2 Conservative Orange Unified Trustees Officially Recalled

Two Orange County school board trustees, who sparked controversy for their conservative stances, have been officially removed from their seats on the Orange Unified School District board. According to the Orange County Registrar of Voters, 53 percent of voters during the March 5 election approved the removal of Madison Miner from the board, as did 54 percent for the removal of Rick Ledesma, the board’s former president. The Orange County registrar of voters certified the election results March 22. Mr. Ledesma and Ms. Miner were not immediately available for comment. Both board members’ elections in November 2022 flipped the board’s majority conservative. Mr. Ledesma has been elected to the Orange Unified School District board three times since 2014 and was reelected to a four-year term in 2022 along with Ms. Miner, who was serving her first four-year term....