LAGUNA BEACH : Trustee Turner Elected President of School Board
Kathryn A. Turner, a retired community college administrator, was elected president of the school board this week.
Turner, 61, said she and the other members of the board have three immediate goals for the next year. They want to toughen graduation standards, restore salaries from last year’s 5% budget-balancing cut and repair and renovate the district’s aging school buildings.
A member of the board for three years, Turner was sworn in just one day before Orange County declared bankruptcy. The Laguna Beach Unified School District too has had financial troubles caused, in part, by waning property tax revenue and losses from the county bankruptcy.
“It’s been one crisis after another,” Turner said.
Also at Tuesday’s meeting, Steven Rabago was elected clerk of the school board.
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