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OCDE NEWSROOM
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Strawberry field takes root at Harbor Learning Center |
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The students had already tilled the soil, mixed the compost and leveled the ground. On Tuesday, it came time for students at Harbor Learning Center to carefully dig out the small plots for the tiny strawberry roots. In a few months, these fields will produce plump, juicy strawberries in the farm inside the Harbor Learning Center campus in Fountain Valley, a school operated by OCDE’s ACCESS division for students in alternative education and those with special needs.
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https://newsroom.ocde.us/strawberry-field-takes-root-at-harbor-learning-center/ |
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DAILY NEWS LOS ANGELES
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Arleta High School receives false bomb, shooting threats during visit by Rep. Tony Cardenas |
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A 14-year-old boy was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of calling in shooting and bombing threats to Arleta High School shortly after Congressman Tony Cardenas spoke to students there and was still in the campus auditorium. Both threats were fake, police said. LAPD and Los Angeles School Police Department officers swarmed the campus at around 9:30 a.m., shortly after the pair of phoned-in threats were reported not long after Cardenas made his speech.
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https://www.dailynews.com/2020/02/19/arleta-high-school-receives-false-bomb-shooting-threat-during-visit-by-rep-tony-cardenas/ |
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NEW YORK TIMES
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An Old and Contested Solution to Boost Reading Scores: Phonics |
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As test scores lag, there’s a growing debate between proponents of the “science of reading,” which emphasizes phonics, and traditional educators who prefer to instill a love of literature.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/15/us/reading-phonics.html |
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PRESS-ENTERPRISE
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Facing closure, Encore charter school in Riverside gets 30-day lifeline |
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A charter school beloved by its students but facing severe financial problems along with academic and other concerns has 30 days to convince the Riverside school board to keep it open. District administrators had recommended that the board not extend the charter for Encore Junior and High School for the Arts, which opened in downtown Riverside in 2015. That would mean the school wouldn’t be authorized to operate past June 30, unless Encore appealed the decision to the Riverside County Board of Education.
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https://www.pe.com/2020/02/18/facing-closure-encore-charter-school-in-riverside-gets-30-day-lifeline/ |
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EDSOURCE
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Michael Bloomberg has invested heavily in promoting charter schools in California |
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If there is one issue on which Michael Bloomberg and Donald Trump agree, it is on the value of charter schools. One difference is that Bloomberg does not appear to back using taxpayer funds to underwrite tuition for private and parochial schools, as Trump does. Another is that Bloomberg has actually been able to implement his pro-charter agenda, when he was mayor in New York City, and in backing pro-charter causes and candidates in other states, most notably in California.
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https://edsource.org/2020/bloomberg-has-invested-heavily-in-promoting-charter-schools-in-california/623897 |
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Voters in some California communities will be called on to pay for more child care |
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As California struggles to meet child care and preschool needs, some communities are asking voters to help fill the gap. Alameda County and the cities of Sacramento and Emeryville all have measures on the ballot next month that would either generate or set aside funds for child care and other children’s services, such as health care, after-school programs and youth employment services.
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https://edsource.org/2020/voters-in-some-california-communities-called-on-to-pay-for-more-child-care/623907 |
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WHITTIER DAILY NEWS
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El Rancho board members walk out midmeeting in protest |
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El Rancho Unified school board members Teresa Merino and Carolyn Castillo walked out of Tuesday night’s meeting in protest after a heated exchange about civility led President Gabriel Orosco to recess the meeting. The drama started at the beginning of the public comment period of the meeting. Orosco asked school board candidate Esther Mejia if she personally had filled out a speaker card at the start of the meeting. Although the rule had never been enforced before, Orosco said Mejia couldn’t speak if someone filled out her speaker card for her; she had to have done it herself, he said.
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https://www.whittierdailynews.com/2020/02/19/el-rancho-board-members-walk-out-midmeeting-in-protest/ |
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