OCDE NEWSROOM
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CalSTRS urges Apple to help curb device addiction in kids |
Two major Apple investors have urged the iPhone maker to take action to curb growing smartphone addiction among children, highlighting growing concern about the effects of gadgets and social media on youngsters. New York-based Jana Partners and the California State Teachers’ Retirement System, or CalSTRS, said Monday in open letter to Apple that the company must offer more choices and tools to help children fight addiction to its devices. |
https://www.ocregister.com/2018/01/08/calstrs-urges-iphone-maker-to-help-curb-device-addiction-in-kids/ |
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EDSOURCE
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UCLA initiative promotes school collaboration to improve math performance |
In bringing together principals of charter schools and regular public schools, a new university-based initiative is attempting to salve wounds inflicted by the rawest conflict in the nation’s second-largest district. There are more charter schools in Los Angeles Unified than anywhere else in the nation, and the battles over them continue to roil the district. |
https://edsource.org/2018/ucla-initiative-promotes-school-collaboration-to-improve-math-performance/592393 |
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SI&A CABINET REPORT
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GOP tax measure could spur ‘split roll’ backlash in CA |
Leaders of the state’s progressive movement have waited decades for a serious opportunity to get voter approval for splitting the property tax rules for homeowners from those of big commercial holdings. To do so will require a big change to state laws that were ushered in by Proposition 13, the landmark 1978 tax property. But with the passage of the nation’s new tax law—that both benefits corporate interests and inflicts penalties on homeowners in high-cost, high-tax states like California—supporters say voters might be ready by the November election. If so, schools are likely to get a big boost from the estimated $9 billion in additional state revenue the rule change would bring. |
https://www.cabinetreport.com/politics-education/gop-tax-measure-could-spur-split-roll-backlash-in-ca |
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KPCC
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With superintendent's departure, more turnover at the top of LAUSD |
In 2006, Roy Romer retired after more than six years as superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District — a tenure widely credited with jump-starting a decade-long, city-wide school construction boom. In the decade that's followed, the L.A. Unified superintendency has changed hands five times — most recently, on Friday, when Michelle King announced she would not return from medical leave and retire in June, leaving acting superintendent Vivian Ekchian at the helm. King has been receiving cancer treatment. |
https://www.scpr.org/news/2018/01/09/79669/with-superintendent-s-departure-more-turnover-at-t/ |
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