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On Tuesday of last week, January 28, this blog published a story about Anaheim Union High School District resources were being used for a political campaign advocating passage of Measure B – the $398 million school bond placed on the March 3 ballot by the AUHSD Board of Education. The precinct walks were being staged from all the high school ...

  As many readers know, Esther Wallace, one of Anaheim’s community pillars passed away last week. Ms. Wallace’s devotion to improving West Anaheim reached down to her bones. She was the animating force behind the West Anaheim Neighborhood Development Council (WAND) and was a long-standing member of the Magnolia School District Board of Education. This past Tuesday, Mayor Pro Tem ...

Most people understand what a loan is: you borrow money on the promise to pay it back, usually with interest.  But the necessity of paying it back is the key idea here. It is the essence of the exchange – what makes it a loan. Otherwise, it is a gift. Anaheim Union High School District Trustee Al Jabbar doesn’t agree. ...

[Editor’s Note: the story has been updated with reporting from Councilwoman Barnes’ community meeting.] District 1 Councilwoman Denise Barnes may or may not be running for re-election in 2020, but she is actively engaging in political mischief and gamesmanship. Last week, she used her councilmember Facebook page to feed the public very misleading information about a proposal to increase the ...

The outbreak of novel coronavirus in China has been dominating headlines this month, as the Chinese government struggles to contain its spread and more cases of infection are confirmed around the world – including here in Orange. Last month, the Anaheim Union High School District Board of Education signed agreements with several high schools in Jinan, the largest city in ...

The Yes on Measure B campaign is using district facilities to run a campaign precinct walk this weekend to s school bond placed on the ballot by the AUSHD Board of Education. On Wednesday, February 5, Yes on Measure B is holding an after-school precinct walk to convince voters to support a $398 million school bond placed on the March ...

Andy Thorburn, the rich, left-wing Democrat running on an anti-charter school, pro-teacher union platform to oust incumbent Dr. Ken Williams from the OC Board of Education, has written another $60,000 check to his campaign treasury. Thorburn has now poured $710,000 of his fortune into his campaign – a county record for an Orange County Board of Education seat. And vote-be-mail ...

Jose Lara, the assistant principal at Dale Junior High School, has resigned his seat on the El Rancho Unified School District in LA County, reports the Los Cerritos News. The divisive Lara was facing a recall election that had qualified for the 2020 ballot. Controversial El Rancho Unified school board member Jose Lara announced his resignation at the regular ERUSD ...

Two rich progressive Democrat candidates running for the OC Board of Education on anti-charter school, pro-union platforms are spending their personal funds at a record-breaking pace. Andy Thorburn, a left-wing Democrat who live in the wealthy enclave of Villa Park, has already pumped $650,000 of his personal wealth into his campaign to unseat Area 3 incumbent Dr. Ken Williams, a ...

The Anaheim Union High School District recently announced it has increased elite Oxford Academy’s enrollment cap by 32 students. However, those spots will not be available to AUSHD students, but will be limited to students from outside the district. The AUHSD established Oxford Academy 21 years ago as a f7-12 public high school. Oxford accepts up to 25 students from ...