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OCDE NEWSROOM
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4 OC students tapped to participate in Bank of America’s leadership training and service program |
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Four high schoolers from Orange County will get to participate in a highly selective Bank of America program that provides summer leadership training and service opportunities. Tahlia Vayser, a junior from Capistrano High School, and graduating seniors Kyle Stevens of San Clemente High, Miguel Quiroz of Valley High in Santa Ana, and Matthew Jacquez of La Habra High are among 225 community-minded scholars from across the country who have been invited to be a part of the company’s eight-week Student Leaders program.
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http://newsroom.ocde.us/four-students-from-oc-tapped-to-participate-in-bank-of-americas-leadership-training-and-service-program/ |
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ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
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Hundreds at Bolsa Grande High mourn 2 teens killed in Silverado crash |
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About 200 people huddled Tuesday afternoon around a dusty pair of red and white baseball cleats hanging on a post at the west side of campus at Bolsa Grande High School in Garden Grove. Little was said at first, but weeping was heard among those gathered in memory of Coleton Mondy, 17, and Joshua Morales, 19, two young people who died in a car crash early Saturday. Mondy was a Bolsa Grande baseball player; Morales had graduated from the school.
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https://www.ocregister.com/2019/05/28/hundreds-at-bolsa-grande-high-school-mourn-two-teens-killed-in-silverado-crash/ |
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OC students shine at national spelling bee; now they await word if they made finals |
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Both members of the Orange County contingent await their fate after making it unscathed through Rounds Two and Three of the nation’s premiere spelling contest.
Dean Alkhairy, speller no.13 from Newport Beach, and Nicholas D’Sa, speller no. 101 from Tustin, remain alive in the 2019 Scripps National Spelling Bee after correctly spelling their words on Tuesday, May 28. Finalists will be announced after Round Three ends. Eastern time. Spellers may earn up to 36 points — 30 for the written test, plus three for correctly spelled words in Rounds Two and Three.
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https://www.ocregister.com/2019/05/28/two-middle-school-students-will-represent-orange-county-in-national-spelling-bee-today/ |
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DAILY NEWS LOS ANGELES
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It’s a charter school showdown in Sacramento as Assembly moves forward with package of powerful regulations |
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The biggest statewide battle over charter schools in the country is coming to a head in California. Amid competing protests in Sacramento on Wednesday, the California Assembly narrowly passed legislation that would give local school districts sole authority to approve new charter schools. The bill, titled AB 1505, is one of several new measures the Assembly has passed or is considering that would level tougher regulations on charters schools, which are publicly funded but independently run. The schools are typically not unionized and have greater control over decisions such as staffing, the length of the school day and the school year and their educational model.
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https://www.dailynews.com/2019/05/28/its-a-charter-school-showdown-in-sacramento-as-assembly-moves-forward-with-package-of-powerful-regulations/ |
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SAN DIEGO UNION TRIBUNE
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Eleven people connected to online charter schools are indicted |
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Eleven people have been indicted on criminal charges of conspiracy, personal use of public money without legal authority, grand theft and financial conflict of interest in connection with a network of California charter schools. At the center of the allegations are leaders of the charter school management corporation A3 Education, a Newport Beach corporation whose leaders control 13 charter schools across California, according to an indictment filed May 17.
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https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/education/story/2019-05-28/eleven-people-connected-to-online-charter-schools-are-indicted |
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VOICE OF SAN DIEGO
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District Urged Principals to Move a Minimum Number of English-Learners Out of Program |
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Officials have placed special emphasis on moving students out of English-learner status as quickly as possible in San Diego Unified School District. A newly obtained memo sheds light on their strategy: Central office staff pushed principals “to reclassify a minimum of 75%” of eligible English-learners, according to documents obtained by Voice of San Diego through a Public Records Act request. The memo was reviewed by state compliance officers, who recently found some of the district’s guidelines for reclassifying English-learners were too subjective and that the district was not adequately consulting with parents, as required by state law.
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https://www.voiceofsandiego.org/topics/education/district-urged-principals-to-move-a-minimum-number-of-english-learners-out-of-program/ |
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EDSOURCE
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Almost a third of teenagers sleep with their phones, survey finds |
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Sixty-eight percent of teenagers reported that they keep their mobile devices within reach at night, a telephone and online survey released Tuesday by the nonprofit Common Sense Media found. Nearly a third (29 percent) of teens sleep with smartphones, cell phones or tablets in their beds.
Parents — 74 percent of them — are even more likely to have mobile devices within reach at night. But just 12 percent of parents said they kept them in bed.
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https://edsource.org/2019/almost-a-third-of-teenagers-sleep-with-their-phones-survey-finds/612995 |
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Obstacles deter many California child care providers from building, expanding facilities |
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After years of searching, a nonprofit hoping to open a new child care center for low-income infants and toddlers found a rent-free building inside a housing development for migrant workers. In some ways, it seemed like a perfect fit.
But it needed more than $500,000 in renovations — a cost so high that Go Kids, Inc. abandoned the project and kept searching. The organization operates several child care centers in Santa Clara, San Benito, Monterey and Santa Cruz counties, but staff want to open up more centers to meet the need for more subsidized child care.
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https://edsource.org/2019/obstacles-deter-many-california-child-care-providers-from-building-expanding-facilities/612631 |
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SI&A CABINET REPORT
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School bond measure advances toward Assembly vote |
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The state Assembly appears poised to approve legislation that would assure voters consider billions in new school bonds in elections next March and in 2022. AB 48 by Assemblyman Patrick O’Donnell, D-Long Beach, would ask voters next year to approve $13 billion for construction and modernization of classrooms and other facilities for K-12 schools and community colleges. The bill also authorizes a second statewide bond to go on the ballot in November, 2022 but does not specify the amount.
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https://k-12daily.org/facilities/school-bond-measure-advances-toward-assembly-vote |
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KPCC
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This School District Got An Unexpected $2.4 Million This Year. Here's How They Spent It |
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Last year, California set aside $44 million for a one-time grant program to boost student health, technology, and educational opportunities — including the arts. Over 50 school districts and county offices of education got a slice of those funds to spend this year.
One of those districts was Beaumont Unified in the Inland Empire. In fact, the district got the second largest slice of the grant in the state — more than $2.4 million.
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https://laist.com/2019/05/29/beaumont_school_district_unexpected_millions_how_they_spent_it.php |
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