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OCDE NEWSROOM
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Westminster School District drops superintendent after 4 months on the job |
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After she was on the job as superintendent for four months, Cyndi Paik has been fired by the Westminster School District. The district voted to replace her with two interim leaders. On Nov. 1, the five-member board voted 3-2 to terminate Paik without cause and, in a separate motion, unanimously appointed Sheri Loewenstein and Gary Rutherford as interim superintendents. Loewenstein is to serve from November to January, while Rutherford is to take over in February and stay in the position until a new superintendent is hired. |
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http://www.ocregister.com/2017/11/08/westminster-school-district-drops-superintendent-after-4-months-on-the-job/ |
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Art installation illustrates threat of rising sea level along Southern California coast |
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There are different ways to draw attention to environmental issues. At Main Beach, over the weekend, the tool was art. The piece “Rising Tides, A Sea Level Rise Educational Installation,” consisted of three 4-by-6-foot murals on wood panels. Each panel provided information on the threat of rising seas and gave perspective on the effect of greenhouse gas emissions. The installation was created by students from Laguna Beach High School in collaboration with the city’s Environmental and Sustainability Committee. |
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http://www.ocregister.com/2017/11/08/art-installation-illustrates-threat-of-rising-sea-level-along-southern-california-coast/ |
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LOS ANGELES TIMES
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DAILY PILOT |
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‘If you see something, say something.’ Newport-Mesa school district seminar teaches suicide warning signs |
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As part of the Newport-Mesa Unified School District’s new program to educate staff about student suicide prevention, parents were invited to a seminar Tuesday night at Corona del Mar High School to learn about what experts say is a rising crisis nationwide. “We feel it won’t happen in our backyard, but it’s happening everywhere,” said Angela Castellanos, district coordinator of mental health and outreach services. “We’ve had incidents where our students have died by suicide, so we’re not isolated from the phenomenon.” |
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http://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/news/tn-dpt-me-suicide-prevention-20171108-story.html |
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DAILY PILOT |
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Corona del Mar High educators and students support starting the school year earlier |
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Corona del Mar High School educators and students expressed support Monday for starting the school year up to three weeks before Labor Day, but some parents said the district should finish installing air conditioning in all classrooms before discussing a change in the academic calendar. The Newport-Mesa Unified School District held a public meeting at CdM’s lecture hall, where district officials led a presentation on the potential benefits of starting school earlier. It was one in a recent series of such meetings at various locations. |
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http://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/news/tn-dpt-me-cdm-meeting-20171107-story.html |
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USA TODAY
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Cyberbullying's chilling trend: Teens anonymously target themselves online, study finds |
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Cyberbullying is not a new phenomenon. But an alarming number of teenagers are anonymously posting mean things online — about themselves. About 6% of kids from the ages of 12 through 17 have bullied themselves digitally, according to research conducted by Sameer Hinduja, a professor of criminology at Florida Atlantic University and co-director of the Cyberbullying Research Center. |
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/11/08/831070001/ |
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EDSOURCE
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California moves to curtail expelling children from preschool — yes, preschool |
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After successfully reducing expulsions in its K-12 schools, California is now moving to restrict the practice with even younger children — at the preschool level. To that end, Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation last month that bars state-subsidized preschool programs from expelling kids unless an exhaustive process aimed at supporting the child and family is followed first. |
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https://edsource.org/2017/california-moves-to-curtail-expelling-children-from-preschool-yes-preschool/590035 |
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State board alters criteria for rating school performance on new state dashboard |
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Citing methodology flaws, the State Board of Education on Wednesday revised criteria for rating performance on standardized test scores on the new color-coded California School Dashboard. The unanimous decision will reduce the number of districts and schools rated red, the lowest performing of the five color categories, but board members and state administrators insisted that was not the motivating factor. |
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https://edsource.org/2017/state-board-alters-criteria-for-rating-school-performance-on-new-state-dashboard/590092 |
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SI&A CABINET REPORT
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State mulls adjustment to how math scores are counted |
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An unexpected dip in math scores across California has state officials considering adjustments to the new school accountability system that otherwise would tarnish many schools with failing grades. Because the new performance system is limited to just three years of data, analysts at the California Department of Education said the results from math testing in 2017 were lower enough from the prior two years to be potentially inaccurate once all the numbers are plugged into the final reporting vehicle, the California Dashboard. |
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https://www.cabinetreport.com/curriculum-instruction/state-mulls-adjustment-to-how-math-scores-are-counted |
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Early GPA strong indicator of future academic success |
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Freshman grade point average may be the best gauge of future student achievement and an important indicator of which children need extra support, according to a study from the University of Chicago. Researchers from the from the University’s Chicago Consortium on School Research found that, while many local, state and national education agencies often rely heavily on test scores as measures of student performance, achievement and college readiness, freshman GPA actually predicts many academic outcomes better than test scores. |
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https://www.cabinetreport.com/curriculum-instruction/early-gpa-strong-indicator-of-future-academic-success |
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