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OCDE NEWSROOM
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Mijares: Participating in the 2020 census is easy, confidential and critically important |
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In just a few months, you’ll be asked to participate in one of democracy’s most considerable responsibilities — and it shouldn’t take more than a few minutes of your time. As mandated by the U.S. Constitution, the federal Census Bureau conducts a nationwide population count once every 10 years. This is one of the few national activities the American public does together. It’s also easy, confidential and critically important to our students and their communities.
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https://newsroom.ocde.us/mijares-participating-in-the-2020-census-is-easy-confidential-and-critically-important/ |
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SACRAMENTO BEE
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Ethnic studies have boosted Sacramento City Unified students. Now Elk Grove wants in |
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The Sacramento City Unified School District has been successful in adding an ethnic studies program to its curriculum. Now activists are trying to make it happen in Elk Grove schools. Local leaders formed an Elk Grove chapter of a grassroots organization that has been vital in pushing for ethnic studies in school districts, despite slow progress in state Legislature. A bill advocating for ethnic studies for the state’s high school students is stalled for review by ethnic studies experts on the proposed model curriculum.
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https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/education/article238247069.html#storylink=cpy |
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EDSOURCE
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As California launches preschool expansion, federal government seeks to limit data |
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It could soon get a lot harder to find out how many preschoolers were suspended more than once in California or how many children of different racial and ethnic groups have access to preschool. In the past, researchers, advocates and policymakers who wanted to know this kind of information about any school district in the country could look it up in a massive database of civil rights data collected every two years by the U.S. Department of Education. That data can be used to show educational disparities between genders and racial and ethnic groups.
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https://edsource.org/2019/as-california-launches-preschool-expansion-federal-government-seeks-to-limit-data/621088 |
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NPR
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Fewer Students Are Going To College. Here's Why That Matters |
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This fall, there were nearly 250,000 fewer students enrolled in college than a year ago, according to new numbers out Monday from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, which tracks college enrollment by student. And this year isn't the first time this has happened. Over the past eight years, college enrollment nationwide has fallen about 11%. Every sector — public state schools, community colleges, for-profits and private liberal arts schools — has felt the decline, though it has been especially painful for small private colleges, where, in some cases, institutions have been forced to close.
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https://www.npr.org/2019/12/16/787909495/fewer-students-are-going-to-college-heres-why-that-matters |
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