Riverside Unified School District Superintendent Rick Miller
The Board of the Santa Ana Unified School District may announce the appointment of a new superintendent at its meeting on Tuesday, according to the O.C. Register.
The possible appointment is on the agenda for this Tuesday’s SAUSD School Board meeting, available here, as item #13: Appointment of SAUSD Superintendent of Schools and Approval of Employment Agreement. Continue reading
The U.S. Department of Education has suspended sanctions against 42 academically struggling Santa Ana Unified schools, after approving an unprecedented waiver of No Child Left Behind requirements for eight California school districts on Tuesday, according to the O.C. Register.
School districts in San Francisco, Oakland and six other California cities were granted the same reprieve. The waiver, granted by the Obama administration, means the districts will no longer be required to label low-performing schools as failures and require that they make staffing or other changes in hopes of boosting test scores, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. Continue reading
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Contact: Deidra Powell, Chief Communications Officer, (714) 558-5555, Deidra.Powell@sausd.us
SANTA ANA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT PROVIDES FREE LUNCHES THROUGH SUMMER FEEDING PROGRAM
SANTA ANA, CA — June 20, 2013 – The Santa Ana Unified School District (SAUSD) will be participating in a free summer lunch program at 47 schools and 8 park sites within the district boundary between June 18th to August 16th. Continue reading
GGUSD Trustee Bao Nguyen
“One meeting after the celebration of selecting a new superintendent, the Garden Grove Unified School District’s Board of Education will face a grim prospect: a potential financial shortfall totaling nearly $60 million,” according to the Garden Grove Journal.
The Garden Grove Journal also reported that “At the last meeting the board voted to choose Gabriela Mafi as the new top educator, replacing Laura Schwalm this summer.” Continue reading
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Deidra Powell Williams, (714) 558-5555
Media Advisory: SAUSD Parent Conference to Provide Valuable Resources for Student Success
SANTA ANA CA- February 15, 2013 – Parents of the Santa Ana Unified School District (SAUSD) are invited to attend the 19th Annual Parent Conference on Saturday, March 2, 2013 at Valley High School, located at 1801 S. Greenville St., Santa Ana, CA 92704. “It takes a collective effort of everyone in our community to ensure our students are college and career ready and prepared to assume their roles as part of the global citizenry. This conference is one avenue for parents to become engaged in a dialogue on how best to support their children to achieve academic excellence and to be productive in reaching their life-long goals,” said Superintendent Thelma Meléndez de Santa Ana, Ph.D. Continue reading
“Santa Ana city officials are scrambling to address a $56 million demand by the state due by Friday,” according to the union-funded Voice of OC. The State of California is run completely by Democrats now, from the State Legislature majority to all of the State’s elected leaders, including Governor Jerry Brown. And now they are trying to bankrupt our city!
“The money is to come from what’s called low-and-moderate income housing funds. Redevelopment agencies were required to set aside 20 percent of their property tax increment revenue – the funds that cities had diverted from going to other local governments in redevelopment zones – for affordable housing programs,” according to the Voice of OC. Continue reading
For Immediate Release: July 10, 2012
Contact: Nicole Stanfield, (714) 834-2178, nstanfield@ochca.com
Where We Live Affects How We Live
(Santa Ana) – A new report by the Health Care Agency and its partners demonstrates how health is affected by where we live, work, learn, and play. The ‘Healthy Places, Healthy People’ report provides subcounty (e.g., city, school district, census track) data on economic, educational, and community factors that influence physical health and well-being. Continue reading
I asked Santa Ana Public Information Officer Jose Gonzalez if he could get me a list of the 2012 Santa Ana 4th of July fireworks booth locations and he came through! Click here to download that list – and find out where you can buy safe and sane fireworks in Santa Ana. The fireworks booths will be open from July 1-4.
Take a look at the list and you can easily identify the non-profit organizations that run each of these booths. Now you can go buy fireworks from a specific non-profit that you want to support. The fireworks sales mean a lot to these organizations and often provide a substantial amount of their annual funding. You will also note that the list is organized by the different fireworks manufacturers, in case you like a specific brand of fireworks.
