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OCDE NEWSROOM
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OC grad and former DHH student to sign the national anthem before Super Bowl LIV |
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A graduate of University High School who was enrolled in OCDE’s Deaf and Hard of Hearing program has been tapped to deliver an American Sign Language rendition of the national anthem at this year’s Super Bowl. Christine Sun Kim, who attended Irvine’s Uni High from 1994 to 1998, is a Berlin-based artist who uses drawing, performance and video to visualize and explore sounds in society. On Sunday, she’ll use her skills to interpret “The Star-Spangled Banner” alongside singer Demi Lovato before the kickoff.
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https://newsroom.ocde.us/in-the-news-ocde-graduate-to-sign-the-national-anthem-at-the-super-bowl/ |
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Students, community members honor MLK with Back Bay clean-up |
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Students and staff from OCDE’s Inside the Outdoors environmental education program honored Martin Luther King Jr. Day by helping clean their community. Over the MLK holiday earlier this month, more than 160 volunteers from local schools and representatives from 13 regional businesses joined the Inside the Outdoors Foundation to restore a native habitat at the OC Parks’ Upper Newport Bay Nature Preserve.
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https://newsroom.ocde.us/students-community-members-honor-mlk-with-back-bay-clean-up/ |
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ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
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Huntington Beach school board votes to close a school, oust transfers, lay off 29 teachers |
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In what aptly could be described as whiplash, the Huntington Beach City School District board meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 28, ended quite differently from the way it started – with trustees voting 3-2 to close an elementary school this summer, oust most transfer students and lay off 29 teachers. Out-of-district transfer students entering fifth and eighth grades next school year will be allowed to finish up their elementary or middle-school careers in HBCSD.
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https://www.ocregister.com/2020/01/29/huntington-beach-school-board-votes-to-close-a-school-and-oust-transfers/ |
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LOS ANGELES TIMES
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DAILY PILOT |
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Hoax uses Daily Pilot’s name to falsely claim coronavirus has hit Newport-Mesa school district |
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A mockup appearing to be the Daily Pilot website announcing that the deadly coronavirus had reached into the Newport-Mesa Unified School District is a hoax.
Neither the Pilot nor City News Service — a regional wire service that the mockup credited with writing the article — published the story, which was dated Jan. 28 and headlined “Deadly virus has made way into NMUSD school district. Officals [sic] starting to fear outbreak.”
The article, peppered with misspellings, is shown in what looks like a screenshot of dailypilot.com.
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https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/news/story/2020-01-29/hoaxer-falsely-claims-coronavirus-in-newport-school-using-daily-pilots-name |
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SACRAMENTO BEE
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El Dorado Hills school offers Mandarin immersion program, ‘not just language exposure’ |
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Poems, vocabularies, pinyin diagrams and schedules pinned on the wall are all in Chinese. One can hear chants and chatters in Mandarin. Buckeye Union Mandarin Immersion Charter School is a public school in El Dorado Hills’ Buckeye Union School District founded last year by superintendent David Roth and principal Tracy Linyard after they explored and found interest among parents in the community. The goal for the school program is for students to write and communicate in Mandarin — in short, be literate in the language, Linyard said.
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https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/education/article239585328.html |
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WASHINGTON POST
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California school districts sue major e-cigarette maker, alleging it is harming students and schools |
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Fifteen California school districts are suing the nation’s leading manufacturer of electronic cigarette devices, alleging the company has been deceptive in marketing its products to children and is negligently damaging the health of students and disrupting their learning. Urban, suburban and rural districts from across the state — including the school systems in Los Angeles, San Diego, Compton, Anaheim, Chico and Poway — have filed similar suits this month against San Francisco-based Juul Labs. It is an attempt to hold the company accountable for what they say is an “epidemic” of vaping that is harming students and impeding schools from educating them.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2020/01/29/california-school-districts-sue-major-e-cigarette-maker-alleging-it-is-harming-students-schools/ |
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EDSOURCE
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CSU trustees delay decision to require extra high school class for admission |
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California State University trustees on Wednesday voted to move forward with an independent analysis of a controversial proposal to require four years of high school math or related courses in freshman admissions. The vote was applauded by education advocacy groups, who had called for CSU to conduct such a study before voting on whether to approve the requirement that could also be achieved through a quantitative reasoning course.
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https://edsource.org/2020/csu-trustees-on-wednesday-delayed-decision-to-require-extra-year-of-high-school-math/623130 |
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KPBS
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Chula Vista Teacher Salary Negotiations Stalled Over Class-Size Issue |
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Salary negotiations between Chula Vista teachers and the school district are a standstill over the central issue of class sizes. Teachers across the Chula Vista Elementary School District demonstrated on Wednesday after school in a walkout, protesting the district’s latest counteroffer to pay for salary and benefit increases by removing a cap on individual class size.
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https://www.kpbs.org/news/2020/jan/29/chula-vista-teacher-salary-negotiations-stalled-ov/ |
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