Dr. Jason E. Glass

Palo Alto Unified School District named Dr. Jason Glass — the superintendent the Laguna Beach Unified board majority separated from on May 12, 2026 — as its incoming superintendent, pending contract…

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On June 3, 2026, Erika Rule published "The Questions Behind LBUSD's Sudden Superintendent Transition" at publicrecordlaguna.com and submitted a 45-item California Public Records Act request to the…

Austin, Morgan, Roychowdhury

On June 2, 2026, William Breit and Kathleen Christoff filed a civil-rights complaint against the Laguna Beach Unified School District in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California…

Following Superintendent Jason Glass's May 31, 2026 departure, Chief Business Official Manoj Roychowdhury is scheduled to serve as Interim Superintendent through the June 2026 transition, bridging…

Roychowdhury, Austin

Per the May 12, 2026 joint statement from the Governing Board and Dr. Glass, May 31, 2026 is Dr. Glass's last day as Superintendent of Schools. The board subsequently named CBO Manoj Roychowdhury…

On May 14, 2026 — two days after the board's mutual-separation vote with Superintendent Jason Glass — the LBUSD Board of Education announced the appointment of Dr. Don Austin as Superintendent of…

Austin, Roychowdhury, Morgan

On May 13, 2026 — the day after the board's 3-2 mutual-separation vote with Superintendent Glass and the day before the May 14 special meeting at which Don Austin would be announced as the incoming…

Morgan

A special board meeting was held on May 12, 2026, with closed session scheduled for 2:30 PM and a budget study session that followed at 3:30 PM at the LBUSD District Office. The closed session was…

Hills, Perry, Malczewski, Kelly

The federal complaint in Breit v. LBUSD alleges that on May 7, 2026, during a Parent Teacher Association (PTA) Council meeting in the district's Room 91, Superintendent Jason Glass stated that if the…

According to the federal complaint later filed in Breit v. LBUSD (Case No. 8:26-cv-01418), a California Public Records Act request concerning an ADA accessibility evaluation of the Irvine Bowl was…

At the March 26, 2026 regular board meeting, Trustee James J. Kelly stated on the record that he had "suggested to Dr. Glass that he find a job someplace else," saying "you don't treat a…

Kelly

At the open session of the March 26, 2026 meeting (captured on the closed-session recording's opening segment), Trustee Howard Hills stated on record that he could not hear other board members from…

Hills, Morgan

At the February 26, 2026 board governance meeting, the board voted 3-2 to relocate the 2026 Laguna Beach High School graduation ceremony from Guyer Field to the Irvine Bowl. Hills, Morgan, and Perry…

Hills, Morgan, Perry, Malczewski

The February 26, 2026 special governance meeting closed-session agenda included item 3D — a superintendent performance review. It was the second performance-review item placed before the board in…

Morgan, Hills, Perry, Malczewski

At the February 12, 2026 Regular Board Meeting, Item 6.B "Planning Considerations for Promotion and Graduation" was heard as a discussion-only item by the board. Laguna Beach High School and Thurston…

On February 3, 2026, LBHS Principal Dr. Jason Allemann sent an email to students that included a survey inviting community input on the 2026 graduation location (Irvine Bowl vs. Guyer Field). Per the…

At the January 22, 2026 regular board meeting, the board voted 3-2 on a first reading of revised Board Bylaw 9322 governing agenda development authority. The amended language, proposed by Trustee…

Hills, Morgan, Kelly, Malczewski

In a May 11, 2026 publication, the parent advocacy organization FUEL stated that in January 2026, the board majority conducted an unplanned superintendent evaluation in closed session, characterizing…

At the January 8, 2026 regular board meeting, the board unanimously approved a hard-cost construction contract of $18,813,222 for the LBHS Pool Modernization Project, and a separate soft-cost…

Hills, Malczewski, Roychowdhury

At a December 16, 2025 special meeting, the board unanimously approved absorbing the cumulative healthcare-contribution overpayment from the district's General Fund rather than seek repayment from…

Morgan, Roychowdhury, Weiss

At the December 11, 2025 organizational meeting, the LBUSD Board of Education elected new leadership positions for the 2025-26 cycle on two 3-2 votes. Outgoing Board President Dee Perry declined to…

Morgan, Perry, Hills, Malczewski

The California State Teachers' Retirement System issued the revised final audit report for LBUSD (project code EA25-11; reporting unit 30076), covering special-pay reporting compliance for FY 2022-23…

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Roychowdhury, Conlon, Wittkop

At the October 9, 2025 board meeting, Superintendent Glass presented the LBUSD 100-Day Report, a product of his listening and learning efforts since starting July 1. The report outlined four themes:…

In a Substack post published May 9, 2026, former Laguna Beach City Councilmember George Weiss alleged that following a September 25, 2025 board meeting, Superintendent Glass drafted talking points…

Hills, Morgan, Perry

At the September 25, 2025 regular board meeting, Brandon Waldron of Eide Bailly's fraud and forensics department presented findings from a forensic audit of LBUSD signature authority and check…

Viloria, Hills

At the September 11, 2025 regular board meeting the board took action under Governance (item 14.E) on the "Second Reading and Approval of BB 9310 - Board Policies." Per BoardDocs, the policy manual…

Morgan, Hills, Perry, Kelly

At the September 11, 2025 regular board meeting the board conducted a "First Reading of Board Bylaw 9223 - Filling Vacancies" under Governance - Action (item 14.D), the bylaw that governs the…

Morgan, Hills, Perry, Kelly

At the July 24, 2025 LBUSD board meeting, newly installed Superintendent Glass raised a potential significant financial issue: the district had been paying employee health benefits in amounts…

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Dr. Jason Glass began his tenure as Superintendent of LBUSD.

The Laguna Beach Unified School District Board of Education unanimously approved Dr. Jason E. Glass as the next LBUSD superintendent at its May 22, 2025 meeting, concluding a four-month search…