SVUSD
Saddleback's new superintendent: It's all about 'we'
September 15, 2010 Filed in:
Superintendents
Scott Martindale, The Orange County Register
Clint Harwick doesn't use
the words "I" or "me" to describe his accomplishments or his goals
– it's all about "we," he says. The new superintendent of the
33,000-student Saddleback Valley Unified School District says the
challenges faced by the district – including mounting financial
problems and recent employee unrest over an imposed 13.5 percent
pay cut – will only be resolved if he can bring everyone together
to work as a team…
Class sizes, custodians hit by Saddleback's $33 million in cuts
June 22, 2010 Filed in: Budget &
Finance
Scott Martindale, The Orange County Register
Saddleback Valley Unified
School District trustees on Tuesday passed a $229 million budget
for 2010-11 that calls for increasing class sizes at all grade
levels, cutting custodial services nearly in half and requiring
deep employee pay concessions. The spending plan calls for $33
million in cuts in response to reduced state funding, and restores
none of the deep cutbacks to programs and services made last year,
including eliminating most of the district's bus routes and
dramatically scaling back counselors and school library
staffing…