,000 ... More >>
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November 30, 2010
DREAM Activists March Through Anaheim
High-ranking members of Orange County churches, community organizations and Anaheim public school districts join local DREAM Act activists in marching this afternoon for federal legislation providing a pathway for citizenship and higher education to college-bound immigrants and those ser ... More >>
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December 14, 2010
[UPDATED:] Jeffrey Hubbard, Newport-Mesa Schools Chief, Subject of Closed Session Over Beverly Hills Criminal Charges
Update, December 14, 11:26 a.m.: The Newport-Mesa Unified School District Board of Education emerged from closed session last night and did . . . drum roll, please . . . nothing!Board president Karen Yelsey said "no reportable action" was taken. So, behind closed doors, only non-reportable actio ... More >>
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October 18, 2011
Leticia Garcia, Fontana School Board Member, Hid Marriage to Gang Murderer of 2 Santa Ana Men
A Fontana Unified School District trustee is embroiled in controversy over failing to disclose to voters, parents and school officials her secret marriage to a former Los Angeles gang member who was convicted of murdering two 21-year-old men in Santa Ana in 1984. Leticia Garcia said she decided i ... More >>
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November 11, 2011
ACLU Raises Privacy Concerns Over Confiscated Student Cellphones
"H-E-L-L-O: Students have a right to privacy in their cell phones."That's not just the lament of the empty-eyed Hot Dog on a Stick girl handing you your lunch at the mall. It's the title of a new report by the American Civil Liberties Union's Southern California office, which finds privacy rights ... More >>
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November 30, 2011
Dora Landaverde-Torres, Wife of School Board Member, Faces Deportation
The wife of a Moreno Valley school board member is currently in lockup in Santa Ana. But Dora Landaverde-Torres is not sitting on a cold bunk due to a DUI crash, a shoplifting charge or swinging her purse at a Santa Ana cop. She's not even in the city jail. The wife of Mike Rios, who wants to run ... More >>
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January 24, 2012
[UPDATED with Firing Confirmed:] Jeffrey Hubbard, Newport-Mesa Schools Chief, Guilty of Misappropriating Funds
UPDATE, JAN. 24, 5:26 P.M.: The support Newport-Mesa Unified School District Superintendent Jeffrey Hubbard enjoyed from his Board of Education disappeared into the paneling separating trustees from the public barred from a secret meeting this afternoon.In other words, the board voted unanimously ... More >>

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