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Two MV Christian Schools Moving

December 10, 2011

On Tuesday the Saddleback School Board is expected to approve leases of two closed public campuses to private Christian schools. MV’s O’Neill Elementary School will be leased to Mission Viejo Christian, which is currently located at Mission Viejo Christian Church at Jeronimo near Marguerite Parkway. Grades 1-8 will move to the new site while Kindergarten and Pre-Kindergarten will remain at the [...]

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MV Rejects Leasing ONeill School

October 7, 2011

   The City Council on Friday rejected an option to lease O’Neill Elementary School from SVUSD. Under California’s Naylor Act, cities have the first right to lease schools within their boundaries when declared surplus property by a school district. O’Neill is located in the Deane Homes Association [map].    MV would have been required to use the  7.4-acre property exclusively for [...]

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Mission Viejo Schools’ Academic Report

September 2, 2011

   On Wednesday the State Department of Education released the Academic Performance Index (API) Scores*.  Following are the reported numbers for Mission Viejo Schools.     Capo & Saddleback School Districts scored 859 & 862, respectively. The statewide score was 768.  Oxford Chino, the first-year predecessor school for Mission Viejo’s new Oxford charter school, achieved 957.  That [...]

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Judge Rules: City Council Loses Again

September 27, 2010

   Superior Court Judge Ron Bauer has categorically ruled against the Mission Viejo City Council’s lawsuit against the Saddleback School District over the closing of O’Neill Elementary School.  The Order, issued last Thursday, is the second embarrassment for the City this month. It previously retreated from a separate lawsuit against Capo School District over reductions in school busing, [...]

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SVUSD & Teachers Union Reach Pay Accord

May 11, 2010

   The SVUSD Board of Trustees will vote tonight (Tuesday) on a proposed tentative salary agreement with District teachers.  A ratification vote by the Teachers Union will take place this Wednesday through Friday.    The accord calls for a 2.85% salary decrease for time worked. Another 6.87% reduction will occur through furlough days and benefit concessions [...]

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Letter: Reject Race-To-The-Top School Funds

January 26, 2010

Race to the Top – For SVUSD? Doesn’t seem worth it to me to receive what boils down to a ‘drop in the bucket’ amount of money with all the strings attached. The money we would receive wouldn’t even get SVUSD out of its deficit. I am a fan of charter schools but, ideally, having [...]

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Oxford’s Charter Petition Rejected by Fish

December 5, 2009

   SVUSD Superintendent Fish is recommending rejection by the Board of Trustees of a charter school application submitted by the Oxford Preparatory Academy (OPA) in October.  It is the second time this year Fish has scuttled a charter petition for Mission Viejo.    There are items in the proposal that could be flushed out by by the applicant in an attempt [...]

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Oxford Files K-8 Charter & Leader’s Bio: SVUSD Hearing Tuesday

November 9, 2009

   Oxford Preparatory Academy of Mission Viejo (OPAMV) filed a 300-page charter for its proposed tuition-free college-prep K-8 school in the Saddleback School District.      The SVUSD Trustees will conduct a public hearing on the matter at its meeting this Tuesday, November 10, at 6:15pm.  The Board won’t take action at the hearing.  It has until December [...]

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Silverado Wants To Join SVUSD To Re-open School

September 24, 2009

   Parents of a closed MV school view the Saddleback School District as a nemesis, while parents of a closed Silverado school see the same District as a potential savior.     Mission Viejo is suing SVUSD for closing O’Neill Elementary School, but parents of Silverado students want to join SVUSD if they can secede from the Orange School District.  [...]

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IMAX Theatre Plan Dies

September 7, 2009

   A proposal by a Texas company to build an outdoor IMAX theatre at Mission Viejo High School has been scrapped.  Saddleback District Trustees voted 4-1 to pursue the idea in July, but the concept fell through when the developer, the Schlosser Company, wouldn’t guarantee revenue to the school.     Schlosser was interested in a [...]

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