Jane Russo Archive
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Why did the insolvent SAUSD rehire their laid off administrators?
Posted on July 2, 2009 | 2 Comments“Nineteen districts will not be able to meet their financial obligations for the school year that just ended, or the upcoming school year, without making drastic cuts, including El Rancho... -
Laid off Santa Ana teachers have to pay $8 to see the SAUSD fire them!
Posted on June 10, 2009 | 6 CommentsHow lame. If you happened to miss this week’s SAUSD School Board meeting, and you don’t have cable TV, you are out of luck. The district does not archive their... -
Councilman Sal Tinajero walks the South Coast Neighborhood in Santa Ana
Posted on May 31, 2009 | 29 CommentsThe City of Santa Ana took over the Neighborhood Associations in town years ago – turning them into controlled sessions run by city staffers. Today I saw what could be... -
SAUSD Hero: Police Officer Brian Harris
Posted on May 10, 2009 | 4 CommentsSAUSD Hero: Police Officer Brian Harris -
SAUSD Superintendent Jane Russo is too cheap to appreciate her teachers!
Posted on May 5, 2009 | 46 CommentsApparently this is Teacher Appreciation Week, but check out what SAUSD Superintendent Jane Russo told her teachers in a letter she emailed to them: Again this year, because our educational... -
SAUSD Superintendent booed at Obama Orange County townhall
Posted on March 18, 2009 | 14 CommentsPresident Barack Obama wowed the crowd at the Orange County Fairgrounds today. I heard that the first local elected official he introduced was Santa Ana Mayor Miguel Pulido. Interesting. I... -
SAUSD Trustees want to dumb our kids down even more
Posted on January 14, 2009 | 28 CommentsIn yet another step backward for the children of Santa Ana, the “Santa Ana Unified trustees on Tuesday discussed a plan to lower high school graduation requirements as a way... -
Saddleback Arrest (non-)Notification Watch: Day 29
Posted on December 16, 2008 | 13 CommentsSaddleback Arrest -
OC Weekly exposes more corruption at the SAUSD
Posted on December 5, 2008 | 6 CommentsThe OC Weekly has cracked another case of corruption over at the Santa Ana Unified School District (SAUSD). Reporter Dafodil Altan exposed what appears to be a case of spending... -
New OUSD superintendent has experience turning around troubled school districts
Posted on July 25, 2008 | No Comments“The Orange Unified School District board Tuesday night approved the hiring of Renae Dreier as the new superintendent,” according to the O.C. Register. Dreier was in charge of a school... -
Laid off instructional aides protest at SAUSD headquarters
Posted on June 28, 2008 | 13 CommentsLaid off Santa Ana Unified School District instructional aides protested yesterday at SAUSD headquarters, over on Chestnut and Grand in Santa Ana. One of the protesters ended his hunger strike... -
New SAUSD corruption open thread
Posted on June 22, 2008 | 976 CommentsUPDATE: Comments on this thread are now closed. The new 2009 thread is available at this link. I wrote a post on July 16, 2006, entitled “SAUSD corruption coming out... -
SAUSD corruption coming out with Mijares gone
Posted on May 1, 2008 | 1,972 CommentsUpdate 3/5/08: This post now has 2,003 comments! However, it has exceeded the capacities of our server and has been truncated recently at about 1,529 posts. But one of our...
