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ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
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OUSD briefs: Villa Park High seniors leave with new skills |
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The students were at school early, before the first bell, setting up project boards, archery targets, cars, music stands and computers, the plaintive sounds of bagpipes echoing across the campus, as they anxiously awaited the judges. As a last educational experience before graduation into the “real world,” all Villa Park High School seniors must complete a senior project, an important part of their English class grade. |
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https://www.ocregister.com/2018/07/19/ousd-briefs-villa-park-high-seniors-leave-with-new-skills/ |
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LOS ANGELES TIMES
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DAILY PILOT |
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Laguna Beach parents and school board still divided over proposal to start school year |
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Laguna Beach parents offered mixed reviews this week of school administrators’ latest pitch to start the 2019-20 school year a week earlier than usual and finish the first semester before winter break. The proposal would start school Aug. 21, move up fall final exams to before the winter break and end the school year June 11. The most recent school year ended June 21. |
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http://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/news/tn-dpt-me-laguna-school-calendar-20180719-story.html |
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SACRAMENTO BEE
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Stop investing in immigrant detention companies, California teachers tell pension fund |
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Hundreds of California teachers and a handful of left-leaning organizations are urging the state’s $225 billion teacher pension fund to pull its money out of for-profit prison companies and immigrant detention centers. The petition going to the California State Teachers’ Retirement System is the latest in a string of calls for California public pension funds to divest from controversial industries, such as fossil fuels and guns. |
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https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/the-state-worker/article215141125.html |
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LAGUNA BEACH INDEPENDENT
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Host an Exchange Student |
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ASSE, the Laguna Beach-based international student exchange program, is seeking local families to host students aged 15 to 18 for the 2018-2019 school year.
Students come for 10 months to experience American culture as they share their culture and language with their host families. ASSE students have pocket money for personal expenses and full health, accident and liability insurance. Host families can choose their student from a wide variety of backgrounds, countries and personal interests. |
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https://www.lagunabeachindy.com/host-exchange-student-2/ |
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CALmatters
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California won’t judge schools on whether student test scores improve over time—not yet, anyway |
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Long Beach educators noticed something when they analyzed test scores last year from a handful of middle schools. All of them serve students who are predominantly low-income and Latino. And all of them posted fairly low scores—only between 20 and 30 percent of students were meeting state standards in math. But while the others didn’t show much improvement over prior years, one school demonstrated tremendous growth. |
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https://calmatters.org/articles/california-schools-test-scores/ |
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