CUSD Update

During the July 13 Capo USD board meeting, the trustees officially decided the recall election for school board members Mike Winsten and Ken Lopez-Maddox will be held on Nov. 2, the date of the General Election. The group organizing the recall has announced replacement candidates John Alpay of San Clemente (Winsten’s area) and Gary Pritchard of Aliso Viejo (Lopez-Maddox’s area).

Read a Mission Viejo resident’s reaction to candidate Gary Pritchard on Brad Morton’s Mission Viejo Dispatch, http://missionviejodispatch.com/?p=17396

Also on the Nov. 2 ballot is an initiative for Capo USD voters to determine if their school board representatives will be elected at large (all voters deciding on all seven board members) or by area (voting for only one board member).

The July 13 board meeting was the first meeting for Superintendent Joe Farley. Read Jonathan Volzke’s report about the meeting and reader comments at http://capistranoinsider.typepad.com/beyond_the_blackboard/2010/07/its-official-recall-election-is-november-2.html

Writers for this blog who follow CUSD say the teachers union has a goal of getting five union-friendly trustees elected to the school board in November. Along with the recall targets (Winsten and Lopez-Maddox), three other seats are up for election. The union would need only four representatives to gain control of the school board and the district’s finances.