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Wednesday, July 11, 2018

OCDE NEWSROOM

Newhart Middle School student leaders take aim at the rise in vaping among youth
Student leaders from two campus groups at Newhart Middle School in Capistrano Unified joined forces this year to tackle a growing concern: the skyrocketing rates of vaping among students. Over the spring, Newhart’s PAL Peer Assistance Leadership class, which empowers students to help other students, teamed up with their counterparts from the prevention-focused Club Live, which is part of the Orange County Friday Night Live Partnership, to educate kids and adults about nicotine delivery devices — and to correct some common misconceptions.
http://newsroom.ocde.us/newhart-middle-school-student-leaders-take-aim-at-the-rise-in-vaping-among-youth/

LOS ANGELES TIMES

DAILY PILOT
Advanced math classes will continue in Newport-Mesa middle schools
The Newport-Mesa Unified School District will maintain current math course pathways for the 2018-19 school year after parents protested the possibility of eliminating advanced courses for middle school students.
http://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/news/tn-dpt-me-math-update-20180710-story.html

LAUSD postpones effort to raise new parcel tax
A proposal to forestall the Los Angeles Unified School District’s looming fiscal problems by asking voters to approve a new parcel tax failed to win enough support Tuesday to make it onto the November ballot. Money from the parcel tax would have gone toward filling the multi-million dollar shortfall the district expects to have in four years, when it has spent down its reserves.
http://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-edu-lausd-tax-proposal-20180710-story.html

SAN DIEGO UNION TRIBUNE

S.D. school district board sends $3.5 billion bond to November ballot
The San Diego Unified School District will ask taxpayers to approve borrowing $3.5 billion to improve school safety, technology and infrastructure. It is the largest bond request in the district’s history and the third in the last 10 years.
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/education/sd-me-sdunified-bonds-20180709-story.html

EDSOURCE

Pressure builds to change how California measures student progress on state tests
A group of education professors and dozens of student advocacy groups are urging California education officials to switch to a method that most states use to rate student progress on standardized tests. They say it will more accurately measure and compare schools’ performance than what they see as the flawed system the state uses now.
https://edsource.org/2018/pressure-builds-to-change-how-california-measures-student-progress-on-state-tests/600062

SI&A CABINET REPORT

Lawmakers consider LCFF increase and safety measures
A bill limiting the use of restraint and seclusion techniques and another that would increase the state’s per-pupil spending targets passed a key legislative committee as the end of the current session quickly nears. AB 2657 would prohibit teachers or other school staff members from using a behavioral restraint or secluding students as a means of coercion, discipline, convenience or retaliation. Meanwhile, AB 2808 would increase the per-student base grant funding targets for school districts and charter schools under the Local Control Funding Formula.
https://k-12daily.org/politics-education/lawmakers-consider-lcff-increase-and-safety-measures


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