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LOS ANGELES TIMES
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Supreme Court sounds ready to support public aid to religious schools |
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The Supreme Court justices on Wednesday sounded ready to rule that states offering scholarships or subsidies to private schools must include those operated by churches. The court’s conservatives, including Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., said that excluding private schools because they are religious amounts to unconstitutional discrimination similar to racial bias.
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https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-01-22/supreme-court-states-public-subsidies-religious-schools |
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EDSOURCE
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Impact of teacher activism in California being felt in multiple but less visible ways, leaders say |
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A year ago teachers in Los Angeles were celebrating the signing of a new agreement with their district after an outpouring of support from teachers around California and the larger public. The strike, soon followed by another high-profile one in Oakland, seemed to presage the emergence of a powerful surge of teacher activism in California, adding momentum to the RedForEd protests featuring teachers wearing red T-shirts in several other states, including Republican-led Arizona, Oklahoma and West Virginia.
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https://edsource.org/2020/impact-of-teacher-activism-in-california-being-felt-in-multiple-but-less-visible-ways-education-leaders-say/622878 |
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KPCC
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Metro Is Considering A Program To Let LA County's K-12 Students Ride For Free |
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What would it take to allow Los Angeles County's K-12 students to ride our regional transit system for free? Los Angeles Metro is now working to figure that out.
After spirited debate and verbal finessing, the L.A. County Metropolitan Transportation Authority's board of directors unanimously approved a motion Thursday to study the feasibility of providing free transit for students in the Los Angeles Unified School District — and potentially all K-12 students countywide.
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https://laist.com/2020/01/23/metro_to_study_free_rides_for_la_county_students.php |
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KPBS
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Proposition 13 Would Issue $15 Billion In Bonds For School Renovations |
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The broadcast journalism studio at Hoover High School with its three cameras, control panels and an editing room offers students a hands-on learning experience thanks to a state-matched bond from 2014. San Diego Unified School District has received more than $87 million in state bonds in the past decade, and more could be on its way if Proposition 13 passes in March. The $15 billion statewide bond would fund facility improvements for schools and colleges across the state, prioritizing the neediest schools with the most serious safety concerns. But these benefits come at a cost for taxpayers.
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https://www.kpbs.org/news/2020/jan/22/proposition-13-would-issue-15-billion-bonds-school/ |
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LAGUNA BEACH INDEPENDENT
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Thurston Students Participate in Kindness Challenge |
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At Catch Surf’s headquarters in San Clemente on Jan. 20, Kalani Robb and Johnny Redmond came out to show their support of Thurston Middle School’s Kindness Challenge, telling sixth-grader Brody Azadian and his brother, Ashton Azadian (TMS 2019 alumnus), that kindness is the key to being surf champs. Robb and Redmond donated two Odysea surfboards and stickers to give to Thurston PTA as prizes for the Kindness Challenge.
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https://www.lagunabeachindy.com/class-notes-184/ |
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CALmatters
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Make up school time lost to climate disasters, fire country lawmaker says |
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As climate-fueled natural disasters and power shutoffs have eroded the school year in an unprecedented swath of California, a lawmaker in wildfire country is proposing making up the lost instructional time for the most severely impacted students by funding “disaster relief” summer schools. Formally dubbed the “Disaster Relief Instructional Recovery Program,” Senate Bill 884 by Democratic Sen. Bill Dodd of Napa would give schools the funding to make up instructional days lost to fires, natural disasters and attendant blackouts.
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https://calmatters.org/projects/summer-school-wildfire-blackout-climate-disasters-california-bill/ |
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