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LOS ANGELES TIMES
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Can charter and public schools share space without fights? LAUSD’s $5.5-million solution |
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Five schools, including three charters, share the Westchester High School campus, making for a potential headache when it comes to drop-off and pick-up, serving food and using the library and athletic fields. A plan unanimously approved Tuesday by the Los Angeles Board of Education won’t fix all the logistics at schools like Westchester, but it offers $5.5 million to make sharing campuses more manageable and collegial. The funding works out to about $100,000 for each of the 55 campuses that host one or more charters in the nation’s second-largest school system.
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https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-10-02/charter-schools-campus-sharing-grants |
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DAILY NEWS LOS ANGELES
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LAUSD student data, now ‘kept on over 80 different databases,’ to be stored in one place |
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Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Austin Beutner on Tuesday announced a new system intended to consolidate information about the district’s 600,000 students. “Teachers, principals, and counselors currently spend too much time searching for information about each student, taking away valuable time that can be better spent addressing the needs of students,” Beutner said. “Student data is kept on over 80 different databases and this new platform will provide all of the information in one place.
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https://www.dailynews.com/2019/10/02/lausd-student-data-now-kept-on-over-80-different-databases-to-be-stored-in-one-place/ |
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USA TODAY
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Parents should say millions of words to babies and preschool kids. 'Word pedometer' keeps you on track |
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Parents may want to have a few words with their children before sending them off to school. But ideally, they should have millions of words with them before the first day of class. The number of words a child is exposed to in the first four years of life can have big impact on their brain development, language skills and school readiness, researchers say. Just how many words? A minimum of 15,000 words a day for strong language development, researchers say. Children from low-income households often get a fraction of that, leaving them less prepared when they get to school.
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/education/2019/09/27/2446519001/ |
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EDSOURCE
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Identifying developmental delays is target of new California law |
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More young children will be screened for developmental delays under a new law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom. The new law, Assembly Bill 1004, requires doctors to screen children enrolled in Medi-Cal for developmental delays using surveys recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics and at three specific times — 9 months, 18 months and 30 months.
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https://edsource.org/2019/identifying-early-developmental-delays-target-of-new-california-law/618046 |
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Hundreds sign up for the new Calbright College |
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Calbright College’s opening day generated a lot of interest. About 655 people had started an application, of which 324 potential students are in the process of enrolling, and 11 had already enrolled with educational plans and started the self-paced programs, as of 5 p.m. Tuesday, said Taylor Huckaby, the college’s communications director. Because this is the community college system’s first foray into an entirely online, competency-based institution, Calbright officials had said they would cap the first class of students at 400 people.
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https://edsource.org/2019/hundreds-sign-up-for-the-new-calbright-college/618055 |
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