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OCDE NEWSROOM
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OC’s top educators celebrated at 2020 Orange County Teachers of the Year dinner |
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Sixty-four educators from Orange County school districts and community colleges were honored Friday night at a special dinner celebration coordinated by the Orange County Department of Education.
SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union served as the premier sponsor of the 2020 Orange County Teachers of the Year gala, which was held at the Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim. The evening featured student musical performances, pre-recorded statements from each of the honorees, and remarks by Orange County Superintendent Al Mijares.
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https://newsroom.ocde.us/ocs-top-educators-celebrated-at-2020-orange-county-teachers-of-the-year-dinner/ |
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ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
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Four candidates, lots of ideas, for Santa Ana School Board seat |
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Smaller classes, yes, but after that the candidates offer a grab bag of views on charter schools and divergent spending priorities. That’s your electoral cheat sheet for the race to fill an open seat on the Santa Ana Board of Education, a special election slated for Tuesday, Nov. 5. Four people are running for the seat, which became vacant last year when former school board member Cecilia Iglesias was elected to city council. The Santa Ana Unified School District trustees initially sought to appoint someone to the board, but they deadlocked on the final two candidates, prompting a public vote.
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https://www.ocregister.com/2019/11/01/four-candidates-lots-of-ideas-for-santa-ana-school-board-seat/ |
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Girl Scout Cadettes put outdoor skills to the test |
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Cadette-O-Rama is a scouting tradition that mixes outdoor skills with STEM activities. Mixed in with the traditional skills were activities emphasizing career exploration in the sciences, technology, engineering and math. Campsites were decorated around the theme of space – just two weeks ago NASA had its first all-women spacewalk.
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https://www.ocregister.com/2019/11/02/girl-scout-cadettes-put-outdoor-skills-to-the-test/ |
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SAN DIEGO UNION TRIBUNE
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Parents flock to charter schools for home school, personalized education |
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Dissatisfaction with brick-and-mortar public schools is helping drive thousands of families to dozens of California charter schools that offer personalized approaches to education, such as home schooling. Many such charter schools allow families a central role in crafting their children’s education outside of traditional classrooms — with oversight from teachers. Personalized learning charter schools that offer home school often allot families funds to buy curriculum, supplies, classes, extracurricular activities and other things for a customized education.
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https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/education/story/2019-11-03/parents-flock-to-charter-schools-for-home-school-personalized-education |
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USA TODAY
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Chicago's kids are watching friends and family die. The teachers strike may finally bring them help. |
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Students in Chicago's toughest neighborhoods deal with a kind of trauma that's unfathomable to most people who have grown up in safe communities: gun violence, housing instability, domestic strife. And yet they have less access to health and mental wellness services than many of their peers in wealthier families and neighborhoods.
That soon could change. An 11-day Chicago teachers strike that ended Oct. 31 has won teachers a contract that includes one of their foremost demands: increases to support staff and, in particular, a social worker and a nurse in every school. Mayor Lori Lightfoot and her team have said the labor pool for both of those workers isn't large enough to meet the union's request. The district will soon find out.
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/11/03/chicago-teachers-strike-wins-social-workers-tackle-gun-violence/2449942001/ |
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SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY SUN
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STEMapalooza in San Bernardino gives hundreds of students interactive crash course in science, math fields |
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The worlds of science, technology, engineering and mathematics collided Friday, Nov. 1, at San Bernardino Valley College for the seventh STEMapalooza Student Conference. About 800 students from 10 San Bernardino County middle schools and several high schools bounced between interactive and engaging STEM exhibits. Among the exhibitors were the Air Quality Management District, Cal Baptist University engineering, Cal State San Bernardino Cyber Security Center and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers in San Bernardino.
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https://www.sbsun.com/2019/11/01/stemapalooza-in-san-bernardino-gives-hundreds-of-students-interactive-crash-course-in-science-math-fields/ |
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EDSOURCE
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Should non-citizens vote in Los Angeles school board elections? |
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The state’s largest school district is moving forward with plans to explore giving voting rights to non-citizen parents in the district.
The Los Angeles Unified School District’s board on Tuesday is expected to pass a resolution directing Superintendent Austin Beutner to organize a work group that will study the possibility of giving voting rights to all parents and legal guardians of students in the district, regardless of citizenship.
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https://edsource.org/2019/should-non-citizens-vote-in-los-angeles-school-board-elections/619387 |
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