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Wednesday, December 4, 2019

OCDE NEWSROOM

VIDEO: OC Pathways Showcase promotes business, education partnerships
Orange County businesses learned how they can help equip students for careers transformed by automation, artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies at the fifth annual OC Pathways Showcase held Tuesday at the Marconi Automotive Museum in Tustin. Since 2014, the OCDE-led initiative known as OC Pathways has connected educators with industry leaders to create coordinated career paths and work-based learning opportunities for students.
https://newsroom.ocde.us/video-oc-pathways-showcase-promotes-business-education-partnerships/

ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER

Beatty Elementary in Buena Park will be a middle school next year
Gordon H. Beatty Elementary School will be converted into a 6th, 7th and 8th-grade middle school for the 2020-21 school year, signaling a long-term change for Buena Park’s northern school district. In addition to the switch at Beatty, Buena Park Junior High also will take on a 6th-grade class next year. Currently, students in Buena Park School District start junior high in 7th grade. Those school reconfigurations, along with new school boundaries, were passed by the district’s board in a meeting on Monday, Dec. 2. District leadership said the boundaries haven’t been changed in at least 20 years.
https://www.ocregister.com/2019/12/03/beatty-elementary-in-buena-park-will-be-a-middle-school-next-year/

Replica gun leads to arrest at Anaheim school — officials praised and questioned about the resulting lockdown
Authorities on Tuesday temporarily locked down Brookhurst Junior High School’s campus after a student was spotted with what turned out to be a replica handgun. Officers at around 10:30 a.m. responded to the campus, at 601 N. Brookhurst St., after receiving reports of an “armed subject” at the school, according to an Anaheim Police Department statement. Faculty rounded up students, who were instructed to take shelter in their classrooms for at least two hours as officers searched the area. Investigators determined that a 13-year-old boy was showing a friend a bb gun in a campus restroom when someone else saw it and called police, Sgt. Shane Carringer said.
https://www.ocregister.com/2019/12/03/student-with-replica-handgun-leads-to-lockdown-at-anaheim-campus/

300 children receive about $100,000 in free dental care at Angel Stadium
With a mouth full of gauze, Julian SIlva gave a big thumbs up after sliding out of a dental chair and wobbling onto his feet, Tuesday, Dec. 3, in the basement of Angel Stadium of Anaheim. Silva, an 8-year-old student at Handy Elementary School in Orange, was one of 300 children to receive free dental care at a Team Smile event. Kindergartners, first- and second-graders received about $100,000 in free dental services, Tuesday, according to Team Smile CEO John McCarthy. Handy Elementary School teacher Mary Ann Ballestero said this is the first year the school has brought students to a Team Smile event.
https://www.ocregister.com/2019/12/03/300-children-receive-about-100000-in-free-dental-care-at-angel-stadium/

Chargers players join Santa Ana elementary school students for shoe giveaway
It’s not every day a professional football player sits down next to you, helps you try on the new pair of shoes you’ve selected from the store shelf and then laces them up for you. But for 300 students from six elementary schools in the Santa Ana Unified School District that was the case Tuesday, Dec. 3, as players from the Los Angeles Chargers, members of the Los Angeles Charger Girls cheerleading squad, and staff helped find shoes for the kids at WSS in Santa Ana.
https://www.ocregister.com/2019/12/03/chargers-players-join-santa-ana-elementary-school-students-for-shoe-giveaway/

CONTRA COSTA TIMES

Silver lining from an East Bay school ceiling’s partial collapse? Board finally OKs the money to replace it
It apparently took a partial collapse of Dublin Elementary School’s ceiling to finally convince all members of the school board to pour money into replacing it — a move that a vocal group of parents has been demanding for months. The board unanimously voted Monday night to approve spending $33 million to replace the ceiling of the 57-year-old school and make other major repairs and upgrades to the school. The trustees had deadlocked 2-2 last month on a staff recommendation to spend that same amount on the school.
https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2019/12/03/silver-lining-from-a-school-roofs-collapse-board-finally-oks-the-money-to-replace-it/

EDSOURCE

How California measures academic success is changing at some of the state’s largest districts
Los Angeles Unified on Wednesday is expected to become the latest California school district to publicly share data showing how its students improve year to year, a move the district expects will provide deeper insights into how individual schools are helping students progress academically. Following in the footsteps of some of the state’s other large districts, the district will publish what’s known as academic growth data on its website as part of a new online platform called “School Information+.”
https://edsource.org/2019/how-california-measures-academic-success-is-changing-at-some-of-the-states-largest-districts/620361


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