Vista Meridian Global Academy leaders secured an office building at 1620 Sunflower Ave., but the City Council on Tuesday opted to withhold a needed permit. Where they'll go now is unknown.
Westcliff University is moving along with construction for the Westcliff Early Learning Academy (WELA), located about a block from Irvine’s city hall, and about a five-minute drive away from the main university campus of Westcliff, a private, for-profit university that’s been in business for 30 years.
Leaders of Vista Meridian Global Academy obtained countywide approval and set about opening a Costa Mesa campus, after telling Newport-Mesa Unified they had no plans to operate inside district boundaries.
A superintendent for a California school district in the US has, during a school board meeting on November 14, denied that his district considers the slogan “Free Palestine” to be hate speech.