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OCDE NEWSROOM
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OCDE nets $500,000 state grant for tobacco prevention efforts |
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OCDE recently received more than $500,000 in state funding to help keep vaping devices, cigarettes and other tobacco products out of the hands of students.
As part of the California Department of Justice’s Tobacco Grant Program, grants were presented this month to 76 local agencies to support the enforcement of state and local laws prohibiting the sales of tobacco products to minors. The Orange County Department of Education was awarded $504,242 for the 2019-20 fiscal year.
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https://newsroom.ocde.us/ocde-nets-500000-state-grant-for-tobacco-prevention-efforts/ |
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ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
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Kids discover the magic of dance at Orange County elementary schools |
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At just 9 years old, Ashley Rodriguez already has learned a technique for coping with life’s frustrations and stresses. When her soccer team is losing, for instance, “I like to go somewhere and dance it out,” she said. Rodriguez, a fourth-grader at Jim Thorpe Fundamental Elementary School in Santa Ana, is among the students who got to dance it out last week during Dance Free Weeks presented by The Wooden Floor, a Santa Ana nonprofit that offers free dance lessons, community services and a pathway to higher education for families in need.
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https://www.ocregister.com/2019/10/14/kids-discover-the-magic-of-dance-at-orange-county-elementary-schools/ |
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Here’s how boy band BTS inspired a school in South L.A. to teach Korean culture |
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Developed by the nonprofit International Korean Educators Network, the Korean American Culture and Society course could be offered for credit in up to eight middle schools next year, including those in Los Angeles, Glendale, Cedarlane Academy in Hacienda Heights and Oxford Academy in Cypress. “We want to make sure we have a diverse, inclusive curriculum,” said Renae Bryant, the director of English learner and multilingual services at Anaheim Union High School District which runs Oxford Academy. But also, “we don’t have to convince them to learn Korean culture because it’s part of their life already. They love BTS. They love Korean music and Korean drama.”
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https://www.ocregister.com/2019/10/14/heres-how-boy-band-bts-inspired-a-school-in-south-l-a-to-teach-korean-culture/ |
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LOS ANGELES TIMES
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Will later school start times mean more sleep or more hassles for California? |
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The state has become the first in the in the nation to mandate that public middle schools can start no earlier than 8 a.m. and high schools no earlier than 8:30 a.m. The law, signed Sunday night by Gov. Gavin Newsom, has touched off mixed reaction — cheers from the sleep-deprived to official worries about impending logistical hassles.
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https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-10-14/california-later-school-start-times-student-react |
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NEW YORK TIMES
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California Tells Schools to Start Later, Giving Teenagers More Sleep |
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A new law pushed back start times at most public middle and high schools, citing research that says attendance and performance will improve if teenagers get more sleep. California students can look forward to extra sleep in the morning once a new law takes effect. The law, signed on Sunday by Gov. Gavin Newsom, pushes back the start times at most public middle and high schools, making California the first state to order such a shift. Classes for high schools, including those operated as charter schools, will start no earlier than 8:30 a.m. under the law, and classes for middle schools will start no earlier than 8.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/14/us/school-sleep-start.html |
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INLAND VALLEY DAILY BULLETIN
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SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY SUN
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Redlands Unified calls unions’ move to speed negotiations a ‘work slowdown’ |
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Union leaders have asked Redlands schools employees, who often work through lunches and stay late, to only do what is contractually required after the latest rounds of labor negotiations with a mediator failed to produce results in early October.
“We’re just complying with the contract right now and not providing any extra support,” said Gladys Kershall, president of Redlands Educational Support Professionals Association, which represents classified employees from bus drivers to office staff. “That’s basically what we are doing: not working for free.”
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https://www.sbsun.com/2019/10/14/redlands-unified-calls-unions-move-to-speed-negotiations-a-work-slowdown/ |
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