Just because local students have largely been corralled in online classes for most of the year doesn’t mean teachers haven’t been demonstrating excellence. If anything, virtual instruction has, for many, required an amplification of skill.
To recognize instructors giving it their all throughout the pandemic, two local school districts Newport-Mesa Unified and Huntington Beach Union High recently announced their selections for “Teacher of the Year.”
Newport-Mesa Federation of Teachers picked two educators to receive the honor Dennis Ashendorf, who teaches math at Back Bay/Monte Vista High School and Emily Matthews, a sixth-grade teacher at Davis Magnet school.
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.