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OCDE NEWSROOM
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OC esports federation supported by OCDE is honored as a public-private partnership |
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An esports league that started in Orange County before expanding into a national federation has been honored as a model public-private partnership by the Orange County Business Council. Funded by the Samueli Foundation, the North America Scholastic Esports Federation powered up in 2017 with support from OCDE, UC Irvine and other partners seeking to promote communication, collaboration and problem-solving skills through gaming.
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https://newsroom.ocde.us/esports-federation-honored-as-a-public-private-partnership/ |
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USA TODAY
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'Undoing a mistake': Ken Burns film looks inside the push to bring college education back to prison |
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Stacks of books are organized meticulously by genre amid the chaos of a maximum security prison. A makeshift desk made from cardboard is placed over a sink in a cramped cell. A chalkboard is filled with Chinese symbols in a room filled with eager students in green jumpsuits. Late night studying. This isn’t the picture most Americans have of prison. More often than not, violence, isolation and anger are what come to mind. But these scenes from a PBS documentary airing this month show viewers a different kind of prison life – the rigorous pursuit of higher education.
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/education/2019/11/21/ken-burns-college-behind-bars-explores-inmates-access-pell-grants/4202246002/ |
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EDSOURCE
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California is poised to confront high proportions of underqualified teachers in low-income schools |
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The most inexperienced and least qualified teachers continue to teach in schools with the highest-needs students in California — even though those students require the most expert teachers, and research has shown that the effectiveness of classroom teachers is the biggest in-school factor contributing to students’ achievement.
Sometime next spring, the state will have collected and will make publicly available comprehensive data detailing the numbers and percentages in every school and district of “ineffective,” “inexperienced” and “out-of-field” teachers — categories of underqualified teachers that federal law requires districts to count.
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https://edsource.org/2019/california-is-poised-to-confront-high-proportions-of-underqualified-teachers-in-low-income-schools/620402 |
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East Bay board agrees to ask taxpayers to vote in March to approve $575 million bond measure |
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San Francisco Bay Area district has decided to go to the voters in March asking them to approve a $575 million construction bond measure so it can build and upgrade school facilities. If voters approve the measure, West Contra Costa Unified — which includes Richmond and surrounding communities — could only use the money for construction, renovation, technology or other facilities upgrades.
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https://edsource.org/2019/amid-budget-worries-east-bay-board-approves-575-million-bond-measure/620373 |
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