The following information was released by the office of California State Senator Bob Huff (R-CASD29). California Senate District 29 includes the City of Cypress and northeastward. Senator Lou Correa (D) represents Los Alamitos, Rossmoor, Seal Beach and Los Alamitos Joint Forces Training Base. Senate Republican Leader Bob Huff (R-Diamond Bar) provides a lesson in politics [...]

The following information was released by State Senator Bob Huff (R-CA29). Senator Huff represents Cypress locally. Legislation that would have allowed schools to protect their best teachers was defeated by Democrats in the Senate Education Committee today. SB 453, authored by Senate Republican Leader Bob Huff (R-Diamond Bar), would have allowed districts to make staffing [...]

Governor Brown’s successful campaign to raise taxes under cover of saving public education has proved to be a conversion experience for those yearning to further raise taxes in California. Easy peasy! Instead of fixing spending priorities in the State’s General Fund budget, propose new taxes to fund public education. Within a week of the passage [...]

The following information was released by Assemblyman Jim Silva. I believe that education should be a top priority. Unfortunately, this is not the case in Sacramento. Once again in 2012, the Governor’s budget proposes cutting education so that more money can go into social service programs. This year, like years before, my Republican colleagues and [...]

Today, Assemblyman Jim Silva, R-Huntington Beach, reacted to Governor Jerry Brown’s annual State of the State address. “I think the Governor missed an opportunity to show Californians how he plans to encourage job creation,” said Silva. “Instead, what we heard was that he is 100 percent reliant on a massive tax increase to balance the [...]

The Cypress School District Board approved accepting the following gifts at it’s regular meeting on November 10: kindergarten playground equipment, including two stick horses and a slide, from Mr. and Mrs. Mark Kohorn to Morris School; kindergarten playground equipment, including scooters and basketball hoop, from Mr. and Mrs. Ryan Harrington to Morris School; $100 from [...]

At the October 24 regular meeting of the Los Alamitos Unified School District’s Board of Education, the Board voted 4-0 to accept the following donations: $100.00 from R. Bryan and Sandra Livingston for McAuliffe Middle School $100.00 from Tracy and John Lazar for McAuliffe Middle School $692.30 from Wells Fargo Foundation Educational Matching Gift Program [...]

The Board of Education for Los Alamitos Unified School District voted to accept the following donations at its regular meeting on Tuesday, September 27: $10.00 from Mark and Bonnie Rosen for Los Alamitos High School Wall of Valor project $1,000.00 from David and Mamie Warrick for Laurel High School $5,000.00 from Cotsen Family Foundation for [...]

Donations accepted by the Los Alamitos Unified School District Board of Education at it’s regular meeting on September 13 brought total monetary donations to $7,699.51. Overall, donations year-to-date total $120,571.28. Donations accepted at that meeting: $2,500.00 from Rachlin Architects, Incorporated, for the  Superintendent’s Leadership Advance $1,000.00 from DynTek for Superintendent’s Leadership Advance $1,580.69 from Friends of [...]

Erin Kominsky, principal of Weaver Elementary School in Rossmoor, claimed the prize as the best-performing elementary school in Orange County when she reported on her school at the regular meeting of the Los Alamitos Unified School District Board of Education on September 13. With an academic performance index (API) of 984, Principal Kominsky has independent [...]

When California Governor Jerry Brown vetoed the main budget bill, he did not veto any of the trailer bills, including the bill that defer payments to schools and the bill that disincorporates redevelopment agencies. Neither did he sign the trailer bills. The Governor issued a statement on YouTube and on his official website: I am [...]