OCDE Education in the News

Friday, June 8, 2018

ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER

Riley McCoy, the girl who can’t go out in the sun, steps outside to graduate

Her classmates rose as she gingerly approached the stage to receive her graduation certificate. And then, as if part of a wave, people in the bleachers started to rise. Teachers stood, security guards clapped, soon everyone watching at Dana Hills High was on their feet cheering for the girl who was making the longest walk of her life in the sun.

https://www.ocregister.com/2018/06/07/the-girl-who-cant-go-cant-go-out-in-the-sun-will-graduate-from-high-school-today-in-the-sun/

Teacher spends half-century in kindergarten — and survives

There are plenty of teachers who love their work, but there aren’t many who love it so much that they teach for 54 years. That’s right, Liane Hawkins has taught kindergartners for so long she’s retired not just once, but twice. She finally closed out her substitute teaching career just the other day at age 76. “I’m the spirit of 76,” she laughs.

https://www.ocregister.com/2018/06/07/teacher-spends-half-century-in-kindergarten-and-survives/

LOS ANGELES TIMES

DAILY PILOT

33 students receive scholarships at Save Our Youth awards night

Almost three dozen students received a combined $150,000 in scholarships during the annual Senior Scholar Awards Night put on by Save Our Youth, a Costa Mesa-based nonprofit. Among the 33 scholarships given during Monday’s ceremony at the Chuck Jones Center for Creativity at Costa Mesa’s South Coast Collection was the $40,000 Isidore and Penny Myers Scholarship, which went to Newport Harbor High School senior Kevin Castañeda.

http://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/news/tn-dpt-me-around-town-20180607-story.html

PRESS-ENTERPRISE

High school ethnic studies would be required in California under Riverside lawmaker’s bill

A Riverside legislator’s bill seeks to make ethnic studies a high school graduation requirement in California. The bill introduced by Assemblyman Jose Medina, D-Riverside, a former ethnic studies teacher, has passed the Assembly floor and moved to the state Senate. It would require the roughly 1.7 million public high schools students in the state take a semester of ethnic studies in order to graduate, beginning in the 2023-24 school year.

https://www.pe.com/2018/06/07/high-school-ethnic-studies-would-be-required-in-california-under-riverside-lawmakers-bill/

PRESS-TELEGRAM LONG BEACH

Parents plead Long Beach Unified to direct local funds to translators

Parents on Wednesday, June 6, advocating for their children, pleaded with the Long Beach Unified School District to make sure that designated funds for students who are English-language learners and have special needs get into the right hands. It was the first meeting on the topic of local school funding since a settlement was reached over how the district spent $41 million meant for high-needs students.

https://www.presstelegram.com/2018/06/07/school-funding-debate-first-public-meeting-held-since-long-beach-school-district-was-accused-of-misspending-4

EDSOURCE

Oakland and Inglewood among four financially distressed California districts seeking state relief

As state legislators hammer out a budget with the governor, four school districts could receive lifelines that would help them get on better financial footing. The four districts have been taken over by the state in the past 15 years and are repaying state loans that they were forced to accept so they could continue operating.

https://edsource.org/2018/oakland-and-inglewood-among-four-financially-distressed-california-districts-seeking-state-relief/598776

Tom Armelino appointed to succeed Carl Cohn to head key education agency in California

Tom Armelino, the executive director of the National Association of School Superintendents, has been named to succeed Carl Cohn as executive director of the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence. The agency is playing a key role in moving California from the top-down, sanctions heavy era of reform under both California and federal law to one that is intended to provide support to districts to improve student outcomes.

https://edsource.org/2018/tom-armelino-appointed-to-succeed-carl-cohn-to-head-key-education-agency-in-california/598753

SAN GABRIEL VALLEY TRIBUNE

Alhambra students demanded action on gun control. Their school board agrees

Alhambra High students tired of seeing little national, state or local policy changes that would keep guns out of the hands of would-be school shooters earned their first major victory Tuesday when the Alhambra Unified School District board voted to endorse legislation written by the students.

https://www.sgvtribune.com/2018/06/07/alhambra-unified-approves-resolution-supporting-student-written-gun-control-legislation/

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