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OCDE NEWSROOM
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A few tips to ensure kids (and adults) have a safe Halloween night |
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Here at the OCDE Boos-room, we like our Halloweens spooky, but we’re also pretty big on safety. So we decided to search the interwebs for a few helpful tips and strategies designed to ensure your little ghouls, ghosts and superheros have a safe, fun and bountiful trick-or-treating session.
Let’s begin with what to know before you go.
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https://newsroom.ocde.us/a-few-tips-to-ensure-kids-and-adults-have-a-safe-halloween-night/ |
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ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
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Locks cut during St. Mary’s student assembly will benefit young cancer patients |
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A sea of pink shirts filled the rose-lit auditorium as fourth-grader Olivia Bryant hopped up on a metal chair to have her golden locks snipped at the tie. Olivia was one of about 50 St. Mary’s School students, parents and faculty members who donated 8 inches of hair or more in front of about 1,000 peers and parents at the school’s 10th annual Cancer Awareness assembly. “I feel good about it,” Olivia said. “I feel like I did something good for the community and the people in it who are fighting cancer.”
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https://www.ocregister.com/2019/10/29/locks-cut-during-st-marys-student-assembly-will-benefit-young-cancer-patients/ |
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CAPITOL WEEKLY
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Study raises concern about e-cigarette waste |
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From July 2018 through April 2019, Jeremiah Mock and a colleague, Yogi Hendlin, collected tobacco, cannabis and e-cigarette waste from 12 public high school parking lots across the San Francisco Bay Area. They discovered that e-cigarette waste made up 19 percent of that recovered litter. Researchers like Mock and Hendlin caution there also is a looming environmental threat. Little research has been done on the impact of e-cigarette waste, which consists of microplastics, metals, nicotine and combustible lithium ion batteries.
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https://capitolweekly.net/study-raises-concern-about-e-cigarette-waste/ |
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EDSOURCE
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Reading scores drop in California, most states in much-watched national test |
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In 2017, California education leaders heralded the significant increase in the state’s 8th-grade reading scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress as a sign that the state’s investment in education and its adoption of the Common Core standards had taken hold. Curb that enthusiasm. In 2019, California’s 8th-graders gave back the gain, as did much of the nation, underscoring that progress on state and national standardized tests is best measured over a decade, not in single years.
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https://edsource.org/2019/reading-scores-drop-in-california-most-states-in-much-watched-national-test/619237 |
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Mandating later school start times in California impinges on local control |
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Under California’s system of local control of its schools, when to start the school day seems like a basic decision that should be left to local school boards and superintendents. That is why a state law (SB 328) signed this month by Gov. Gavin Newsom to give teenagers more time to sleep is raising concerns among many educators that the principle of local control of schools is not sacrosanct, at least not to the degree it was when Jerry Brown was governor.
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https://edsource.org/2019/mandating-later-school-start-times-in-california-impinges-on-local-control/618944 |
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University of California must drop admissions tests, civil rights groups urge |
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Pressures are mounting on the University of California to drop the use of college admissions tests, with a new round of criticism from several civil rights organizations that the test is biased against low income, black and Latino students. A coalition of organizations announced Tuesday that it would file suit against the university if UC does not drop the tests as a freshman application requirement.
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https://edsource.org/2019/university-of-california-must-drop-admissions-tests-civil-rights-groups-urge/619162 |
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MY DESERT
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Family of boy killed during bullying at MoVal school announce lawsuit |
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The family of a 13-year-old boy who was fatally injured during a confrontation with two classmates on a Moreno Valley middle school campus announced today they’re suing the Moreno Valley Unified School District for wrongful death and civil rights violations, alleging their pleas to address bullying of the teen were largely ignored.
“This family did all the right things. They went in and complained and did everything right. But the school failed them,” attorney David Ring told reporters during a news briefing at the Mission Inn Hotel & Spa in Riverside.
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https://www.desertsun.com/story/news/education/2019/10/29/moreno-valley-unified-school-district-being-sued-boys-death/2502239001/ |
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