OUSD teachers present an affair to remember

OUSD teachers present an affair to remember

In the summer of 2023, frustrated in their demand for a pay hike, Orange, California, teacher union activists settled on a diabolically admirable political strategy: they would target for removal two of the board’s fiscal conservatives and replace them with union-friendly candidates. But the union’s attack campaign during the March 2024 recall wouldn’t feature any dull talk of the district’s financial challenges or anything so mundane as a pay i…

Anatomy of an affair

There were no smiles traded, only a faint awareness. And in those moments when their fingers touched beneath the smooth surface of a wet plate, it wasn’t tenderness or affection that passed between them, but something elusive. Perhaps the subtle…