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SCHOOL ISSUE: Orange County teacher unions are...

By David Haldane, Helene Elliott and Bill Billiter
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SCHOOL ISSUE: Orange County teacher unions are organizing to fight Gov. Pete Wilson’s Proposition 165. . . . The measure, which would reform the state budget process giving the governor broad new powers, is on the Nov. 3 ballot. . . . “Many people mistakenly think (it) just would cut welfare,” says Jim Harlan, a spokesman for the West Orange County United Teachers. . . . Not so, he says: The measure could also dramatically affect schools.

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Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

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