Op-Ed: Mayor’s Education Appointment Presents Pivotal Opportunity By Karen Wolfe, special to K12NN Rumors that Mayor Garcetti will appoint Thelma Melendez to be his education deputy are causing grave concern among…
As Mayor Eric Garcetti considers his top education appointment, one name is generating more buzz than any other — Thelma Melendez de Santa Ana, according to the LA School Report. She…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Monday, June 17, 2013 Contact: Deidra Powell, Chief Communications Officer, (714) 558-5555 Charles E. McCully Appointed as Interim Superintendent for Santa Ana Unified School District The Santa…
Administrators had recently received several complaints from Santa Ana Valley High School staff about a strong smell of gas in a building where an explosion took place Tuesday morning, according…
Dr. Thelma Meléndez de Santa Ana worked in education for 30 years, but the mess that is the Santa Ana Unified School District (SAUSD) derailed her and today the SAUSD…
Inside sources are reporting that outgoing SAUSD Superintendent Thelma Melendez de Santa Ana, who is retiring after the school year, is pushing the SAUSD School Board to hire a controversial…
Chad Hammitt, the SAUSD's Assistant Superintendent in charge of Personnel Services has quit, after 16 years in Santa Ana, not long after SAUSD Superintendent Thelma Melendez de Santa Ana announced her…
Embattled SAUSD Superintendent Thelma Meléndez de Santa Ana recently lost the support of the Santa Ana Educators' Association, the union that represents our teachers. Sources said the School Board was about…
The Santa Ana Educators' Association's President, Susan Mercer, has had enough. She distributed a stark letter to her members, who are the teachers at the Santa Ana Unified School District,…
Never mind the problems at Spurgeon Intermediate. The situation at the SAUSD is much worse. An inside soruce tells me that there was a meeting this week for parents of elementary…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Deidra Powell (714) 558-5555 New Deputy Superintendent – Stefanie Phillips, Ed.D.-- Joins SAUSD SANTA ANA, CA — March 20, 2013 – The Santa Ana Unified School…
This was a news-packed year in Santa Ana - and women were a big part of many of our leading stories this year. Now its time to pick our 2012…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 27, 2012 Contact: Deidra Powell, Chief Communications Officer, (714) 558-5555 Office Media Advisory: Rededication Ceremony at Thomas A. Edison Elementary School on October 1, 2012 Event:…
What will SAUSD Superintendent Thelma Melendez de Santa Ana do now? Update: Fresno Unified is losing their QEIA funding too, due to low test scores, and San Bernardino Unified is losing 7…
How depressing. The OC Weekly posted a number of articles featuring the worst Orange County elementary, middle and high schools. The Santa Ana Unified School District (SAUSD) dominated all three…