Voters in three of the Orange County Board of Education’s five districts will be asked on the March ballot to elect a representative to the board.
The seats are for:
- Area 1, which includes Fountain Valley, Santa Ana and portions of Garden Grove and Tustin
- Area 3, which includes Brea, Yorba Linda, Irvine, Orange, Villa Park, and parts of Anaheim, Lake Forest and Tustin
- Area 4, which includes Fullerton, Buena Park, La Habra, Placentia and parts of Anaheim
Orange County Board of Education District Map
Orange County Registrar of Voters
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What does the Orange County Board of Education do?
The O.C. Board of Education is made up of five trustees elected to represent different parts of the county. The terms are for four years.
The board serves several important functions:
- It can approve charter schools, and it also oversees appeals when a local district denies a charter school application.
- It hears appeals over expulsions and requests for interdistrict transfers.Â
- It approves Local Control and Accountability Plans for individual school districts in the county. These plans are roadmaps for how a district will set goals and achieve them.Â
- It approves the budget for the Orange County Department of Education, but does not hire the superintendent, who is separately elected. Â
What’s at stake?
The board of education, like some school districts in Orange County, has become a battleground for larger political debates over whether and how matters of race, gender and sexuality should be taught in schools.
The board sued California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration several times over the state mask mandate and lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic….
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