Here are a few booths I would like to call your attention to: Continue reading
For Immediate Release: March 16, 2012
For More Information Contact: Carol Chamberlain – office: (916) 319-2069, mobile: (916) 804-5355
Comprehensive California High School Drop Out Audit Findings Now Available
Audit, Conducted at Request of Latino Legislative Caucus, Shows Nearly 95,000 Students of the Class of 2010 Dropped Out. Approximately 50,000 of Those Students Were Latinos.
SACRAMENTO – At the request of the California Latino Legislative Caucus, the California State Auditor conducted extensive research into the new reporting of high school graduation and dropout data by the California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System (CALPADS). The report, High School Graduation and Dropout Data: California’s New Database May Enable the State to Better Serve Its High School Students Who Are at Risk of Dropping Out, was released yesterday. Continue reading
Julio Perez – the choice of union hacks
Sixty three year-old LAUSD teacher Mark Berndt has been charged with 23 counts of lewd acts on children. Berndt allegedly regularly told children they were going to play a “tasting game”, then blindfolded them and in some cases put tape over their mouths. He then fed students a “milky” substance on a spoon and on top of cookies. Later DNA testing confirmed that this substance was indeed Berndt’s own semen. He also ran cockroaches over the faces and mouths of the children. Berndt took pictures of these encounters, according to USA Today.
Berndt is going to keep getting his benefits – and he even kept his job back in 1993 when he was first charged with molestation. And he got a $40K payment so that he would retire. How did all this happen? Because of rules that the teachers’ union bartered for – the same union that is now supporting ultra-liberal Democratic Assembly candidate Julio Perez, who is running for the 69th A.D. 
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How depressing. The OC Weekly posted a number of articles featuring the worst Orange County elementary, middle and high schools. The Santa Ana Unified School District (SAUSD) dominated all three worst ten lists. Now we know why SAUSD Trustee Audrey Noji sent her son to a high school in Irvine.
Noji was of course reelected last year, after her fellow Trustee, John Palacio (who maintains a second home in Arizona and is only here in CA on a part time basis) endorsed her. Yes, he too was reelected. Continue reading
Boys & Girls Club of Santa Ana Press Release
Boys & Girls Club of Santa Ana Tackles High School Graduation Rates in Santa Ana
University of Phoenix Foundation Encourages Youth to Be Great and Graduate with National Education Initiative
Santa Ana, CA, January 2012- One in three youth in the United States fails to graduate each year. Additionally, one in two African American and Hispanic children, fall short of high school graduation. At the Boys & Girls Club of Santa Ana, we are working hard to combat these unsettling statistics through implementation of the BE GREAT: Graduate program, funded by University of Phoenix Foundation. As part of the program, Santa Ana youth will be set on the right track to high school graduation. Continue reading
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: David Valentin, Chief of Police, (714) 558-5829
Santa Ana Unified School District Police Department Welcomes New District Safety Officers
SANTA ANA, CA – December 15, 2011- During a hiring ceremony on Thursday, December 15, 2011, the Santa Ana Unified School District Police Department welcomed three new District Safety Officers. The newest members will join a team of 35 civilian District Safety Officers who proudly and professionally serve the students, staff and entire SAUSD community. Continue reading
New Assistant Superintendent Named at Santa Ana Unified
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Contact: Angela Burrell, APR: (714) 558-5555
New Assistant Superintendent Named at Santa Ana Unified
SANTA ANA, CA — November 29, 2011 – The Santa Ana Board of Education has recently appointed Chad Hammitt to the position of Assistant Superintendent of Personnel Services for the Santa Ana Unified School District (SAUSD). Prior to his appointment, Hammitt was Executive Director of Human Resources for SAUSD. In his new post, he will be responsible for various personnel related matters including union negotiations and employee relations. Continue reading
OC CONSERVATIVES RIP-OFF SCHOOLS TO SAVE UNION JOBS
Orange County, California is often referred to as the “Most Conservative County in America.” But County Supervisors have made a mockery of that title by increasing spending by $145.8 million, in a year of lower property tax collection. Now that the County has started running out of cash, they simply diverted $73.5 million from the school’s share of property taxes to stop layoffs of 490 County unionized employees. Conservatives support small government, low taxes,and prudent spending. The County protecting their union buddies at the expense of firing 865school teachers doesn’t sound very conservative to me. Continue reading