Dr. Don Austin's term as Superintendent begins
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Manoj Roychowdhury
LBUSD Assistant Superintendent of Business Services (CBO)
Also known as: Roychowdhury
LBUSD CBO starting October 13, 2025. Prior role: Associate Superintendent of Business Services at Hacienda La Puente Unified School District. Earlier senior roles at Santa Ana USD, El Rancho USD, West Covina USD, and LACOE. Appointed Interim Superintendent on May 14, 2026 for the transition period between Glass's departure on May 31, 2026 and Don Austin's July 1, 2026 start.
Appears in 13 timeline events
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Per the board's May 14, 2026 announcement, Dr. Don Austin is scheduled to begin as LBUSD Superintendent of Schools on July 1, 2026, succeeding Jason Glass and concluding Manoj Roychowdhury's interim…
Austin
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June 4 board agenda includes item on the applicability of Board Policy 2120
PersonnelErika Rule's June 2, 2026 op-ed at publicrecordlaguna.com, "LBUSD's Superintendent Shortcut," described the agenda for the June 4, 2026 LBUSD regular board meeting as including an item titled…
Austin, Morgan 
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Board approves interim superintendent contract for Manoj Roychowdhury, 5-0
Personnel Vote 5-0At its June 4, 2026 regular meeting (item 12.A), the Board approved, 5-0, a short-duration employment agreement for Assistant Superintendent of Business Services Manoj Roychowdhury to serve as…
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Rule publishes superintendent-transition critique and a 45-item Public Records Act request
GovernanceOn 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…
Glass, Austin, Morgan
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District opposes the emergency injunction in the graduation ADA case
GovernanceA Public Record for Laguna Schools reported that LBUSD filed its opposition to the plaintiffs' emergency injunction in Breit v. LBUSD (Case No. 8:26-cv-01418), asking the court to keep the June 11…
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Manoj Roychowdhury's interim superintendency begins
PersonnelFollowing 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…
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Board appoints Dr. Don Austin as next superintendent
PersonnelOn 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…
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Board approves AB 218 insurance-recovery counsel 3–2 at $1,730/hr
Financial Vote 3-2 (Hills and Kelly opposed)At the April 16, 2026 regular board meeting, the LBUSD Board voted 3-2 to retain counsel for insurance-recovery work on the district's AB 218 (retroactive childhood-sexual-abuse liability) matter at…
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Board approves $18.8M pool modernization hard-cost contract
Financial Vote 5-0At 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, Glass
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Board votes 5–0 to absorb $1.04M cumulative healthcare overpayment
Financial Vote 5-0At 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, Glass, Weiss 
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CalSTRS issues revised final audit; LBUSD ordered to correct special-pay reporting
GovernanceThe 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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Manoj Roychowdhury hired as Assistant Superintendent of Business Services
PersonnelManoj Roychowdhury started as Assistant Superintendent of Business Services (Chief Business Officer). Per Sensible Laguna, review of the benefits issue was assigned as a priority. Roychowdhury…
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Bishop & Olafson preliminary health-benefits findings presented to board
FinancialAt the September 25, 2025 regular board meeting, retired Chief Business Officers Michael Bishop and Chris Olafson presented preliminary findings from their independent review of LBUSD health-benefits…
