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TEACHERS OF THE YEAR The Orange Unified School District is proud to announce their Teachers of the Year honorees.

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OUSD to deny Global Tides “Spam” Charter School In a scathing 14 page Board of Education Resolution, the Orange Unified School Board will reject the Charter School Petition of Global Tides for the Orange County Charter School at their October 29, 2009 regular OUSD Board Meeting. Action Agenda Item 12 A (pages 3-21) on the OUSD Board of Education October 29 Agenda has a staff recommendation denying the application on three of five legally required areas and notes that at the September 9 OUSD Board Meeting at a legally required Public Hearing no speakers, including anyone from any of the organizations involved in the proposal, spoke at the hearing. The unprecedented Agenda recommendation also noted that five OUSD administrative offices spent time working on the legally required review of the application: Administrative Services; Educational Services; Human Resources; Pupil Services; and the Superintendent’s Office. The Resolution, which reads more like an indictment of facts, cites the fact that Charter School Development Systems, one of a web of players involved in application that are named in the Resolution, has filed 91 similar petitions across the state. The “partner” of Charter Schools Development Systems is named in the Resolution as Ed Futures Inc., a for-profit California corporation. The Resolution reveals the investigations about both entities claims and cites experiences with the firms from other school districts across the state including Long Beach Unified....

OUSD to Study Canyons Secession Bid to Saddleback Unified Orange Unified will study the possibility of letting the Canyon communities that fed into the now closed Santiago Elementary School leave Orange Unified and join Saddleback Unified. The secession bid was presented as Information Item 13 B at the September 24, 2009 Orange Unified School Board Meeting. Speaking for the Inter-Canyon League, Dr. Deborah Johnson outlined reasons for the Canyon communities to secede from OUSD and join Saddleback Unified. After Johnson, several Canyon community speakers followed her presentation with more emotional appeals including threatening political and electoral retributions if OUSD Trustees tried to stop what many speakers said was an inevitable secession by the Canyons. In response to a question about the timing of the of a possible move by OUSD Trustee Dr. Alexia Deligianni, OUSD Superintendent Renae Dreier stated that the move could not take place this school year, and because she has approved every student transfer request to Saddleback Unified from the Canyon communities, she did not see the item as urgent. Among the needed steps was contacting the Orange County Committee on School District Organization for their expertise as well as researching all the needed facts of the proposal. OUSD Trustee Kathy Moffat asked for more information in two areas. First, what is Saddleback Unified’s view on the issue and second a more complete view on the positions of the Canyon community. Moffat wanted assurances of the validity of a survey taken by the Canyons that had a small reply in the sampling. Furthermore, Moffat noted that budget cuts in Saddleback Unified do not guarantee the Canyon communities would do better in seceding..

ORANGE Three elementary schools in Orange and two in Villa Park will join more than 20 other schools in Orange County and 6,500 schools across the country Wednesday morning to promote International Walk to School Day.

It’s….OKTOBERFEST Time The Anaheim Hills Rotary Club presents OKTOBERFEST III 2009 Saturday October 3rd from 12 Noon to 5:00 pm at the Oak Canyon Nature Center. This year’s annual October Party in the Hills features live bands (of course Oompah!) lots of food including German favorites like-bratwurst, sauerkraut and soft pretzels. Beer, wine and a talent show full of local residents will be just part of the fun activities for the entire family are scheduled throughout the day. Plus every want-a-be German’s favorite- THE CHICKEN DANCE! All this and admission is FREE! Oktoberfest III 2009 Oak Canyon Nature Center 6700 Walnut Canyon Anaheim Hills

Median list prices of SFR: 92865...$474,500 92866...$694,900 92867...$719,000 92868...$419,500 92869...$849,000 Houses available : 192 including 12 bank owned and 33 short sales.

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It figures that a guy nicknamed "Jerbal" would be rather squirelly, but Red County blogger Matt "Jerbal" Cunningham is in a rodent class all his own.A Jerbal has slammed carpetbaggers for years.A He went after Tom Umberg , Carol Rudat , and Harry Sidhu , like a rabid gopher, because they were carpetbaggers.A But Jerbal won't go after Linda Ackerman ...

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ORANGE Unified Schools INSIDE a news service of Orange Net News /O/N/N/ State designates Orange Unified a Program Improvement District The Greater Orange Communities 55 Freeway Divide became more apparent in the latest release of the state Accountability Progress Reporting (APR) figures last week (September 15, 2009). The reports show that while Orange Unified’s state Academic Performance Index (API) scores grew 11 points (California as a whole saw a 14 point statewide increase in scores) the bad news far outweighs the good news for OUSD and other districts with similar socio-economic factors that exist in the sprawling district west of the 55 Freeway Divide that everyone familiar with Greater Orange knows, but rarely mentions. However, reading the September 21, 2009 Press Release from OUSD Administrative Director of Communications Larry Hausner and you would imagine everything in OUSD-land is as squeaky clean as the Magic Kingdom. While the success in OUSD should be acknowledged, to ignore or gloss over the problems does not meet OUSD Superintendent Dr. Renae Drier’s “knowledge is power” mantra. .

On Sunday, Oct. 4, the tradition continues. The Villa Park Firefighters' Association will host its 47th Annual Pancake Breakfast from 7 a.m. to noon.

Pang is the Newport Beach financier accused by federal regulators of a massive fraud in which millions of dollars were re-directed for his personal use.

Those who serve at Villa Park Fire Station 23 continue to add to a proud history.

VILLA PARK HIGH SCHOOL Villa Park High School's Class of 1999 will be holding their reunion at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, Oct.

The AMA is pleased to announce the results of officer elections for the American Motorcycle Heritage Foundation Board of Directors, which raises money for the AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame Museum.

OUSD and Teachers reach pay cut agreement The Orange Unified School District and the teachersa association, the Orange Unified Educators Association, have reached a tentative pay deal to eliminate four teacher staff days, thus reducing teachersa annual salaries by approximately 2 percent.

OUSD PRINCIPAL ASSIGNMENTS School site administrative assignments for the 2009-10 school year have been announced, and are effective starting July 1. Some are new, and some are continuing.

The annual race will start at the Villa Park High School track at exactly 7:45 a.m. The race will run east on Santiago to Sycamore, left on Sycamore to Taft. plus Orange 3rd of July and Orange Park Acres Parade and Anaheim Hills- the 4th must go on!</p>

More discussion, along with public input, will occur before posting of national motto in the Council Chambers is decided June 22, 2009 - 10:02 AM The Orange County Register BREA The city could be following the path of 12 other Orange County communities by placing the national motto, "In God We Trust," in its council chambers.