Saddleback Valley Educators Association (SVEA)

06/05/2026

You made it! Congratulations on another successful school year. Thank you for your hard work, dedication, and the countless ways you have supported our students and families.

Wishing you a wonderful, restful, and well-deserved summer break.

Please note that the office will be closed through June 22. Should an emergency arise, please reach out to your director.

Best wishes - SVEA Leadership

05/22/2026

Hooray May Revise, for the “super COLA” and the overwhelmingly positive education outlook — with additional SPED funding, paid pregnancy leave, and more dollars flowing into districts.

And yet, there’s no agreement regarding class size and caseloads to use the very funds intended to support students. Priorities matter. Our students, educators, and school communities deserve better.

05/20/2026

District admin has been attributed with saying, “Those things happen at the residential treatment center, not the day school.”

The district is paying $1,000,000 per year, for letting Devereux use the San Joaquin/Oxford Prep Academy Middle School site. They’re paying per student that attends, and for all peripheral services. Can SVUSD afford additional multi-million dollar abuse litigation settlement costs?

Student safety is the responsibility of the district, and Devereux is not safe for children.

05/18/2026

Is there ANYONE who would send their child to Devereux knowing this? Why didn’t SVUSD know this, and why aren’t they addressing it now that they know? Someone has to be accountable for the failure in due diligence.

05/16/2026

Let’s just put this under here and maybe the community will forget about what the United States Senate calls, “WAREHOUSES OF NEGLECT”. Search Devereux Lawsuits and then ask district why they pushed this approval through.

05/15/2026

Due diligence is not optional when children’s safety is at stake. Yet somehow, a known program fraught with child/sexual abuse litigation was welcomed into OUR schools through Devereux Day School without the level of vetting, transparency, and protection our children deserve.

Silence is not accountability.

05/13/2026

We keep asking why there’s no discussion, while the data and research is very clear.

Ward Wooden, a Los Angeles eighth grader, recently sat at a table in his backyard waiting for an animation on i-Ready to finish so he could answer geometry questions on his school-issued laptop. He had seen the introductory cartoon — which flashes a car, flowers, a blender, an alligator and more over a jazzy drumbeat — hundreds of times before, but he couldn’t skip it.

“I think it’s supposed to serve as a break or something interesting to keep you engaged, but all it does is waste more time,” he said.

A growing number of families and educators say they’re fed up with i-Ready’s personalized math and reading lessons.

nbcnews.to/3Pk76SK

05/08/2026

See you there!

04/29/2026

Zero RIFS remaining in SVUSD! 🎉🎉🎉