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OCDE NEWSROOM
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Elementary students present donation to civil rights activist Sylvia Mendez for local monument |
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Students from Carrillo Elementary School in the Garden Grove Unified School District recently gave a gift of gratitude to civil rights icon Sylvia Mendez. At a school assembly, they presented the 2011 Medal of Freedom recipient with a check for more than $1,000 to help build a monument that will honor her family’s fight for school desegregation in Orange County. Mendez, 83, talked to students about growing up in Westminster and being one of the first Mexican-American students to attend a non-segregated school during her visit to the Westminster campus on Feb. 12.
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https://newsroom.ocde.us/carrillo-elementary-students-present-donation-to-civil-rights-icon-sylvia-mendez-for-monument/ |
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ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
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Three unpredictable races for Orange County Board of Education |
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The March 3 primary will determine whether the Orange County Board of Education remains controlled by a conservative majority or heads in a new direction, with nine candidates vying for three open seats. The board provides fiscal oversight for the county’s education department. It also handles appeals for expelled students and for charter school applications shot down by local school districts, and it oversees schooling for at-risk students. Board members are elected to four-year terms to represent one of five geographical districts in the county, just like the Board of Supervisors.
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https://www.ocregister.com/2020/02/17/three-unpredictable-primary-races-for-orange-county-board-of-education/ |
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Santa Ana school district opens 57 wellness centers |
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As Elizabeth Bautista toured a new school ‘wellness center’ housed in a 113-year-old former Pacific Electric Railroad sub-station, she chuckled at how one of her kids referred to the white brick structure. “He used to think there were ghosts in the building,” Bautista said during the grand opening earlier this week of the Garfield Elementary Wellness Center. The wellness center, housed in a refurbished Red Car sub-station adjacent to Garfield Elementary, is the latest to be opened by the Santa Ana Unified School District. In the past year, the district has opened wellness centers – which offer free classes and resources – at every school, with a district-wide center available at Lathrop Intermediate.
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https://www.ocregister.com/2020/02/14/santa-ana-school-district-opens-57-wellness-centers/ |
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Former OC school district official pleads guilty to $750,000 theft |
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A former board member of an Orange County-based charter school district pleaded guilty Friday to bilking the district out of $750,000 in what prosecutors called the largest charter school theft in California history when they filed charges in 2014. Jeremy Landau, 49, of Sherman Oaks, pleaded guilty to a dozen felonies that included misappropriation or embezzlement of monies, misappropriation of public funds, grand theft and money laundering, according to court records. He also admitted sentencing enhancements for property damage exceeding $200,000 and aggravated white collar crime exceeding $500,000. He was scheduled to be sentenced March 20.
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https://www.ocregister.com/2020/02/14/former-oc-charter-school-official-pleads-guilty-to-theft/ |
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CAPISTRANO DISPATCH
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Capistrano Unified School District celebrates Teachers of the Year |
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Capistrano Unified School District (CUSD) announced and celebrated the Teacher of the Year for elementary, middle and high schools on Thursday, Feb. 6. Steve Lopinto at Laguna Niguel Elementary School in Laguna Niguel was named the Elementary School Teacher of the Year; Lindsey Behm at Marco Forster Middle School in San Juan Capistrano was named the Middle School Teacher of the Year; and Christy Curtis at Capistrano Valley High School in Mission Viejo was named the High School Teacher of the Year.
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https://www.thecapistranodispatch.com/capistrano-unified-school-district-celebrates-teachers-of-the-year/ |
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CONTRA COSTA TIMES
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High school students to start their day later in Alameda |
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New schedule aligns with state law that will kick in next year. Starting this fall, high school students in Alameda will get to sleep in a bit longer in the morning because classes will be pushed back to 8:30 a.m. That’s half an hour later than when most classes currently start at Alameda High and Encinal Junior & Senior High School.
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https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2020/02/15/high-school-students-to-start-their-day-later-in-alameda/ |
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PRESS-TELEGRAM LONG BEACH
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Southern California heavily targeted in 120% increase in white supremacist propaganda in U.S. |
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White supremacist propaganda heavily targeted the Inland Empire and Southern California as a whole in 2019, according to an annual report released by the Anti-Defamation League. Last year, 2,713 incidents of propaganda were reported across the country compared to 1,214 in 2018 — a 120% increase. The ADL report comes at a time when Riverside and San Bernardino counties have seen a number of incidents involving high school students flashing or posting symbols associated with racism such as swastikas and Confederate flags, as well as a racial epithet typically used against African Americans, online and on campuses.
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https://www.presstelegram.com/2020/02/14/southern-california-heavily-targeted-in-120-increase-in-white-supremacist-propaganda-in-u-s/ |
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EDSOURCE
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Gov. Newsom’s big bets: community schools, competitive grants and new teacher incentives |
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Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to entice thousands of new teachers into the classroom, concentrate school improvement in the most impoverished neighborhoods and use competitive grants to challenge districts to form partnerships and develop best practices to raise achievement. He outlined his ideas for addressing the teacher shortage and stepping up school improvement in an 85-page document his administration released late last month. The “omnibus education trailer bill” offers the first look at how he plans to spend more than $1.5 billion in his 2020-21 K-12 budget.
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https://edsource.org/2020/gov-newsoms-big-bets-community-schools-competitive-grants-and-new-teacher-incentives/623699 |
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