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OCDE NEWSROOM
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OCDE curates distance learning resources for educators, counselors and families |
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As school districts across Orange County pivot to distance learning models in real time, OCDE’s Educational Services team has developed a cache of online resources for educators, counselors and families. Curated by a diverse team of instructional leaders and technology specialists, OCDE’s new Instructional Continuity website can be found at https://ocde.instructure.com/courses/224. |
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https://newsroom.ocde.us/ocde-curates-distance-learning-resources-for-educators-counselors-and-families/ |
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COVID-19 update: OC Health Care Agency posts city-by-city count |
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OCDE continues to track the latest developments related to the COVID-19 respiratory illness while working closely with partner agencies including the Orange County Health Care Agency and local school districts.
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https://newsroom.ocde.us/coronavirus-update/ |
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ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
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Ocean Institute’s tall ship Pilgrim is sinking in Dana Point Harbor |
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The Pilgrim, a decades-long icon at the Ocean Institute, has listed starboard and is sinking in Dana Point Harbor. Officials at the center were informed at 5:15 a.m. Sunday, March 29, that the beloved vessel, which served as an inspiring real-world classroom to hundreds of thousands of students and visitors, heeled overnight in the slip at the Ocean Institute’s dock.
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https://www.ocregister.com/2020/03/29/ocean-institutes-tall-ship-pilgrim-is-sinking-in-dana-point-harbor/ |
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Working Wardrobes to lay off majority of staff amid coronavirus crisis |
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Working Wardrobes, a nonprofit career development organization, has announced it will lay off the majority of its staff following the “double whammy” of a fire that destroyed its Irvine headquarters last month and the ongoing coronavirus crisis.
“This double whammy we’re going through — the fire that destroyed our building in February and the recent COVID-19 pandemic that has caused significant economic hardships to so many businesses — has hit us very hard as well,” the organization’s founder and chief executive officer, Jerri Rosen, wrote in an email to supporters, in which she noted that Working Wardrobes has had to make the “most … painful decision of all by laying off a majority of our staff.”
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https://www.ocregister.com/2020/03/28/working-wardrobes-to-lay-off-majority-of-staff-amid-coronavirus-crisis/ |
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SACRAMENTO BEE
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Sacramento schools won’t reopen until at least May 1, county superintendent says |
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With the support of the Sacramento County Department of Public Health, all 13 local school districts in Sacramento are extending their school closures to May 1. The announcement by the Sacramento County Office of Education came on Friday, weeks after county officials announced they would close until April 13 in a coordinated attempt to slow the spread of coronavirus. |
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https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/education/article241570676.html |
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INLAND VALLEY DAILY BULLETIN
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Coronavirus crisis closes Riverside-based Vocademy permanently |
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A Riverside-based vocational academy says it is closed permanently because of money problems related to the coronavirus crisis. Vocademy — which teaches hands-on skills and practical knowledge in partnership with schools, private industry and other nonprofits — can’t afford to stay open due to the state order mandating business and school closures, wrote Gene Sherman, the nonprofit’s founder and CEO. The academy partners with schools, and when those schools closed until next school year, 70 to 80% of Vocademy’s revenue was lost, Sherman said in an email.
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https://www.dailybulletin.com/2020/03/28/coronavirus-crisis-closes-riverside-based-vocademy-permanently/ |
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CAPITOL WEEKLY
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New push to expand ‘transitional kindergarten’ in California |
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After a couple of failed attempts, a move to expand transitional kindergarten to all 4-year-olds in California is under way. Assembly members Kevin McCarty, Phil Ting and Eloise Gomez Reyes and state Sens. Susan Rubio, Lena Gonzalez, and Bill Dodd have introduced Assembly Bill 2500 to approve universal transitional kindergarten.
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https://capitolweekly.net/new-push-for-transitional-kindergarten-in-california/ |
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EDSOURCE
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California food banks partner with schools to serve families of students |
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As thousands of parents struggle to put food on the table during the coronavirus pandemic, California food banks are partnering with schools to feed children, as well as their families. With schools shut down across the state, districts are serving “grab and go” meals to students in an effort to stop the coronavirus spread. Many have also allowed food banks to distribute boxes of groceries at the school sites.
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https://edsource.org/2020/california-food-banks-partner-with-schools-to-serve-families-of-students/627322 |
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Mixed results for California child care ballot measures in final count |
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With all ballots now counted, local measures to provide more child care to children in some California communities saw mixed results, with one measure still in limbo.
Voters in Sacramento rejected a measure to set aside a portion of the city’s general funds for child care and other services for children and youth. In tiny Emeryville, tucked between Oakland and Berkeley in the San Francisco Bay Area, voters wholeheartedly approved their sales tax for child care, police, fire and emergency services.
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https://edsource.org/2020/mixed-results-for-california-child-care-measures-in-final-count/627286 |
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MODESTO BEE
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How California student leaders didn’t let coronavirus kill their state conference |
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The coronavirus outbreak may have closed their schools, but California student leaders aren’t letting it cancel their annual conference. More than 2,500 students and advisers planned to attend the California Association of Student Leaders’ state conference this week and next in Ontario — Thursday through Saturday for middle schoolers, and Saturday through Monday for high schoolers. But on March 13, two days after the World Health Organization declared COVD-19 a pandemic, the event was canceled. Organizers scrambled to put together a virtual replacement, Cafe CASL, which on Friday through Sunday will offer workshops, student-led presentations, keynote speakers and more through Instagram, YouTube, Facebook and Zoom.
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https://www.modbee.com/news/local/article241529006.html |
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SAN GABRIEL VALLEY TRIBUNE
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