Orinda’s Public Schools Face Challenges; Can Education Stay Excellent?
Orinda’s public schools continue to maintain a tradition of excellence, but serious challenges exist to keeping quality high. Inadequate financial support from the State of California is hampering progress, Orinda school officials said recently. According to Dr. Carolyn Seaton, superintendent of the Orinda Union School District (OUSD) and Mr. Jason Kaune, president of OUSD’s Board of Trustees, 87 percent of the district’s pupils met or exceeded 2016 state test scores in the area of English/language arts. In mathematics, the figure…