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As White Students Leave Traditional Public Schools in Orange County, Minorities Are Paying for Charter Schools That Don’t Serve Them

To Orange County Commissioner Mark Marcoplos, what’s happened with the county’s two fast-growing charter schools over the last few years isn’t an accident. Rather, the fact that these schools are about 90 percent whitecompared to traditional Orange County public schools, which are about 50 percent whiteis indicative not only of longstanding Republican efforts to undermine […]

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Orange County’s Emergency Communications System Is Outdated, But Fixing It Will Cost a Ton of Money

Orange County needs a major update to its emergency communications systems, but how, when, where, and how much it will cost depend on crucial decisions by county officials in the near future. In the balance could hang the high-speed internet for underserved and unserved populations as well as the safety of emergency medical services workers […]

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