Santa Ana Unified School District has sent invoices totaling $40 million to five Santa Ana-based charter schools. Charter school officials said they only first heard they might owe the district for special education costs when they received the invoices in March. Until now they’d worked well together, officials said. The schools – whose charters are…
By Katy Murphy and John Woolfolk SACRAMENTO — California is in the money, thanks to a flurry of tech IPOs expected to raise some $700 million in new tax revenue. But underlying the rosy state budget plan with a record $21.5 billion surplus that Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled Thursday glares a sobering paradox: Many of…
California is paying a price for the shaky rollout of its legal marijuana market. State budget documents released Thursday show the Newsom administration is sharply scaling back what it expects to collect in cannabis tax revenue through June 2020 — a $223-million cut from projections just four…
SAN CLEMENTE — The unexpected death of Mayor Steven Swartz on Wednesday, May 8, leaves the San Clemente City Council with four seats and a new challenge to fill a vacancy. It also has led to the cancellation of a special meeting to make public the city’s progress on creating an emergency homeless shelter. Just…
Under California’s education code, teachers who exhaust their sick leave and remain out due to illness or accident would see their salary docked to cover payment for the substitute teacher. The policy, added to the code in 1976, was recently scrutinized when a teacher at a San Francisco school…
Los Angeles County is one of the most vulnerable places in America when it comes to measles, largely because of the thousands of travelers arriving every day from countries with massive outbreaks, a new study says. The study, published Thursday in the journal Lancet Infectious Diseases, put L.A….
Lori Loughlin’s two daughters, Isabella Rose and Olivia Jade, are not among the children who have received target letters from federal prosecutors in the college admissions scandal, a source familiar with the investigation told the Los Angeles Times. Loughlin and her husband are accused of paying…
Doug, left, and Marti Rogna of Mission Viejo celebrate finishing the 50-mile Rosarito-Ensenada bike ride. (Photo by David Whiting, Orange County Register/SCNG) Cyclists dig in for post-ride food in Ensenada after covering 50 miles. (Photo by David Whiting, Orange County Register/SCNG) Sound The gallery will resume inseconds Locals enjoy the beach in Rosarito during the…
A man was found with gunshot wounds in a Fullerton alley Wednesday night, May 8, and later died. At about 11:40 p.m. officers went to the 3000 block of Topaz Lane after getting reports of shots fired, according to the Fullerton Police Department. When they arrived they found a 28-year-old wounded man down in the…
LOS ALAMITOS — A naked man believed to be under the influence of a narcotic frightened a family in the unincorporated Rossmoor area of Orange County near Los Alamitos, then ran off and tried to hide from sheriff’s deputies on top of an elementary school before surrendering peacefully, authorities said Wednesday. Sheriff’s deputies went to…
