The State and Local Teachers' Union just bought the CUSD Board of Trustees at a cost of more than $170,000.

The Capistrano Unified Education Association (CUEA, also known as the teachers union) outspent the parent student-centered fiscal conservative candidates during the recent election (2016) by many multiples as noted in this graphic to get their anointed candidates elected to the CUSD Board of Trustees (the same candidates who supported "Measure M", the billion dollar bailout of failed leadership at CUSD).

If CUEA's paid mailers for teachers union funded candidates weren't so misleading the results would have been very different. We got a big win for taxpayers with the defeat of Measure M, but sadly a big loss for the students with the majority voters voting down the non-union, student-centered, taxpayer friendly candidates. Beware voters, the state and local teachers' union just bought the CUSD Board of Trustees at a cost of more than $170,000.

Ask yourself 1) why would this kind of money be spent to defeat dedicated parent candidates who support fiscal prudence and accountability, transparency for the public, improving the special needs program, and strengthening the academic rigor for all students in CUSD, while supporting school choice options for students? and, 2) who do you think these Trustees will be beholden to now that they got elected? Do you think it will be your children and the restoration of cut programs that parents are now forced to fundraise for their "free" education, facilities maintenance and repairs, or smaller class sizes ?...or, teacher salaries and pensions? That's not a trick question. Pay attention voters, many of you were fooled into thinking the teacher's picks were the right choices--they were not.