Trustees
Reform Progress at CUSD
August 01, 2010
Column: August 2010, Larry Christensen, Trabuco Canyon
News At first
glance one might wonder if the reform Board of Trustees at
Capistrano Unified School District (CUSD) has affected any change
at the troubled district. The original “ABC” slate comprised of
Addonizio, Bryson and Christensen were handily elected four years
ago come November. One year later a successful recall installed
Palazzo and Maddox and in the subsequent year Winston and Brick
were elected to posts. Within a two-year span all seven long-termed
trustees under the regime of the now indicted superintendent James
Fleming had been removed. Two decades of misappropriation of
funding, nepotism, favoritism, creation of “enemy lists” and
extravagant deficit spending was too much for the public to
bear...
Most O.C. districts pay trustees less than allowed
June 15, 2010
Fermin Leal, The Orange County Register
Orange Unified trustees are
trimming their stipends by 10 percent next year, Capistrano cut
their compensation in half and two districts don't pay their
trustees anything at all. On the other hand, school board pay has
risen at least 20 percent since 2004-05 at Centralia, Fullerton
Joint Union, the O.C. Dept. of Education and Magnolia school
districts. So goes the hodge-podge of pay practices at Orange
County's 28 school boards, where just over 150 trustees in 2008-09
earned just over $753,000 – a figure that has changed little in
five years … Capistrano Unified had the steepest decrease in
compensation countywide since 2004-05 after trustees voted two
years ago to cut their pay in half, to $4,500 annually…