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OCDE NEWSROOM
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OCDE’s ACCESS program hosts outdoor back to school night |
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Staff members from OCDE’s ACCESS program, in partnership with Mariners Church, hosted a one-of-a-kind back to school night this week. With social distancing and other safety measures in place, local families from three community area schools gathered outside at tables set up across the church’s parking lot as staff members presented information related to various programs and services offered through ACCESS. Families in attendance also received important information regarding unique curriculum such as the Art for Healing program as well as the department’s plans for safely reopening school campuses. Pre-packaged meals were provided for families to take home.
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https://newsroom.ocde.us/ocdes-access-program-hosts-outdoor-back-to-school-night/ |
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ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
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Orange County schools take different paths on testing, as vaccine chatter begins |
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About a month after many started instruction, Orange County public schools are taking a variety of approaches on testing for COVID-19 as they reopen classrooms and begin to ponder the potential arrival of a vaccine. Some districts are requiring regular COVID-19 testing for all staff, including teachers, while other districts recommend testing if needed.
Testing hasn’t been required for students at any county school. Instead, schools are following state guidelines that recommend students be tested only under certain circumstances.
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https://www.ocregister.com/2020/10/16/orange-county-schools-take-different-paths-on-testing-as-vaccine-chatter-begins/ |
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LOS ANGELES TIMES
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California teacher unions fight calls to reopen schools |
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As parents express widespread dissatisfaction with distance learning, two influential California teachers unions are pushing against growing momentum to reopen schools in many communities, saying that campuses are not yet safe enough amid the pandemic. Leaders with the California Teachers Assn., with 300,000 members, and United Teachers Los Angeles, representing 30,000 in the state’s largest school district, said that districts do not have the resources to provide the level of protection they say is needed to bring teachers and children together in classrooms.
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https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-10-16/state-teacher-unions-push-back-against-calls-to-reopen-k-12-campuses-parents-divided |
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DAILY PILOT |
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Laguna Beach Unified School District rolls out COVID-19 dashboard |
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The Laguna Beach Unified School District rolled out a COVID-19 dashboard on Wednesday, a measure intended to provide transparency as it relates to the number of confirmed cases among staff and students at its schools. El Morro Elementary and Top of the World Elementary, the district’s two elementary schools, welcomed students back on campus as the district commenced with its hybrid learning model on Oct. 5.
The district also has two secondary schools in Thurston Middle School and Laguna Beach High School, both of which continue to conduct distance learning.
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https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/news/story/2020-10-15/laguna-beach-unified-school-district-rolls-out-covid-19-dashboard |
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SACRAMENTO BEE
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‘We still need teachers’: UC Davis may pause its teachers program. Will it harm schools? |
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University of California, Davis, administrators are considering suspending the teacher education master’s degree and credential program beginning in fall 2021, allowing the university to redesign it and prepare it for a stronger social justice lens. But the teacher education faculty, and the surrounding school districts that benefit from the partnership, said they support the changes to the program. But putting it on pause is not the answer.
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https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/education/article246456505.html |
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SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
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S.F. might change 44 school names, renouncing Lincoln and even Feinstein |
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A third of San Francisco public schools could see their names changed as officials push to replace “inappropriate” ones honoring presidents, writers, generals and even Sen. Dianne Feinstein. Parents and principals at 44 sites were forced to scramble this week to brainstorm new school names while also juggling the demands of distance learning in a pandemic. Those names on the school buildings, including Lincoln, Washington and Jefferson, that have connections to slavery, genocide or oppression should be changed, according to a committee recommendation heading to the school board.
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https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/S-F-might-change-44-school-names-renouncing-15651679.php |
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PRESS-ENTERPRISE
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Temecula’s Chaparral High has nation’s best school newspaper |
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The journalists for The Platinum Press, the student newspaper at Chaparral High School in Temecula, got something better than money recently. Theirs was named by the American Scholastic Press Association as the top high school newspaper in the country for schools with more than 2,000 students. “It was, like, shocking,” said Katie Flack, who was editor in chief with Annaliese Arnsten last year, for which the award was won. “I’m not even going to lie. I started crying.”
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https://www.pe.com/2020/10/15/carl-love-temeculas-chaparral-high-has-nations-best-school-newspaper/ |
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EDSOURCE
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Schools shouldn’t reopen without adequate safeguards, California voters say |
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Most California voters want schools to require safeguards like face masks, proper ventilation and social distancing in classrooms, and Covid-19 testing and tracing before schools return for in-person instruction, according to poll released Thursday by the California Teachers Association. Sixty percent of those polled said these safeguards and access to a nurse, daily health screenings, smaller class sizes and continued distance learning for students and teachers with medical conditions are all essential to reopening schools.
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https://edsource.org/2020/schools-shouldnt-reopen-without-adequate-safeguards-california-voters-say/641593 |
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OTHER NEWS OUTLETS
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Westminster Breaks Ground On Park Commemorating Mendez Case That Ended School Segregation In California |
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A new park in Westminster will commemorate Mendez vs. Westminster School District, a landmark court case that helped paved the way for desegregation in California’s public schools. The city of Westminster and the Orange County Department of Education held a virtual groundbreaking on the Mendez Tribute Monument Park, which will be at Westminster Boulevard and Olive Street. “The case of Mendez vs. Westminster impacted us all. Yet most residents have never heard about it,” Westminster City Councilman Sergio Contreras said in the virtual groundbreaking video. “This historic court decision paved the way for later rulings that would end school segregation once and for all in our nation. By building these statues and park, we hope to further solidify Westminster’s civil rights history in the minds of residents and visitors alike.” |
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https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2020/10/14/westminster-breaks-ground-park-commemorating-mendez-case-ended-school-segregation-california/ |
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Bayside MLK students told to quarantine after classmate contracts coronavirus |
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Administrators at Bayside Martin Luther King Jr. Academy in Marin City have suspended in-person classes for middle school students and told some to quarantine after one student tested positive for COVID-19. Students in sixth, seventh and eighth grades reverted to online classes on Thursday. The soonest they will return to classrooms is Wednesday, said Itoco Garcia, superintendent for the Sausalito Marin City School District, in an announcement to families.
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https://www.marinij.com/2020/10/15/bayside-mlk-students-told-to-quarantine-after-classmate-contracts-coronavirus/ |
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