OC Republican Leaders Split on Who Should Win Supervisor Race, With Voting to Start Soon
Feb. 1, 2021
From left: Republican county supervisors Don Wagner and Andrew Do are backing Kevin Muldoon for the supervisor s seat, while OC Republican Party Chairman Fred Whitaker and Supervisor Lisa Bartlett are backing John Moorlach. Do also has endorsed Fountain Valley Mayor Michael Vo. Credit: JULIE LEOPO, Voice of OC
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With voters set to start casting ballots in less than two weeks, a major split has emerged among Orange County’s top Republican leaders over who should win a hotly contested, coastal county supervisors’ seat.
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After a three-week hiatus from in-person learning undertaken to address an anticipated post-holiday surge in coronavirus infections and districtwide staffing challenges Newport-Mesa Unified School District is moving ahead with its plan to reopen middle and high school campuses on Monday.
Board members decided last month that secondary schools would return to distance learning at the start of the spring semester on Jan. 4 for a three-week period. The plan was to bring students back to campuses on Monday to resume learning under a partially in-person hybrid model.
With that date looming, and with Orange County coronavirus cases subsiding from recent record-breaking highs, Newport-Mesa Supt. Russell Lee-Sung on Friday announced middle and high school students were to report back to classes Monday.
After a three-week hiatus from in-person learning, Newport-Mesa Unified School District is moving ahead with its plan to reopen middle and high school campuses starting Monday.
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An agreement between the Newport-Mesa Unified School District and its teachers union which would have eliminated one half-day of in-person learning for elementary school students to allow for teacher prep time was rejected by board members, who called the move “unacceptable.”
Trustees were asked in a meeting Tuesday to approve a memo of understanding reached between district negotiators and representatives from the Newport Mesa Federation of Teachers regarding working conditions under a hybrid learning model.
That agreement contained language regarding parent teacher conferences, special day classroom teacher compensation and preparation time.
But controversy arose over a portion of the MOU pertaining to the hybrid schedule for elementary students, who currently attend in-person classes for half days in a morning or afternoon cohort four days a week, excluding Wednesdays, learning online the rest of the day.