[This article was originally published in CaliforniaCourier.news on February 11, 2026.]
“If Ms. Page and Mr. Goodlander were in a romantic relationship at the time the CBA was negotiated and approved, there is significant likelihood that confidential closed session material was revealed to Mr. Goodlander, and Ms. Page should have recused herself from voting to approve the CBA,” said attorney Julie Hamill.
In 2022, Trustee Ana Page was a dissenting voice on the Orange Unified School District (OUSD)’s conservative majority. The district was in decent financial shape, Page was married with two children, and so was Greg Goodlander, President of the Orange Unified Education Association (OUEA). The two knew one another, but it’s unclear how intimately.
Fast forward to today. Page and Goodlander have divorced their former spouses and are now married to each other. OUSD’s leading conservatives were ousted via a union-led recall effort, and union allies now control all seven seats. Goodlander got a nearly 10% raise for teachers represented by OUEA—despite districtwide financial concerns—and trustees like Page are collecting monthly stipends nearly triple what they were even last year.
In many ways, the couple appears to have leveraged their positions to achieve a picture-perfect fairy tale ending—for themselves and their allies.
As for the school district itself, there’s no happy ending. Presently, OUSD is in dire financial straits.
This is the story of how two star-crossed lovers got their happily-ever-after.
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