Santa Ana Unified to lay off hundreds of educators | LAist
Morale at the district is low because of the impending layoffs and fear of immigration raids.| LAist
Morale at the district is low because of the impending layoffs and fear of immigration raids.| LAist
The school district’s enrollment has been dropping, and is now losing federal relief funding.| LAist
The audit, which will cover contracts between January 2019 and August 2024, will be more limited in scope than what was first proposed.| LAist
Federal prosecutors say the longtime O.C. supervisor has agreed to plead guilty and resign in a conspiracy to steal millions of dollars meant to feed needy seniors, following a months-long LAist investigation and federal probe.| LAist
The missing audits are for $4 million in taxpayer funding earmarked to provide meals for seniors and people with disabilities. LAist previously reported Do directed funding to the group without disclosing his family ties.| LAist
County records obtained by LAist show O.C. Supervisor Andrew Do directed an additional $6.2 million in taxpayer dollars to his 22-year-old daughter’s group without publicly disclosing the family ties.| LAist
Supervisor Andrew Do directed millions to the group, which was supposed to go toward feeding needy residents. “If they can’t prove then they should pay the money back,” Supervisor Katrina Foley told LAist.| LAist
New county letters obtained by LAist find that a nonprofit led by an O.C. supervisor’s 22-year-old daughter has failed to prove what it did with more than $4 million intended to feed needy residents during the pandemic.| LAist
The nonprofit Viet America Society has been at the center of a long-running LAist investigation.| LAist
Over the past year, Orange County Supervisor Andrew Do was involved in directing $3.1 million to a mental health center where his daughter, Rhiannon Do, was president.| LAist
The move comes more than nine months after LAist first started reporting on issues with public funding he directed to a nonprofit where his daughter served in leadership roles.| LAist
Federal agents on Thursday searched the family home of O.C. Supervisor Andrew Do and his wife — O.C. Superior Court Assistant Presiding Judge Cheri Pham — as well as a home owned by their daughter Rhiannon Do.| LAist
The remarks made on a Vietnamese radio broadcast are Orange County Supervisor Andrew Do’s first known public response after O.C. officials filed a lawsuit alleging millions of taxpayer dollars were misspent.| LAist
A letter signed by the county's top attorney warns that he's prepared to take "any and all legal remedies" to ensure Viet America Society and Hand for Hand rebate millions of public funds and fully account for millions more.| LAist
Representatives are elected to two-year terms without term limits, so they're on your ballot a lot. Here's a look at the races in Los Angeles and Orange counties.| LAist
The outcome of the effort to recall two conservative Orange Unified trustees, Rick Ledesma and Madison Miner, could reshape the board overseeing a district serving 26,000 students.| LAist
Evaluating judicial candidates is notoriously hard, but there are a few pieces of information you can look at to help with your decision.| LAist
