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OCDE NEWSROOM
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Ocean View High honored as School of Excellence for empowering first-generation and low-income students |
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For its wide-ranging efforts to help first-generation and low-income students navigate the path to higher education, Ocean View High School in Huntington Beach has been named a School of Excellence by the American College Application Campaign.
A total of 27 schools across the country were recognized this year by ACAC — that’s a national initiative of ACT’s Center for Equity in Learning — for their commitment to promoting postsecondary equity and success. Ocean View High, in collaboration with our state’s FutureReady CA campaign, was the sole honoree from California.
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https://newsroom.ocde.us/ocean-view-high-honored-as-school-of-excellence-for-empowering-first-generation-and-low-income-students/ |
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ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
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7 high school students injured after being struck by car in La Habra |
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Seven high school students were injured in La Habra on Wednesday after a collision involving two vehicles caused one car to strike pedestrians, including the students, as they were waiting to cross the street, police said. The collision occurred around 1:34 p.m. in the area of Palm Street and East La Habra Boulevard. A total of eight patients were hospitalized, including one of the drivers, with two people in critical condition, a spokesperson from the Los Angeles County Fire Department said. |
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https://www.ocregister.com/2024/04/10/7-high-school-students-injured-after-being-struck-by-car-in-la-habra/ |
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LOS ANGELES TIMES
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DAILY PILOT |
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Ocean View schools form committee to assess what to do with surplus properties |
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The Ocean View School District has formed a district advisory group, better known as a 7-11 Committee, which will offer advice to the school board on what to do with property deemed surplus. The 7-11 Committee is so named because of the number of volunteers chosen to serve. Eleven people were randomly selected from community applicants at Tuesday night’s OVSD board meeting. Based on the California education code, a 7-11 Committee must be formed before a school district can sell or lease excess real estate property. This committee will look at 26 district-owned schools and sites, mostly in Huntington Beach but also Star View in Midway City, Vista View in Fountain Valley and Westmont in Westminster. |
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https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/news/story/2024-04-10/ocean-view-school-district-forms-7-11-advisory-committee |
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VOICE OF SAN DIEGO
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San Diego’s Virtual Schools Are Not Working |
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The number of San Diego students attending virtual schools has shot up in recent years, even as those schools perform significantly worse than in-person counterparts. Though virtual schools are often touted as catering to struggling students, research suggests they’re not even doing that well. Now, as the virtual instruction sugar high of the pandemic fades, some districts are slamming on the brakes. |
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https://voiceofsandiego.org/2024/04/11/san-diegos-virtual-schools-are-not-working/ |
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USA TODAY
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This is not a drill: 1 in 4 teachers say guns forced their schools into lockdown last year |
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The threat of gun violence has become a fact of life for America’s schools. News headlines highlight local schools going into lockdown almost daily. A new report from the Pew Research Center illustrates just how pervasive the threat has become. Roughly 1 in 4 teachers in a nationally representative survey said their campus had at least one gun-related lockdown in the last school year. Eight percent of the respondents said a lockdown due to reports of a firearm happened more than once that year. |
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/04/11/school-gun-lockdowns-widespread-teachers-say/73280296007/?tbref=hpxx |
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EDSOURCE
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Public school choice exists in California, but few districts offer it |
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An underused, little-known public school choice program allowing students to enroll in other districts that open their borders has been reauthorized six times in the past 30 years. Under a bill winding its way through the Legislature, it would become permanent, with revised rules. Under the District of Choice program, districts announce how many seats they make available to nonresident students by the fall of the preceding year, and parents must apply by Jan. 1. By statute, enrollment is open to any family that applies, without restrictions – and with a lottery if applications are oversubscribed. The program bans considering academic or athletic ability or, if an applicant is a student with special needs, the cost of educating a student. |
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https://edsource.org/2024/public-school-choice-exists-in-california-but-few-districts-offer-it/709533 |
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Survey: Californians are worried about student health, lukewarm toward a state school bond |
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Californians remain anxious about the mental health of public school students four years after the Covid virus closed down schools, according to a new survey released Wednesday. They also indicated they’re lukewarm toward passing a statewide school construction bond. In the Public Policy Institute of California’s survey of 1,605 California adult residents, 81% of all adults and public school parents said they were strongly or somewhat concerned about students’ mental health and well-being – a view that, for most part, cut across race, political party affiliation and family income. The number reflects a continuing worry about the persistent impact of the pandemic two years after students returned to the classroom following school closures of more than a year. |
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https://edsource.org/2024/survey-californians-are-worried-about-student-health-lukewarm-toward-a-state-school-bond/709604 |
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What does an A grade mean? |
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A few years back, officials at Palo Alto Unified realized that one district high school was giving out far fewer D’s and F’s than previously, instead giving out second chances for a better grade. However, they were disproportionately giving it to white and Asian American students while black and brown students were still getting D’s and F’s, as the San Francisco Chronicle reported. “It was glaring,” said Superintendent Don Austin. “That really spoke to who was getting the opportunity for more time and second chances.” |
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https://edsource.org/updates/what-does-an-a-grade-mean |
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