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OCDE NEWSROOM
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Educators, experts gather to discuss language acquisition and multi-literacy |
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More than 100 teachers, coaches, consultants and administrators gathered this week to share their best practices for language acquisition and multi-literacy as part of the OCDE Project GLAD® NTC Annual Summit 2019.
The two-day conference, held Tuesday and Wednesday at OCDE headquarters, included presentations from experts on language and dual immersion along with more than a dozen breakout sessions.
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https://newsroom.ocde.us/educators-experts-gather-to-discuss-language-acquisition-and-multi-literacy/ |
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SAN DIEGO UNION TRIBUNE
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California’s ACT participation rate falls to lowest point in nearly a decade |
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The percentage of California students who take the ACT fell to its lowest point in nine years, while the average ACT score for California graduates remains virtually unchanged from four years ago, according to newly released results from the standardized test often used for college admissions. About 37 percent of California’s Class of 2019 who took the ACT were deemed “college-ready” in all four subjects tested, the same percentage as four years ago.
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https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/education/story/2019-10-31/act-scores |
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USA TODAY
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Chicago teachers strike continues into 11th day over one last demand: Make up strike days |
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Teachers are tired, parents are angry, and the mayor seems to be at wits' end as Chicago Public Schools on Thursday marked the 11th day of a strike that has idled academics, sports and college prep for about 350,000 students and their families in the nation's third-largest school district. Negotiations came to a dramatic head late Wednesday night at a "raucous," hours long meeting of the 700-member governing body of the teachers union. Delegates voted by a slim majority to accept a tentative agreement with City Hall, but to continue striking until the mayor agrees to make up lost instructional time — essentially, the mayor says, paying them for the days they were striking.
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/10/31/chicago-teachers-strike-union-tentative-agreement-makeup-days/4106271002/ |
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INLAND VALLEY DAILY BULLETIN
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EDSOURCE
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Shorter, clearer (but maybe not more transparent) school accountability plan coming |
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With marching orders from the Legislature to create a parent-friendly document, the California Department of Education is in the final throes of designing another version — its fourth in 6 years — of the form that districts must use to explain how they’ll use funding from the Local Control Funding Formula. The formula covers about 80 percent of money they get from the state.
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https://edsource.org/2019/shorter-clearer-but-maybe-not-more-transparent-school-accountability-plan-coming/619318 |
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California parents and educators help students cope with fire trauma, again |
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Rene Chavarria, a student at Santa Rosa Junior College, was supposed to take two tests this week. Instead, he’s taking shelter with his parents, sisters and grandmother at an evacuation center in Petaluma, about 30 miles south of where the Kincade fire has burned more than 76,000 acres in Sonoma County this week.
But classes weren’t top of mind as he sat with his family and pet birds on Tuesday, three days since their family was displaced from their home in Windsor due to the Kincade fire. “Right now, I’m just thinking of when we will get to go back home,” he said.
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https://edsource.org/2019/california-parents-and-educators-help-students-cope-with-fire-trauma-again/619337 |
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OTHER NEWS OUTLETS
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These are the unintended victims of the Chicago teachers' strike |
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Thousands of high school seniors are on the brink of missing a college application deadline. Countless more could lose a chance at scholarships. And those are just a few of the many unexpected consequences of the Chicago teachers' strike. "It's heartbreaking, really," said Ian Bacon, a senior at Jones College Prep high school.
His cross-country team was having a stellar season until it ended abruptly due to the strike. Now, he's worried about the Friday deadline that many universities have set for early decision.
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https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/31/us/chicago-teachers-strike-unintended-victims/index.html |
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